Tony Skinn Quotations

Shaq wants to win, and he's a winner. It's one of those things where he sees how good this team can be, and if he steps his game up, it's going to make us better.

It's kind of like we're put in the background.

Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.

This is the same feeling we've had for the last couple of weeks. We've done something tremendous and the fans have had our backs, win or lose the whole year. It's good to see they're not only here when we're winning, but when we lose too.

March Madness. We don't mind being the Cinderella.

We've kind of used that to our advantage a little bit because we're capable of playing with anybody in the country. The stage we're on now is our opportunity to show everybody we can play. We'll just stick to it and run with it.

Man, it's been fun. Right now this team is playing great basketball and we just want to keep that rolling.

I let my emotions get the best of me. If I could take it back, I would.

I am very sorry and I deeply regret my actions on Sunday. In the heat of a tense game, I lost my head and made a bad decision. I'm not making excuses for my actions and I take full responsibility for what I did. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Loren Stokes, who I have great respect for. I also want to say I'm sorry to Hofstra University's players, coaches and fans. They played a terrific game and that should not be overshadowed by what I did.

To be out there in front of that many people, I see why they have an open practice. If we went out there seeing that many people for the game, we'd be shocked.