49 Quotes by Liz Shimek

This time of year, it's do-or-die. There are 16 teams left in the nation. It's a matter of who's more focused mentally and physically.

You can look at it both ways. It definitely motivates you. You can only be optimistic about it and just take the lessons that you learn from it. You can't change what happened in the past.

This team still needs to grow. It's all about the fight in us. But when nothing else works, Lindsay really takes over. She's not afraid to pull the trigger.

We were letting their go-to players get the ball and get wide-open shots. That's pretty much it. It's all in our defense.

You dream big and hope that'll happen, but you don't have any control over the future. All you can do is work hard and get a little luck along the way. We've done that. And our time isn't over yet.

Ever since summer, we have been dreaming big - Final Fours, pursue championships in everything we do. It's not a surprise to us because we have worked so hard all year and over the course of the years. We know we belong here.

There's something about the chemistry on this team, that, when it's time to turn it on, we're going to turn it on. We're just going to play our hearts out until the buzzer sounds.

I've played physical and attacked, but for us to make a run in the NCAA Tournament, the whole team is going to have to attack. We have to get the ball to the player with the hot hand. We have to be smarter with the ball and kick it out when there's two players on you.

Definitely, this gives us some momentum. We didn't do some of the things we wanted to do defensively, and there's a lot of time between now and the Big Ten Tournament. We've got a lot to work on.