Warde Manuel Quotes (7 Quotes)

If you're the first at something, people are going to be watching you closer. So now you've got to work harder, and you've got to show some results. It's not that I feel the weight of the African-American community on my shoulders. I don't. But what I feel is that in order for this trend to continue or to start, if you will, for the opportunities to grow we have to have successes when we take over these programs.

I think it's probably iffy, but in my mind that means we're on the bubble if not toward the bottom of it. I would like to think we're one of the top 128 teams in the country, but it depends on the results of this weekend.

We are disappointed to have any team below the NCAA cut line and will only increase our diligence to ensure that our student-athletes have the academic support and encouragement they need to be successful.

If it makes a difference for some to have an African-American head coach, fine. But that's not what we're out there selling 'Come to Buffalo because we have three African-Americans.' We're proud of that, but we want you to come to Buffalo because we have three great, qualified people.

I'm not the type of administrator to call and beg people to let me into something. You earn it and you deal with it. Obviously I'm going to call the NIT people but it won't be to beg, it will be to make a point that I need to make about our program.

By competitive, I mean not only do we have a chance to win in the fourth quarter, but that we begin to consistently win those type of games, particularly in the conference.

I don't ever want it to be misconstrued that this was done to be the first. I didn't even know until somebody told me. Then I said to myself, 'Yeah, that makes sense. I should have realized that.' Hopefully there will come a time when this doesn't need to warrant the interest it has.