Famous Quotes & Sayings

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,

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.

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.

With half of the conference season finished, it's anyone's ballgame.

What was she thanking her for? Sheehan does a press conference every day,

We talked about how important this last conference meet is to our seniors. We motivated the kids by emphasizing the importance of our seniors wrestling well in their last conference tournament.

We just need to keep on getting better. We play in a real tough conference and play some real good football teams.

We just try to get better every time we take the field. We try to fix the mistakes and just keep doing what we're doing right, so that we're as ready as we can be moving into conference play next week.

We just had a tough schedule. What we went through in our conference made us ready for whatever was going to come.

Mike Thibault

We just had a toast to doing what we did, ... When we made the playoffs, we didn't make a big deal about it, but winning the Eastern Conference with a couple weeks to go is a great accomplishment.

There's not an easy game the rest of the way. Our conference is pretty competitive.

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.

We're very happy to win our opener and get our first conference victory. Our defense was solid and our pitching was excellent.

Tom Johnson

We're very happy to be 2-0. We haven't been that in the conference for years.

(The) last conference title (we won) was two years before I got here. I hadn't tasted it yet, but you know what, it tastes pretty good.

Katsuya Okada

The fact that you, as secretary general of a political party, made remarks contrary to the fact in a forum such as a news conference can mislead the public and is very regrettable. I strongly protest and demand that (you) retract the remark and apologize.

I'm ecstatic that they're in the league. West is a great measuring stick for the rest of us. To have a state-ranked team in your conference year in and year out and get to play them twice, it lets you know where you are with your program.

I'm not going to tell the kids it's likely. It's out of our hands. We'll just have to wait and see. It would be great, however, and I know we'd represent our conference well.

In conference tournaments, people have to step up that normally don't step up. We had this happen.

In conference play, you're going to have your ups and downs. But not like that.

John Beilein

I know very little about Southern Illinois, but I'll know a lot in the next couple days. The Missouri Valley Conference has strong teams in the tournament every year.

Chris Hernandez

I know their conference has been regarded nationally as very good. Their league has gotten a lot of publicity and respect, so you know they are going to be a good team.

I knew Weston had a no-hitter, but it wasn't a priority. The priority was to get a win and to get ready for two conference games this week. We got the win, and any win is a good win for us right now.