Kevin Cassidy Quotations

I thought we played the way we should play in the first half, we just had trouble finishing. The second half, it kind of deteriorated into a dump-it-in kind of game. At some point, I realized I wasn't going to get my best performance.

We never went over the limit set by the judge. There have been no violations whatsoever.

We had trouble finishing. We had a lot of looks from the wings and opportunities to score.

You give No. 18 (Thompson) a half an inch and she's going to score.

They run hard to the ball. We change our alignment up a little but you're still not going to win a lot of 1-0 games.

They're a hard team. I don't think they're any more skilled than us. They just ran harder to the ball.

It was a very good game. The girls felt confident and thought we could play with them and we did. I'm sick of these runner-up trophies.

It just goes to show you, (and) I tell the girls all the time - there's no such thing as a bad shot. Because bad shots go in all the time. Give (Gregor) credit - she made some good saves in there.

They are told they need to live by the decibel levels. And they do.

Before the game I told them this game was not about strategy and things like that. It was going to be about who wanted it more. For most of the game, it seemed Venice wanted it more. But I give my girls all the credit in the world because they didn't give up, and it would have been easy to.

The girls gave a good effort. I'm pleased with that.

And if you're on a bad team, it's not exactly fun either. I've played this game my whole life, and you couldn't pay me to get in there. I will not stand in there and let someone shoot at me as hard as they can. I'm going to go out and attack them.