Harry Nissen Quotations

She's been a great benefit not only on the sidelines, but at practice she works hard. She gets the sneakers on and battles Jessica (Laing).

He had something like 36 points, 24 rebounds, nine assists and seven blocks. That's what the good ones do. They make it look easy.

It got down to the seniors again. They came out with a lot of composure.

We just came out and made a statement.

We've coached some tremendous games. It's a cliche, but you can throw the records out the window when these teams play. Some years we've had the upper hand, but most years he's had the upper hand.

We were talking the other night and we couldn't think of a faster player in the area.

This situation is what you always dream about. As a kid, you dream about being at the foul line in the championship game ? and now we're actually there. I've been trying to get that across to them. The opportunity is there for them.

Even though they're good players, they work hard at improving their game. You like to see those kids get rewarded.

I've been thinking about (retirement). I don't want to say anything, yet. I want to wait until things are over and I can make a decision. I'm 58 and I've been doing it for 35 years.

That's what we set out to do in every game we play is control both backboards if we can. It's one of the things that we stress with the kids, and they kind of take it seriously. They do a good job on it.

They knew the game and they knew what had to be done. I didn't have to call timeouts, so I always had timeouts at the end of the game and that made it easier to coach.

They just came out and were ready to play. They took it to us defensively and they took it to us offensively. We didn't play defense. Defense, we always feel, is our strong point. We didn't rebound or defend and it's simple as that. We scored 60 points; we have to win with 60 points.

They know they're not going to come out right away. We took Emily out for a little bit (because of an apparent left ankle injury), but they can play with that. They've had to do it before. You have to learn to play with fouls.

It's really a great relationship between a father and a daughter. If she has some imperfection, he's someone who can break it down and identify what's wrong.

I don't think many coaches have had many girls like her. You get maybe one to three players of her caliber over the years.

These guys still believed they could win it. Now they have to go to the next level. They have the desire and heart.