John Rutter Quotations

We're as good as want to be on any given night. The rest of our schedule is tough so that tells me the girls will play at another level.

She came out hot. She and Katie Johnson inside were huge for them. They scored and rebounded and I thought that they were the difference in the game.

Monika's something else. She's what, 5-5? And don't forget about Anna (Conrad). She brought the ball up the entire game against some pretty tough, intense pressure.

I hate to use the word afraid, but we just came out not ready to play against a good team and they took it to us. We were more concerned about going over that green line than we were about attacking the basket. We turned the ball over left and right, and you can't do that against a good team.

I felt pretty good about the way our girls stepped up tonight. In the end, it came down to execution, and we didn't execute like we needed to.

I thought she (Holtz) and number 24 (Johnson) were the difference in the game. They scored and rebounded and they were the difference -- no doubt about it. I thought we had some shots open, but unfortunately, they didn't fall.

I think we took the ball and created some opportunities for ourselves and put them in situations where they would foul a little bit more. We moved the ball. We got some good shots inside.

Our kids, for whatever reason, struggle playing Bartlett. If it's the gym, if it's the team, I don't know what it is. We played like that earlier in the year against them, too. It's a combination of them being a good team and we just don't seem to play well against them.

Our girls came in and gave a great effort. That's the way it's been all year. That will carry them a long way in life, and I suspect that they're going to be some very successful young ladies.

Our company goal is to raise more than $5,000 through Helpful Hardware Card sales on Labor Day Weekend.

My pearl, my life, my loved ones have been turned upside down,

That's the most time Alex has gotten all season. She did a real nice job in a difficult spot for us.

Yeah, we were in foul trouble and turning the ball over too much (11 first-half turnovers), but we were only down two at the half.

We get the view. We can concentrate on the wildlife and the trains. And the river itself, the water flowing.

We got it right down to six and we couldn't get over that hump. We had a couple of opportunities to get it closer, but we just couldn't get the ball to drop.

Two minutes into the second half, I think we had three freshmen who played the rest of the game until Kelsey fouled out (late).

We just tried to concentrate on playing all five of them as tough as we could, whether that was inside or outside. Unfortunately, Holtz got off to a hot start, and Johnson came on to pick up where she left off, and that was the difference.

We had our work cut out. They're a tough team.

Defensively, I thought that our perimeter people helped a lot. We helped and then recovered. We've been preaching that all year long and tonight, it actually came to fruition. Once the ball went down to the post, we dropped down and got some help.

They played hard from start to finish and that's all you can ask. The ball just didn't go in, and tonight, Larkin was better. We'll regroup and we'll have at least one more try at them.

It's a sad day -- we're done. But they all played hard. That sort of effort will take them in a long way in life.

Inconstancy is but a name to fright poor lovers from a better choice

I deeply regret the perception that I had done wrong, ... I never intended any harm...It's a shame this whole mess ever happened.