"She took our last loss very hard. But her numbers did not project the heart she played with. She knows that she's going to do better."

"I want for our underclassmen to look at what hard work does and how it pays off."

"You are always happy to take the 'W' any way you can get it. The one thing that I like about this team is that they do a good job of fighting back. The one thing that I don't like about this team is that they find themselves in a position to where they have to fight back."

"I take full responsibility for that. The amount of legs that we used in the Mississippi State game and maybe pressing as hard as we did coming out against Kentucky ... I don't think we had the energy."

"It's been proven in this conference that anybody can beat anybody on any given night. It is the best women's conference in the country. There's no day to rest, no matter who you're playing on Sunday."

"We've been kind of squeezed in the middle there. For the women's game to have its own night gives the media time to give it sufficient coverage."

"I think that we've proven that on any given night, we can make a great competition and that gives our team a lot of confidence."

"I have to compliment my team because they kept their composure when our outside shots weren't falling. They did what they needed to do to get the win. We're thrilled to have the opportunity to go back to the hotel tonight and prepare for Kentucky and not have to pack our bags."

"The first two minutes of the second half were key to taking control of the game."

"We continue to learn that lesson. In order to win in the SEC, you've got to control the boards."

"I have a great deal of respect for coach Flanagan and his program. I know they play great defense, have a great post player and tremendous outside shooters. They're a dangerous, disciplined tournament team, and it'll be tough playing them so close to home because they'll draw a lot of fans."

"We corrected a big no-no from the Georgia game in taking care of the basketball."

"I've got four senior starters who remember playing against New Mexico and know it's going to take disciplined basketball to beat them, but I don't really have any one star who will take over that game."

"They're going to be highly remembered, probably the most remembered, because it's really the first class that's been through with me in coaching for four solid years. When you look at where they've started and where they've come, I'm proud of them."

My team gave me a great birthday present. They are a special group. They came out with a lot of heart.

I don't know any other way I would have rather spent my birthday. These kids are really special.

"We have our strengths and we have our weaknesses. Auburn took advantage."

"In watching her with her AAU team, she had the ability to score away from the basket as well as underneath. One of the biggest things is her nose for the ball. Rebounding is something that just comes natural for her. She has great timing. She's a quick jumper, and she plays hard."

"I had no doubt she would be successful."

"They understand the focus, and I think that focus is something you can only learn through experience. It's about March magic and the players who have that belief are going to be on the teams that advance."

"I think now our seniors have that same opportunity to share (their 2004 NCAA Tournament) experience with these freshmen."

"There's a reason why they had been moved up to No. 1 in the country [last season], and now they're still vying for that spot."

"Teams are playing on passion and emotion and they really turn up their focus. That's what makes (for) such great games when you get to the SEC Tournament."

"I think we've finally figured out how to play 40 minutes of great basketball."

"I think she's a ball player. She does a good job of using her body to get positions. She also sees the floor very well, and I think she's one of our better passers in the post position."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."

"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."

"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

"Nonetheless, it moves."

"And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others? When people devoid of whatsoever competence are made judges over experts and are granted authority to treat them as they please? These are the novelties which are apt to bring about the ruin of commonwealths and the subversion of the state."

"Knowing thyself, that is the greatest wisdom."

"Nothing occurs contrary to nature except the impossible, and that never occurs."

"The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens."

"If you could see the earth "illuminated "when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon."

"You may force me to say what you wish; you may revile me for saying what I do. But it moves."

"Where the senses fail us, reason must step in."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not."

"Two truths cannot contradict one another."

"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them."

"Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new."

"Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky."

"It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture cannot err, and that the decrees therein contained are absolutely true and inviolable. But I should have in your place added that, though Scripture cannot err, its expounders and interpreters are liable to err in many ways; and one error in particular would be most grave and most frequent, if we always stopped short at the literal signification of the words."

"You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself."

"Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols, in which it is written"

"The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing."

"In the long run my observations have convinced me that some men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person who has their entire confidence, impresses them so deeply that one finds it impossible ever to get it out of their heads."

"God is known by nature in his works, and by doctrine in his revealed word."