Quotes by Nyla Milleson

“Youre always concerned about how youre going to come out (at the start of a game). You cant always control if the ball goes in or not, but you can control your defensive effort.”

“Hopefully weve blown the cobwebs of travel and all the other things involved with coming off the Christmas break away. It wasnt the prettiest (victory), but I was real proud of our kids. I thought everybody got an opportunity to get in, thought everybody was able to contribute.”

“We had a little heart-to-heart talk, a little soul searching at halftime. Then I thought we came out and played the way this team is capable of playing. We got after it defensively, had some good ball movement and, most important, we had some energy.”

“It was an ugly win. But it goes in the win column. You dont put ugly in the win column, you put wins.”

“In the end, its all about relationships. Its the favorite part of my job.”

“Who could imagine the journey these seniors have taken us on? I can barely find the words to describe them.”

“We knew they were going to be tough here, and this game would be nothing like the one at our place in December. We knew they would be fired up and we were going to get their best shot, and we did.”

“Its really a tribute, first of all, to our seniors for stepping up and meeting a new challenge. And then, too, to our whole team, because we had different people step up and carry us on different nights.”

“We are excited about this opportunity. Its going to be a new challenge ? trying to win three games in four days.”

“It would have been a long bus ride home. You have to have some luck to win big games and 99 percent of this win was pure luck. We dodged one.”