Todd Martin Quotations

We defended for 16 minutes as well as we can defend. We didn't do a whole lot of trapping. It was just solid, half-court, man-to-man defense. The kids did a great job.

We didn't want (Iceman) to catch the ball in his comfort zone. He's a one-man wrecking crew right now.

Obviously the 15th increase was not unexpected. This clears the path for another move in May, anyway, but whether that's it or not is hard to tell. We're probably in the eighth or ninth inning here. I think we're just about done.

We told the kids we weren't going to play any zone, no gimmicks. We wanted to chase Scott (Kin) and Justin (Frey) all over the floor. We did a nice job.

Having just won a tournament put him in a position to have some of the emotions you experience in a final. He's beaten good tennis players and sustained a level of play himself that's allowed him to be successful.

Kyle just kept getting open. He kept getting looks and you can't give Kyle that many looks.

part of it is driven by low interest rates, part of it is stimulation by governments to get people to start spending more.

You just got to work intelligently. Take that extra step to not injure yourself while working on your equipment.

We came out in the first half and we knew that Buckeye could shoot the perimeter shot.

We had too many turnovers especially in the second half. You can't expect to beat that team with 19 turnovers.

When we're not standing at the three-point line, we're a pretty good team. The key for us was shot selection. Our shot selection was very good tonight.

We played a good 16 minutes and we played a bad 16 minutes. You can't play like that against a team like Buckeye. They're one of the hottest teams in the league.

The good news is, we're adding jobs. But at this rate, we won't get back all of the jobs we've lost since 2000 until at least the middle of next year.

Tonight we played the team that won the NCC. That is a good team. But we battled them down two starters. I am very proud of my kids.

The pitcher had an above-average split. He kept throwing it good and I was fortunate that he left one up and I was able to put it over the fence.

They are a good team right now. This Bucyrus team is pretty much up and down right now.

There wasn't a lot of emotion in the building. The guys just had to fight through it.

They're a good basketball team. We're two pretty evenly-matched teams.

It's a question of, at what point do you start to see a change in consumers' behavior.

That hurt, because we had a lot of sets that were going to Robby and Zach (Agee).

There's tons of guys out there that don't look forward to it the way this tournament should be looked forward to.

If you're going to chase Kyle, you have to be able to go one-on-one in the post. When Zach (Agee) plays well he's tough to stop. He really came to play tonight. He played solid and came to finish.

I like to come down here and go to the race, and you can go to the festival.

In practice, we really do well. This is an enjoyable team to coach in practice. But tonight we didn't show up. It's difficult to explain it.

He probably viewed those days as being done.

These are good numbers for the national economy. Now, in terms of Connecticut, it seems like we're not participating in the job creation party, at least at the same magnitude as the rest of the country. But companies are basically doing well and corporate profits are still strong, so we're getting to the point in Connecticut where companies will have to hire some people.

The first half is the way I saw the whole game going. We knew they were going to come out and play hard and they did.

It was a rivalry-revenge game for us. They beat us very badly on our field last year.

Jim Courier did a great job of showing the rest what is possible. He could only hit forehands, but almost every one could have been a winner. But Jim struggled when others learned to hit the ball just as hard. Many look at Andy Roddick as being a similar animal, and it could well be in a few years everybody hits the ball as hard as him.