Wake Forest Athletics
Men's Basketball Quotes
3/20/2003 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 20, 2003
TAMPA, Fla. - Wake Forest Head Coach Skip Prosser
On building confidence of Eric Williams: You're sort of impaled on the horns of a dilemma there. You want them to understand that we need them to be out there, and our best chance for advancing in the tournament is to have an inside presence, and they're the most obvious component of that inside presence, without putting pressure on him to do this and this for us to be successful.
On Iraq: Tuesday at practice, following President Bush's address to the nation, we spoke of two things. One, Skip Lepore, one of our players, his brother is a Naval Academy graduate who is serving overseas. We prayed for him as well as the fact that our players have all gone to class with, been in the high school cafeterias with, and possibly played on a high school basketball team with someone of similar age who is now perhaps in the theater of operations in harm's way. The undertaking that we're embarking on pales by comparison to what's going on half a world away.
On Tim Smith, ETSU: Quickness trumps everything in basketball, and he's quick on quick. I love him. He's a hard playing guy, and he's obviously so much of where it begins for East Tennessee State. We know Tim Smith will have a good game...a very good game. I just hope he's not a human highlight film.
On playing hard: Both teams will have the advantage of playing incredibly hard...because we have no choice. If you don't play hard, you go home.
Senior forward Josh Howard
On Eric Williams:
"He knows he's a big part of this team. We keep telling him to do what he's been doing. His nerves come from being young, but he's going to learn."
On war:
"My thoughts and prayers are with the soldiers. We pray for them every day. We just need to play ball and focus on basketball."
On playing after a sub-par game:
"I just need to continue doing what I've been doing all year. I know my teammates will pick it up and have my back just like I have their backs. I just need to do the things I'm capable of."
Sophomore guard Taron Downey
On Tim Smith:
"He's a great player. I haven't seen to much of him, but it'll be a challenge to stop him. I'm looking forward to it."
On the long layoff:
"It's good because we got our legs back. We know we'll be ready to play tomorrow."
