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OMAR WILLIAMS I don't think it's going to be a long week. I'm just glad were in the NCAA tournament. Sure, I want ...
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BOB KNIGHT I think we do a real disservice to our game by playing our national championship tournament at the s...
DON HORWOOD We had to turn it up and play hard. Coach told us at halftime that we had to play hard for those 16 ...
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JIM BOLLA The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th...
JUSTIN HARE I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tourna...
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JULIAN TERRELL I don't know where we're going, but you've got to look up. The NCAA tournament obviously is in jeopa...
ERIC DEVENDORF We were 2-8 in the SEC and won six straight. And [we] got to the NCAA Tournament.
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LIONEL ANDERSON Absolutely not. We're going into the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 seed and everybody's going to come a...
IVORY LATTA In our tournament over the weekend, we were right there. We just weren't able to get the finish. Onc...
CINDY THOMPSON Its not smart basketball, that's what it is. Your in the wrong position with your feet, or we're dow...
ERIC SITZE We do think about the NCAA Tournament and where we need to be. But right now, we're trying to take o...
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CHAD MILLARD We didn't play team basketball on offense the entire game. We haven't been playing (team basketball)...
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DOUG FERGUSON I like playing in this kind of environment with all the fans going crazy. But that's not what decide...
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ANTHONY DREJAJ The way we're playing defensively right now, I think we can play our best basketball of the season i...
JOSH LAWRENCE These girls are good athletes, not just good basketball players. We usually start slow in December. ...
DEAN WATERS The four teams that got byes in a 16-team league got penalized. You're not playing 16, 15, 14, and 1...
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LISA BLUDER We didn't execute they way we had been preparing to. Basketball is about effort and execution. The e...
CRAIG PIPPEN The community just got excited about basketball and the style of ball we were playing. We had good c...
DAVID BOYDSTUN We've been playing good basketball the whole tournament. We're not the powerhouse most teams are. We...
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DENNY THRONEBURG We are excited about our schedule. We play some great teams. Playing Texas A&M and Boston University...
DAN ABDALLA They were able to win the game because we didn't match their intensity in the second half. We gave o...
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RICK PITINO We just kept fighting and fighting. It's hard to play a team for the third time ? we knew what they ...
JENI HOPKINS It was an awesome game. It's no question we lost to a team that deserves to be in the NCAA Tournamen...
AMANDA BUTLER I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING Along the way, let's never forget that once we were children and that we were all playing togeth...
GUY LALIBERTE We came out fired up. It's an opportunity to play. That's what we wanted. It's not in the context we...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and...
ANDREW BOGUT We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the se...
AL WALKER This is fun; it's March and we're still here playing. Everyone is tired and exhausted but we don't c...
PETRA KULHANKOVA It's just a game to us. It might mean more to some people, but you can't get caught up in it. You ne...
JASON GRUBB That's Reggie. I don't think he was playing any different because it was us. He's always one to get ...
RAY ALLEN Playing a game with the NCAA is a rigged game. It's not fair, unrestrained competition.
JEFFREY KESSLER We're playing Virginia lacrosse right now and are not worried too much about what the other teams ar...
MATT POSKAY Not playing got her into trouble. She was defiant and angry. She hung around the wrong people. It wa...
IMANI ALI Once he starts playing basketball and continues to play how he's been playing, a lot of the negativi...
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LUKASZ OBRZUT The most important thing right now is not to get down on ourselves and act like our season is over. ...
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JULIUS ASHBY We are going to make a game ugly. We are not going to let you play and do what you want to do.
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AMBROSIA ANDERSON My first goal was to make the cut, I just wanted to prepare as normal for a tournament and just forg...
DANNY DENISON We had our mind made up that we were going to play some zone, but the way the game played out, we th...
JOE LAYNE I just said we needed this game. If we win this game, do what we're supposed to do, then this game c...
MARDY COLLINS That game doesn't mean anything, because we were going against 10 men. But (D.C.) kept playing. I ho...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav...
BARBARA O'CONNOR When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR