45 Quotes by John Pelphrey

Our goal was to take the inside away and keep them from jamming it down our throats because they have such good post players. We did a good job of that in the first half. In the second half, it got away from us a little bit.

Our turnaround this year was extremely dramatic, in turns of wins and losses. This is going to happen anytime you go through the building process.

Outside of my father, he was probably the most influential male in my life.

Outside my father, he's probably the most influential male in my life. He's a special, special guy.

We have been working really hard here the past three years. We've had some hurdles like all rebuilding jobs. This year we have more players. We have more experienced players. The first-year guys we have signed are making contributions. We're kind of getting it from everywhere. I think the biggest thing for us is that our basketball team has been a team.

We play New Orleans, it's always a battle. I told our guys we can't look at the records in conference play...New Orleans has had a tough situation all year long and I am impressed with how hard they play.

We had a tough day today. We played a better basketball team. Physically we had a tough time getting around them, a tough time getting to the hoop. We tried. We were courageous. We played hard. Florida was just better today.

We understood what we wanted to do in the first half. Especially on offense. We found our pace, worked the ball around and got some really clean looks.

We knew that we were going to be one of the top two or three teams in the league. At least we felt like that. We certainly had a confidence level coming in.