55 Quotes by Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Some guys on our team were visibly tired. We kept telling them in timeouts, you've just got to gut through it.

I was very proud of our kids. They had an opportunity at the end of the game, and they took advantage of it.

That was the whole game plan: to play for the four seniors who mean so much to this team. (Smith) really did that.

Winning 20 games this season is a huge accomplishment. When you look at the list of teams to have done it, we're proud, but we didn't play this year to win 20 games. We're playing to do bigger and better things.

We never got into a good rhythm offensively or defensively. We've been making a living on getting consecutive stops, and I don't know if we got one.

We get in there, get a sandwich, watch a movie. Those guys talk and laugh in the back. What I like is that it gives us a lot of time to spend with the guys. It's a different setting, and we're talking and joking around with them. They just enjoy it.

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

We were able to keep to the same routine. We got a sandwich, popped in a movie, the kids talk and laugh at the back of the bus. That's where a lot of the memories happen. If you talk to the guys who played here, they say some of their best memories are of the bus rides.