256 Quotes by Bill Self

I thought Mario deserved third team, and I thought Russell (Robinson) deserved honorable mention, but there's a lot of other coaches that say the same thing about their players. Brandon certainly played at a certain level and led us from start to finish. He's deserving of that.

It's in the early stages. The doctors feel like it's not full-blown, and hopefully rest will take care of it. We'll sit him this week, then re-evaluate it and hopefully get him back soon after that.

Julian's going to have some turnovers because of the way he plays, and we're going to have to live with some of them, but a couple of them, in my opinion, are just non-basketball-type plays.

It's been tough for them. We think we have issues to deal with, but think of the issues that they have to deal with on a daily basis. Monte has held the troops together.

Julian needs to play more. When he's played well, he's looked great. When he doesn't play well, he doesn't find a way to piece it together. It's been a feast-or-famine situation. He is getting more consistent.

I told 'em I'd rather be mad at them and win than be happy and lose.

Julian makes the game easier for others by getting them easy baskets. But he can also make the game more complicated than what it is.

It's amazing. We got 20 different answers in our locker room.

Just because guys have been here before, they are not going to have the upper hand,