Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Self

This is a situation that we've never been in before, starting freshmen and sophomores, and we're going to learn from it. We'll get better.

They do a great job on the outlet. Those freshmen are really the key to what they do. Nearly half of their points occurred off transition.

There is no way we win this match (earlier in the season). We're playing with three freshmen which is rare for (college tennis), and it's taken them a while to gel as a team.

He struggled with the speed of the greens. But he handled himself very well. There are not too many freshmen out here.

Brendan has always been a heavyweight, but he was a small heavyweight. We started the program with freshmen and sophomores, with no upperclassmen and we were going out and wrestling a varsity schedule. We've been wrestling a varsity schedule for three seasons.

The thing with these guys is that they've all been there before. They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. That's what's been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

The thing with these guys is that theyve all been there before, ... They were all freshmen and sophomores when we were down at state two years ago. Thats whats been the most important thing for them. They all know what needs to be done to get to that point.

Those two freshmen are great defenders. They're playing like sophomores and juniors.

This team is really young. We have good freshmen stepping up big time. They've been swimming for a very long time and know the drills.

We have 43 freshmen out there. A lot of those will have to play,

Mike Kerr

We lose so much after this year with seven seniors graduating. Having two freshmen starting to become leaders for our team really bodes well for not only next year, but two or three years down the road.

We're going to be highly competitive. Most of the other teams in the league have a lot of upper classmen; we're heavy in freshmen and sophomores, but they're improving every time out.

Ben Howland

The last three games, we've essentially been playing all freshmen and sophomores.

It's tough we had to open with Douglas. We're so young, we're mostly freshmen and sophomores out there, then with the injuries and illness, we just aren't ready yet.

Danielle has come up huge for us all year. Our freshmen are one of the reasons why we're here right now. If someone is struggling, we have a lot of weapons.

The numbers are pretty good and that's promising. We had a pretty good group of freshmen come in this year. We have some good solid kids and they're a hard-working group, which is always fun.

It's individual, especially on the men's side. I want to see how the freshmen compete. From the team perspective, it's irrelevant on the women's side. We won't even have a team score.

Emily Williams

I love it because I get to know these students. It is a great way to know people, especially incoming freshmen who may not know everyone.

That's one of the things that was talked about in the meeting. Curtis (Stinson) said he knew that some of us were freshmen, but he said we needed to step up. It's like there's no freshmen now. It's the half-season. We're like sophomores. He said it's time we had to take another step up.

John Beilein

That is my preference. But you never know how much these freshmen will be pressed into action.

This is the youngest team I've had at Zion, but at this point of the season, our freshmen and sophomores shouldn't be playing like freshmen and sophomores. We can't use that as an excuse.

They're playing so well that we don't think of them as freshmen or sophomores. They're not scared at all. Maybe it's from playing in big games, but they come into big games and shoot the ball.

Rodney Carney

They're not freshmen out there. They've really played wonderful. I take my hat off to them.

I really didn't know what to expect, but I'm pleasantly surprised. The freshmen are really starting to gain confidence, and the upperclassmen are showing them the way.

Tim Mahoney

I guess we really don't know how the freshmen will do because, well, it's complicated.

By the end of the freshmen game, there were 2,500 here. Halfway through the JV game, they said there were 3,100. It was pretty electric.

I'm very happy with a lot of our freshmen athletes. They are performing quite admirably.

I really don't know how the freshmen are reacting. They don't really understand right now how the tournament is and how we're in last place.

I have three freshmen on the team, and they really stepped up.

Jessica Lynch

I have to say I am a little nervous ? the freshmen that I'll be with were eighth-graders when I graduated from high school,

He's taken them under his wing and leading them and the freshmen understand him and respect him. Young kids are going to hit this stride and take them to the next level and we hope that's this weekend.

It was really hard. I didn't even know the freshmen until December, because I never trained with them. ... My only other option was to do (student teaching) in the spring. There was no way I could do it during the season.

Roy Williams

It was really frustrating because I think the freshmen particularly could have gained so, so much. For example, I think Tyler and Michael did. But the rest of them didn't gain nearly as much as they could have because of the health situation.