Creighton Quotes

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening. - Creighton Abrams

You look at a team like Creighton which has struggled with injuries and things like that, but they still have a roster of veteran ballplayers. For us to be as young as we are and finally be able to show some poise during their runs and execute down the stretch, it says a lot about how far our team has come in the last month. - Robin Pingeton

Winning the award ... has opened up so much with scholarships and pointed me in the right direction. - Creighton Boyd

While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it. - Creighton W. Abrams, Jr.

When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. - Creighton Abrams

When Creighton smacked us at home, and I told them we were 12th in the league in field-goal percentage defense again, it was like the light switch went on. They all realized we've got to buckle down and play some defense or we're going nowhere. - Jim Larranaga

What it will do is it's going to put us in some tough positions. And it's probably not going to allow us to break through and be that team that I think we can be on the road in those tough games. ... If you just let teams get second shots on you, it really wears against you. Especially in the Creighton game, if you look at one thing that hurt us, that really hurt us badly. - Sean Miller

We're keeping coaches in place. Dana Altman sets the example. He understands you can accomplish just as much at Creighton as you can at Big State U. His program has been in postseason play for eight consecutive seasons. And kids in the Midwest see Valley schools playing in sold-out arenas, taking on the best teams in the nation, and getting more television exposure. It's coming together for us. We're having a bunch of programs mature at the same time. - Doug Elgin

We were having trouble with the transition, but we cleaned it up at the half. I really think we came out in the second half and did the same thing we were doing in the first. We just started finishing, and we possessed the ball a lot better. - Jimmy Creighton

We lost a game but we stayed in the rankings because our league is so good. Obviously, people understand how good Creighton is and know that a loss at Creighton isn't the end of the world. - Greg McDermott