622 Quotes by Billy Donovan

He's as good a shooter as anyone I've coached since I've been here. He can line up in shoot with anybody in the United States of America.

I'm very blessed and thankful to coach these kids.

I thought last year's team that we played, they were by far the most physical team we played against. They're even more physical than they were a year ago.

Whether or not we're deserving of all this, I don't know, ... I'm just trying to look at the bigger picture of my team.

For our basketball team, it was a tale of two halves. In the first half, our guys were very, very impatient on offense. We didn't have the ball movement and the player movement we needed to have. We had good ball movement and player movement and we shot 57 percent in the second half. If we would have played similar to that and rebounded like we did in the first half, it would have been a different game. We couldn't put it all together.

It's early, but it looks as though Tennessee is a very good offensive team. I've always felt like they've had talent. Major Wingate and Andre Patterson are improved offensive players. They are a team that likes to play in transition, like us. Both teams are going to get up and down the floor and do what they like to do.

He's always been a terrific runner. He has a great threshold to run through fatigue. He plays all the way. One hundred percent. Full throttle.

Did I think I would be here for 10 years? You never know. You almost have to go one year at a time and try to do the very best job you can. . . . It's very hard to stay at a place a very, very long period of time.

You could see then that they had the elements of a good team with the balance of their scoring and their ability to defend.