679 Quotes by Jim Calhoun

For us to tell our kids that this is just a regular season game ... we've always set goals, to try to win the Big East championship. To back away from that a day before or two days before the game would be foolhardy.

I looked at all their percentages, and the numbers don?t always correlate. But the important number is that they?re winning.

With about 10 minutes to go we finally started to play basketball,

That allowed Lewis and Thomas to do what they wanted. We got beat good in the post.

It's a bear. Three games in a row that will all be tough for different reasons. I just hope we're ready to go and we get through that.

For us to go any place, we have to beat Pittsburgh. And for Pittsburgh to go, they have to kind of go by us.

My theory is simply that there is no way you should ever shut off the engine. I do play to win as much as I can, for my kids. We play to win. But I can't convince them - and I should be able to at this point - that you have to play 40 minutes to win. You can't go to sleep. You cannot go to sleep.

I'll remember Marcus' smile from the office in the mornings. I'll remember his loyalty; I'll remember how hard he has worked on becoming a terrific basketball player that is, in my opinion capable of stepping into the NBA and starting for someone next year.

We really caught them off guard. I can see it on the tape that they just didn't expect us to be as good as we were.