Bruce Pearl Quotes


59 quotes:

"We deserved victory. It wasn't like we had to get hit in the mouth to start playing. We were ready to play, and we had to play well."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Victory Quotes
"These guys, all year long, played every game trying to prove that they were better than what they had been playing. ... And we have to recapture that now."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Trying Quotes
"How big was Bradshaw? Dane makes a couple of 3s. And playing with foul trouble, and once again doesn't have a turnover. That's like four or five games in a row. He doesn't turn the ball over. Just super-solid."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Trouble Quotes
"Absolutely. There's a different set of rules for him than anybody else on the team."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Rules Quotes
"You weren't recruited at that high major level, you don't travel the way (power conferences) travel, you're not on television as much."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Power Quotes
"I can't worry about what their tournament record was in the past. To me, that doesn't have a lot to do with this team."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Past Quotes
"We will win more championships during my time here. We've won championships in the past. This one is going to be significant and it's going to be special because it was so unexpected and accomplished with a lot of obstacles and a lot to overcome. That said that's about all the reflecting I'm going to do on it because we have a lot of basketball to play."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Past Quotes
"He plays so hard and plays with guts and passion, and he's the kind of guy you'd like to have on your team, but hate to play against. I think it's a combination of respect, admiration and good fun."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Passion Quotes
"I just think the opportunity to be on the road to the Final Four, to have the opportunity to be there for one shining moment, those are all the things we've got to push. We've got to try to get our identity back and playing a team out of conference that's not played us for the second or third time will be a positive. Ready or not, here it comes."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Opportunity Quotes
"I've been talking to this team all year about seeding. A good seed gives you a better opportunity to advance."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Opportunity Quotes
"I think back in the fall if you'd given me an opportunity to come into this Monday morning press conference as SEC East champions having just lost to Arkansas on Saturday and asked if I'd have taken it, I think I probably would have taken it, so I'm absolutely positively not going to beat my team up today because they don't deserve it."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Opportunity Quotes
"I told every kid I'm recruiting to make sure they're watching (last night) on CBS. Phillip wears the same color shirt as I do. We're on the same team."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Night Quotes
"I am very disappointed in these young men. Our players need to take their responsibility for being a role model seriously, and if they don't act responsibly they won't be playing at Tennessee."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"We'll be back. I'm very, very proud of these young men. I can't tell you how many people have written or called and said how much they enjoyed this basketball team. This Tennessee basketball team will go down as one of the all-time best, and this was the group that got it started."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Men Quotes
"Lofton did more than just get back on track. Lofton was the man. He got ready to play. He had that look in him, and Florida saw that look. National television and everybody saw that look."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Man Quotes
"March Madness has begun and we are very pleased to have won and advanced. I know this would have been hard for you (the media) to have not characterized it as an upset if we gotten beat, but we beat a very good basketball team. We played well. It was all we could do to win."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Madness Quotes
"A big part of March madness is that there are going to be upsets. If Winthrop looks at the No. 2 seeds, they would be thankful they're playing Tennessee instead of some other two-seed."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Madness Quotes
"I've worked my whole life to get to a place like Tennessee."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Life Quotes
"They're the kind of team that could make some noise in the NCAA Tournament. We were playing for a (league) championship today, but they were playing for the (NCAA) tournament. They didn't play harder than we did -- nobody does -- but they played hard enough. I thought they wore us down with their offensive execution."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Kindness Quotes
"We're going to be in close games all the time down the stretch. We're not going to run anybody off the floor."
Author: Pearl Quotes Category: Games Quotes

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