Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are going to contend, I just know we are, the kids are so excited. And this school has never won a conference title in baseball.

We had several goals, and one of them was to host the conference tournament. We did that as well last year. It was a great success. We had great crowds and super support.

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.

You go through it all and the two conference championship games are being repeated. You come up here and you like to see new teams and you sure hate to see those same faces that see you over and over and know what you do. It's going to be another knock-down, drag-out.

Steve Gleason

Typing with your fingers or thumbs is sooooo 2012. I tweeted that earlier in the year. I type with my eyes. Not only that, I navigate my computer, create and play music, keep a calendar, conference call, lead web X meetings, text and, obviously, tweet with my eyes.

To win 13 of 14 games in conference is amazing. I couldn't be more proud of my team.

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.

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

You can tell it's Southeastern Conference time. For our first day of practice this week, we were focused and we practiced very hard. We had good camaraderie.

We wanted to be focused and wanted to come out and get a win because it wraps up the conference title. Now we have to re-focus a little bit. This was one of three goals for us.

We wanted to take this as a one-game season. We have the utmost respect for Greensboro. The Southern Conference plays very good basketball, and if you don't come ready to play, you'll go down.

We wanted to send a message to the rest of the teams in the conference that we're hitting our stride and ready for the tournament.

Wes Moore

We've had a nice run, and I'm real happy for our seniors. Only four conference losses for them. So if they hadn't gone out this way, it would have been crushing for me for no other reason than I just wanted it for them.

We've guaranteed ourselves at least a tie for the conference championship. We crossed that big hurdle tonight.

We've got two starters out right now so maybe we'll pick it up when we get everyone back and get into our starting combination. We've got to get in a groove before we open conference action.

We've got two conference games left and Hope has one. You never know what will happen.

We all know it, just no one's said it. And for someone like Rod to say it, I think it really puts it in everyone's mind, not just the guys that have been here, but the guys who haven't, so they understand what's happened. We're in a tough conference in the AFC, and AFC West. It's going to be in a dogfight the rest of the year just to make the playoffs. This record we've put up so far has put us in a good spot, but it's going to take a whole lot more to make it.

There is disappointment and frustration any time you go out early in your conference tournament, a tournament we felt good about doing very well in. But we still have an opportunity to play for an outstanding championship.

There is a lot of preparation to be done. Some are just trying to get better for the conference meet. There are five or six key things some others need to do to get ready for nationals, and that may or may not happen.

Tommy Bowden

The opportunities he had to perform, he performed well. Those tests he passed, but that's not a lot of tests in this conference at that level of competition.

Two conference wins - we'll take them any way we can. We just battled back, chipped away and were able to score some more runs.

We had a great finish last year. We finished No.43, and we didn't make the tournament. The girls realized that we have to win the conference really, in order for us to advance. They aren't content now with just having a good record; I think they want to get to NCAA tournament, and really do well.