Quotes by Al Harrington

“Its almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace for the impact but you know you cant. How do you tell somebody theyre going to get run over by a truck when they see it coming too but cant get out of the way?”

“Thats nonsense, and its not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anything. Never. He was a true professional in every sense, and he understood, like we all do, that a coach is like a parent in a lot of ways. Theyre on your case one minute, but at the end of the day, were still a family no matter what.”

“I got the call when I was getting into my car. I cant (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as soon as I got in the car. Then I called my mom. When you realize youre never going to see somebody again, it hits you. Well never see him again.”

“I dont think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a family. We lost a brother. The only consolation we have is that he left us making sure no one can ever say a bad thing about him, because Jason was such a good person.”

“When youre a bad team, you dont get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media knows it, and we were a casualty of that tonight. We played as hard as they did. We deserved that one as much as they did.”

“Im sure he is from everything I hear, but Ive got to wait until that happens.”

“When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isnt involved. When they do shoot, theyre ice cold, so that worked in our favor.”

“We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively. We had the lead once again and they turned it up a little bit, but we went the other way.”

“We took a couple steps backwards. The last couple of games we were focused in the fourth quarter and pretty much could get the job done. Tonight, we didnt do that.”