Brandon Rush Quotations

I was surprised. He didn't really say anything to them at halftime. All he said was they weren't getting on the floor enough. I don't think they're down about it. They just feel bad they didn't come with all they got tonight. I don't think they're down. They'll just come to practice tomorrow, work real hard, and get back on coach's good side.

I did that because I thought somebody was behind me. I was going to try to do something crazy, was going to try to go through the legs, get the crowd real hyped.

I don't think it'll be tough. A streak is a streak. Everybody loses a streak once in awhile.

Gymnastics. I was 10 and doing a back flip and broke my elbow so bad the bone was sticking out.

I think it's great. We did get off to a bad start, but we showed some toughness by winning 12 of our last 13 games. We are a young team and not many people expected much out of us. We just try to go out there and play hard every day, and it paid off in the end.

I thought the game was about done. We had big doubts about coming back. Then the shots started falling, and we picked it up on defense.

I think that we earned some respect today. We still have a couple of big games ahead of us, and we are still going to try and prove people wrong.

Really, that's the way he's been playing all the time in practice. But he hadn't been playing that much in games because of stuff.

Nah, I hate it. I was still kind of sleeping in the first half. I woke up, though, when they broke into our lead in the first half.

Julian is always playing around... non-stop even when everyone else is serious. He's happy over everything. At first, I was wondering about him, but I like that. He's a cool guy.

I wasn't into the game. My mind-set wasn't right. I sat down and talked to myself at halftime. The second half I relaxed. My head was in the game.

We finally proved to people that we can win tough games. We wanted to prove we were the best team in the Big 12.

We were just talking about that in the locker room, about how league play is different, and we're stepping up.

You have to be ready for him. I can tell when he's going to pass. When he's feeling it, he's going to shoot. When he's having an off day, I know he's going to pass it so my hands are up.

Every time I shot free throws, there he was shaking. It was nasty.

We all came in being this and that. But we don't have egos. We want to be a team. We knew we had to be something special for this team to do something, but we knew we had to do it together. I think we've done that.

There's a debate out there about who the best team in the conference is. This team is trying to prove it's us.

I underestimated them a little bit, seeing how they lost to Nebraska. But that won't happen again. We won't underestimate anybody any more.

It was an embarrassment. They came out and manhandled us.

Russell coming back in was a real big deal. He helps relieve the pressure a lot on me and Mario (Chalmers, 21 points of 6-of-9 shooting and 6-of-9 free throwing), and he's starting to become a real good scorer. He was ready to get back out there. He was pretty mad about getting the two fouls.

(Saturday), even my body language wasn't good. I got mad at myself out there. I'm not playing relaxed. I just need to be more aggressive.

Coach said it's a mental thing, but it really does (affect you). Even Roby (Richard, CU guard, 15 points, 6-of-18 shooting) told me that he gets winded.

They said we were going to get killed in Big 12 play. We're proving people wrong right now.

They are taking it real tough. Everybody is mad. Jeremy Case is real mad. (Christian) Moody ... the seniors are real devastated about the loss.

It's a debate out there as to who's the best team in the conference. It's time to settle who that is. We're ready for it. It's going to be pretty exciting. This time it's going to be on neutral ground so it'll be a lot more even.

It's going to be the biggest game of the year in the conference, playing against top-level talent on national television.

It surprised me. I was getting the shots I wanted, I just was missing them. I was getting frustrated, I just couldn't get myself into the game.

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?

I've grown up a lot. That's from being on my own. But I've been away from home too long.

They were calling me up until a week or so before I decided to go to Kansas. I even took an unofficial visit there.

They were really overemphasizing jumping on my right hand. They were trying to force me to go left. Kentucky tried it, but I was still able to get around it. I can go both ways, but I like going to my right hand. My left is a little weak.

I'm surprised I didn't get a technical. I got real mad. I thought it was a foul.

I'm just glad it's over with. I was concerned because I was getting behind in classes.

I'm trying to get on ESPN. That's what that is.

I'm not worried about that. I'm a good kid.

I have that down pat. I can shoot it over a big guy. The only way to stop it is to keep me from getting that close in.

I just started being more aggressive in the second half. The point guards were finding me and I was getting open shots. My shots started dropping and I was getting kind of hot.

I don't know how long I'll be here.

I didn't think it would be this easy, but things were just falling our way.

I do think we deserve to be ranked. We did a little better than I thought.

I don't think they were prepared for today, because we knew in our heads that we were going to kill them.

He's got a big mouth. He told me 'a physical game's not your style; stick to finesse.' It feels real good to win when they're talking smack.

I could definitely see he was getting a little frustrated. I tried to talk to him a couple of times. I know how hard it is to be a freshman but he'll figure it out.