Travis Garrison Quotations

He choked up a little bit, but he tried to suck it up in front of us. You know Coach Williams, he's a real tough guy.

He just said 'We're better than this,'? We don't play like that, we don't play like that at all. We weren't playing our game at all.

We can play as well as any of the teams in the league, we just have to play good defense and minimize mistakes.

We proved today we can gut it out.

Yeah, that runs through my mind. It's hard to think about. I wish those guys were here.

You have to appreciate it. We probably won't right now because of our age, but later on after we get out of college and done with basketball, the history books will come on ESPN and Coach Williams and the Hall of Fame and what happened, and we were involved in that.

The talent is not a problem at all. It's just about sacrificing.

Our defense really hurt us a lot this game. We didn't have problems scoring, we just had problems stopping them.

It's hard work, basically. Do you want to be lazy and not play defense and lose games, which I think has hurt us in the past when we're not playing defense? When we play hard and play defense, you guys see what happens. Scoring is not really a problem for us. It's the defensive end. If we go back and forth the whole game, that doesn't lead to anything.

It's over now. You know what I mean?

I just tried to do what I could.

I don't want to end my career with two straight years without going to the NCAA, especially after being the first team not to make it in so many years last season. That's not something I want to carry away with me.