256 Quotes by Bill Self

I love our team. I love working with the guys. They just want to get out there. This group has been like a sponge.

Personally I think it was a heck of a college basketball game. The crowd was great. Both teams competed their tails off. Plays at the end of regulation and overtime ... it was just unfortunate for us they made the last play.

We probably played as good a defense the first 15 minutes as we've played all year. I thought our defense was great. We had a comfortable lead, but we should have scored eight or 10 more points.

I wish coach was here. I hope he gets to feeling better. He's done more for this school than anybody could ever imagine.

We probably didn't play as well as the score. Shooting covers up a multitude of sins, I guess is the expression. They got the ball where they wanted to get it the first 10 minutes, they just didn't convert.

I look around the county, and I see a lit of leagues like ours. With parity a lot of people think that means mediocrity.

If we'd played man, he would have had 25 points.

We didn't play with any energy all night long. This is the worst outing that we've had from an energy standpoint in quite some time. But I expected it. It was a sandwich game and we really didn't get after them like we could have.

I know it hurts. It crushed him. But if the kid isn't tough, how can a walk-on kid from Asheville, N.C., come in here, get an education and start for Kansas?