Bill Tierney Quotations

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we knew we had to not let that happen to have a chance.

We are going to have to play them harder than we ever have before. They have remarkable senior leadership, and their guys are making tough shots.

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

He's from Massachusetts. When you bring kids home, they always do well. That was it.

We lost our composure a little bit at the end, and they're good enough to take advantage. You hold somebody to four goals, a team like Cornell, that's averaging god knows what, that's all you can do, its all you can ask. If you told me we were going to hold them to four, I'd say we might at least get five, but we didn't.

He knows how to keep things in line and organized.

I think it is uncharted waters and we have no idea.

I think the guys think of him in a very respectful way, as a guy who can very easily lead them. And they look at him as a friend.

I think they're the best-shooting team in the country. They spread their scoring out, and they have guys who can just finish their shots unlike a lot of teams.

I think, just like Syracuse the other day, we may have felt like we had our backs against the wall. This was a classic Princeton win.

If I was US Lacrosse, I wouldn't let any kids play field until they were 10 or 12,

Until box lacrosse grows in the United States, it'll continue to be this way.

I believe that box lacrosse gives young people many more opportunities to excel in our game. If I had my choice, I would have every player under the age of twelve play box lacrosse exclusively or at least a majority of the time. The number of touches of the ball and the ability to develop better stick skills in a game of box lacrosse, far surpasses what happens to young people on a 110 x 60 yard field. Learning how to pass and catch in traffic, understanding how to shoot, and developing a sense of physicality are all positive traits developed by the box game.

You look at their goals and they took advantage of some situations, and you look at our goals and we didn't.

We were worried about possession. We never had the ball up there last year. We tried a bunch of different things. We weren't as concerned with winning or losing the face-off as stopping the fast break or trying to force a turnover. I think we were successful.

We have got to take care of the little things and protect the ball on offense. We lost a huge opportunity, but it was confidence building in that we can compete at that level.

We've got a bunch of athletic, confident kids that play within our system, but we can't sit back anymore. We're going to have more fouls and create more turnovers.

You can imagine him nodding his head as you listen to the tape.

You have to get possession. You can't play defense for as long as we did, especially against a really good team like Hofstra.

What goes on with Princeton lacrosse is as much to the credit of him as to me and the players. He's a dynamic man with endless energy.

Every game is so important, especially in a year like this with so many upsets. You can't lose focus. After last year, I think the reminder is still clear enough.

There was a little spark, so hopefully we can carry that into our Ivy League season.

Schwartzman was definitely the difference in the first half. But our guy was the difference in the second.

Something is going to have to give. We know they have hot shooters. We are going to have to stay with them and take control of possessions.

As I told them, if we win our last three games, we're in the tournament, if we lose any of those three, we're probably out. It's still in our hands, I believe, though you never really know.

Alex was fabulous. We know we've got a great goalie; Alex gives our defense confidence.

Zach has an underlying competitiveness that stems from his competitive racing and his desire to be the best at what he does.

This is one of those games that if you come into Princeton to play big-time games, well this is one of them.

This is one of the best offensive teams we've seen, and we didn't hold them down ? we had the ball more. Tonight, the offense won the game for us.

This game was similar to the Virginia game in that we jumped up, everything we worked on was working and then we stopped playing.

This could have been a watershed game. Unfortunately, maybe it was.

They've got an amazing group of offensive players. So we have to take care of that business.

They found things in these tapes I had explained in a more benign manner.

They're a very talented team, they play great defense and their goalie has been playing very well.

They're much more powerful shooters. Hofstra was able to score where we didn't.

It's one of those things where you go into a big game...and the goalie starts to look a little bigger and the goal a little smaller. You just don't have confidence.

It's going to be quite a challenge to bounce back after a tough loss. It really becomes as close to a must-win as you can get.

It's frustrating, because I don't think we played our game in the first quarter. We were tied 1-1 at the end of the first quarter, but it took a lot of out of us, a lot of mental stuff.

This is a very important game, and it is something that we have been looking forward to.

Any one shot on goal can be the difference. We need to concentrate on every opportunity.

So disappointing. Not because you lose, but because of the effort the kids put in all week long.

The kids stepped up big time when they could have quit.

He's strong, and he's very fast. Those two things are really important to being great at his position.

Because of my experience being in the inspections and being in the military, I knew the significance of these tapes when I heard them.

He brings the offensive game of lacrosse to a more cerebral level.

Alex is phenomenal, if not the best goalie the country, certainly one of them. He does it every day in practice, so it's almost commonplace to see him do these things. He was great today, he kept us in there when things got crazy.