166 Quotes by Barbara Turner

We're more concerned about ourselves and how we prepare to play in the game. If we come in with the right mindset, know what we want to do in the game, then I think we'll be fine.

We lived up to our expectations for the most part. But we want to go out and let everyone know we did everything in our power to win a national championship.

When we came in as freshmen, we thought we were going to start every game together. It's fitting. It closes out our careers really well here at Connecticut.

Everything you could possibly think of went on in that meeting. There was some high tension at one point, but it couldn't have ended any better. He pretty much put it out there for us to go out and do it. I'm glad that we took the chance. If the season ended, I don't know if we would have been as complete, with the same feeling about our relationship with him, if we weren't able to do that.

Usually in the tournament, it's about what team is hot, and (West Virginia is) really hot right now. We have to treat it as if we were playing Rutgers, who was the No. 1 seed; we know that. And that's what we're going to try to focus on tonight and get ready for tomorrow.

Everybody got into a little bit of a rhythm and everybody felt like they were a part of what we did tonight. That's always a good feeling when everybody can come into the locker room and smile about the game.

Concentration and composure, when we lose those two things, that's usually when we struggle. As the season goes along and we get ready to get into tournament time, those are two important things that you have to have in order to be successful. Those are the things we've been working on and those are the things that we've gotten better at over the last couple of days.

Throughout the game we tried to concentrate on keeping our composure. We knew they had a run in them, they are a great offensive team. It was just a matter of us not making mistakes we made before.

I've been playing since early August and it was a slow process getting back in. It wasn't until mid to late September when I started to feel like myself again. I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into this season physically.