Jim Calhoun Given Quotations

I don't care who we are playing. We have so much to gain. It's a wonderful opportunity for these kids. I would hate to leave the floor and not have given it our very best.

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Thus far they've given me no great reason to worry as much as I do with other teams. Because they don't fool around in games.

I've talked to the kids about the difficult situation they've given me, in the sense I think all of our guys can play.

Providence has given us lots of problems and Timmy (Welsh) has prepared his team well. I think the only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the (Big East) standings, quite frankly, is that these are young kids.

They've always been a team right on the edge. It's been a team that's given us very tight games at times. Other times, we've scored 123 points. It's been a funny series.

I'm mixing and matching both those things, ... Given my nature, unless I had planned that this would be the summation of everything, then I'm going to keep going on with my job.