Mike Quarto Quotations

If we come out and play the first four minutes like that on Saturday, or anytime in the state tournament, it's going to be a much closer game. Against good teams you can't miss easy baskets like that, and our kids know it.

If we play like that at any other point in the tournament, it's going to be a much closer game. Against good teams, you can't miss easy baskets like that.

She's a great defensive player with great natural ability. She handles the ball and sees the court well. Her shooting is what she needs to work on.

She's the most complete player in the county. She'll post you up at guard, she'll beat you on the perimeter. She's very polished for her age.

I don't think we made one jump shot outside the key. You don't have to make a lot of outside shots, but you've got to make enough that they can keep playing honest.

We got caught up on a switch, and we shouldn't have switched. And it went from a 17-point to a 14-point lead, just because we didn't recognize who the shooter was.

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

I've only been coaching 10 years total, but I know you don't get a group like this very often.

I'm kind of limited in what I can do. I only kept seven girls on varsity, so I'm always going to have some starters in the game. We don't have a lot of flexibility with our schedule, so we're going to have some games where there's going to be a mismatch.

In this type of game, when it's played like that in the first half - and probably in the district and region - if we forget about a good shooter, it could cost us down the line in a tight ballgame.

It's probably the most quiet 1,000 points you're going to see. She plays on a team with a lot of girls who can score. Most times in women's basketball when you see a 1,000-point scorer it's usually someone who shoots the ball all the time.

They could probably run for days. I mean, they're that athletic. I think we just sustained it. Once they didn't get any easy baskets inside against us, we were able to get to the free throw line against them and put it away.

It's an all-star game; it's guard-oriented, so she didn't get the ball much. But she played great defensively and did our school proud.

The enthusiasm from the faculty members and student body has been great. I've gotten 10 or 12 e-mails from alumni going as far back as 1982 wishing us good luck.

It's a really neat atmosphere around school. Everybody's excited. The administration has been so supportive. I'm getting e-mails from alumni who graduated as far back as 1982.

That's the first time we've seen man-to-man since December. Everyone else has played us in a zone. It took us a while to get used to it, but we did a good job once we got a few easy baskets.

It's nice to have (a home win streak). It's always nice to know you're taking care of your own backyard.

We're going to try to make it a 94-foot-by-50-foot game.

It wasn't what we were looking for. It wasn't what we wanted.

They're on top of the world right now. Tonight we're gonna enjoy it, come back and get ready to go back to work on our next opponent.

Being on a team as good as they were this year, going 29-2 and to the region final, really got some people to open their eyes up.