Composure Quotations | Page 4

I know the veteran leaders will help us stay settled down on the road, ... It is never easy and composure is a key.

I knew in the first half we were not playing Sacramento basketball, ... I knew I was struggling, I was forcing too many things. I just kept my composure and like I said, my teammates are always going to have my back.

I knew I had to make those shots. We kept our composure and didn't freak out. We're just getting better every time we go out there.

I knew we wouldn't see any more adversity than (Thursday) night. I knew if we could keep our composure in that game, then we would be ready for anything that Statesville could throw at us.

I liked the way we responded. One of the things we talked about was composure. I guess you could say we had composure because we got the game-winning goal. I don't know how you relate that, but we found a way to get a win.

I knew Carroll had a run left in them, and it was just a matter of time when it would come. But we've kept our composure all year, and we showed that again tonight.

I'm just proud of our kids to hang in there and keep their composure through all that adversity. We lost it for a little bit there in the fourth, but kept believing and kept working. That says a lot about our kids. This is two weeks in a row where it came down to the last second and we got it done.

I'm just extremely proud of our toughness and composure all night long. I can't say enough about Niles and the type of game they played. It was two evenly matched teams that competed hard. I'm just thankful that we found a way to pull it out.

I'm very satisfied with the team's performance at our first spring tournament. We improved throughout the day and implemented our new serve-receive system very well. The team played with composure and consistency all day while competing against a wide variety of teams that each had different styles and strengths. The team adapted very well to this challenge, and the weekend proved that not only have our physical abilities improved, but so have our mental ones. Players were multi-tasking the strategic part of the game while also easily executing physical skill - a true sign of a veteran team.

I'm very proud of the guys. They kept their composure in tough moments and were very mentally prepared. They didn't make too many mistakes.

I'm very proud of the girls. They stayed calm and executed and maintained their composure even though we gave up a bucket to bring it to overtime.

I'll be honest, for a second there I was not sure what was going to happen. We stayed strong and kept our composure and made the plays at the end.

In the state tournament, runs are everything. They made a little run at us, but we got our composure and made a couple shots and stayed ahead of them.

I no longer feel like I'm playing for a young team. We've learned to keep our composure at crunch time.

I just told them we need them in the game and to keep themselves in the game. They both showed a lot of composure and just went straight up on defense.

I hope so. We've got a measure in front of us that we have to step up to and try to regain some kind of composure and some kind of home-court advantage.

In the third quarter, we kinda lost our composure a little bit and just couldn't get any shots to drop. That's been a problem all year. We thought we were getting good shots. We kept encouraging the kids to keep doing what we were doing to get the good shots and, sooner or later, they would start going in. And unfortunately, it didn't happen.

In the past, when things didn't go our way, we'd just let things snowball. This group has grown a lot. They have learned how to keep their composure and just fight. And tonight was a big step in the right direction. This was a good win for us.

It helps a lot. You won't get too excited, that high emotion where your blood flows too much, where you're throwing the ball away. You know how to keep your composure and just go out there, relax and play basketball.

It helped that they kept their composure tonight. They kept fighting.

His composure on the ball and ability to connect the back to the front is excellent. He's great at finding the one person who needs the ball.

His composure is so much better. He plays with so much heart. But now he's starting to play with his heart, skill and brain.

But I thought we dealt with that with a lot of composure at times and a lot of discipline.

He's really gained some composure and puck poise. And he's got that big shot from the point.

He's ready. He's got composure about him. I think he's had enough big-league time where the anxiety has passed him, so he's just enjoying it, taking advantage of the time that he's got.

I don't know if early in the season we would have been able to maintain our composure with the amount of shots we missed that were wide open. It was very frustrating. But something deep down inside us said we have to fight through this and win this game. We didn't come this far just to pout about not making shots and accept it.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

Chambers showed a lot of senior composure on that play by finding Ortiz. This game mirrored our season. We created a lot of opportunities but couldn't finish.

Hopefully our younger guys have turned the corner and will be able to handle this. It's only one week. We've got to keep our composure and let it go. You let this one linger too long and then we're not ready for Dallas. Then we're right back to the same old spot we've been in. We're better, but we've got to keep improving. We're not there yet.

He throws pretty hard, he has a pretty good cut fastball and he?s somebody who has composure in there. There?s not a lot which bothers him out there. He?s very much a competitor. He does a great job of maintaining his composure in tough spots.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

I don't think anyone enjoys giving up short-handed goals. We kept our composure and didn't let it get to us. The guys kept it going, we didn't panic.

I am very proud of the way we played today. We bounced back from a tough loss on Wednesday, and we maintained our composure when they were coming after us in the second half. We know how good of a team they are, so this is a great win for us.

He's got a lot more composure this year than he has in the past,

Losing composure is pointless.

You could put our entire basketball team and our entire coaching staff in one room, and she has more poise and more composure than any of us. It shows up on the court. I could be about to lose my mind and she's just calm.

The key will be our composure and execution. We'll be one of the better ball-handling teams (Mukwonago) will face all year.

The key in the game today was our turnovers. We did everything necessary except for maintaining our composure and taking care of the ball like we have in the past couple games.

The key for us was that we made our free throws and held our composure in overtime.

The idea was to keep the composure and not let those things get us down.

You work so hard to get to this point and then shoot yourself in the foot like that, it's inexcusable. It really is. Guys were losing their composure out there and that obviously can't happen. I guess if there's any light on it, it happened in Game 1. That's going to be a quick lesson for us.

All through the season, when we've been up we've been able to put teams away. It was good for us not to panic and keep our composure and boom we got right back ahead.

The girls maintained their composure and that made the difference. I was very proud of Kyler and Wood as they led the way with scores of 41 and 42. We had help from Courtney Hinen and Ellen Hazelet with scores of 48 and 49.

The girls kept their composure and we put some defensive pressure on them at half-court.

The girls kept their composure and came up with some big steals in the second overtime that helped pad the lead.

The girls didn't quit, and that's the key. I'm proud of them for keeping their composure the last four minutes. This is the postseason. Teams are going to come in and give us everything they have, and we have to respond to it. And for the most part tonight, we did that.

The girls are well-conditioned physically and mentally. They don't get into worrying about officials' calls or another team's actions. Keeping our composure in close games has been our strength in the past.

The game was tied with five minutes left. We had a couple questionable calls against us, and we just lost our composure down the stretch there.

The frustration here was with the wind at your back and with eight players bunkering in it was really hard for us to break them down. That was when our composure needed to show.

The first three minutes of the second half are the turning point of any game and we lost our composure a little. Our guards struggled a little and were awfully passive. They didn't take it to the hole. We lost our composure and just panicked. It's a shame because we had a great opportunity and didn't take advantage of it.

The company he's in -- I just saw something on TV the other day -- it's pretty impressive. It's not just his goals. His physical play, his composure ... it's his whole game. He's been unbelievable here.

The composure we showed and ball control was fantastic, every chance we created we seemed to grasp.

The composure he showed, it wasn't really a huge surprise, but it was a surprise because we had never seen him in that situation. What he showed definitely impressed us.

The goal is to live with godlike composure on the full rush of energy, like Dionysus riding the leopard, without being torn to pieces.