15 Quotes by Mike MacDonald

It's a funny career the way it's gone. There's a classic example of turning a negative into a positive.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.

The two of us have always had a policy we'd never play. But the (HSBC) Arena got involved and wanted to see John's team come in. We needed to play there next season (as a rehearsal game for the 2007 NCAA Tournament regional). We were both desperate for games and we decided to do it.

They made a couple more plays than we did. I thought we played with great intensity and energy all the way.

Canisius is a very special place . . . It's a bottom line business unfortunately. If the only thing we can be accused of is not winning enough games, I leave here with my head held high because we've had guys who've acted the right way.

I didn't think about it. It's not like I was looking down there (at the West Virginia bench) every time. One time out of a timeout we ran a play and they ran the exact same play the next possession. That was kind of ironic.