Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was so happy we won. I didn't want to come out of conference with two back-to-back losses. That would start to mess with your head.

We've talked about it in the locker room. It would be nice, but the girls know the race is to 10 (wins) and then we start working our way up (in conference seeding) with every win after that.

I am extremely excited about the performance tonight. We had several personal bests, and I'm really pleased with how Jamaal (Charles) and Ryan (Palmer) stepped in today and competed. Raymond (Harris) is showing us that he will be a player at the indoor conference meet.

I am just hoping to get to conference play on a positive note. A win tomorrow (Wednesday) will hopefully set us on the right path.

Lon Kruger

I am very disappointed for Jason. It is always tough to miss time with an injury, but when it happens during the stretch run and around conference tournament time it is a big let down.

Rick Crawford

I am very curious to see how the conference shapes up this spring.

Steve Price

(Caulk) didn't lose a game the whole tournament, and that hardly ever happens. She has been really tough in the conference all year.

Steve Price

(Caulk) didn't lose a game the whole tournament, and that hardly ever happens, ... She has been really tough in the conference all year.

My goal is to win a conference championship. I've been here for four years and we have won no titles. I hope this year is going to be good, like in a movie where there is a happy ending.

Thomas Ferguson

My heart sinks every time these guys have a conference call.

Now, we have to win out and hope somebody else can knock off Elmwood. We have a realistic shot at winning the conference championship.

Obviously it's without doubt the top 4A conference in the state. We can't worry so much about the team we're playing. We just have to work on what we can do.

Foster had two legitimate Conference USA offers from Tulsa and Memphis, but he stuck with us.

From my wrestlers, my goal for them is to meet or exceed their seeds in their brackets. This is a tough conference meet, and we will need every point we can get.

Jamie Dixon

I don't think we've ever had a conference this deep. You look at our situation. We're a team that is 15th in RPI and the sixth seed. You're going to have some teams that in a normal situation would be getting a bye but in this conference they are going to be playing Wednesday night.

I don't think we've been down by that much (17 points) to a Southern Conference opponent this year. For us to be able to pull through it should make us that much stronger.

I don't think we understood what it took. We haven't been in that situation - since I have been here - in a game situation like that, where you are playing to go to Nationals and in a conference tournament championship. We haven't been in a game of that importance. So it was very good for us to be put in that situation.

I don't think we should get penalized for losing an overtime game to (the conference champions). I think that game puts in perspective how far this team has come this season.

Charles Davis

I don't think we're hitting as good as we were earlier in the season but it's a conference win and that's good.

Gale Norton

I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.

I have a great group of kids. This hurts us for conference contention, but we can still go out there and work for other achievements.

Stephane Dion

I have a responsibility for this conference that is key for the planet. Period,

If this isn't stripped out in the conference committee, it's going to be very difficult.

I have been very proud of these kids in their willingness to look at what is right in front of them. This is a conference game that our kids needed to understand ? and they did ? how important it was to us.

Josh Montgomery

I didn't want to have a five- or six-game losing streak going into the playoffs. Getting a conference win right now was key.

I didn't want to go through a big recruiting process again. I just wanted to sign and get it over with. I knew I wanted to play in a big conference like the Big 12, and I liked my visit up there.

I did not want to lose, because I knew a win here would put us in great position to win the conference and get a No. 1 seed in the sectional. I wanted to give it everything I had.

I'd love to sit here Wednesday night and say we're 10-1 (in Conference USA), but it's going to be a challenge. I don't know if we're going to win or lose but I know we're going to lay it on the line for 40 minutes, just as we have for these first 23 games.

I'd like to play 27 or 30 conference games. I think that's better and it just makes scheduling so much easier.

Rich Rodriguez

I'd already be on the plane to Florida. I don't think he (recruiting coordinator Herb Hand) knew that we had a press conference at 8 a.m. if we won, so I had to reschedule. But, that's a good thing.

One of the things I've done is take our players into the gym where they hang up banners for every sport that wins a conference or section title. I tell the kids, 'Look around. Do you see anything for football?' There's nothing.

One of our big goals is to be conference champions. We're going to have to work hard to get where we want to be.

Obviously we want to win every game. If you sweep the first half of the conference that means you control your destiny in the second half.