Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

For one thing, we only have two players starting from last year's team. The rest are freshmen and juniors. That's lots of inexperience.

Tim Mahoney

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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 a matter of improving. We have many good freshmen and by the time they are seniors, we will have many going to state.

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.

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.

It's good for them to see varsity guys. Traditionally we haven't had a lot of freshmen (seven this year) in our program. They're making nice gains.

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.

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.

Ben Howland

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

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.

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

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.

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.