29 Quotes by Bobby Gonzalez

When you're a 12 seed, you're usually playing against a team (in the first round) that's just outside of the top 25. That makes a big difference. A lot of the teams out of the top 25 are so similar, and in the tournament, anything can happen.

When there's a last-second play, you can't get too scientific. You have to get the ball in the right people's hands and see if they can make a play.

There are too many things going wrong for us to win this game.

My father was a big boxing fan, and he used to say the best fighters are the ones who come through the ranks and pay their dues. I'm here today because I came up through the ranks. My dream was always to be a head coach in the Big East. That's all I ever aspired to do.

I was scared to death. C.J. had a double-double against them the first game, but I knew we weren't the same team and they hadn't lost on he road in the conference. It was the ultimate underdog situation.

I gotta give Mike (MacDonald) credit because they played motivated basketball from the beginning.

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

I came up through the ranks. I've paid my dues and I feel like I belong here and I'm ready. It took me 25 years to get here, and you can believe I'm not going to take it lightly.

I expected Marist's best shot and I think we got it.