199 Quotes by Roy Williams

Tyler was something in the second half. We talked about trying to drive the ball to the basket and try to get good spacing and I think we did a much better job of that in the second half. We tried to stay fresh on J.J. but he got some good looks and just missed them.

When you're playing a team of that caliber, you can't make the mistakes we made.

I really do believe Monday night's game will be great for college basketball. Larry Brown 's Pistons last year made a statement in the NBA about playing the game a certain way -- sharing the ball, being a team. .... I'm hoping the way we play, the way Illinois plays, that people will decide that truly is what's most important, not just one guy shooting or one guy high-flying around.

I'll go for a nice, brisk walk - brisk meaning the temperature, not my pace.

You look back at one play here and one play there and all that kind of stuff but they made the plays when they had to. If we could've gotten a couple of offensive rebounds or a couple of stops but we didn't. But I think Craig Smith was sensational.

You don't need to rub it in. I love our crowd but I don't like putting other people down.

I hoped that we would really play well, I hoped we would really play hard, and I hoped that would help us be very successful. But there's still a lot out there. We're hoping and dreaming that we won't stop right now.

The fact that the score was close is not something you worry about. You just have to play.

I really didn't think he was going to throw the ball. He threw that ball and my eyes lit up. The rest is history.