Jim Calhoun Inside Quotations

Quite frankly, you have to go to somebody. You have to have your inside game or your outside game. And, usually, somebody's got to make plays.

We turned the ball over 26 times yet I think our heart was shown on enough occasions. When you're down 10 points or down seven points with something to go, you need to call upon the reserves. There's something inside you that won't let you lose.

We?d be foolish not to get the ball inside anytime we can.

That's something you really have a difficult time answering in the sense that you can't get inside the team's mind.

It's incredibly needed on this basketball team. He is our inside threat right now.

It was their spread and ability to shoot 3s and our power on the inside. I think we eventually got the power inside and the balance of transition and hitting open shots. But they would not quit.

The college game is controlled by guards, has been and will be. You guys are going to try to name all the great big men who have carried their teams to Final Fours recently. You're not going to come up with any. You're going to come up with teams that are dominated by good inside play and terrific guard play. In the college game, guys that control the ball control the game.

Our inside power is very difficult for most teams to handle. Today, we were able to get inside better than we did on Monday.