Solomon Jones Quotations

We didn't want to go out with a major blowout. Me and James, this is our last few games, and if we can get a win against one of the top teams in the country, that's going to be an inspiration for the guys coming back next year.

If we're not convinced that we can play with people, then we'll never be convinced. I think most of our guys are convinced that we can just line up with anybody out there.

I could tell a real difference, and it made me proud. His body has always had its own idea of how much weight it should hold, and he's put in a lot of time to get where he can body up against guys who weigh 260 or 270.

He had to come home for me, and I think this means a lot to him because he wasn't able to do that.

He hit me on the forearm. I was definitely surprised they didn't call it.

We took them for granted. If we don't play hard, we took them for granted.

Guys came out and just laid it all on the floor. We played our best basketball against ranked teams. We can play with these guys at this level.

I think that's what made me better. That year off, seeing other guys play, knowing I'd missed the opportunity to be out there. After that, I couldn't quit. I won't quit. I can't put my head down after that.

It feels good to not have to talk about what we could have done to win and talk about what we did to win.

We have to keep fighting and hopefully pull one out sooner or later.

We're doing this every game. Every game, game after game. We're up against Villanova and they start hitting threes. They start making runs and we don't know how to bounce back.

We've got to come out and get a win. There's nothing to it. We have to dig down and play hard.

We kind of let up, and that's when they went on the 8-0 run. We can't let up. When we have the momentum, we have to find a way to dig deep.

You hear about all those players. But not all the great shot blockers come out of Georgetown. We got some here at South Florida.

Even if we're 0-11 in the Big East, I can't quit on my teammates. You have guys leave, and I feel sorry for them. You never know what you have until it's gone. You quit a team, you sit in the stands and watch, and then you realize how blessed you are to have this opportunity.

The one thing about basketball is you don't have too long to think about losses because you get to play again real soon.

Some things didn't go our way and we just stepped back and didn't try to find another way to get it going. Our shots didn't fall so we have to find another way.

Coach always tells us we have to find a way. It's what we have to do, instead of thinking what we could do if we had this player or this player. Nobody expects us to win any games from here on out, so we just have to plan on a lot of upsets.

This is definitely getting old. It seems like we just let up in the second half every game. We're not digging deep. We have to learn how to be a much tougher team.

This definitely was a step back, because we didn't come out with any intensity to win tonight. Point blank, we just didn't play hard.

This is what everyone expected - for us to go 0-16 in the conference. And we're just giving them what they want. We have to step up and prove everyone wrong.

It's another great opportunity to go out and prove ourselves to people all over the world. We have to come out and want to win, come out and play hard.

It's very frustrating. It was so close and we're not able to pull one out.

So close. I mean, we're just going to get one of these. We've just got to keep our head up and we'll get one of these.

The intensity, it just isn't there. Beginning of the season, everybody figured us not to win a game (in the Big East), and right now, that's the way it's going. Me, personally, I want to prove somebody wrong.

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Intensity, it ain't there. We come out at the start of the game slow.

I feel like, even though I had that, I didn't play that well tonight. It doesn't mean anything because we didn't get the win.