Bruce Bowen Quotations

Watching the players in their environment was impressive. They were all great guys. I was like a kid in a candy store.

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

Severna Park is the favorite this year and next year. They're four top players are all juniors.

I did what I did and I'm sorry for that. But there's nothing I can do to take it back.

I enjoy playing against Ray. You're playing against one of the top guys in the league as far as perimeter players. I respect him a great deal for his ability on the court, that's why I have to prepare for him the way I do.

I think it's a great idea and opportunity, not just for the NBA and the players, but for the two organizations that are involved in this,

I think Ben did. The first part of the game, Ben gets a steal, the dunk. That's not how you want to start off a game away from home. That just energizes their team. That picks their team up and makes them more heightened and more hyper.

I think so. Not to disrespect them (Magic), but it's not like you're going up against Phoenix right now. You expect their numbers to be up a little bit, but they scored 54 points in the first half. I don't care how you look at it, that's not defense to our standards.

Kobe is the ultimate competitor, so any time we can hold him in check, we're happy.

We had more people distributing the ball in the second half and I was the beneficiary of some of those passes. When we do that, somebody is going to hit the wide-open shot.

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

To leave that and become disciplined to the point where you realize, 'OK, maybe now is not the time to take one in transition'... him getting that is huge.

We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us.

Tim is Tim. He's what makes us go. The media try to come up with something new and improved to say about Tim, but he is a wonderful player and that's who he is.

We should pay you the wholesale rate for ... your electricity.

When (Owens returns), that's five pretty strong players. They've got to play their best but when they do, they could give (Severna Park) a run.

We thought about the way we played them last time at home, because when you get smacked at home, you don't like that. You go back to the drawing board and figure out what you can do to turn it around.

We just have to use it to recognize what we need to do to get better.

You have to understand that all we did is what we were supposed to do tonight. They are going to be a better team when they come out the next time, and we have to be ready for that.

We did a better job in the second half of the game tonight.

Flying under the radar is great. I could care less if anybody talks about us. We're still doing what we try to do, which is win a championship.

They scored 14 points in the last 39 seconds. It didn't end on a high note and that's our attitude about this game right now. It puts a damper on tonight's game. We didn't accomplish what we wanted to as a team because of what happened at the end of the game.

They have a wonderful economic-development program here, and they actually recruit gun businesses.

They're rolling right now. They're not the same team we saw earlier, and they have nothing to lose. They're playing really good basketball right now, and you have to give them credit for what they did. But we should have given a better effort tonight.

I took him home in two tin cans. He was buried in Nebraska.

It is what it is. I was wrong for what I did. The league has a decision on that. I have to deal with the consequences of my actions, and I do. I accept the consequences that come.

It's always a good test when we play them. In their system, if there's 22 seconds left on the shot clock and somebody's open, they're going to shoot it.

It was a playoff atmosphere out there tonight. We were pressing some in the first half and didn't play that well. We picked up the intensity in the second half.

They've made a sacrifice for us, to protect us and our families. I think more than anything else there's a profound appreciation for them.

It's not a matter of we were playing a game, and then we had to stop the game, ... It was just coming into warming up, so we can always get warmed up.

I can't allow that to take my edge off. Whoever is going to play his spot, I have to look at them as I do him.