John Chaney Ball Quotations

(George Washington) is a talented ball club that plays very good defense. They come in fresh. They come in motivated. They love to break and get easy baskets, and we're going to have to form a cluster to rebound the ball.

We lead the nation in defense every year and it doesn't translate into wins. Sooner or later, you've got to put the ball in the basket.

I thought both teams played excellent and stood up to the moment. It was a great moment in Philadelphia basketball as far as I'm concerned.

They just want to bounce the ball and dribble the ball, but I talk about things that are going to stay with them for the rest of their lives. Somewhere along the line, it will reverberate and they'll remember it.

They?re not an ordinary team by any means. (The late) Jim Maloney said that shooters solve all your problems, and they have shooters. Villanova deserves to be No. 1 because no one can shoot the ball as well as the four players they have on the court, not even (No. 1) Duke.

Villanova could easily be No. 1 in the country. There's nobody that shoots the ball as those four players on the floor, not even Duke.

We shot the ball real bad. The defense was all right.

We are blessed to bring back one of the finest young men to play basketball here at Temple University as an assistant coach. Mark is a remarkable man, both on and off the court, and our young players can truly learn something from being around him.

Our guys had trouble making baskets. And our guys had trouble trying to get the ball to our shooters.

I always say to my guys, 'The most important day of your life is today. This very minute is the most important of you life. You must win this minute. You must win this day. And tomorrow will take care of itself.

I think every year we've played (Duke), we haven't been able to stop anybody on that ball club. They're full of ammunition ...