Tyrese Rice Quotations

Maybe we have to beat Duke to get the respect we need.

My condolences and those of everyone else's on this team goes out to that man's family. I didn't know what to say about it. It was just a shock. Everybody on the bus felt bad about it. Everyone was just looking around like this man just lost his life. This is bigger than basketball.

Only I knew where the shot was going to go. I just tried to jump back up and tip it as fast as I could.

It is a little dream come true for us to be in the championship after starting in such a hole.

Our being new to the ACC and being in Carolina country we knew everybody in the gym was going to be against us. But we feed off that and came out and play harder.

It definitely was a road game. We're on the road right now, playing down here in North Carolina in ACC country.

I thought it was funny because it wasn't the first time that's happened to me. We're moving on and they're going home, and that's all that matters.

You just have to focus like you're in the gym by yourself with nobody watching.

We definitely wanted to play (Duke) again. With it being down here, it will be all Duke fans like it was today with all Carolina fans.

I knew it was going in, so I just took off running back the other way.

He pretty much changed the game. They had wide-open shots, and he would run out, and they wouldn't even take them. They were hesitating to shoot because he had blocked so many shots before.

All I wanted was two minutes, but we're going to get 40. And 40 minutes is more than enough to do what we have to do.