35 Quotes by Rick Ford

I see houses that are maintained to different degrees, I see gardens that are maintained to different degrees, ... One of the things that I would look for would be a design that very quickly would reveal individual enthusiasm of individual residents. ... Anything monolithic can, if it's designed well, look less monolithic.

P.J.'s a tough kid. He's overcome a lot more than that in his life.

That's a tough loss. We have to play just a bit better. We made the stops we needed to make tonight, and we certainly did enough defensively. We just have to play better.

Winning a game like this might be better for us that if we won with an eight-or nine-point spread because we had to work. We didn't come in here thinking it would be easy.

We've got some girls that played their hearts out. We can build on it, that's just part of that growing process, but they had a couple of seniors that were really good.

We've lost to Charlotte, but we beat Phoenix (on the road). How that works, I don't know. It's a matter of us going out and playing.

We were having trouble getting things started all night. It was just a little ground ball that I was able to hit in the right place to get on. Then a passed ball and Ruben Sierra deserves a lot of credit. After sitting on the bench, he rips that ball out there into left field. He did his job.

We had a day off (Saturday), so our players were ready to play them, ... We played with a lot of energy. The top 10-11 guys all got a good run in and played well.

We watched tape of them and we talked about their quickness and ability to get in the passing lanes. Until you get out there it's hard to fathom how effective they are. They are a pesky team and they're going to be one of those teams that will always be hard to play.