622 Quotes by Billy Donovan

We were playing for survival. I felt fortunate just going into the locker room being tied at halftime.

It's not about just getting to the NBA with these guys. It's about making an impact. This is their decision.

A lot of it was their slapping, their reaching, their grabbing, experienced ways they know how to do things. I don't want to say they frustrated us, but they made things difficult.

Right now so much changes, there are so many games going on, and different things happen during the course of the year. So much of your RPI is affected on the teams that you play, how they do against somebody else, how all those things happen.

Georgia is a basketball team that's much improved from the 3-point line. There's no question that offensively they are a lot more explosive than they were a year ago.

I get great pleasure seeing our kids enjoy it, our administration enjoy it, our fans enjoy it. It's not about me.

A lot of our guys don't have shirt, jacket and ties, so we wanted them to be as neat as possible.

We missed so many easy baskets around the rim at first. We did a much better job in the second half of getting the ball inside and rebounding. As a coaching staff, we have to keep our guys upbeat and not let them get frustrated.

As a coach, I can't put the ball in the hole for them. But what I can try to do is put them in the best position to take advantage of the talent level they have that they can make plays ... Right now, we have a bunch of guys that are unproven in that area so I'm going to try to eliminate any focus on them worrying about scoring.