Corey Brewer Quotations

When you turn on the TV, all you see is George Mason, so you can't really overlook them.

When we first got here, everybody said we couldn't beat Kentucky. We said we're going to change that.

We felt like, if we're going to be able to win, we've got to love each other, we've got to have a great friendship. It's paid off so far.

We're in the tournament to win it all. We won the SEC tournament, and now we want to win the NCAA tournament.

We're in the tournament to win it all.

We're just looking for our shot. The next game, if we win we go to the Sweet 16, we get over that hump. That's what we have to do, get over that hump.

We knew, with our style of play, we had to make free throws. We worked hard on it in practice and just carried it over into the games.

The Fab Five started baggy shorts. That's all I know.

There are a lot of expectations and a lot of people on the bandwagon now. (If we lose), they're going to jump off. But hey, let them jump off because they're going to jump right back on because we feel like we're going to keep on winning.

Let me enjoy this. Right now, I really don't care. I know we've got the national championship.

Let them jump off the bandwagon. Because then they're going to have to jump right back on because we feel like we're going to keep winning.

Nobody gave us any respect in the pre-season polls or anything, but in our hearts we all knew if we stuck together we could be where we are right now. We can play. Don't think we can't play. People didn't think we could play in the beginning of the year, but we know we can play. We kind of just proved that we can.

Nobody gave us any respect all year. We proved it. We took our respect.

No one else thought we could win. But we did. So it's not really surprising.

Nobody would mess with me like that. I haven't even thought about the draft, to be honest.

Peyton never won a national championship but Humphrey is going to win one this weekend.

People were talking about us playing in the NIT in the beginning of the season. We proved everyone wrong. We're the champions.

Points are going to come out of the framework of our offense. Coach (Donovan) is going to put us in the right position to score. Coach knows who is hot and who we should go to.

Nobody really gave us respect at the beginning of the season, and we had a lot of doubters. But we really don't want to be called Cinderella. We're just here to win the national championship.

I wouldn't mind playing Kentucky and beating them three times.

I'd be intimidated, too, if Jo was blocking all my shots.

I am tired of hearing about it, and I think all the players are tired of hearing about it. But we believe this is a different team, and we can't worry about what happened in the past.

I lost two big games in the regular season, but that was regular season. This is the tournament, and the whole world remembers what you do in the tournament.

I felt like we were going to win this game by a large margin when we came in. Nobody gave us any respect all year. We proved it. We took our respect.

I felt like I was going to get it in. But the guy started to close and I should have called time out.

I fell headfirst and hit my head, I guess. Everything was going every which way.

I feel good. I feel like I'm almost back to 100 percent.

I feel like we're going to have to run on them.

I can't remember the last time we came out and played that well. We didn't play that well in the first half, but in the second half we played as well as we had all season. When we play like that, we're tough to beat.

I don't think you'd ever see one of us by ourselves. It's always two of us together or three of us together.

He had a wide-open three and I had visions of it going in.

We just have to keep winning now. At the end of the season, that's when we can tell you how satisfied we are.

We told him to get some training wheels.

He's just had a couple of bad games lately. Every player is going to have bad games, but I think he's going to get through it.

He lifted us up on his shoulders and carried us.

He lifted us on his shoulders and he carried us to victory. And we needed it.

Kentucky, they were really flustered from the crowd. You could tell by the look in their face.

I was driving and I really didn't see the guy behind me. I tried to spin. When I spun, I split em, and I threw it up and it went in.

It gets closer every moment. Every minute it gets closer. We're friends for life.

My mom gave me these earrings for Christmas.

Nah, we're not going there again. We've done a good job these past nine games -- we've won nine straight, I think -- and we'll keep on doing it.

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

It feels great. We've got our fans here, we've got a new court and we're the national champions. What more could you ask for?

It doesn't feel very good, so we have to get better. The tournament is coming up so we have to correct our weaknesses -- that's all I can say.

It doesn't matter who scores on this team.

It hasn't hit me yet. It hasn't hit me like it's going to hit me.

We haven't really thought about leaving. We just think about winning right now.

Winning the two games in New York were big. Once we won those games, we felt like we could beat anybody.

We're all best friends off the court. When you get on the court, you know each other.

We finally got our offense where it needed to be, but defensively we just broke down in every aspect of the game. They rebounded the ball, and they made shots.

We had a lot of doubters, but we just believed in each other and the way we played every night. It feels great, especially since it's our school's first national championship. It doesn't get any better than that.

You know, all year we've been talking about staying focused because that's what's going to get us to the Final Four. We were just telling each other we have to stay focused for two more minutes, we are going to Indianapolis. That's what we did. We are on the way to the Final Four.

We had easy shots but everything was going in and out.

We're not thinking about losing. We know that we have to win to keep playing. We have to get back to the Sweet 16. We know there are a lot of people doubting us. It's up to us to shut them up.

We are on the way to the Final Four.

We gave them the first game. We weren't mentally ready to play. The second game, it came down to the end. So we'll be ready now.

We worked so hard this summer. It's about this right now. And tournament time, we want to make a run in the NCAA Tournament now.

We're trying to make a mark on this program. If you lose in the championship game, everyone is going to say you lost. If you win, you'll be remembered.

We don't want to go home. We know we have to keep winning to keep playing. We need to win the next one.

We don't care about that. It's just about moving on. We're moving on, and this feels great. This is about this year and this year's team. We want to leave our own legacy.

We're national champions. Everyone said at the beginning of the season that we were going to the NIT. Well, I don't think this is the NIT.

We said we played our worst basketball half of the year - and we're tied up.

We kept pushing the ball, we kept pushing it and fatigue became a factor. We were the team in better shape.

We kept hearing about what great team defense they play. Well, tonight, you saw who can play D.

We're not hitting people in the mouth. We're letting people hit us in the mouth.

When I saw the ball go up, I felt like it was going to come off and I went full speed. It came right to me. It turned out to be the key play of the game.

We just have to learn from this or else we're not going to be playing very long in March.

We had 73 and they had 57. I guess that answers a few questions, doesn't it?

There are a few officials that . . . you can't reach too much or you're not going to get certain calls.

We want to win it just as bad this year as we did last year. We have new guys in a new roles, so it would make it that much more special to win it.

Finally, we're learning; I guess you could say that. This time it was a 5-point game, and we put them away. Lately, we've been letting teams back in the game.

We're the bad guys. We appreciate all the support we can get. We're going to need it because we're playing Cinderella. It's us against the world.

You hate to guard Lee Humphrey. If you back off a little bit, it's going up and it's going in.

We weren't even ranked coming into the season, so we're trying to prove a point. We want to keep proving that point - that we're for real.

We got our first national championship in Florida history. All the doubters, they just have to look at that.

We're very excited, especially after the way we played at their place. Now we get them in the O Dome. It's payback.

We're very excited. Especially after the way they beat us at their place. So now they have to come into the O-Dome, and we've got to get our revenge. It's payback. You've got to win. It's a must win.

We see each other every day, almost the whole day. Living with guys, you get to know them real well. Basically, they're like my brothers now after living with somebody for two years and spending 20 hours out of the day with them.

We know that if you lose, you go home now. It's not lose and go look at it on film. If you lose, the season's over. We feel like we've got to turn it up.

We feel like when we're at home, we're not supposed to lose. We just feed off the fans. You've got to protect your house.

We feel like we're the best-conditioned team, no matter who we play.

To be honest, I really wasn't even looking at the goal, but somehow it went in.

Everybody told me to keep my head up. But there's not much you can say when someone turns the ball over like that.

Everybody was talking about their defense. We proved who's the best defensive team and we're national champions. We took our respect.

Ever since we've been here it's been that way, and we're going to stay that way. We love each other.

Every time we hear about how those other teams lost it just motivates us. We get tired of hearing about it.

Everything went blurry; I guess it knocked me out for a while. It didn't affect my shot. Everything kept going in. It was amazing.

I should have called time out. I thought about it and everything started going fast. I made a bad play.

They all have famous fathers and nobody knows my dad. He's just a normal guy.

It would be a class that people would talk about for a long time. I think we have a chance (at staying together all four years). I hope so. That could be special.

It was very important to get Lee going. Once he gets his shot going, everything else opens up.

It was very frustrating because I just felt like I wasn't helping the team.

Teams are just playing us different. They're throwing different things at us. We've just got to adjust. It's getting late. It's getting real late, so we've got to learn quick.

Tennessee plays four guards. So we've played against it before. We've got to go inside. We're not going to change our game. We're going to play the same way we have been playing.

Rankings don't mean anything. You never know what you're going to get out of a team until the season starts. All the pre-season hype is hype. That's all it is. We didn't think about it. We used it as motivation.

A couple of them, I wasn't even close to the guy, but the refs just called fouls. If he thinks it's a foul, it's a foul.

Defensively, I think South Carolina is a very good comparison. But you really can't compare this team to anybody.

That's what Jo does. Jo knows if he's going to score, he's going to beat the other big man down the court.

That's what I was thinking. Let's give Cinderella a kiss, put her back in her carriage and send her home.

You would have thought after a while they would have caught on. But we just kept running it.