Rick Stansbury Kids Quotations

I don't know why (Kentucky's) kids make shots. Shooting gets contagious, and Kentucky has started getting contagious four games ago.

Our kids understand. They know where we're at. We've got three home games left, and two games on the road. We're just trying to fight to get better. They're fighting for their lives every game.

You've got zero chance if you spot somebody 20 and have to fight back in the second half. I thought our kids fought back and responded, but you can't get down 20 points and come back on a roll.

I thought our kids came out the second half and played at that other energy level. We made a lot of plays for Charles Rhodes.

There's no team in the country, anywhere, that a coach got their kids to play harder than Rod Barnes did.

You can't have those on the road. I told our kids, we can't accept this. It's not something we should get used to. But there are some positive things.

It was a special effort. For our kids to have the attitude and energy after losing some games when they're not used to it, it tells you a lot about the makeup of this basketball team. We put together 40 minutes, from start to finish.

This is a difficult thing we're going through. We're not used to this. The kids can very easily get down, quit working and have attitudes, but this team didn't do it. We took a very good Ole Miss team tonight and did something to them that no one's done to them.