Kevin Kruger Quotations

We started a little streak. That's what we wanted to do. But I think mainly we are having fun out there and we are playing with confidence. We are not getting down on ourselves. We're not letting one bad thing ruin the game.

We're not going to quit. It doesn't matter what uniform we're wearing, or what name is on the back of our jerseys. We're just not going quit.

My heart is going to have to stop beating before I stop playing.

I don't expect anything less than everything everyone can give. We've played some bad games this season as a team, but we've never played two in a row without energy and without effort.

He's come in here as a true freshman with some pretty big shoes to fill and it really hasn't affected him at all. Good things come to people who work hard, and that's what's happening to him.

Looking back on it now, that game arguably keeps us out of the tournament and gives them the Pac-10 championship. You're not going to find many rivalry games that can have that weight. Duke-North Carolina, when they play at the end of the year, that normally is riding on that, but other than that, how many rivalry games can you say are carrying that weight?

That's the intensity level you have to bring into each game and we were lacking that for whatever reason. We weren't scared going into tonight, not at all. We accepted the challenge of playing the top team in the Pac-10 at their place.

We've had enough things go wrong this season.

We just didn't play well in the second half. They went on a run and we didn't answer.

We came out there wide-eyed and scared. We can't afford to have that many turnovers; we're not that offensively gifted.

We did what we were told to do.

We didn't do anything, nothing at all, after halftime. We'll take the confidence we got from a good first half and apply the lessons from a bad second half. We've got to do both.

We were actually trying for a 3 there, as crazy as that may sound.

We've had some unfortunate breaks. We don't have the luxury to blow another game because we're worried about the past.

Up there they were up by two at the half, this time we were up by two. Other than that, it was pretty much the same.

We were thinking they were going to take us for granted. I guarantee you nobody in here thought we were going to win.

We were thinking before the game they were going to take us for granted. I felt insulted by it, because a lot of teams think they are going to walk all over us. The good thing though is that basketball is not played on paper, and we accepted the challenge tonight.

There's no question that if I play better we have a chance. But I pretty much laid an egg. There is nobody else to put this on but me.

No question. I play better and we have a chance. But I go out there and lay an egg. Put this on me.

If my grandmother stepped out there, I'd try to give him (Evans) that win.

I'd give everything, I mean everything, to get a win for coach in this one.