"I firmly believe if we get that ball in there, it's a football game. I don't know if we were going to win, but it's a football game. ... We weren't the same team in the second half."

"It's not just another game, it's a huge game on our schedule. We'll measure our success as a football team against that game, and we always will."

"I am very excited about this class because we have guys that can contribute now with the young guys that now have experience after one year under their belt."

"It's an extremely great class for us. This year's class builds on our previous two and has established a foundation for us to build championships."

"I think the defense had a little bit to do with that. When the ball got out in space, they got there quick."

"Dave is an individual I have coached with in the past, and someone who I have the utmost respect for as a coach and as a person. He has a tremendous amount of experience at coaching offense at the Division I level, and has ties to the BIG EAST Conference as a player and a coach."

"Each group and each youngster is different. As a leader or coach, you get to know what they need."

"Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team in a crisis situation."

"A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play."

"This is the first team we played all year that could really block shots like that. Their ability to block shots made us change some shots inside. And I don't know if we ever adjusted to that."

"I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with."

"I wasn't a great player in college, but I was a very good high school player. It really shaped a lot of what I do as a basketball coach now."

"I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody."

"I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts."

"That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on."

"That's another thing, we made up games. We didn't have equipment. When it snowed, we would play slow motion tackle football. We would play hockey, but we wouldn't skate. We just made things up. I loved doing that."

"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it."

"Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one."

"I've tried to handle winning well, so that maybe we'll win again, but I've also tried to handle failure well. If those serve as good examples for teachers and kids, then I hope that would be a contribution I have made to sport. Not just basketball, but to sport."

"With me and basketball, it became part of me."

"When I had troubles, I'd go out - with basketball, you can do it by yourself, too. So you'd go out and shoot, and you'd fantasize."

"The other thing I knew I had was a high level of competitiveness."

"It's neat to coach a kid like that. Everyone knows he's going to take the three, and everyone knows he's going to make it."

"We weren't going to win the basketball game, the game was basically over, so why put those kids in harm's way? It's an unfortunate situation. I'll let the powers that be handle it in front of everybody."