Charmaine Bell Quotations

We're shocked because we have high expectations for ourselves. The biggest key is to get everybody involved and play together.

You always want to make sure you're mentally ahead of the other team. If you make the other team think they can't play with you, that's the way they'll start playing.

You do all the camps in the summer to get to one place and then to totally blow it, not once, but twice. We have to go farther than we've ever been, seriously.

We wanted to deny their passes to the interior. I thought we did a good job of denying them the ball inside and dropping back and helping each other on defense.

We did a good job of breaking their press. We are a tough team to press.

Roosevelt is too good a school to not come down here and win this. A lot of people haven't respected us, the city schools. But our schools are gaining that respect.

This is our year. We have never been as good as we are this year.

It's so hard to lose when you get down there. It hurts so bad, and I know my team this year ? we are better than we've ever been. I seriously think we're going to take the championship this year.

Individual accomplishments are nice, especially when you think about all the good players that have been here, but it's really about the team.

I'm proud of the way we played during the fourth quarter. We've had problems earlier in the season letting teams back into the game after we took a lead, but we didn't do that this time.

I didn't know what we were going to do. What were we going to be like when I get to high school?

I don't think we did anything wrong. It was two teams going at it and only one can win. Maybe next time.