Steve Alford Players Quotations

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed by their home crowd.

I don't think it's ever a good thing when coaches or players get booed from the home crowd, that's never something that is positive. As far as me getting cheers, that's happened for a long time there...that's my alma mater, that's where I played, I won a national championship there.

That first group of Manchester players allowed me to enjoy coaching at a very young age that motivated me to do it. If it wasn't good, I might have made a career change.

Jeff can get going. Jeff's a very good player. And when good players get going, they're hard to stop.

I think the majority of the players who leave early aren't successful. You have more failure stories than success stories with that, but that's the nature of our game right now.

The pros may have figured out how to keep people from the floor, but they haven't figured out how to keep players from the stands. The student body is still the most important thing about the college game.

When good players get going, they are hard to stop, and Jeff is a good player. He got going and it was hard for them to stop him just like it was hard for us to stop Vincent.

When good players get going, they're hard to stop, and Jeff's a good player.

We're losing five really good seniors. They've been absolutely perfect leaders. They've left a lot for the returning players to work with.

You've got two guys that have probably done more for Illinois basketball than anybody in the history of the program. That says a lot, because there have been some great players here.

There's no question I don't think it's a very good thing when coaches or players get booed by the home crowd. That's never something that's positive.

I'm glad we got a day for the players to enjoy what they did last weekend. We made sure they enjoyed it. But this (the NCAA tournament) is what you play for.

They've really developed some toughness. The players get it done between the lines.