Quotes by Greg Nossaman

“It says a lot about the level of basketball being played in the area. Mansfield Senior is in the top 10 in the state in wins. There is some very good basketball played in this part of the state.”

“When you look at Mansfield Senior, theyre deeper than we are. The difference is we are a little bigger. They sub speed for speed.”

“There have been a lot of great coaches and players come through the program and Im proud to have been a part of the 1,000th win. To be one of the 30 or 40 programs in the state to have 1,000 wins is a great honor.”

“Its a historic rivalry. When you look at the history of the league, Willard has 24 (boys basketball) championships and Bellevue has 17 and everyone else is in single-digits.”

“Theyre probably on the locker room floor right now because theyre spent.”

“We were playing for No. 30 tonight. That was our motivation. Hes a three-year starter and hes been denied half his senior year.”

“I know Jon had 38 points and they had 73 points, but I thought we played great defense. It was a great team effort.”

“That was good stuff. It was a great crowd and thats what high school basketball is all about.”

“In a 32-minute high school game, Ill usually give them 28 minutes. Thats the middle of the fourth quarter. If the other coach waives the white flag and pulls his starters at the beginning of the third quarter, Ill do the same.”

“Its a 32-minute game. The kids are starting to realize its been nip and tuck for us in the first half of a lot of our games lately. Then Jimmy caught fire and scored almost half of our points.”

“A few fouls, a few injuries, we played a lot of kids. We played 14 kids and 12 of them scored.”

“What a great high school basketball game. Youve got over 3,000 people here, you have the two Northwest District Players of the Year, what more could you ask for?”

“Im very proud of my team, were 23-0.”

“I coached Scotts brother in college. Hes done a great job up there in his first year.”

“This team has some pretty good chemistry. Theyve faced some adversity and they keep plugging along.”

“Weve had him on a stationary bike and hes been shooting around, but he hasnt been practicing with us.”

“I think these seven seniors are on a mission. I know our kids will be ready to go.”

“Everybody in town is talking about it, No. 1 and No. 2. But I told the kids at practice on Monday were not talking about it, and were not going to talk about it until Thursday at 9 p.m. If were fortunate enough to win this game, then we can talk about it as soon as they want.”

“Weve had some good players, but weve had a lot of good role players to go along with them.”

“We dont have guys go to college to play ball. We have good athletes who buy into what were doing and play hard. You have a couple good players and a bunch of guys that accept their roles, you can have a pretty good team every year.”