Marcus Williams Quotes

"To be honest, at the beginning of the year, in Maui, I tried to force the issue with scoring. Coach (Olson) basically said to play within the offense, get open shots. So I bought into that. I've grown a lot. I've seen a lot of improvement in my game."

"It's good to be home. Maybe we can feed off our crowd's energy."

"I have to sit down with coach (Jim Calhoun) and sit down with my family. I'm still just thinking about the game. I've just been focusing on game after game, not thinking about the future."

"We really wanted this game."

"I saw part of that game, where the guy hit him in the groin. I saw that game. Hope he don?t hit me!"

"We just did a great job. The locker room hasn't been like this in I don't know how long. Our confidence is back now."

"Kirk came in and was great on the boards. He made shots. He was a good sixth man off the bench. He definitely helped me out (being in foul trouble)."

"The only thing that was on my mind was D.C."

"When we play, a lot of times we kick our own butt and make a lot of mistakes. I think maybe it comes down to stops, maybe it comes down to executing offense. But I think when we're playing our best, no one can beat us."

"When you prepare hard, luck comes to you."

"Coach mixed up the teams today and gave me an opportunity to go out there and start playing again with my teammates."

"I had a feeling it was going in because he had been hitting everything all night. I was like, 'another overtime.' At least we had another chance to win."

"You can tell. He'll smile on the court. It's a kind of swagger."

"We just really shared the ball and played Arizona basketball out there. We got out and put points on the board."

"I'm glad coach has a lot of confidence in me. When he brought me to the program, he sat me down and said he expected a lot of things out of me as far as making an impact early, so definitely, that was one of my biggest reasons for choosing Arizona."

"Coach hasn't talked about it at all. But I think I've seen the shot."

"There was no doubt in my mind the whole game; I thought we were going to win. Once again, after that shot, we were in a similar situation. This is a team I thought would get to the national championship."

"There was no doubt in my mind the whole game that we were going to win."

"There was no doubt in my mind the whole game I thought we were going to win. I mean, why play if you think you're going to go out there and not win a game?"

"Staying poised. That's what really won us the game. Also determination in the second half."