40 Quotes by Tyrus Thomas

My mindset is to take my opponent's heart and take his soul.

That was one of the times that the team began to really pull together, because we realized that at any point that could have been our campus that was hit. We helped out, and a couple of us shared tears. It was an eye-opening experience for us.

We have to take every opponent seriously, but we were kind of focused on playing Connecticut. You have to take every opponent seriously. These are really tougher games to get up for, because we're supposed to win these games.

Yeah, we did it. Final Four! No one thought we would.

When I saw him with his head down trying to dribble, I went over. With .5 I had the ball.

We were in the double bonus, so the objective was to get fouled. But I saw an open lane, so I took it. And I just scored the ball.

We knew we couldn't let them get a shot off. Because chances are ... I'm not sure of the statistics, but in March, the chances of shots going in must be greater. In March, people hit shots from half court, from the 3-point line, from everywhere. We weren't going to let that happen. And with 3.9 seconds, they had enough time, but not against our defense.

We weren't going to let them get the best of us.

We feel we are one of the best teams in the country despite our youth. If we continue to execute right we will have an awesome season.