Maggie Dixon Quotations

West Point graduates love everything that has to do with West Point. As much as it is male-dominated in terms of numbers, there is a great respect for female athletes and the females who go through here.

When I came on my (job) interview, I could tell this was a special group of kids. They had the mindset that they wanted to win the conference. ... I knew we could do something special because of the leadership and the talent.

She is a very talented player who can do so much. She is a kid who is only going to get better.

She is very calm but I think we're getting to where we can get her laughing and joking more than she did. She really does have a good sense of humor.

Obviously, I probably need to recruit some tall players, but we've been pretty good with that group all year. But I don't think there's a team in the country that's nearly as big as Tennessee.

On the floor, we've had a lot of close games so far and he has said, 'You know you (girls) have got to understand you need to take care of this (offensively).' He's such a good person to have (on our side).

I was really proud of the way our team came out and competed. We kept it close in the first half and set the tempo of the game defensively. Sophia Young is an extremely talented player, and we let her take off a little bit during the last five minutes of the first half.

I am so proud of Cara because she came in with so many expectations on her. She really had some frustrating games where she had two or three people on her. ... She couldn't get any sort of room.

I am so proud of Cara because she came in with so many expectations on her. She has done well in getting other people the ball and she has picked up her defense.

Cara is an amazing player. When she's feeling it, she's feeling it. She does a great job of understanding what the defense gives her.

Cara Enright is a very special player and definitely has the talent to be first-team all-Patriot League. Right now, she's dealing with all the attention she's getting by the other team's defenses and as she gets more comfortable and as we get more people involved in the scoring that she has a chance to be one of the top players in the conference.

I felt like this team had a chance to make some noise and do some things. I didn't know exactly how.

We talk about no excuses because we've all had some sort of adversity that we've had to deal with in our lives and that's there to make us stronger and not to be used as a crutch. Erin is an extremely talented player. I've changed her around to play her at the two (guard) to get her scoring a little more.

I think we lacked focus to detail, something this team has been known for. We all struggled to find an offensive rhythm.

We've got some talented players here. But we need some time to get it all clicking and hopefully in the next couple of weeks we can do that.

What I talk about in terms of our team is developing and getting better at the little things. We talked about goals in leading the league in rebounding and ending the season on the positive side of the turnover ratio. Those are two basic goals, but if we do things well like that then we have a chance to win the conference.

I've been in a lot of arenas around the country and there is nothing like a cadet crowd. It's not just the noise and how they get into the game. It's the camaraderie and the feeling that everybody is in this together. It's a family.

There won't be any shame in us not winning this game. At the same time, our girls have a lot of pride. They want to keep playing.

Adversity, ladies. How are we going to react?

That's just part of it. Everyone can't be a No. 1 seed. For us, though, it gives Tennessee motivation.

This isn't something that's going to go away.

I told them that they did a really good job of executing our game plan for about 20 minutes. We have to carry that through for a full 40 minutes next time. I don't think anyone walked out of the gym tonight without thinking that we can compete at the highest level.

The biggest thing has been balanced scoring. We've had a number of kids who didn't look to score as much last year and have gotten them more involved.

That's Candace. I've seen her do that since she was 15, 16 years old. I knew it was going to come one of these days, and so it doesn't surprise me. I don't think we'll be the last though ? in this tournament.

I'm getting goose bumps right now talking about it.

I'm 28 years old. I'm going to go here and I could lose every game and get fired in four years. But I'll be 32 and I'll still have a lot in front of me and I'll be a smarter person for it. That's kind of how I looked at it. Worst-case scenario, what could happen is I could fail, but I still felt like I'd come out on top.

I just want to start by saying that I've never been so proud of a group of young women as I was in the last four months. They have been through so much and really just kept fighting back. I'm so honored and proud to have the opportunity to coach these young women, and I'm looking forward to the future of Army basketball.

I'm so proud and impressed and really happy for how his career has played out. That has a lot to do with how he carries himself and how he deals with people. It's not just this year, obviously this year is great, but I'm just so proud of his whole career.

If there is anybody I want at the line at the end of the game it's Alex.

I think Alex definitely deserved this award. She has been fantastic all season and played a big role in our success.

I just take it as it is. I don't let it frustrate me. I just try to work around it. With our kids, our theme is, there's certain things in life you can't control, so let's just make the best out of them. And that's kind of where I'm at right now. The academy has been around a lot longer than I have. I respect it and respect what they're all about, and I try to roll with everything that's thrown at us.

I believe her personality and her presence, her strength as a player, is being able to settle everyone down. She is definitely a calming effect for all of us.

Alex has really grown into the position. She has a great sense of who to get the ball to and when. It's been huge that Alex is able to score out of that spot. Defenders can't lay off Alex, and that's given Cara some breathing room.

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.