21 Quotes by Dave Cook

He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world...

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

We have set our goals really high all season and this was one of the things that we really wanted. I think we showcased what we can do this weekend. For the last month and a half, our whole team has been on a mission. We have a feeling that making it is not enough; we want it all.

We just keep playing great team defense. We held another team to under 40 points.

Both of those guys have a lot of confidence. And we as a team have a lot of confidence in them. They were missing early but I tell them all the time a shooter's job is to shoot. Luckily, they warmed up in the fourth quarter.

Essentially we wanted to do whatever had to be done. The cost of replacing it was so exorbitant.

A flood in 1908 took most of them out.

They are a special, special pair of kids. I'll probably never coach one guy like them and right now I have two. Not to mention a bunch of tough, tough big guys down low.

It's just a great feeling to be going to the final four.