Jeff Simpson Quotations

We'd get it to four, we'd get it to two and we just, at that point didn't make the play. They did make the play, so give credit to Roosevelt.

We have a saying. We're going to be 1-0 until tomorrow morning and after that we're 0-0 again.

Basketball is a game of runs. I guess Indianola had longer runs than we did.

If the counties didn't want to have trolley service, in a sense they could invest more money into our agency and provide more trips for the folks of the county.

I thought the rebounding in the first half hurt us. We got one shot and they had second and third opportunities.

I think we showed a lot of courage down the stretch.

partnered with these guys as opposed to bigger operators like Boyd or Harrah's.

Lincoln dominated us in every way. They beat us defensively. They beat us on rebounding and the flat out outplayed us.

We needed a win to pick our confidence level back up heading into the conference schedule. We got a lot of it back tonight. Our offensive line was opening holes that our coaches could run through.

We want to balance our outside with our inside, but (20 three-point shots) is probably a little on the high side.

We obviously continue to find areas we need to improve.

We keep feeling that we can play with anybody, but we just have to bring it every night, and tonight we definitely brought it.

We've just got to keep building as we go into Friday, the rest of the year and into tournaments. Just keep getting better at these things.

We always look back at our tape from the previous game. You want to see how they hurt you.

We've not seen a lot of zone. Indianola played theirs very well, and we have to get better at attacking it.

You cannot have a dive and have people come,

What distinguishes the Cannery from a Strip casino is that almost all of the customers live in town or nearby,

Every senior on the roster did a great job continuing to work to keep getting us better.

They absolutely have the operational expertise to run a 500-slot casino to a giant, 2,000- or 3,000-slot operation. That would be no problem for them,

There's equity in the conference. There's a small margin between finishing second and finishing last, and that small margin is hard to define. I think we're better than our record shows, but we're playing in a very tough conference.

It was one of those tough games to coach, because you're just always trying to get over the hill and we never did it (Tuesday).

The average customer at a place like the Cannery is probably in their 50s, ... They will have a lot more older people than the Strip casinos.

In a lot of ways it was a painful decision because it's been a great 10 years. I told a lot of people it's been the best 10 years of my professional life.

These guys are part of the magic of Nashville. When you ask them to give their best to God, this is what you get. It's such a wonderful tapestry. They are just being who they are, telling you how they feel. It's passionate, real, powerful, impactful, fresh. I love it.