Jim Calhoun Ask Quotations

We can have the lapses. It could come back to bite us no question. If I could ask for one thing it would be to focus for 40 minutes.

He was magnificent down the stretch, making big shot after big shot. He criticized himself and really took it out on the team. From a coaching standpoint, you can't ask for anything more.

I usually don't ask anybody anything. I told him that he had to go out and be much more assertive.

Sometimes on the road it's been more difficult. You can go ask him now and he'll look you right in the face, 'Nothing bothers me.' I don't believe him. I think he's a human being.

That's how I ask people to do things.

It was everything you could ask for in a college game. You had a special environment, passion on both teams and with both coaches ... I would have been disappointed if we had lost. We did enough things to win this game.

It?s not Rashad?s fault, trust me. Whatever we ask our kids to do, it?s our responsibility. We make the choice of who plays who. ... I?m incredibly, incredibly disappointed in the loss, incredibly disappointed in myself. I would have changed a couple of things probably the last two, three minutes of the game and into overtime.

I never ask anybody anything. I told him he better go out and be much more assertive. And he was magnificent.

If you ask me how I got here and why I coach, ... there's your answer.