Rashad Anderson Quotations

When we get rolling like that, nobody can beat us.

We're ready to play. No matter if it's Duke or any other team in the tournament.

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

We didn't want to lose. I just knew if Marcus (Williams) got me the ball, I was going to knock it down, no matter what. We weren't going to lose this game.

Me and coach sat down and watched some film to see what I was doing wrong. I wasn't squaring my body up a lot of times. I've been doing that the last couple days in practice and it's paid off.

Phenomenal. He just continues to get better every day. He's finally starting to believe in himself and the things he can do.

I was praying for him. Thank God he made it.

Guys got to understand that you have to come out with intensity from the opening tip, that's basically what it was.

I wouldn't say it's wide open. But I know we aren't going to lose.

I think it hurt them more than us because we were able to take their elite scorer out of the game. That was a boost for us. And we just decided, hey, this is the time to turn it up.

I think it's better to be on a team with such great players. On other teams you have one or two great scorers and if one of them gets hurt or in foul trouble, that's a lot of points you're not getting.

I said, 'Give me the ball and I'll knock it down for you,' and I was able to do it.

My sophomore year I took a crazy shot and I felt the spit on the back of my neck from half-court.

I tell him not to worry about any of that. Everything will take care of itself.

Man-child. He's a man-child. That's what we need every night.

That was kind of a toss-up call. I thought I got nudged into Marcus a little bit. But at the end of the game, no excuses.

We just couldn't get a stop. I'm just as appalled as you guys.

You just have to come ready to play every night and strap it on. Anytime you're going into enemy territory against a team like Villanova that's a great team, you've got to be ready to play. You've got to get some momentum.

We just didn't come out and put them away. It's not easy. It sticks with you until you play again.

We have nothing to prove to anyone but ourselves. We need to play like we practice, the No. 1 ranking doesn't mean anything if we're not No. 1 in April.

We didn't run anything. Sometimes, it just happens. All teams go through it. Duke, all of them, go through it.

We were able to take their elite scorer out of the game and it was a boost for us.

This time of year is what you live for.

You can never stop improving. We like to walk out of arenas with all of the air sucked out and all of the fans calling us names. We love that.

We just feel like we can beat anybody.

We smell blood when we get up like that. When a team gets down, that's when you want to pound a team. No disrespect to Seton Hall, but if any team gets down we have to jump on them, because we know if it was switched around, they would jump on us.

We feel like we have to play our best to win. But even if something is not going right, we still feel we can win the game.

The seniors have won an NCAA title. We know big games and big shots. That comes easy to us.

Sometimes, when you're shooting the ball like that, it doesn't matter what you do. When a guy's feeling it, he's feeling it.

Sometimes after a game or something I think about it. I don't gloat on it. It wasn't a goal of mind coming to school, but it happens.

People say we may lose this tournament because of lapses. It's not happening.

A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again.

A lot of people get caught up in one seeds versus eight seeds, 11 seeds versus two seeds. Nobody cares about all that stuff. Rankings, all that stuff goes away. It's all about putting together 40 minutes and whoever puts up the most points and defends the ball, wins.

A lot of people built their expectations on him, but his are just for us to win. He's definitely put in the category of having a lot of potential, but he's on a team with a lot of guys who can score.

There will be a lot of mismatch problems. But I think our mismatches are better.

They're learning, and I keep telling them don't worry if you mess up, just play and don't worry about anything. Craig is stronger and Rob is quicker but they're both efficient. They get the ball where it needs to be.

As soon as I checked in. I feel like that every game. It's a matter of me getting open looks and coming off screens and knocking down the shots.

The most complete game I've seen him play this year.

I told him to come back and be ready. You can't undo the past but you can learn from your mistakes.

It's nothing serious, just some scar tissue. It's not something that's going to stop me from being the same me, but Coach is just taking the precaution. It's getting better every day, so I'm just going to continue to get rehab - another week or so, I should be back to myself.

It's not easy (to move on). You lose a game and it sticks in you until we play Saturday. We feel like we gave one away.

Everybody's getting better, no matter what school you go to. People want to be good. People who probably got overlooked by other schools, you know, they take it as a challenge and they work their butt off.

It?s very tough on a lot of teams to have your opponent?s leading scorer come out of the game, then have the second-leading scorer come off the bench.

It's very impressive. It's just one of those things. They beat us fair and square.

I wanted to let them feel the trophy too. They mean a lot to us with all the support they give us. I'm going to miss this place.

Anytime you're going into enemy territory against a team like Villanova, who's a great team, you have to be ready to play. You have to get some momentum.

Any time you play in the Big East, you don't want to give anybody a chance to come back. We wanted to put it to them.

I'm going to show you a better one than Alabama. Mark my words.

I'm a senior and I know how it is. When you win as much as we win, everybody either wants to beat you or see you get beat. When they can't beat you, they boo you. That's how it works.

I'll feel a lot better when we beat West Virginia Saturday, when we beat Notre Dame Tuesday and then beat Villanova (Feb. 26) when they come here. You want to win every game. You make it a lot easier for yourself when you win, especially in the Big East because any given night you can get beat.

I really haven't felt any effects from it. My leg just has to get stronger. I'm going to be fine.

I probably went to sleep, like, 5:30. I couldn't sleep, so I just ordered me a nice movie, 'Aeon Flux,' woman superhero.

If you take me and Denham, Rudy and Marcus, Hilton and Josh and put us on different teams, we're 20- to 25-point scorers. But put us here and we have to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. We don't worry about who scores this and who scores that.

I just decided not to let him get the ball anymore.

I just knew that if the ball got to me, I was going to knock it down and we wasn't going to lose this game, no matter what. I knew it was down.

I just felt good. The last couple of weeks I've been in the gym a lot, before practice, after practice. It's been paying off.

If Hilton keeps playing the way he is, we're going to be tough to beat in the tournament. He gives us so much balance.

I couldn't ask for anything better for coach. It's an honor to be playing for him. Why wouldn't you want to play for a Hall of Fame coach who's got numerous guys in the NBA?

He pretty much knew it was going to get broken.

You can't win with one player. That's what everyone overlooks. If you shut down Emeka and Ben, somebody else is going to beat you.

These games mean a lot to us especially for guys who normally don't play to get their confidence.

You've got to get some horses, man. You've got to get some more players in. No knock on the players now, but you've got to get some horses in there. Get the right pieces to the puzzle.