Renee Montgomery Quotations

She's an 89 year old in a 21-year-old's body.

She?s just hoping, being optimistic I guess. I talked to her (Monday) night. I just told her I?d pray for her. If she broke it, the chances of her coming back and actually being productive are slim. It?s just terrible.

I was taking it upon myself to make sure that I didn't turn over the ball and that I had control of the game. Whether it was like getting it to the right person or getting the open shot, I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going to be the reason we lost and hopefully I was going to be one of the big reasons we won.

What we have here is a desperate and disappointed bidder.

He just told them, 'Stay all night, that way you'll have a good spot,' cause he was trying to get them to come to the game. He's funny. We did not know that was coming because you never know with Coach.

I think the happiest thing that we came across was that it was the exact same situation but we handled it differently. It shows that we grew up and changed and I think that was the best feeling.

I think the game went well. We all played together so well.

I was watching her shot fly through the air and was like, 'Please fall off,' and it just kept going. And I was like, 'Oh my gosh, please don't.' And then it hit and I just started screaming and running. I blanked out after that.

I remember us not being not too smart a lot of times when we needed to be and not making plays when we needed to make them. I think that's one thing we're doing this stretch a lot better is if the other team is on the run, we're making the play that we need to make at the right time. I think that's something we have now that we didn't have then.

I was happy with how I played. I think the main thing for me was just being aggressive at both ends of the floor. I think every day more and more as I get yelled at and as I learn it helps you figure out your role. And then once you do what they tell you that you should be doing, and everything starts clicking with everybody else, you realize that they're right.

I think she's the main reason that we got going on the offensive end. She picked us up when we needed something to get us started.

I think if we would have had two terrible halves, that would have hurt us because then we wouldn't have known how to pick ourselves up. But I think the fact that we took it upon ourselves to change the game and not let it keep going downhill is a positive thing that we can take from it.

That?s the thing about now, I don?t care how we win, as long as we win.

That's the main thing that we need to be able to do. Once something isn't going your way, that's when you need to band together and turn it around.

That's what I don't like. I would rather have another game in two, three days just to play well and to get some momentum going. I think that sitting around and thinking about a loss is the worst.

We always want to continue running, no matter who we're playing. The fact that they have a short bench is even better.

Everything wasn't flowing right because we hadn't played in a long time. It was weird. It felt like I hadn't played in so long. It was different.

There?s nobody that can stop her from getting to the basket just because of her abilities and how long she is.

I've been saying from the beginning that I don't want to be the reason we lose because that would be a terrible feeling. I just tried to put myself in a situation where I could help the team and not hurt the team.

I've never been in anything like this. It was so emotional. Half the team came back and cried just because it was such an emotional game and we knew we were blessed.

ACS is very pleased with Judge Stephens' decision. Our prediction came true.

There was nothing positive going on in the first half. It was a lot of nothing. We weren't playing as a team. Everyone was trying to take it upon themselves to get us going, but it wasn't working.

It seems like every time after a loss we come back strong. That is bad because you don?t want to have to have a loss to come back strong, but I think every time we do lose a game, we come back re-focused and stronger than we were before. I hope this will be like that again.

It's been a really serious and focused environment, which it should be. I think everybody realizes the task at hand. We have another opportunity to redeem ourselves, and the NCAA Tournament is coming up, and that's the big show. You have to be ready for that.

It's ignorant to me because when you're up that much you should never let a team come back. I felt like this would be the perfect time to just step on their throats and go up by 20-something and that didn't happen.

There was a lot said at halftime. Everybody was like, 'This is unacceptable.' There was nothing positive going on in the first half. We weren't playing as a team.

I knew about their class because they were all in the McDonald's game. And they all did so well in the McDonald's game. So I knew about all four of them actually.

I have probably 1,000 friends that go there (West Virginia). Like half of my senior class went there and the other half went to Marshall, so I know a lot of people that go there.

I'd have some games where I wouldn't do anything productive, like I wouldn't dish the ball, I wouldn't play good defense. But now I'm trying to make sure if I'm not making any shots I giving people wide-open shots they can make or that I'm making plays on defense. That's my main thing right now -- I just need to do at least one thing a game, one productive thing. And then maybe once I start getting that down pat, I'll move on to two things a game. That's my main focus.

The main thing was the whole team was hustling, which made people rush and turn the ball over. I guess it just happened to come my way.