56 Quotes by Ron Jones

To me it's one of the wonders of the world. It was built over 100 years ago and is 300-odd feet high. And I'm lucky enough to live right under it.

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

Coming back from the break, we kept the tempo at a fast pace while we were in Arizona and that's something we want to do. I believe we're going to continue to get better and by the time we get to the playoffs we'll be at another level where we are right now.

I've been here 13 years, and we haven't come close to that kind of start. I'm really proud of the kids. We could've panicked, but they got their composure back. The bottom line was we settled down and came through. I'm just very happy for the kids.

Defensively we're still not where I hoped we would be, but part of that is due to injuries and part of that is due to the fact that we didn't press because of those injuries. I'm sure we'll be better a month from now.

You never like getting knock out of the playoffs by anybody, but there aren't any hard feelings. And they're a new team, at least in the backfield.

They (staff) wanted us to bring it out to the front.

They made the plays at the end. I think their speed beat us as well.

They are as big, or bigger, a part for us on defense.