Famous Quotes & Sayings

This was a typical game for us after 19 days off. We experimented by playing a lot of people and all 11 players who played got in at least 10 minutes. That is a positive for us as we get ready for conference play.

This was a big win, but it's just one-sixteenth of our final goal. We'll only be satisfied when we get enough of those one-sixteenths to win the conference championship.

This was a big game for us. This clinches the conference championship and allows us to be the No. 1 seed at the district tournament. There was a lot riding on this game and I thought our kids responded well.

What (people) don't realize is the table has been slanted, because people like scoring so much, but in every case, defense wins championships. The four teams in the conference championships (last season) all had shutdown defenses.

We were third in the conference this year and second last year. The program has taken great strides and this next group, this past group of freshman didn't let up.

We finished second in our invitational as a team. Then we finished second in the regional as a team. In between those, we finished second in our conference as a team. With four girls back, I think there's only one way to go.

We go into most races expecting to win. I know that can't happen all the time, and when it doesn't we deal with that. We have strong enough teams to win conference championships this year.

We kind of have a target on our back being the No. 1 team. It's going to be a dog match. Whatever team comes out on top deserves it. It used to be a big rivalry, but that team has come a long, long ways. They left the conference and now they're back in the state championship.

Jason Smith

You hope your kids are thinking, 'Hey, those other guys aren't much faster than me. I can do this,' ... Maybe we don't have any state-ranked teams in our conference this season, but we sure can have a fun meet.

To get that many teams in, to get that much respect really makes people recognize this conference as a force.

Dennis Erickson

To have those two conference games at home is very exciting. It's always great to have your rival game at home.

You have to work for it. I'm old school; you have to put in the work to get the results in the end. Everybody in today's society wants it right now, right now. Right now, we're putting in the work and by city, conference and sectional time, she will be ready to go.

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

The Vikings experience in the tough Big North Conference plus our big match experience lead the team to victory over a tough and scrappy Mount Pleasant team,

The schedule this season is a perfect match for the growth our team will take as they prepare for the Mid-American Conference Championships.

I've never seen one and two be that much better than the rest of the league. The Midwest Conference has a lot to be proud of with these two teams, though.

It would be a phenomenal upset for us to go real deep in this tournament. The conference tournaments were created to make money and give teams hope. The Big 12 can make the money, and we'll have the hope.

It would take voting out of the all-conference picture. There would be a true conference champion.

It was very disappointing because we got off to a great start. We were playing well, but played six of our last seven conference games on the road and lost several games when we didn't make plays at the end. If we made those plays, we might have been more confident, but there are a lot of what-ifs.

Mark Watson

There's not a team in the conference that has 15 sophomores and juniors who have 10 games of varsity experience.

Steve Price

The top team in the conference is definitely Boylan, ... They are the returning conference champs and sectional champs, so they are the team to beat. The rest of us are playing for second.

The travel is what makes this conference so hard. Everybody is tough at home, and nobody has to travel like how we do it.

I've been saying this a lot lately, but our freshmen were terrific today for us. I would have liked to put some more runs on the board, but we'll take two conference wins any way we can get them. We got great pitching and played very good defensively and as a coach, that's what you're looking for. The hitting will come.

We were picked to finish 10th in the league. So, we weren't even supposed to even be in the Northeast Conference Tournament.

We (had) the three conference favorites back to back to back. We need to protect the home court a little better.

We had the press conference to show if one rejects the offer all rejects the offer and we stand by our decision that we want an increase in salary of $150 per month,

We had them in foul trouble in the first half and were able to do what we needed to. They finished first in the conference and we were right there with them in the first half. We got rattled in the second half and Maynard took over.

He can lead us to the championship. Omar and I have talked, and the great quarterbacks in the history of our conference have all taken their teams to championships.

Heath, Jake (Black) and those other seniors ... they just want (a conference title) real bad. They've done nothing but work their tail off to try to get us there.

In my opinion, there's no one in the conference that's playing better. Any success that we've been able to have, he's the key reason for it.

I guess we could meet if they want to. All I know is they got up and said they had to have a conference and the meeting was ended.

I had fun playing with the seniors and winning a conference championship.

If there was so much demand in the city, then our rooms and our conference room would be booked.