Famous Quotes & Sayings

Deon has been our unsung hero all year long. He plays great defense, and he's very unselfish. We wouldn't be conference and tournament champs without him.

Any win on the road is a good win. And having your first conference game on the road is a good test.

Any win in our conference is important because it's such a great conference. People aren't necessarily expecting us to win; we think we can, but not everybody else does.

Any loss is disappointing, but when you're playing for a conference championship ... well, it's over now.

Any conference win on the road is big.

Any conference that gets four teams here shows you how competitive it is. We've got a great deal of respect for that.

Anything is possible. This insures us a piece (of the conference). Our main objective is to keep working toward a state title, but you have to get through the conference first.

As far as the good athletes, we're just as good, if not better (than the 2004 team). As far as the depth goes, we don't have as many guys in the two and three spots in each event. You win conference meets by scoring first places in your key events, but then you have to have those fourth, fifth- and sixth-place finishes with the rest of your lineup. That's where we've got to get to. We've got a great team right now.

Paul Elliott

As a team, I think we're right where want to be (entering the conference schedule). I'm happy with our effort so far.

As a team, we won 10 of 18 events. All 10 were conference records, half of those 10 were NCAA 'B' cuts.

As a freshman, Eric has stepped into a starting position and I think his record speaks for itself. He will probably be the number-one seed in the conference tournament.

As a football coach, you always try to find a way to make your kids smile when they take the field. You can say that Burlington sewed things up and this game doesn't seem as important to them, but they still have a shot to share the conference title. That is a motivator for them.

Mike Carey

As a competitor, you don't want to qualify for your conference tournament, because, not only did you lose, but someone else also lost, which is why you got in. You really want to get in by winning.

Right now we're really focused on the conference, so 10 in a row in conference is what we're thinking about. Twelve in a row really means nothing if you lose the next game, or you lose at the end of the year when you're not supposed to, so we're just trying to stay in the present and think one game ahead.

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Realistically, conference meet is not the ultimate goal for him. We'll put more emphasis on the state meet.

Francis Bacon

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Our conference is very competitive. We need to stay healthy, especially on the offensive line.

Joe Sakic

Our conference is so tight, and the play is tight, we are watching the scoreboard every night. Tonight is just one game, and we are in first for a day. We just will hope to continue it.

Our conference is one of the toughest conferences around. That makes it hard, but it makes us better too.

Jamie Dixon

Our conference has prepared us better than any other conference since I've been around the Big East. I'm not surprised how it has played out because of how many good teams there are here.

Our conference hasn't had a lot of luck with at-large bids. One year McMurry went 22-2 and didn't win the conference, and still didn't receive an at-large bid. Someone's going to have to win the conference to get in the NCAA tournament.

Our competitors in the marketplace are all about their brand. We like to put the conference and their membership front and center.

No 'real' conference would ever think of including two such wildly different topics on the same agenda. But in fact, it works really well to have such an eclectic mix. Everyone in the room is there because they want to be.

Northwestern is one of the top schools in the country. Couple that with playing in the Big 10 Conference and he definitely has to take a look at this. He will be a defensive lineman in college.

Normally, we would have played another Division 1-A (team), hopefully ... someone in the middle of the of conference in the Big-12 or Big-10, and I think you would have a little better understanding of where your kids are. But I think we know what we need to work on. We know what our strengths are.

No one wants to share a championship. We've had a good week and we're definitely going in with the intent of winning the thing outright. The whole thing that I'm emphasizing to our team is that we have to play like we're playing for the conference championship. It's just going to come down to how we handle the situation.

The MVC is a very strong conference with an earned reputation,

The ones that pop up at the last minute at conference are rare.

After our loss at Whitworth, we dropped to 3-5. And to go into conference at 8-6 is a great turnaround. We have won five out of our last six games and we have some great momentum heading into conference.

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.

One goal for us is that we want the conference back. It'll be a task, though.

Matt Ryan

The more experience I can get, the better off I'm going to be, especially in conference games that are going to mean a lot and are important to the team. I think it's good that I've gotten in there and had success and have dealt with adversity. I think it's been very positive.