166 Quotes by Barbara Turner

That was the turning point. We struggled a little bit offensively, but the main thing was that we started to stop them defensively. That last seven minutes we just clamped down and said that we're a good defensive team and we need to act like it.

That was the turning point of the game. We didn't give up a basket and we didn't foul them and put them on the free throw line. I think that right there pretty much closed the game out.

I don't know if early in the season we would have been able to maintain our composure with the amount of shots we missed that were wide open. It was very frustrating. But something deep down inside us said we have to fight through this and win this game. We didn't come this far just to pout about not making shots and accept it.

I don't know if we would have been able to do that. We probably would have panicked a little bit, played too fast and probably fell apart earlier than we did when they made their run. So the fact we were able to do it was just a good ending to this trip, and I think it brought our team a lot closer together.

That whole Connecticut thing is tough. It's a tough situation. We're off the radar. Like nobody's really talking about us, but they are. So no matter what, Connecticut's always going to come out of somebody's mouth whether it's negative, positive. It's been tougher this year than any year for me. It's something that we've done a really good job of fighting through, and I think that's why we are in the position we're in right now.

That's the shot that you have to make, and that's the shot that you have to have the guts to take. For her to do that, that just gave us confidence for the rest of the game.

Good thing Mel was in there. Everybody was running at the shot. Our little linebacker came in there and toughed it out and came out smiling.

That's what I knew when I was being recruited. Just her impact on women's basketball ... it's something you will always have to appreciate, even though you weren't a part of it.

I am not into ?We lost so I have extra motivation,? or anything like that. The bottom line is we have to go down there and win. All the extra stuff or talking about it before the game, none of that matters if we don?t go down there and play the way we need to play. That is the way we have to approach it.