256 Quotes by Bill Self

The young guys ... they have been playing ample minutes in my opinion.

I think (conference tournaments) get teams (prepared) to play the whole year. I coached at Oral Roberts when it was an independent. Try telling those kids on Feb. 10 the rest of the season means something.

They not only expect you to win, they expect to be entertained. If they're not entertained, they don't come back so much. I think that's sad. It's across America, not only in our league.

I think every team goes through phases where they don't play quite as well, especially away from home. They probably haven't played as well in the last two games as they had been, but we've had numerous games like this as well. I don't know if the recent performances by either team will have much bearing on the game Saturday.

They had a better non-conference season than we did. But regardless of what happens (today), I think we've played well enough to be a four seed.

I saw men playing against some guys that weren't quite as old.

They great thing about it is that when they missed, we cleaned up. I thought everybody did some good things.

Our kids didn't get to feel the way Texas felt (in the regular season). It was certainly nice to hold that trophy today.

They got us out of our comfort zone and we didn't act favorably.