165 Quotes by Gary Williams

We don't know what we have to win. And nobody else knows, either. Despite what all those people who get paid to act like they know, they don't know. The selection committee knows who's going to be in the tournament. Or they will know. They're the only people who really know.

Winning is what you have to do this time of year. Nobody says how you have to do it or how it looks, so that's what I was about today. I was going to try to win that game somehow, and the players felt the same way.

We really didn't give ourselves a chance to see if we could be in a competitive situation in that first half.

We knew their guards were good coming into the game. We didn't stop them in the first half; they scored at will. We were flat.

We knew it was going to be a tough game, even when we got up 18 in the second half. For us to hang on like that and win, that was big.

We keep telling him how good he is and what he's capable of doing.

Thornton's really tough to guard when he puts it on the floor. He's just a good player.

The players, they're responsible for the way we're playing right now. It's their attitude, their effort in practice that allows us to play like this at this point in the season. You look around and see some teams that have gone through some tough things that aren't necessarily playing as well right now.

The players are responsible for whatever way we're playing right now, because it's their attitude and their effort in practice that allows us to play like this. To the players, you can say all the right things, but if the players don't have the fortitude to get it done, it doesn't mean anything as a coach.