E. O. Wilson Played Quotations

Nobody was real thrilled with their scores today. Renee expects better, Mara expects better, but we are 9-1 and we have some real tests coming up. I told them it's a win. It's one thing to play poorly and lose, but we played poorly and won, it just shows our overall strength.

I'd be a fool if I said I wasn't looking at the clock every couple of seconds. But we played really hard. I was just excited to be in this position. Obviously it hurts to lose, we're all sore losers. But they have five NBA players on their team, they were bigger than us at every spot.

I am really disappointed in how we played today. We have not been playing well lately and today was no different. Our goal for tomorrow is to come out and shoot the low round of the day. If we can do that, hopefully, we can make a move.

For us to be up 12 points when three years ago we couldn't have played in the same building as them, I wouldn't give that up for anything. I'm proud to wear this jersey.

He's a big kid; he covers a lot of ground. You have really got to work hard and you've got to score on rebounds and their defense did a good job of clearing the net. It's basically a dogfight every shot and rebound in there, and they played it well.

We've got to look at our mind-set, our demeanor and how we approach it. They are very capable players that have played numbers of games for years and have played well here. We have a problem with the performance, but not a problem with what guys can do.

Our kids played hard and stepped up. We practiced hard the last two weeks. It was one of those hard fought battles,

Our kids played hard, ... The ball just didn't bounce our way this week. We had some things happen that just kill you in a close ball game.

I think that would be nice. We have spent a lot of time together, played together a lot. It would be nice if he were the guy. If it works out, that would be outstanding.

Our pitching, we had too many walks. Defense made a couple errors that we can't afford to make but otherwise we played pretty well.

You just have to take the positives. We haven't played that bad. It was nice to get the first one. We didn't want to go home 0-7. We didn't want to go home 1-6 either.

We haven't been scoring consistently, so we wanted to be aggressive on defense and force the other team to make mistakes. We had excellent practices over the break, and we played unselfishly tonight.

Everyone stepped up and shot the ball, even those who don't usually shoot it. Everyone just played so well out there.

The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There were instruments of all sizes; some that were played while straddling, some that are carried, and some that were three-feet tall.

The team that played the best tonight did not win.

We should have played better in the first half. We just came out dead in the first quarter. We had no energy. Still, how did we lose that game?

Both teams made mistakes. Both teams played very hard and at the end, the ball didn't bounce our way.

They've been in the NCAA tournament and played deep into the NCAA tournament. We did not take those guys lightly; we just did not get the job done.

This game was big for us. If we had lost this, we'd have a very close league race on our hands. Everybody just played their hearts out.

It's time for us to grow up as a team. I don't think we've handled success as well as we've handled adversity. Every time we've come off a bad loss, we've played well the next game. It's important for us to learn how to build off big wins.

He stood in our end and watched his guy score after like three guys had blocked shots, ... I just said, 'That's enough.' He'd seemed indifferent and I had to grab his attention. He needed to be kicked in the butt and he got it. He got some pressure from his teammates to back up the stuff I was saying, and to his credit, he's played hard ever since. And that's including practice, which is important, too.

There used to be a group of seven of us that played every day. Four have died. Hiram Brooks, Ivo and I are left from that group, but Hiram has arthritis problems.

It's definitely half-full. I'm not happy with the way we played in the first half of the game. But we took control, had a number of scoring opportunities. Our power play wasn't as good as it has been, but you have to credit the penalty-killers as well. They did a great job.

The girls played hard. It was a well fought game.

At first we played a little scared. In the second half, we had nothing to lose. We wanted to play with our hearts and finish strong. To battle them and not give up.

This is the usually the first tournament where most of the teams will have their full rosters with their high school players. Clinton had a tournament last weekend that some of the clubs played in, but this is the first real big one.