Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kyle Lowry

They understand how you have to play and how things work and who to listen to. We've all been through it. The seniors have been through it more than anyone. They've struggled and they've been a great team so they know what it takes to be successful and the freshmen realize that.

All year long he?s been a real good role model for the underclassmen. The freshmen have really inspired Joe and he showed them the way.

The juniors have been around since they were freshmen and they are starting to show their maturity as players. We've had a lot opportunities to play because of the good weather and that has helped get things in order.

These freshmen are strong and have plenty of international experience, especially Mauricio and Kim. They are such good competitors and have really been strong for us down the stretch.

This has been our first medal ever. We knew the freshmen were good. This bodes well for the future of our team.

A.J. is the only starter back. We lost our 1-2 and 4 pitchers. We have a lot of freshmen playing.

Our slower quarters had to do with ... trying to move in freshmen and less-experienced players.

Rodney Carney

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

All of our freshmen have been so great for us this year. They're all playing like veterans out there for us this year, and that's what we need.

A lot of the freshmen stepped up and I was really glad to see that. We kept pressing the issue and it's the second time this season we've scored on a set piece, which is something we work hard on.

A lot of those guys did play towards the end of the season but freshmen make freshmen mistakes.

This is our third year, and the future looks bright. We have a talented group of freshmen this year and some of them will make an impact at the varsity level this year.

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.

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.

We had positive results from our freshmen to our seniors. We are pleased with the team outcome, and our performances were strong.

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.

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.

Dick Bennett

You have to recognize that they've got a lot of young kids out there. They're playing freshmen and they lost great players. People don't realize the number of great players they lost. I think probably they're a good team, but they're not the same team as they were last year.

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

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

We had a really young group there and we had to lean on them and said, 'You're freshmen but you can't play like one because we need you.' That's very similar to what we're doing here. It gives me a lot of hope because that group went on after we were gone and competed very well at the Horizon League level.

Mike Riley

To start three freshmen is a scary thing. They took their lumps, made some plays and got better.

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

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.

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.

I'm more optimistic this year because it's the first year in a while we've had freshmen come in with skills. The rest of the team has been practicing and seems to have a better attitude.

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.

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 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.