11 Quotes by Heidi Deery

No one counted us to be there on Saturday, except for us. This bunch of girls, they believe in the program, they believe in themselves, and I'm just really proud of them.

I feel like it's part of the deal in Class D basketball. We don't have the luxury of having five or six schools within 30 minutes of us.

We're pretty balanced scoring. We don't have one person scoring 20 points. There's a lot of 10s and 12s. Every night a different person is the high scorer. These guys are working really, really hard. I'm happy where we are right now.

That's what I used. I said, 'That's a team that never gives up, and if you play every second of every minute and the other team doesn't, you will win.' That's all I kept saying.

We executed our game plan defensively, as far as I'm concerned, to a T. I had hoped that we could score 40 points on them.

We had our chance, and we just couldn't get it done.

This team is so different from last year's team. We're really just stepping out on our own.

Baker is the type of player, that even if you do keep her to 15 points, she can distribute the ball better than anybody I've seen in girls basketball.

There's about 10 kids that are getting a lot of playing time. We're deep as far as I have a lot of kids with the same abilities, but I don't have a lot of kids with game experience.