21 Quotes by Tony Turina

When I looked at all of the pieces, I thought we could have something special. Everyone is playing with a lot of energy and spirit. They are playing their roles to perfection and know they are not going to be sitting on the bench too long.

(Friday) during our final drill in practice, we took the 1944 championship game ball and during our last press breaker, we got a chance to run up and down the court with it. We join the 1944 team and now people aspire to the 2006 team. This is a testament to all the hard work that resulted in a state championship.

I was comfortable with the guys that were out there because four of them had started at some point in the season. We had to control tempo and just take the best shot we could.

Jerome is a first-team all-leaguer. He's very deserving of the honor. To his credit, he wasn't an unknown coming in this season. Everyone has recognized how good a player he is.

We really banged the boards tonight and have done a much better job recently compared to earlier in the season. Everyone is playing much bigger and I?m hoping we can build on this and take it into the tournament.

We wanted to make sure the crowd saw them come in. We decided to capitalize on it. When they saw him, the place went into a frenzy. It gave us a spark and we went off from there.

We've had depth before, but this is totally unusual to have this much production at different positions.

We had our best and most enjoyable three practices of the season leading up to this game. We knew if we had a lead after the quarter, there was no looking back.

We needed to get back to basics. We needed to take advantage of our size. Our size is an integral part of our offense.