Clint Johnson Quotations

I grew up with Wayne's father. We played against each other on the playground.

I don't remember. Probably had something to do with girls.

If we played on Friday night then on Saturday morning we'd get together at coach's house. His wife would make us breakfast and we'd watch film. I don't think anyone had done that before. Beta had just come out.

My role changed. I was the play-maker again. In college I usually had the toughest defensive assignments. I was back to scoring 20 points a game so it was fun.

I was the first to go four years of playing varsity basketball. That's what it comes down to.

I was the only returning starter. We just didn't have the players top to bottom that we had before, and we ran into some good teams.

Kemper Arena was brand new my senior year. It was an awesome experience because you can see everybody play and get to talk to them. I really enjoyed that. It's really too bad they don't do that anymore.

I think it's when you grow up near a place like that and you have an opportunity to go there, how could you not?

It appears that the westbound aircraft apparently saw the other aircraft at the last moment, tried to avoid the collision, but unfortunately that didn't work.

We were blessed with a couple of very good witnesses who saw if from start to finish.

At this point right now, we're still putting the details together.

The word was that I was going to be drafted by Golden State. But that just didn't happen. So I tried out for a free agent team which I made.

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

We had some tough times those couple years. Then finally we put it all together once again. That was great because it was hard to take those next two years.

Against Notre Dame, we had just gotten through playing our league and had gotten used to that clock. They went to a four-corner offense. Four guys would spread out to about the out-of-bounds line and one guy would get the ball in the middle and dribble around and pass or drive to the basket or shoot.

The few years leading up to that season hadn't been that good. It was a turn-around year. We had good team chemistry. There was a whole new attitude with the new coach.

I really enjoyed that. It had been so long. It was 27 years. There were some players from Leavenworth that played football there but not basketball.

I looked around and there were about 2,000,000 other guys there it seemed. So I said yes.

I don't know how many teams have the H-3 any more. But under him it was hustle, hustle, hustle. It was also about that time when the saying 'Be a Pioneer, be a champion' came out. And the community started getting involved more too.

After my junior year coach Zacher came to me and said 'I was talking to the coaches at KU and they said they were interested in you.

It reminded me of my senior year at Leavenworth. I was the go-to-guy there too.

That's something very special to me. I remember one game they announced the player ahead of me and the crowd just exploded. I swear I moved a foot on the bench.

The year before I got there, KU was in the final four. At that time there were only 32 teams in the tournament. So you had to be one of the best to get in. It wasn't like today where the no. 1 seed plays a 16 seed that barely had a .500 season.

We just had a lot of good athletes at the time. We won league in just about everything. It was one of those time periods where top to bottom, senior class to sophomore, there were a lot of good athletes.