27 Quotes by Gordie Kerkman

He does so many things. We put stickers on the players' lockers, and we're running out of room on his.

He does a lot of things. Gets his hands on a lot of balls, hits the boards, defense. He has a lot of talent. He can shoot the ball. He can make a lot of things happen.

I almost called a timeout, but I figured I'd see if we could play through it, and we did. I thought our kids maintained their intensity in that situation and did well not to panic.

He could impact a game in so many ways that he didn't always need to score. We don't often have a prolific scorer in our system. I was even able to hold Kenny Battle down to 18 points a game.

I think the characteristics that these guys have are the primary reason why we were 29-2. They're a fun team to coach. A bunch of nice young men. From a standpoint of whether we could get to Peoria or not, we just kind of took that one game at a time this year.

I thought we made a lot of bad decisions but, I guess when people put that type of pressure on you, you tend to make bad decisions. I thought we were very listless the first half.

I think we're playing pretty well. I will always say that we could play better, but I don't think we're playing poorly. I would like to see us smooth out our game a little more.

John was an idol of mine. He was so close to winning a state title. He is very highly respected. He is truly one of the greatest in the state.

That's the worst job we've done all year. (But) Batavia anticipates very well and they do a good job of getting their hands in the passing lanes. We also made some very poor decisions.