Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've been saying this a lot lately, but our freshmen were terrific today for us. I would have liked to put some more runs on the board, but we'll take two conference wins any way we can get them. We got great pitching and played very good defensively and as a coach, that's what you're looking for. The hitting will come.

The way he pitched tonight he's looking really good. He's definitely going to be a factor in this conference season.

The Vikings experience in the tough Big North Conference plus our big match experience lead the team to victory over a tough and scrappy Mount Pleasant team,

Julian Wright

This is a young conference as a whole. In the future, there's a lot of parody now, but I see us as only a year a way from being a super powerhouse conference like the Big East.

This is as competitive, from top to bottom, that the conference has been in a long time. Every time you step on the field for a conference game, you know you're going to be in a battle.

Alex Ferguson

This is good for football. Burton have done the Conference proud.

This is another big game for us. This is the conference season and every game from now on is big.

This is the first conference championship they have won. I was happy for the seniors to finally win a championship.

This is probably the toughest the conference has been. If we're not playing well, we could go 0-7.

The Western Conference is jam packed with good teams. So every conference game counts.

The weather is getting warmer, our players are playing better. This is a fun time in the season as we are approaching the conference tournament. We are looking forward to the remaining of the matches.

This gives us a good start. We feel a lot better winning than losing. We think there is going to be a lot of difference at the conference meet and we are going to need our kids to step up like they did tonight.

This doesn't wrap up the conference numerically. But it gets us very close. Everybody else has at least three losses and we have four games left.

Joe Dumars

That's what we all have to live with, because we've set a very high standard here. We've been at least to the conference finals three straight years and we've been a 50-win team four years in a row.

That's why we need to try to win a conference championship first. We've got to stay healthy. Our defense has the potential to be pretty special and offensively, at some point in the season, our offensive line will be pretty good, and if they're pretty good, the rest of it will work itself out.

That No. 1 spot is big right now. It's not an easy trip down to Booneville, and winning the conference will give us a bye until the semifinals. The fewer trips we have to make to Booneville, the better.

Zach ended the conference season with a save percentage of 90 percent. I am very happy for Zach. He has worked hard and deserves this recognition.

You take it for what it is. It was a great learning experience, and again, you hope these experiences pay off in the conference season.

You need to recognize that you're not going to win in this conference if you don't have speed. So you better get it.

Sylvia Hatchell

You may think I'm crazy, but I think the conference will be stronger next year.

This win kept us from being mathematically eliminated (for the conference title). If we had lost, we would have been eliminated with four losses. It was a huge win for seeding purposes for the playoffs.

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.

We did not end the season on a positive note. But, as always, we have high expectations. We have a lot of guys returning (from a team that finished 19-7-1 and won the conference title for the fourth-consecutive year) and we have quite a few skill-players.

There are no easy games in conference play.

Whenever you play Mississippi State, it's obvious it means a lot. You don't take that lightly. What I don't do is, I don't put our whole season into it. But when you look at the schedule, obviously, every year, as soon as you get the conference schedule and you look and see when you play Mississippi State. That's what rivals are all about.

We had a very disappointing day today, unfortunately. We had an opportunity to place real well in a field of top-50 teams, but those teams got it done today and we didn't. But we are going to draw from day one and go into the conference championships with a positive mindset.

We won the conference championship, made it to the Upper State semifinals and won two playoff games at home. Our players deserve the credit because they worked hard and played as a team.

Davin Joseph

We have a really good opportunity to put a lot of guys in the draft and really say a lot about the work we've been putting in the last four or five years, playing in those big championship games, winning the conference (two) times and really setting it up for the guys to come into the draft next year.

We haven't been to the conference semifinals in two years. A conference championship is still our goal, though.

We treat it more individually now so we can focus on the team come conference time. It's training now. We need to peak when it counts.

We're 5-2 in conference and 7-4 overall. This keeps us on the heels of Horicon there. Good senior leadership and a solid second half. We had seven turnovers and I think that was a key. We played solid basketball.

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

We didn't want to be co-champs. Deep down, you want your first conference championship to be an outright championship. We controlled that by winning and Washington losing.