Andy Howard Quotations

I don't think it's a good rule. I don't think you should make it an all-or-nothing thing. It's not about winning games. This is about getting kids to have a life.

I don't think I've seen a kid make as much improvement in one year. He's not taking bad shots, he's getting his teammates involved, he's not turning it over, he's rebounding; he's fantastic.

We took a step back character-wise. That's what worries me. I can lose basketball games, but I'm trying to get these kids ready for their lives and trying to teach them that when things don't go well you can't shut down.

I think they've changed our program. They raised our level of expectations.

It frustrates me when we take a step backward. We're not very good at fighting through when things don't go well.

We have good kids, and they'll learn, but we have to get better at fighting through or we won't get where we want to go.

We think we're a pretty good defensive team, but their big guys can make you look silly. They are one of the best teams out there, no question about it.

We had some problems with their pressure. We were stagnant.

We were doing a nice job of keeping the ball out of the post in the first half, but they really came out and went inside three, four, five possessions and kind of turned the game around.

We weren't even in that position if it wasn't for him in the last five minutes. He has nothing to feel bad about. We're proud of him for taking that shot and the kids are, too.

We turned the ball over too much to beat a great team like them (Friday).

They've got a chance to be pretty special, and I think they understand that.

They are going to be proud of their accomplishments.

Everybody played as hard as they could play. We didn't play well all the time, but we played hard.

He's scoring without forcing anything. He's done a nice job of taking his game and playing within the framework of our team, and an example is how we handle the end-of-the-quarter situations. We're so much better at those because of how he handles the ball.