178 Quotes by Bobby Jones

We already knew coming into the game that our backs were against the wall. I mean, we were 1-2 in conference. You don't want to start off conference play slow, then put yourself in a corner and force yourself to win five or six in a row. So it was a huge game.

With two teams that pressure a lot and are physical, once someone gets pushed or aggravated and gets hit, tempers flare up and they get mad and teammates defend teammates and other people get involved. That was usually the case when we played them last year.

This was probably the most physical game we've played against them. That brings out the best in us, and we're not going to back down. So that just made the game that much more intense and physical. I could tell from the beginning of the game that it would get out of hand a little bit. I got shoved out of bounds one time, and I told the ref they might want to slow things down.

We're going to come ready to play for 40 minutes and leave it all out there. A lot of people don't expect us to win. We're a scrappy bunch. We don't back down from everyone.

We just gave up far too many easy buckets.

We're just not good enough. Our effort's been great. And the fans have been phenomenal. I think they feel sorry for us. I think they know what we're going through.

We're going into this to do our best, because this is our last go-round. The next time we lose, we won't be college basketball players anymore.

We know how good we can play and we know how bad we can play. We know we can't take anybody lightly.

Ben Hogan will keep winning championships as long as he wants to badly enough.