15 Quotes by Ted Young

The pat on the back (for winning the regular season) is gone. The first do-or-die games for the girls are (today) and on Saturday for the boys. Everything you've worked for is gone on Saturday if you're not prepared for it mentally or physically.

We didn't play our best game today, but we were still in it.

We've really been impressed with the way Kenwood has been playing. They've got a good fire lit under them. So we came in here mentally and physically focused. One of the reasons we played so well was that we were ready for Kenwood.

They've got a lot of different guys that can do things. But we're going to get down and guard them and try to do the best we possibly can. ... Probably we're pretty similar in that aspect that it's not just one man's that going to turn a game around all the time.

For the first part of the game, we were equal or better (than Hunters Lane). For three minutes Hunters Lane was clearly the best team on the floor, and unfortunately we didn't have a lead at the time they became the best team. Give them credit. We had a good game plan. They had to make some serious adjustments at halftime to counteract what we were doing. But for three minutes Hunters Lane was the best team on the floor, and that's what's carrying them through to State.

The guys can take pride because when we started on Nov. 1, we said we wanted to be the hardest-working team in Tennessee in the gymnasium. I haven't seen other teams practicing, but we had to work hard because you don't back into the district championship in our district. Not in Clarksville. You don't back into it. You take it from the other teams, and that's what these guys were able to do.