Herbert Greene Quotations

We don't have anybody that can guard a person like that in there. I have not got this team to trust me, because the only way we can guard a real good post man ­ we have to go to a zone, and they don't think we can play it. Consequently, we've never gotten very good at it.

We're looking at a tremendous amount of changes over the next few years.

He's just such a great kid. He's just as good as they come. I'm proud of him and the way he's gone over there and played.

He just killed us down there. Every time we'd make a little run, he'd just kick us. He beat us with his quickness. We didn't have anybody that's quick enough to handle him.

(Matthews) is an outstanding true point guard. He'll be the only true point guard we'll have in the program. He's just a smart player. He can push the ball; he makes the right decisions. He can do everything.

We were lucky to be as close as we were, for shooting 33 percent. We played hard, but we didn't play real smart.

We have won two or three games this year because we put Justin at the post and rotated him to the outside, and they don't guard him. Today, when they got close, he made two big 3s to run that thing back out there.

We never could put them away. They shoot it so well and they can score from so many different places. We're just glad to get a win out of it.

We didn't play with any enthusiasm or energy. We don't have it every night. That comes from heart and a passion for what you're doing. We don't have enough of that right now. We're capable of it, but we're not there right now.

We've had a training program here before and we'd love to have it back. I think it's something that's in the works. It's just a matter of how you want to get it done, because that's more of an academic issue, more than an athletic issue. The administration has to say they want to have it and then you go from there.

We had a good training program before and the kids were adequately treated, but he's raised the bar. It's even better now.

Those two real big guys, they're about as good as we've had here in a long time. They can catch the ball, they can put it in the hole. Now we've just got to get them all in here and go from there.

What Quay did today is what we expected out of him. He's done it two or three times, but we expect him to do it every night.

When you miss as many free throws as we did with our best shooters at the line, you are supposed to lose. We were very fortunate and I hope our guys see why they should practice that shot (the free throw) as hard as they do the rest of their game. I'm afraid they don't do that.

There's nothing sacred in basketball anymore with the 3-point shot. There's nothing safe and nothing sacred.

Thank goodness for Ron Robinson. We came out and lollygagged around in the first half. Quay Holloway went on a little run of his own and saved us, and then Ron put us on his back there for a while in the second half. I am glad to get out of here with a win.

People turn it up on us and instead of going (forward), we start going backwards. That hurts us. And then we get where we can't get good shots.

For 16 years, all we've done is shoot the 3. We shoot it more than anybody else in the conference, and that's what got us the win today.

It's the ultimate feeling. There's nothing like it. And it's good for our guys. I'm just glad to get it out of the way, so I don't have to worry about it anymore.

The athletic department has just gotten so large that the two jobs probably needed to be separated. If the truth is known, I'm not sure I didn't neglect some things that needed to be done, probably in both jobs.

They made a good run at us. We just simply made shots that they didn't make down the stretch.

It was just a tremendous win in a tough situation against a good basketball team. It's been a long time since I've had a sweeter win than that.

I'm worried about him (today) because of that hand. I don't know how much we're going to be able to play him. We might not be able to play him at all.

If you can't get ready to play in this, you're not going to make it in anything.

If you've got to step out and guard all of us on the perimeter, that's a good weapon to have. Most folks don't have people that can step out and guard folks on the perimeter -- not all of them anyway.

He's sort of like our Energizer Bunny. He's going all the time. As a matter of fact, it scares me now because I'm playing him too many minutes. I just get scared to take him out.

He struggled a little bit for the simple reason that he hadn't been here. We had to put him in there and let him get relaxed. He started putting pressure on himself, but he seems much more relaxed now than he did before, and he can just put big numbers up there. He's one of those guys that if he gets on a roll, he'll make 'em all.

He brings a lot of the whole package because he can shoot a little bit from the outside. He puts pressure on the defense because he can put it on the floor and go to the inside. We're tickled to death he's here.

The trips we were taking just took me longer to get back to where I wanted to be. That was the biggest factor.