Tre Kelley Quotes (28 Quotes)

I feel I'm a lot better shooter than I've showed you guys in the last couple years.

No, I don't want to three-peat. I want to get to the NCAA Tournament and make a lot of noise there.

He is truthfully one of the best players in the league. I know what the selections say - but he gets my vote for best in the league. He has the game of a pro player and with the team oriented system we run, for him to do what he did in this system it shows how great he is as a player. (Is he a good leader) He works on his leadership skills as far as being more verbal. He has really worked hard on his game. He's worked a lot on his defense. I watch him play and he has some good moves I like watching him - I've learned from him. (What has he taught you) To be more verbal.

It's very devastating. We just have to still play. We can't give up. We still have to believe in ourselves. That game was ours and we know it. We let it slip right through our fingers.

It's something you just can't forget. I believe in God and everything, man. But I just can't. Maybe I'm wrong. But I just can't.

A four-point win like that game, close, is even better than a 21-point win, or a 20-point win, or whatever we were up. We had to go through some times when we were turning the ball over, but we still came out with a win.

It's time to step up.

I don't really worry about the guy I'm facing. I know he's a good point guard. But it's all about what I do out there. He has to guard me also.

Same old story, same old story. We just can't get it. It's crazy. It's so frustrating. It's frustrating to the high degree, to be out there knowing we can win and coming out on the losing end all the time.

We believed the whole time we could beat these types of teams. We're not coming out just to play. We're coming out to win basketball games.

Honestly, it's the championship game so . . . I don't feel any pressure. I don't know what (Florida) feels over there. That's for them to handle. We just have to come out and play.

I played a horrible game. I should take total responsibility of the game. Every time we got a run I think I made a bad play. We couldn't really get control of our offense because I wasn't controlling the team. I didn't do my job. Those guys were really counting on me (and) I didn't come through for them.

Every time we made a run, I made a bad play. We couldn't get control of our offense because I didn't have control of the team. I didn't do my job out there and that reflected on the whole basketball team. I take full responsibility. Those guys were counting on me, and I didn't come through.

We need to end this season without any speculation that we're (not) a good team. We're a good team. We go out there and play every night. This is the time we have to put it together for two, three weeks. There's nothing after that. So leave it all out there.

It would have sounded crazy to people outside of this basketball team, but we believed. We didn't come here to play one or two games. We came to win a championship.

We felt like we should've beat them, but we just lost focus. Tonight we had more focus. It was the same game plan. There really wasn't a point where we lost it.

The outside (world) probably thinks that this was an upset. But we just came in and played some good basketball.

We have to find a way for everybody to play at the same time. Everybody has to step up because there are going to be more games like this ... Everybody has to step up at the same time.

We needed this so bad. Halftime, I told the guys, 'I feel good about this.' Everybody was quiet. But we were playing OK defense. I had a good feeling about the game at halftime. All we needed was a crack in the door.

All we needed was a crack in the door. Vanderbilt missed some free throws and we got in there.

You could see it in their eyes, you could see it in their games that they were ready to play. And when you see the seniors playing like that, there's no reason not to follow.

All the goals we play on this year are 10 feet. We can't think about different places that we play in. It's the same court, 94 feet.

From the outside (people) probably think this is an upset all over again. It just happened, we're not a good team, we just came in and played good basketball, it wasn't Florida's night. People will say we won two games over them, but if we played them again it wouldn't be like that.

We played all 40 minutes of that basketball game. We held them.

I was able to get a couple of steps on my defender a couple of times, and I tried to take advantage of that.

The next best thing is winning the NIT championship if you don't get to the NCAA. There's only two teams that win their last game and we're one of them for the last two years and that says a lot. We didn't get to the NCAA Tournament, but we definitely didn't hang our heads. We had some veterans, some leaders ... to tell these guys, 'Man, we're here to win it.' And we did.

I've agreed with that since I've been here. I've looked back at the last couple of years, and I've had flaws in my game, whether that's defense or getting more physical. I'm going to definitely have to show these guys who the man is.

I've got something to show this year. I've got something to really prove. I think I will earn respect this year. It's that time to step up and be that player I can be. I have to be ready to step into that role. They're depending on me to be the leader this year. I have to show those qualities of being a leader.