All those years I had to coach; I couldn't really appreciate how good she was. She was a girl amazing her own father.

I mentioned to the girls that the game was too close for comfort. I told them we had to drive and hope they would foul us.

I'm going to have to pull a rabbit out of my hat.

It's tough being in the city this year.

It's going to be like two prize fighters. We're the small ones, they're the big ones.

I told the girls that we wanted to spread the floor and make it a free-throw game.

A lot of people don't get that chance to coach their daughter. That's the enjoyable thing. The ups and downs, you know, it's unbelievable.

Coaches have started doing things that Lincoln has been doing for years ? taking kids to team camps, putting them in the gym (in the summer) and making sure they play. We're just finally catching up with them.

The suburban schools have traditionally done better than the city schools, and I believe that's due to economics, plus, in the city schools we water each other down. We're fragmented, but in the suburbs you have one high school that everybody goes to.

We needed her to do that. We ran a play to get her going right away.