“We came out flat even though we were really hyped up, ... I guess we were shocked at their speed but we did come back to tie it. If we didn't come out and play the way we did it would have been a lot different.”
“Nobody is going to have pity on you, ... If our guys are looking for pity, they're not going to get it from me. And I'm not going to get it from anybody. We just have to worry about ourselves and do the best we can.”
“They have gotten lost and that's part of the pain their families and those of us that were their friends and who played with them carry with us, ... We still live with that. The public doesn't understand. We're still going through that.”
“At first, I wanted my man Derrick Johnson , ... I could look at it one way: 'Somebody's spot is about to get taken.' Then, thinking like a GM, it was, 'That's another explosive weapon on the outside.' You've seen the highlights of what he can do.”