Mardy Collins Quotations

We lacked that intensity the last 2 minutes because we figured the game was over. We've got to finish games better than that.

We've got aspirations of getting to the tournament, so this is going to be a big game.

We want to try and embarrass them and beat them by 30. They gave us a pretty good butt kicking. I give them credit, they played well, but we came out with no energy, came out flat, and let them do whatever they wanted to do.

I give a lot of credit to Fordham. They played a terrific defensive game. But as far as our effort, it?s not where it?s supposed to be going into a do-or-die situation.

He treated us like men and expected us to act that way, too. It was like we had class before we had to go to class.

He taught me how to carry myself. He taught me how to do the little things in life to be successful. He taught me what it meant to be a man.

I think we focused too much attention on J.J. and we left guys open underneath the basket.

I think we need a guy that's familiar with the Philadelphia area. We need someone who's going to make these guys work hard. As long as he does that, I really don't care who that is.

I think it's the biggest win I've had since I've been here. We did everything I think Coach wanted us to do.

I think Duke would have a tough time with Villanova.

Our goal this game was to hold them under 40. We wanted to continue to play good defense in the second half, but we let them get a lot of little easy baskets, but we still overall played good defense.

My whole career, I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a game and the last game of my career, to come down like that, was a weird feeling. I kind of stumbled on my way down and a guy came down on my neck, all his weight came right down on my neck.

It hasn't hit us yet. We're definitely surprised. Every year, there's a new rumor that he's going to leave, but we thought it would die down, just like always. It's sad. But I'm thankful I got to play for him for five years.

We could have gone two ways after that we could have gone in the tank and continued to play sub par. But we took it upon ourselves to talk to each other and try to come out and play better.

Those little incidents don't measure up to the things he's done here at Temple.

To go up there the way we did and lay a goose egg like we did up there, it was horrible. We wanted to do it back.

See that guy, that's the guy who's key for us. When he plays well, we play well.

Saint Joseph's defense switched, and we had a hard time running our patterns.

That's what we went out there to do today. We went out there to prove that we could play defense.

A team like Duke, they're a powerhouse. They don't do special things. It was easy for me to get to the basket.

It's going to be tough for him because all he knows is basketball. He'd be up late at night watching film and call us to talk to us about basketball. I think it's going to be a tough transition for him.

It's pretty exciting. I've got a lot of things going on right now.

It was a big win for us and we needed it. Dustin was terrific in the second half and we played much better defensively.

I'm definitely excited about moving on to the next level.

I just said we needed this game. If we win this game, do what we're supposed to do, then this game can get us into the tournament.