Julian Wright Quotations

We're ready for anything. We'll be ready for Texas.

I can't imagine. How many Big 12 games are there?

He referred to what happened here before, two years ago. We just wanted to win another big-league game.

He cannot dance. Mario has no moves. He can dance on the court but not off of it.

He just keeps dancing, ... And he still has no moves.

Regardless of how your body is feeling, you have to stay focused. Coach Self keeps us focused. We keep getting better. That's one thing, I think, the freshmen have done throughout the season.

We understand their situation coming here. We did a lot of stuff for Hurricane Katrina relief during football season. Our fans are classy. They will show their support. It will be a great atmosphere Thursday.

We clicked instantly. It's just natural for us to hang out together, on and off the court.

We have become a team. Everyone is ready to work and make sacrifices. We were able to bounce back from when we were 1-2 (at the start of the season, then again in conference play). Look at us now.

We're taking better shots at this point in the season. Everyone is understanding where they need to be on the floor without the ball. We're just trying to learn as we go and adjust as we go.

We had our struggles. But look at us now.

There's no excuse for what happened. As a team, our focus just wasn't there.

Sometimes, great players don't want to pass the ball. He passes the ball and fits right in as another great player on this team.

Coach talked to us at halftime about when you think about it, one play in a big game, one mental mistake, can cost us. So many of us are so hungry for playing time, we know that coach can easily replace us if we make that mental mistake. I just took it as another learning experience in college basketball. And in the second half, I calmed down. I'm learning to take what they give me.

This is a young conference as a whole. In the future, there's a lot of parody now, but I see us as only a year a way from being a super powerhouse conference like the Big East.

The way they played took the aggression out of us. But after this, we know what we have to do in a big game like this.

It was rough. When the shots went up, it was football out there. We just tried to dig down and get stops at the end.

It's plain to see that coach (Bill Self) stresses so much defense and details.

That's one thing we try to do. Obviously, every team wants to get easy baskets. We try to just build on every other teams mistakes and try to get easy baskets.

That's about how long it took me to get going.

I just had to get over the hump. Once I did that, fatigue wasn't a factor. I mean, maybe I'm tired, but I'm not feeling it.

He's talented, a great person, and he wants to help us win,

The guards were doing a great job of getting to the paint and passing it to me, and I just made the extra pass.