Composure Quotations | Page 2

Our kids are good at adversity. We've worked on that all year long, on being mentally tough for 80 minutes and they hung in there. I was worried about our composure there for a minute with the heat bearing down on us. But we've been behind before and we've been tied and had to come back, so that's nothing new to us.

Our goal was to hold them to under 40 points for the game, so we're happy we were able to do that. It wasn't our prettiest game, but anytime you can get a win on the road in front of a hostile crowd, it's a good victory. The girls did a good job of holding their composure in here tonight.

Our team showed great composure tonight. They could have given up after we missed some foul shots that could have tied the game, but they didn't.

Our team did a tremendous job of fighting back from behind - this team is on a mission. We showed a lot of composure and tremendous commitment tonight. Our bench showing the amount of depth we had is very promising as we go into SEC play.

Our goal is to play with composure and not have a lot of unforced turnovers.

On the sidelines, we were all going crazy. But we were trying to keep our composure at the same time. We're a family. It's just like if someone went after your little brother or little sister.

Our Achilles has been the beginning of the third quarter and the last five minutes of the game. But we did a good job of keeping our composure today. We stayed focused and stayed positive.

Renee had her head screwed on straight these last couple of games and I think that's really important going into the NCAA tournament. I know as a freshman, I started to hit my peak going into the NCAA tournament and it gave me a great amount of confidence going into it. Hopefully she can keep this momentum. We're really going to need her down there on Monday to have her composure like she's been having these last few games.

My opponent was tough, but I played aggressively and I played with more composure than in the first round,

Matt had gotten them out all game. We didn't make the plays behind him in the last inning. He's a senior, and we knew he'd have the composure to get through it.

I thought Hughes played some great minutes down the stretch for us. He is not normally playing during crunch time, but I thought he hit some big shots and kept his composure for us.

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Maybe that's how he plays. If he says something, you have to keep your composure and you'll be fine.

We needed a win. We kept our composure and got key defensive stops and made key offensive plays.

The 13 guys in our locker room are coming to play. They are getting so much better and their composure is getting better. That helps us stay in a ball game like this. We don't have the horses right now that Heritage has. But the 13 guys in there are scrapping. We are getting better. We're peaking at the right time.

I was proud of the way the kids regained their composure and fought back into the game. It showed a lot character.

Will got the escape and he should have just regained his composure and tried to win in overtime. He tried to force something when he didn't have to.

We just went to the line with great poise and composure and it allowed us to keep scoring. We have great confidence in our guys when they go to the stripe. It's not easy to do all the time. It's different in OT and on the road.

We jumped out on (Niceville), but they kept their composure and they really played us.

We can't control what they're going to call. We felt both ways there were some questionable calls. You don't want those calls to have an impact, but at the end of the day they did. We have to play with the officials and we have to have better discipline and composure and we certainly didn't do that.

We were a better defensive team (against Loyola). They held their composure to play a good game.

We are basically a senior-experienced team. I was real happy with the way the kids kept their composure in a tough road game.

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We're creating a lot of opportunities, which is a big part of the battle. We're just not finding the net. Twenty-seven shots and only two goals is not my idea of a good time. We need to find the mental composure to finish the job.

We executed on all aspects of the game. We hit the boards, we played defense and did a great job on our press break. The kids played hard and kept their composure throughout. I?m really proud of them.

We got beat by a much better team tonight, a team that was much more composed with the puck than we were. We didn't have near the composure they did.

We couldn't pull away. To their credit, they played hard. But we kept our composure and didn't let them get the lead.

We had good composure and came back and tied the game and had some big plays when we needed.

We had a little lull in the first period but other than that we played pretty good. Our composure was good, we played pretty hard as well.

We had tough games like when we faced Kentucky, but we knew we had to keep our composure during this game. I had to keep my head in the game, but it's not just myself but the team and their trust.

We've got some mental things to work on. We lost our composure and spent too much time in the penalty box and in the end, that killed us.

We had one on top and everyone else in the back. We just kept pressing and pressing. And I'm just glad (Dever) had the composure to put in the there.

We have the composure and leadership in here to know what we have to do. It's a little bit of adversity that we have to face, we just have to get through it.

We got things done at the right time tonight. Every time we went down we kept our composure and got back into the game. We were able to get a lead and sustain it. We showed a lot of character being that those guys (Washington) already had their playoff shirts made up and wanted to wear them after the game. We didn't give them a chance to do that, now they have to do it somewhere else. We had an extra incentive to beat them and that gave us a great lift. We just did everything right tonight.

We know it's not going to be easy because coach keeps telling us we're the hunted now. People are going to come out and hunt us to win games. We just had to keep our composure and we did.

We'll do a lot of press-breaking work this week. We'll have to be able to handle 32 minutes of pressure, and to keep our composure and still run our offense with hands in our face.

Unfortunately, we started our own parade to the penalty box. The only thing I have to say about it is that we can only control our response. What was disappointing to me is that we lost our composure and totally broke down.

To have an eighth-grader step up like this is awesome. She just showed great composure to come back from a timeout and bury that free throw for us.

We didn't shoot well from the free throw line and I don't think we had a team execute like Marshfield Columbus did against us all year. In the first half they were executing their offense very well and we were able to maintain our focus and composure just enough to get them off rhythm a little bit. Once we did, I thought our guys really sensed it and they pounced on it pretty good.

We're not used to having a lead like that and we panicked a little, but we showed the composure that we needed to put the game away. In the second half, we had two spells where we ran more than a minute off the clock each time, and like I told the girls that's another minute we don't have to play defense.

We played well in the first half, but lost our composure in the second. We won the game, but we still have a lot of work.

We played with intensity and we played with purpose for the full 40 minutes and didn't lose our composure when they hit a couple of shots and tried to make a comeback.

We played with composure and we controlled the clock. It was real basketball and it's taken us a long time to get here.

We played with a lot of heart and gave a great effort tonight. We kept our composure and didn't turn the ball over. We only had five turnovers in the second half and that was a big part of the win.

We played 40 real strong minutes then didn't show a lot of composure in the third. We didn't handle the pressure very well.

We pride ourselves on getting big stops in the late quarters. This Klein team is so disciplined, and our kids did a good job of showing composure and turning it up defensively.

We did this last year, though. We beat these girls here last year, so we've got to do it again at their house. But it's great. It was a good match. Glenwood is really strong. Their middles, my God. Our girls kept their composure and played great defense. We kept in our system and did our best to keep them out of their system.

We did something we didn't do all year, we lost our composure in the end. Usually we're the ones at the end of the game that keep our cool, but Harlingen did a great job.

We didn't do anything really different. The only real difference was we didn't fall apart in the fourth quarter. We kept our composure and came out on top.

Tomorrow (against Oak Ridge) will be a test of our character. I thought we lost our composure today and we can't do that against top-level opponents.

We played well the second inning through the sixth, just not the first and the seventh. Our pitchers kept us in the game. Wesley (McCullough) kept his composure in the first.

We were a little nervous. I think we did a nice job to extend the lead to 13 and then Maine turned right around and hit three threes in about a minute. I thought we kept our composure and we made some key foul shots down the stretch. It wasn't pretty, but Maine is a tough team.

We were aggressive at the start and worked well, although we were lucky to score from our first opportunity. We kept our composure after they were reduced to ten men and were content to simply control the game. It was very important we won ahead of the Barcelona tie. We know they're a great team but we also know that we can surprise them. Anything is possible.

(West Campus) played exceptionally well. We were in control the whole way, but down the stretch we had to keep our composure and make free throws. It was good for us to be in a battle like that at this time in the season.

The days we don't make shots are going to be long nights for us. Anytime you shoot 1-for-19 from the 3-point line, you're usually going to lose. We held our composure pretty well.

We showed a lot of composure from start to finish.

We showed a lot of composure for a team that was missing two seniors. We were up 15-18 points and they came back. We could have folded it up and let them beat us, and no one would have thought twice. But we kept it together for four quarters.

We showed a lot of composure and maturity, and for Morrison to make two great defensive plays after that and then hit that crucial two-run double to put us ahead, speaks volumes about how he is trying to grow as a player.

We showed a little composure and the girls were fighting back no matter what. I told them at the start of overtime we were in the same shape we were at the beginning, only a little tired. The kids responded well and we hit some late free throws.

We let it get a little tight ... We were almost up 20 or 21, I think, and had a few turnovers and missed a few easy shots there, but the kids held their composure and finished it up there at the very end.

We're still working on keeping our composure up a little bit. We just don't have enough players doing that throughout the game. But we've elevated our play from the first of the year to now. It just wasn't enough.

We were really hyped up and excited in the first half and sometimes that turns into chaos on the court. We had a lot more composure in the second half. We came out and we brought it.

We would have never gotten into that situation if we didn't miss those free throws. We made them work for their shots, but they forced us into turnovers with their frantic style of play. In the end, we kept our composure and the girls did a great job of that.

We kinda dug ourselves in a bit of a hole in the first game with a few errors. I was proud that our girls kept their composure and played well in the second game.

We kept our composure very well. You have to understand that the other team will make runs and that we have to take the hit and hold our ground.

We kept our composure in the fourth quarter. That made a big difference.

We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.

We kept coming back, coming back. And every time we came out of a huddle, they sort of regained their composure again.

We didn't handle that very well. They pressured us and made us rush, especially early. That's why our shooting percentage was so low. We were rushing shots. We turned the ball over we didn't play with a lot of composure and we dug ourselves a hole. Defensively they did a nice job on us and took us out of our game.

We have seven seniors on this team and we talked about keeping our composure at halftime. For us, this was a business trip, and tonight we took care of business.

This was a hard fought game on both sides. Jacobs showed great composure tonight the way he moved in and hit the ball with his head.

When you play the top four away, you need your goalkeeper to get 11 out of 10 and that's what Thomas did for us. He made some great saves and showed a bit of composure and gave us belief that we could pick something up here.

We've got to establish play (tonight). We have to have a little more composure with the puck. Whether it's bad luck on a bouncing puck or our inability to control it, we have to be better.

We've just got to be more disciplined. We play in a tough region, and we have a couple players out with injures and sickness . . . But we didn't get rattled (when Kearns made it's runs). That's an improvement. In previous years, that would have happened and we wouldn't have kept our composure . . . I'm cautiously optimistic.

We've only got two seniors. We've been preaching composure to them, and I think they grew up tonight.

We seemed to lose composure as the game went on.

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The defense played with composure and with the right amount of determination. They also did a decent job of starting our counterattack. Madison Central played a physical game (the Lady Indians received four yellow cards), but we were able to stay focused on what we needed to do to carry out our style of play and win the game.

We all know how it feels to lose and we don't like losing. I'm pretty sure we'll work hard and have more composure and enthusiasm in the next game.

We all kept our composure as much as we could, ... How do you react to being honored this way when you're put among the best of the best forever? It's just incredible.

We had to keep our composure enough and play this game like any other game, as a coach and as a team. These guys are unselfish, they don't care who scores as long as someone scores enough to have a chance to win.

We got a little excited in the overtime period and lost our composure. Fortunately, we were able to regain our composure and pull this one out. I think the key tonight was how we got a good performance from five guys playing together as a team.

We got a little complacent and lackadaisical at times, but we still kept our composure and kept our lead out there. It was a great atmosphere with such a big crowd.

We gave Steven some early support and confidence in a tough place to play, but I felt our guys held their composure and played well against a tough team. This was a good win for us. I was proud of our overall effort.

We knew being on their home floor that they would make a run at us. We just lost our composure there for awhile.

We kind of thought we had the game won there, and we had to come back and regain our composure and win the game.

We just kept our composure. Usually we'll get down and start jacking up shots. But we just kept our composure and executed better.

To have them be up 10-0 . . . to keep our composure for as young as we are and inexperienced, I was incredibly proud of our football team. Normally inexperienced teams don't respond that way.

You have to play this with a lot of emotion. But you have to be able to channel it and maintain your composure under pressure. That will be a big part of everybody's game.

What amazes me is that they are still a young team, yet the composure they have is unbelievable.

We tried to keep our composure throughout the game and stick with our original game plan of pushing the ball and keeping the transition going to get it into a fast-paced game.

We talked about getting off to a good start in the second half, and we did. We kept our composure late.

We talked about composure. You know these teams are going to make runs; these are the top teams in the state. You can't get down and you can't panic. I thought we didn't panic and held our composure pretty well and we battled.

We talked about composure and making good decisions. I think the kids did a good job at the end. There were maybe a couple of passes that were questionable. Our style is up-tempo. If we don't take care of the ball, we have trouble scoring.

We just lost our composure when we were tired.

We just had to keep our composure there. We stayed focused and were able to play as a team. This was definitely not just another win. We're taking team unity, mental toughness, there's a lot we can take from this game.

We just had to keep our composure and play as a team and we couldn't go wrong. We were down 10, came back and proved that we're the champions.

We were looking at it as a tune-up going into tournaments. They were an athletic team and a team that had some size. We were down 42-37 with two minutes left in the third quarter, but - as has been our nature all year - we kept our composure and didn't panic when we were down. I give our senior guys credit. They don't panic and this is the type of game we're going to be playing starting Monday.

We had that poise and composure toward the end and we had some guys hit some key foul shots at the end.

We had talked about playing smart with our offensive possessions because they switch their defenses up a lot. For most of the game, we did a pretty good job. Our kids did play with composure in the fourth quarter, executed and got some things done that we wanted to do.