Mike Browning Quotations

We started extremely slow. We turned the ball over. We really came out flat. Every quarter we got a little tougher mentally.

We're not going to stop Gilbert Arenas. Larry chased him around off screens and tried to contest every shot Gil took.

Watching him handle everything is amazing. Because he handles it amazingly well. If I were in his shoes, I don't know if I could do that on and off the floor. He wants to be coached, he wants to learn, he wants to grow. He's terrific.

We've always had expectations that we were going to be a great football team. And I think we're on our way.

W hen we called to get info on one disaster we were hung up on six times, without anybody saying, what would you like to know, what are you calling for?' we didn't get a single answer .

Wow. An instant classic, huh? You got a treat, I got a treat, the whole nation got a treat watching those two players.

Wow. All I can say is wow. He was really close (to not playing). He went and got X-rays today, had it looked at by the doctor, and it was down to the last buzzer.

We're still in Florida doing long-term recovery efforts

We're still a team trying to find our identity. Sometimes complacency sets in a little bit; we've got to figure out how to give that effort for as close to 48 minutes as possible.

We tried everything. But (Felton) still found a way to get to the rim, sometimes over or under two or three different guys.

We're a small department. It looks good when these guys walk in.

We had no movement to what we were doing (offensively in the fourth quarter). As soon as the ball got in someone's hands, we stood and watched, waiting on them to make a play. New York was very aggressive on the other side of the floor.

We're growing as a team and that means having poise in pressure situations. When things get tight at the end of a game like that, you have to get a shot every time down the floor, make it a good shot, and knock in your free throws. We did that.

This win was a great birthday present. We had a tremendous effort, especially in the second half. Our guys stepped it up a notch. To hold this Bulls teams to 30 points in a half is unbelievable.

We've taken one game at a time and we are not going to do anything different. We've won a few games this year that we may have lost last year.

Lou is a great, multi-talented (guy). He does great work (in sculpture). He brought his expertise from Don Haskins, used his big-man coaching. He played quite a bit with the kids. That was my first two years at the Academy; I was his assistant coach, his JV coach. When he was at the Academy, I was at Holy Ghost.

One of the things I pointed out to the guys was that it was a good win against Phoenix, but if we turn around and go to Charlotte and lose that ballgame, then beating Phoenix the night before doesn't really mean anything. Our guys were focused enough to come into the building and get a W.

If this was a playoff game, (James) would have taped it up and he'd be playing.

I don't feel things slipping away. I feel that we as a group have to get back in the foxhole and go get one (tonight) in Chicago.

Great pressure on the quarterback makes it all happen. Five turnovers is superb. We shoot for two to three a game. You win games if you keep giving your offense the ball.

From our effort standpoint, it is an embarrassing loss for us. I don't care if we won or lost, just effort-wise, our effort was horrible. I am part of it. My effort was horrible too.

I don't think it's the same one. I think it changed over the years.

(GM) Danny (Ferry) and those guys have talked about it. It's a good environment there, and he'll get a chance to play. That's entirely up to Danny.

I give them a lot of credit, they didn't give up. We got up by 16 points and they came back. ... I thought they played hard.

I got caught up with the referees. I'll take the blame on that.

If this was the regular season, I would be (concerned). The game isn't won in the first five minutes. To give up as many points as we have early on, it could be a concern. Some way we have to right that ship.

If that's happening, no one has told me. As far as I know, there haven't been any discussions about any of that.

If the governor asked for it, we're going to get it for her,

If something like that happens, when you look at city preparedness, you can't prepare, if something like that happens, you're dependent on resources from other states and the federal government.

He has to learn the defensive scheme of the pro game.

He made me look good. I just stood on the sideline. I think we all got caught up in just watching him.

We took too many threes. We got some decent looks, but some shots just wouldn't go in.

We took too many 3s. We got some decent looks, but the some shots just wouldn't go in.

Here's a guy that's been great for the city, great for the team, great for the organization. He plays about as hard as anybody. You've got to think twice about booing a guy like that.

He's a coach's dream. He's so unselfish and cares about his teammates. All he wants to do is win. And I don't believe we have seen the best of him yet.

Going through games like this should really help us to be able to close it the right way. To execute it offensively and defensively at the end is huge.

He's a spectacular player. He's the best playmaker in the league by far. Especially with Terrell Owens not playing, he's definitely the No. 1 guy in the league, the guy that people are the most afraid of, the guy that if he has the ball in his hands he can go the distance at any time.

He's done a fantastic job with this team. I think of the injuries we've had - he's had his whole team out the whole year. They still play extremely hard for 48 minutes.

We made them take tough shots. That's been our defensive philosophy since I have been here. We got out of that on Friday and tried to press, playing crazy and that is not our style.

I was like, 'Holy Moley! That was one of the most athletic plays I've ever seen.

I take my hat off to our guys because they could have easily given up being 17 points down, coming off a back-to-back the night before.

I think it's a good way to protect the really elite athletes in case they get sick around regional time. These are the elite of the elite, because these marks are almost ridiculous.

It is not unusual for us to extend our assistance when asked to help look for missing adults or children.

I think everybody has an adjustment, I don't care how talented you are.

Our guys like playing with him and they look for him on the floor. He never complains and he works hard. He's a team guy.

Our guys stepped it up a notch. To hold that Bulls team to 30 points in a half is unbelievable.

Our team is five times better than in '01. We're more complete.

Our team has shown grit all year. We have been down but we haven't been out. We figure out ways to get victories and you have to be encouraged by that.

Some of the things that I personally observed, having been back in Louisiana ..., I would not envision as seeing at the same level ... here in California, largely because we have been tested in the past, by man-made and natural disasters.

It doesn't feeling any better than hearing President Bush saying, 'Brownie, you're doing a great job,'

The answer is that we have surveyed roughly half of the sky and found one object bigger than Pluto and two that are almost the size of Pluto. As we finish the other half of the sky we will almost certainly find a few more of around the same size and maybe one or two even larger.

You call that an instant classic. It was two great players taking over the game.

We do want him to remember us. We're all part of this partnership, and we want to be included.

We executed our game plan on both ends of the floor fairly well. This was a good first step in a long process.

We ended up with nine turnovers in the second half and they scored 14 points off our nine turnovers, which is something we can't do if we want to win on the road.

We really need to get our trainer to come out to our practices,

We just didn't put the ball in the basket. On the offensive end of the floor, we have to execute, which is something that we did not do a good job of late in the game.

We came out in the first quarter ready to go. We have a tendency of not having a sense of urgency. Friday was a wake-up call, and we were going to make them take some tough shots.

We had different guys step up down the stretch and we found a way to win. We're still in the learning process and still have a long way to go.

We fought and fought. We got some key stops down the stretch. It was a heck of a win against a very good basketball team.

We haven't done anything yet. If you have any type of advantage, hey, that's a good thing.

You have people around you who are bigger and stronger who are only going to inspire you to do bigger and better things. You're not at the top of the peak as you would be in high school.

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

We do better with the market that we have given to us than -- I could start naming teams: Houston, Dallas and some of the other large-market teams -- when you consider what we generate out of our market compared to what they generate out of theirs.

We definitely need to do a better job from the line than we did. That's just too many missed opportunities.

Well, that's what the investigation will find out. That's what the investigation will tell us.

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We can't make unforced turnovers. Those led to easy baskets at the other end.

We can take care of our own people, and we're going to do it, ... We're doing absolutely everything we can to get commodities in to those folks.

There have not been a ton of adjustments. We've just found a combination we've all felt comfortable with.

We've got to do real good playing the ball this week, because they'll throw it a lot. They take shots down the field for big plays, and we just have to match them.

With so many bright objects coming out at once it is hard to keep them all straight,

We're talking about sending him down so he can get some game-time experience.

We've been knocked on our behinds a few times and our guys have seemed to find a way to respond and it was no different tonight. I thought both teams were physical and in the second half, our defense stepped up a little bit.

We've had a tough schedule. So in these kinds of games, we don't fear anybody. We respect everybody, but we don't fear anybody.

We've had so many changes this season, especially early on. We lost players, and were short players, and then had new players. We're finally at a point where we can run a full five-on-five at practice and that helps us a lot.

Wow, you call that an instant classic. It's two great players taking over the game for both teams. What a show. I'm happy we won, but I enjoyed watching two great players go back and forth.

You have to take your hat off to Kobe. Kobe hit some tough shots. We double-teamed him and I thought we were there and contesting the shots on the four jumpers he hit. Down the stretch, he won the game for them.

We were really flat coming out. But we got mentally tougher as the game went along.

We lost him a few times in transition. Once he got hot, he knocked down a couple shots and it helped his confidence. Both he and Caron stepped up at the right time to help their team win.

We have to feel good about this win, but we have a back-to-back against Charlotte (tonight). We have to come out focused and ready to play.

We got our butts beat. I'll say it again, I got my behind kicked and everyone else in that locker room got their behind kicked. Simple as that.

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Even though his scoring was down, he got more kids involved which made us more of a threat.

Ben is quick, athletic, strong, tenacious and hungry -- the whole nine yards. He makes it tough because you are afraid to drive the basketball when you know he's back there.

Ben (Wallace) slapped him on the wrist. (And) he got kicked in the leg. The trainer just needed to ice it. He's fine.

Ben (Wallace) is quick, athletic, strong, tenacious and hungry - the whole nine yards.

Being with a veteran ball club and a veteran coach, I know that they know how to handle him and rest him.

Even if it's just a matter of a simple vote, we all use (parliamentary procedure) at some point. It's a good leadership training activity.

The thing that I like is that young guy set the tone for this team. He went in there and got hammered, and what did he do next time? He went back to that hole. When your leader is doing something like that, everybody else better step up on that bench and play just as hard, and just as physical.

The things that he does offensively just blows you away. And he does it within the flow of the game, which makes him special. He doesn't force anything.

I wanted to go to the biggest conference I could. The SEC is one of the best conferences in the country and when I went down there, they treated me really good and I really liked the players and coaches who I met.

The most important thing is to find out if they are actually in circular orbits,

That team came in here on a mission to kick our behind, and they did. They felt confident, they were focused. We just got beat from Eddie Jordan on down.

That's good they (Washington) want to play us. I'd probably want to play us too if I was them.

Z played great tonight. He was 15-of-16 from the line, but I don't remember the one he missed. He called a play for himself in the huddle down the stretch and was the key tonight. He made some big plays.

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

This is not an individual game so we need the other four players on the team to step up for us.

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This isn't a negative, but he's not Larry Hughes. They're similar-type players, but he's not Larry Hughes.