199 Quotes by Roy Williams

David (Noel) played great, and he continues to play well. It makes it so much easier on everyone else.

I thought defensively we've competed awfully, awfully hard. (The) first seventeen minutes of the first half, I think we had them at like twelve points and I think it was just hard work on the defensive end, I think we were limiting them to one shot.

Then the other thing is that Wes has been playing so hard. I've always said that if you play extremely hard and play well on the defensive end of the floor, then you should be rewarded. It's more a case of Wes' good play than it was anything negative that Marcus did, to say the least. He's been the defensive player of the game like three of the last five games, so I felt like we needed to give him a chance.

I was disappointed in Aaron's involvement. I didn't see it. I'll need to look at the tape. If we need to do some extra running for Aaron, it's what we should do. Our guys don't need to do those kind of things. Just shut up, get hold of your own player and get out of there.

That's a big steppingstone for us. It helps our confidence. Our defense is playing real well, and our offense came through when it had to. It's a great win. It's something we can build on.

I was dumfounded. We didn't have the fire ... it was the most disappointing thing that we've had to happen all season. But other than that (stretch), I was happy with the effort. ... But if I ever have a team to quit, I'll walk out of here and quit coaching.

The attention that basketball gets here is incredible, and that's what you want. You want interest. You can have a great team, but if nobody cares, it doesn't do any good. I think there's positives, and some people will say there are negatives. But there also are a lot of positives.

I thought Virginia was much more aggressive and much more intelligent early in the game. Very uncomfortable over there for me.

It's been challenging and it's been fun, but I'm from the west and my wife and I have had a long-term goal of getting back there at some point in our careers.