Quotes by Beth Burns

“There is a great hunger within the program for earning respect from the campus and community and conference. When you look at any team, any program, the difference between good and great is usually between the ears. We need confidence. But you also have to prepare for the success youre going to have. You have to act like a winner. You have to walk like a winner. You have to dress like a winner. You have to carry yourself like a winner. Im a pretty straight shooter. You dont have to wonder what my thought process is.”

“Im older and wiser, and while patience is still a virtue most coaches lack, its obviously part of the equation,”

“We really felt coming in that having competition within our team would help make everybody play harder, ... It looks like a lot, but thats our goal. And just ask Coach Fisher – you get a sprained ankle, you get a sore throat. More than anything, we want to protect ourselves for the inevitable things that you hope wont occur but do.”

“We just didnt make shots. We hung in OK with it for a half. We werent fatigued. Frustration caused everybody to come away from what everybody does best.”

“Their offense is so good it gets you demoralized and changes your pace. We cannot afford to do things at that kind of pace.”

“Theyre a pick-your-poison type (of team). They play great offense (in the paint and on the perimeter). Theyre not the kind of team you want to zone, but I really felt we couldnt keep up with their movement.”

“I personally thought, by getting her a little closer to the hoop, shed rebound better, shed get more opportunities, shed get more double-doubles.”

“We miss a lot of shots, and you cant let that affect (the game). We miss a shot, we hang our head for a minute and theyre gone. That was the crux of it. I dont think we took poor shots. We took shots that were within the scheme of what we were doing. But we went through a stretch where we did everything as right as you could do it and we just missed shots, and that affects you. Whether it should or shouldnt, it does.”

“We really fought and scraped and finished the first half well, which we hadnt done of late. But the first few minutes of the second half – they were just too much.”

“I had great players when I was (at SDSU) before. Dont let any coach lie and tell you theyre brilliant. Dont let them make that up. We had great players, great guard play back then. But its a work in progress now.”