Shannon Brown Quotes

"I feel like it was meant for me to be in college. Not at all am I disappointed or mad at coming back. College is one of the most fun times of your life, and I'm having an excellent time at Champaign."

"Who knows what happened? But it happened, and now you've just got to come back and keep fighting. They're good players, they're going to bounce back out of it; all they've got to do is keep being aggressive. If you stop, you'll never get out of it."

"I feel like it was meant for me to be in college, ... Not at all am I disappointed or mad at coming back. College is one of the most fun times of your life, and I'm having an excellent time at Champaign."

"It was bad execution of offense."

"That was just emotion coming out. I don't know what to say. I was just trying to take the contact and get it off the backboard. The crowd was going crazy. They got me going."

"Right now, we really don't fear anybody, so the seeding doesn't mean that much."

"We didn't do what we had to do to get the job done. They did."

"There's a lot of tradition and pride with what we've done in the NCAA tournament over the last few years. We've been the type of program that looks forward to when the tournament comes around and everybody really starts paying attention to college basketball."

"I was self-conscious about it because I would get stares. I could not wear certain hairstyles. If I had a bad hair day, I could not wear it up because it would be out there for the world to see."

"Great kid, great character. He's super talented, obviously, but you throw in the character, and being a super kid, good leader, that's what sets him apart from a lot of people."

"It was a bad execution of our offense."

"Of all the goals we have, winning the conference is the first big one. We've just got to come out and play like we know how to play. If we do that, we can get four rings — the Big Ten, the Big Ten tournament, another Final Four and the national championship."

"It helps a lot. You won't get too excited, that high emotion where your blood flows too much, where you're throwing the ball away. You know how to keep your composure and just go out there, relax and play basketball."