297 Quotes by J. Horton

Maybe it's stage fright. I ask myself, 'How do we play like this?' We do great in practice. Then in games, we don't do anything well.

We knew we had to make a commitment to play defense and that's what we talked about at our meeting. If we play defense like we played tonight we're very tough to beat.

It's the families we're concerned about, because here we go again, we have to answer the call to duty,

Right now it's up to us to maintain our level of play and stay in first place. Winning these two games this week gives us a lot more confidence because these are teams that people outside our program don't expect us to beat.

We would go into town at night to have dinner and I couldn't find my way back through four-way stops and dirt roads.

It just popped right out to me. It was a long time coming for goals for me. I got lucky tonight and hopefully they keep going in.

People were expecting a lot of things from this team, and they don't realize, before we got here, they were winning 11 games and facing NCAA sanctions. They wanted national championship success right away, and we knew it wasn't going to be like that. It was going to be a long grind and process. We've done that really well, to the point where we expect to win.

On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.

We knew that we had played a great team and competed with them toe-to-toe. But at the same time, it gave us a direction to go in our program. We knew too that we weren't the caliber team that they were.