Jim Calhoun Ourselves Quotations

My fear is being flat (for the start of league play). When we lost to Boston College last year to start the Big East, we couldn't raise ourselves to that level. Having not played that kind of competition recently, I have concerns, but we have to play these two games first.

We'll tire ourselves out where we need more people in the game. But anytime your eight goes against our eight, we think we have a great advantage.

We shrunk ourselves down to make ourselves better.

Right now, we have to prepare ourselves for a team that feels very good about itself. We have to tighten our defense.

That's what this game is all about, getting ourselves ready for the next three games and then head on into our league games.

Everybody's talking about how many teams we'll send. Let's see if we can get out of the league first. My greatest fear is that we might beat ourselves up so much that records won't be indicative of how truly good a team is.

They came out and pressed us and generally teams that press us allow to get ourselves going. And this was their third game in five days so it made it very difficult for them to stay with us.

It was just an amazing game for them. They made us look poor. And we made ourselves look poor. It takes two.