Lee Humphrey Quotations

My teammates did a great job of moving the ball around, and I got some good looks off kick-outs from inside and in transition. We wanted to go inside-out.

I would have given you a strange look.

Maybe just an old high school gym where we left the door open.

Peyton Manning was like my childhood hero. To get my picture taken with him, that really surprised me.

I don't know about that. I don't know if he can take any tips from me. We play two different sports.

I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was to make the national championship game and win a national championship and for us to do that we were going to have to beat George Mason.

I did feel good shooting the ball in the second half. I definitely felt like my shot felt good.

I did notice the breeze, but I didn't really adjust the shot. I don't think it was strong enough to have an effect. I don't think it was like playing outside in the park on a windy day.

I can't imagine what it would be like if we (win).

I felt good. ... I got some good looks.

I felt good the whole night shooting the ball. Coach always does a great job of telling me to keep shooting and instilling confidence in me.

I felt good the whole night shooting the ball. (Head coach Billy Donovan) always does a great job of telling me of instilling confidence in me, showing that the team has confidence in me as well.

I felt good the whole night shooting the ball. I definitely felt like my shot felt good.

I felt good tonight. My teammates did a good job of moving the ball around. I got some good looks.

I felt good tonight. My teammates were really moving the ball around and they did a good job of finding me for the open shot.

He's performed well in some big games in his time, too. I don't know if he can take any tips from me. We play two different games.

He's playing better and better. He's doing a lot of things that he has done in the past in pickup games and stuff like that. In the summer, we got to see him handle the ball quite a bit. It's really carrying over. A lot of the stuff he's worked on all year, we're starting to see in games.

He's playing loose. He's playing really good. He's playing probably the best I've ever seen him play.

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

I am anxious to see how this team plays in the conference. That is when you really find out how good you are.

My parents always kind of instilled in me that grades are important. You need to take care of your school work and you need to do that first, and that's kind of what they taught me.

My shoulder is actually still pretty sore, but it doesn't affect my shooting as much as my defense. You have to go out there and play like nothing is bothering you. If you don't, you are not going to play as well.

Some of our students have said they would be willing to walk to see us play. I believe them because we get such good fan support. I'm looking forward to it because it's always good to play in front of a home crowd.

People always question our league because of football.

I think Kentucky has played a pretty tough schedule this year. They have a lot of talent on their team. Even though they haven't had a great year, I still think they'll make it to the NCAA tournament and play hard.

It definitely makes it tough if we are both hitting on the same night. It opens up the offense and helps the big guys as well.

Road trips are pretty much the same. Coach keeps a tight rein on us. We never leave the hotel. Every game this whole year we've prepared for the same way as we have these tournament games. We watch film on every team, watch film at every meal and have a shoot-around. Coach does a good job. That's probably why he does it early on.

Our biggest strength as a team is that we have a lot of guys who can score.

Our big guys are playing great right now. They're doing a really good job of getting post position early and getting good looks. I know Chris and Al and Jo, I guess they're all shooting real high (percentages). Any time our big guys can score like that it helps out the perimeter.

Our big guys did a good job of breaking the press and getting into the paint. I got a couple off our big guys inside.

Our big guys did a great job of kicking back out. I think we did a better job in the second half of using pick-and-rolls and paying attention to what Coach told us.

I think our biggest strength as a team, offensively, is we have a lot of guys who can score. Our team is very unselfish, and we generally have a high number of assists and pass the ball. I think for us to be successful, we need to do that again.

I think guys are probably more concerned this week about celebrating and getting back to schoolwork. But I think that everyone wants to come back.

I think he needs to come out and give me some pointers the way he was shooting it.

I think we are a lot better team now than we were at the beginning of the year. I think we still have room to improve, but I think these last six games are going to be big for us. It's going to be interesting to see how we do.

I think you just have to get used to it. You try to get as many shots in warm-ups and shoot-around the day before. When the game starts, you don't really think about the background. You focus on the basket, what you need to do to help your team win.

It always looks like he's on a downhill slope. I don't know what else to say. It's a sight to see.

I think it definitely couldn't have hurt. Both of these gyms are really similar.

I think it kind of lifted our team up and we fed off his energy.

I think it may be just coincidence, I don't know. I put up a lot of shots, and I think that I have a good chance to make every one. It just happened that I made the ones (that were huge). I just hope I've got a few of those left.

I think it's good that coach is keeping us focused, making sure we're not doing anything that we shouldn't be doing to take any energy away from us.

I think we might have answered some questions. We played hard and we played well and we got the win over a very good team.

We'll find that out in the next few days.

We don't talk a whole lot about going undefeated for the season. We do say that we want to keep that zero in the loss column, the longer, the better.

We've got some time to rest up. I think we'll be fine.

We had worked against the zone. But we didn't move the ball nearly as well as in the past.

We prepared well. This is probably the best we've played the whole tournament.

We definitely remember those two losses. So any time you get a chance to get a win against a team that beat you twice, especially in a championship game, that would be nice.

We knew we had to keep working in the second 20 minutes. We just kept working and working.

We're aware Florida hasn't made it out of the first weekend. But we are also aware that this is a new team, and this is a different team.

We're aware Florida hasn't made it out of the first weekend in a few years, but we're also aware this is a new year. This year is not determined by what happened last year. We've got a different-looking team than we've had in the past. We've got a chance to make a run this year.

We still we have a chance. It's not totally in our control, but there is still a chance and I think our guys are pretty confident. We've just got to play and take care of our wins and losses and see what happens.

I've been shooting it a little better in practice the last couple of weeks.

I've practiced my free throws, but I just don't know what it is. You don't take a whole lot of them at this time of year. There's not much time to practice. I just don't know.

It was very exciting for me to meet Peyton. I don't know how much that translated into the game today, but I was shooting it well.

We saw the White House from the outside, but to actually be able to go inside and meet the president was pretty neat.

We all lifted before practice, and everybody had a great attitude. On the court, everybody was on edge. Our drills were crisp. There were hardly any errors.

South Carolina really burned us from the three-point line. We went into practice the next day and coach really stressed the three-point line and what a game changer it can be.

South Carolina really burned us. It was stressed the next day in practice. We wanted to get them running up and down the court and not get into their offense.

Coach always does a great job of instilling confidence in me.

Coach Donovan told me at halftime to keep shooting.

Coach has a good personality. We're with him a lot. We get to see all the different sides of him. He is intense especially at practice, but he is good at coming up with some quick comments to throw out at us. He is a fun guy to be around, on and off the court. He's not always business.

Coach is really good about showing us what we need to do. He had been showing us that stuff for awhile. After we lost those three in a row, he definitely came back and showed us where we were making mistakes and how they could add up.

That one felt really good. I thought I had some good looks and just wasn't knocking them down. I was just happy to be able to get one to fall and to be able to contribute.

That's not a lineup that we've played with a whole lot during the year. But we kept the lead. That's what we wanted.

That's happened to some teams this year, too. Texas was ranked No. 2, and they lost to Tennessee. But we just need to focus on what we need to focus on. We know that every game we play, whoever we play, they have a chance to beat us, especially from this point on in the year.

That's just Jo. I don't think he's hurt or anything.

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

They've been doing it the entire year. I think just now it's kind of out in the open. They've both made strides. I think as the year has gone on, they've gotten better and better and I think you're seeing the skill they really have.

They've got a lot of length, their big guys are really athletic.

Your left hand is still pretty important. Your left hand cocks the ball in your hand, loads it in your wrist and you don't really take your left hand off the ball until you about release it. So you still have to have pretty good range of motion on your left hand.

This is big, having the last four out of six games on the road. It'll be interesting to see how we do with that long stretch away from home. We want to finish strong.

This is a new year, and a different team. We're looking forward to making a run.

I'm sure South Carolina is going to come out playing hard tomorrow. They have a chance to get an NCAA tournament bid and win an SEC championship. I don't know how much fatigue will be a factor.

Not since high school when we might play with all the gym doors open.

Everybody on this team works hard, but nobody's going to outwork Corey.

It's pretty interesting listening to him talk about all the places he's from. I mean Joe is about the only guy I've ever known who is from Africa and France and New York City. He's got some roots.

It's probably because of my country accent and because I study quite a bit. My head is always in some textbook.

I probably should have pump-faked and jumped into him. But I didn't. I shot it. He put it right back in my face and I ended up on the ground. That's how hard he blocked it.

I didn't know that. Maybe we'll do as well as that team did.

I don't know if I can put a percentage on it. It's tough to say. Some days are a little better than other days. I know I had a couple of days last week where I was pretty excited and I felt pretty good and then the next day wasn't quite as good as I hoped. I think I've been pretty happy with the progress that we've made so far. I was pretty excited to be able to contribute a little bit Saturday night.

He's really focused and really intense. He prepares for games really well. He has a tremendous work ethic. He does his homework, so as a player that shows you that you need to work on your game to improve.

I don't know if there is one particular moment that I can pin my finger on. But over the summer when we were playing pick-up, he definitely looked good, and I thought he was going to be very good because he's so talented for his size. He's got great hands. He runs the floor so well, and I think that's probably his biggest asset.

I don't know (how anyone will). The way they've been playing, they're tough to stop. They play so well together. They understand the game and they know their strengths. They're just tenacious.

He's the leader on the floor for us. He pretty much plays all the minutes at point. Him on the floor, he gets us in our offense well. He doesn't have to be scoring for us to play well.

The two teams are at different points. We needed those wins pretty bad (in 2004).

They'll come over to the hotel, but we don't get a chance to spend a lot of time with them. We don't leave the hotel to see them. They come to see us and we get to bed early.

They went to a zone after we made our run in the first half, and we really struggled.

It was one of our goals coming into the tournament, trying to win a national championship. We've got the opportunity to give it a try, and I can't imagine what it would be like if we actually do.

It was probably in high school when I started becoming a 3-point shooter. Believe it or not I used to like to penetrate more.

It was probably one of the best games I've played in college.

It was nice to knock down the first couple shots. The guys did a nice job finding me open.

A lot of my friends called from home. I got it pretty good.

It's always important when you can make shots.

It's not quite as sore as I thought it was going to be after the game, so that's a good thing.

It's not quite like the O-Dome. There's a lot of space behind the basket in both of them. But once you get on the floor, you forget it.

It might be the most unique place to play that I've been in. The benches are on the baseline and the courts are elevated, so the first two rows of fans, their heads are about even with the floor, and there's a lot of space between the sidelines and the area where you check in. And they have poles that come out from the side of the goals, so that makes it very unique.

It's a little frustrating when you're not putting up points. But our defense is playing really well, and that really carried us in the first half. We did a bad job of going inside in the first half. We took a lot of quick shots. I think that's one of the reasons we didn't score much.

It's a great way to describe how we need to do things. We need to come every game like we have something to prove.

It's still not 100 percent, but I think I feed off the crowd and the adrenaline.