679 Quotes by Jim Calhoun

There are no easy routes in this tournament. I thought we could eventually take control of this game, but Kentucky kept fighting back.

You had a No. 1 seed in peril. Thank God history wasn't made.

We may look differently and act differently, but we both share a love for Eastern basketball, a love for the game, a love for people. To go in with Jim is befitting.

And the Elvin Hayes-Jabbar game at the Astrodome, that was something I was thinking about for days.

We just broke down and allowed some plays that shouldn't have happened.

I don't think the Big East or college basketball or the (selection) committee should feel any embarrassment if that team goes to the NCAA Tournament. (But) we were home and Denham, some of our veteran players, Rashad, etc., they made some terrific plays down the stretch.

We're a new league, a league of 16. But this seems like the old wars of the '80s and '90s.

When you look out there and see Ray (Allen), Mec (Emeka Okafor), Johnny Gwynn ... any of those people. You don?t win the number of games we?ve been able to win or the championships we?ve won without those players,

That's something you really have a difficult time answering in the sense that you can't get inside the team's mind.