Tommy Bowden Team Quotations

Bear Bryant made the statement that it's better to be lucky than good, and I think you have to be lucky. We weren't lucky. That's one thing about this year's team - we never, ever gave up.

I think the most important thing for our team right now is that we have got to find a way to make one more play.

I think the team right now has the mentality that if we play hard for 60 minutes, something can happen to swing it our way. That's hard to instill in a team.

This team has developed an identity and I think that demeanor has been good over the open date. As the head coach, I have to make sure that I don't flinch and sit here and try to change a lot of things because obviously we are pretty close. We have to find a way to make one more play.

This is probably the smartest team I've ever coached in regard to penalties.

There's another level this team needs to get to from a hitting and toughness standpoint.

It was something where you wanted to milk the clock as much as you can. They were out of timeouts, but we still needed first downs to keep the ball out of their hands. It was a time where you worry about having your team buckle, but giving it to James made it easy.

It was a time where you worry about having your team buckle, but giving it to James made it easy.

I told the team we had a chance to finish it at the end. But I'm proud we didn't quit.