Quotes by John Jay

“Those who own the country ought to govern it.”

“I was pretty comfortable with how those guys were defending, and I thought we had pretty good ball movement. I didnt need to experiment or try anything else. I had great confidence in that group. I didnt start the game like I was going to play seven. Somewhere in there I said to myself Im only playing seven.”

“Ive never seen them shoot that well. They shot us right out of the fight.”

“Ryan Appleby just blew us up in the second half.”

“I was embarrassed after the Cal game. Im not happy how the score ended up tonight, but its different. The first half, we battled and fought. In the second half they just went on and blew us out, so its different.”

“The issue that has evolved recently is, from a perimeter standpoint ... the attack of the teams against us has really gone after the fact that were small at the one and the two. Thats what Ive noticed from watching the tape, what has really become clear.”

“What Jordan does like any great point guard is the ability to have vision and control from sideline to sideline, as well as end line to end line. Its a talent that makes a good point guard a great point guard.”

“They demonstrated why they are two of the elite guards in the country.”

“In all my years of coaching, Ive never had a team with just one free throw. For us to be successful, we have to get to the free throw line.”

It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile, wide-spreading country was the portion of our western sons of liberty. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions, and watered it with innumerable streams, for the delight and accommodation of its inhabitants. A succession of navigable waters form a kind of chain round its borders, as if to bind them together; while the most noble rivers in the world, running at convenient distances, present them with highways for the easy communication of friendly aids, and the mutual transportation of their various ties. With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give us this one connected country to one united people -a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by they their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence.

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.