48 Quotes by Ricardo Patton

What Texas A&M beating Texas really means to me is it just confirms what I said all along - this league is not down. There are some awful good teams in this league.

We signed these kids early so this is not an evaluation. We're just here for support.

We have done well on that all season. We have not had to rely on one guy for our 3-point shots.

Big-time players make big-time plays. It's that way in every sport. ... And that dunk came in traffic.

Early on, he had one foot in and one foot out the door.

The thing you learn from winning is how to win, and they are a very disciplined basketball team. I think if you look at the guys that make big plays for them, they are the guys who have been pretty consistent all season long.

Sometimes what happens is the media may throw that information out there and start believing that's the case. But I think anyone who has watched the Big 12 closely realizes it's as good a conference as there is.

Pray . . . I'm going to start there. You've just got to compete. I guess if I had to wish for just one thing to occur with our guys, it's just that we compete . . . It's going to be a physically played basketball game; that's just the nature of how they play. We just have to bow our backs and be ready to respond to that.

That's not something at the forefront of Roby's thinking right now.