Jim Calhoun Quite Quotations

Pittsburgh has turned into a rivalry game for us. They certainly have become a formidable opponent, an obstacle for us to get to a championship, or for seeding, or quite frankly just to get wins.

Our strengths were not our strengths today. We've been talking about the things we don't have. The things we do have were our biggest weakness today. We've never been overrated as a team. We've just been, quite frankly, misconstrued as a team at times. But we have great heart.

I don't want our kids playing the scoreboard because, quite frankly, we won't always be here at the Civic Center. In the second half we matched baskets and we won by five. I don't think we should do that. We should take more pride in what we're doing.

We're not a team of breakdown individuals. We're much more a team of execution. We're going to have to work on execution tomorrow, the next day and continue. It's fine when we're running. It's not quite as fine in the half-court set. Yet I've seen us in the half-court set be brilliant. I'm not sure we truly have a guy we would run five plays in a row for.

Three out of 63 kids who committed the same act were thrown out of school. The percentage, quite frankly, was in his favor not to have it happen.

I thought they tested us. I was a little bit disappointed that we didn't respond quite as well.

I was never quite involved in something like that.

Magnificent is a good word. He put on one of the better performances I've seen in quite a while.

It's fine when we're running. It's not quite as fine in the half-court set. Yet I've seen us in the half-court set be brilliant.

The difference between the two teams, quite frankly, was we're a little more athletic and a little more experienced. That's what it came down to.

Quite frankly, you have to go to somebody. You have to have your inside game or your outside game. And, usually, somebody's got to make plays.

Quite frankly, we've probably had five complete games all year. We've been a team of lapses.

Providence has given us lots of problems and Timmy (Welsh) has prepared his team well. I think the only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the (Big East) standings, quite frankly, is that these are young kids.

It's both being fortunate and having the basketball gods smiling on you a little bit because quite frankly they had every right to win that game as much as we did. We took our foot off the pedal and we can't do that.

Well, 1,100 basketball games I've been fortunate to be involved with (and) I've never been quite involved with something like that. It was just an incredible game fought by two teams who gave it everything they possibly have. And I don't know if the teams could have gone another minute. I thought it was an incredible display of what competition is all about.

They could get to the Final Four with their effort. No one's done quite what they did to us.