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EVA LANG We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are ba...
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TONY COUTURE In all three of our losses we've managed to score four or more runs in each game. The other teams ha...
JEFF HERKIMER We've been able to do some things because of them coming back. We went through those growing pains l...
DENNY PELLEY I thought the double play we turned was the key to the game. We said coming into this game that defe...
ERIC WEDEMEYER We have played so many close games this year. We lost some on crazy things and won some on crazy thi...
GREG WALKER Good placement. The key is we were able to get some guys on base and the guys coming up behind them ...
KEN GRIFFEY JR. He won't see time at running back at all this year. We get enough out of him in other ways and we do...
ANTHONY JACKSON Before the year started the question was with our pitching. Everybody said we had a killer lineup co...
JAMIE SIMINSKI My first year here we made 230-some 3-pointers, and these guys are a little behind that. We do rely ...
DAVID GIBB We have some big hitters and our top defensive players are back. We also have good leadership and (t...
GRETA GNAGY Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing i...
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MICHAEL WOODS The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we ha...
BRENT ALEXANDER From losing Coach Graham to me coming in late and losing some key guys - this team has really exceed...
IRWIN HUDSON The school has been around for probably 50 years. There's a lot of history here. Back in the 1980s, ...
TOM MOFFETT We've played some good teams and some teams that weren't as good, and he's hit well against them all...
DAN OLIVER Some old-school Madonna and Beyoncé and everyone in the room went from being eighteen-year-olds to ...
LALEH KHADIVI We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON We had some pretty good at-bats off [Carpenter]. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it ...
CRAIG BIGGIO Our special teams, again, we didn't score on our power play, they did. We took some bad penalties. W...
CHRIS CHELIOS We've been battle-tested just from playing the teams in our division of the Schuylkill League. We ha...
MIKE KLEMBARA When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year...
KATHY GIBSON For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee sys...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN I've been there before. You've just got to keep on grinding. I proved it again to myself that you ju...
ANNIKA SORENSTAM Some of those teams (we played during the season) are here today. It proved very valuable to their e...
MICHELLE CONNORS Two years ago, he was on course, and then had some injury issues the next year that held him back. H...
TIM PURPURA We had a lot of obstacles this year. We've been in and out of trouble all year. We just seemed to ba...
ADAM LAROCHE There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some col...
JASON ROBINSON We even offered to stay over in a hotel and finish the game on Saturday. They just said, 'See you ne...
BILL MORGAN I've been working with eight guys. There are still some things to piece together, but things are com...
ED YATES They didn't want (Smith) to hold it very long because Mathis and Freeney and those guys, they're com...
CATO JUNE We just didn't capitalize on some things. We got some key stops, we got some rebounds, and then we'd...
JAMELLE CORNLEY Coming out of the first class season back home a lot of the guys have some runs under their belt so ...
IAN BRADSHAW We've always said we need more than me and Ray. When we get other guys coming on like that, it makes...
RASHARD LEWIS Honestly, I think it's probably a here-we-go-again thing. These guys have had to play catch-up all y...
DEREK MAZEITIS It's easy to get to this level and try to do spectacular things, which we all do, ... It's been a le...
GREG DOBBS I expect us to be in the playoffs next year. We've got a great group of young guys and hopefully it ...
DWIGHT HOWARD It all seems to be coming together at the right time for us. We've been able to play well in back-to...
JOE HILLOCK Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, the...
JAY ARTALL They surprised the heck out of me. They came in together last spring after the tournament and said, ...
DAVE URICK We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of t...
JOSH DUELL They're obviously disappointing losses. We played some good teams on this trip and, to me, it just l...
CLIFF ROBINSON Teams have been coming at us all year. We get everyone's best shot and the last (few) games were no ...
MARK FEW It will be nice to play on a consistent surface in warm weather, as opposed to here. We are going to...
LESLEY SHEEHAN It's a lot better than coming home to a hotel room. The town is really pretty, too. It makes it a lo...
KAREN DELANEY I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blame...
SARAH WINMAN At the end of the year we only had one guy who was with us to start the season. When that many guys ...
GARY JONES When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to mak...
LEMAR MARSHALL That's one thing we focused on coming out of the locker room was five guys crashing the boards defen...
JEFF BRIMHALL It's been a key for us all year, to get that pressure at some point during the game. It might not ha...
LOU POSTAGE A lot of these guys weren't around last year. I try to keep them from getting too big-headed and sta...
BRYAN RICE We've relied on that this year. Getting teams to quit with our defense, but they aren't going to qui...
BEN COCHRAN We just didn't finish this year. That's been our main problem the whole year. It came down to it aga...
MIKE HART We had some key players that were out. They got them back and they have made a difference. They are ...
DANIEL VALDEZ trying to get guys to understand that you have to work the count, you have to swing at strikes, do a...
DAVE ROBERTS We're just trying to get it to another level. We've been working a lot on defense, playing a lot of ...
JOE GAITHER They said they'd love to have me back, and I would love to be back, if we could see eye to eye on so...
VERRON HAYNES It's so much fun in the locker room. Guys enjoy coming to the rink and we're showing it on the ice. ...
ZACH PARISE I just wanted to stay home this year and focus on getting back to the basics in practice and being w...
BILL PALERMO With everyone back and the awesome recruits that we had coming in this year it has been absolutely i...
KRISTEN MERLINO They have been doing that all year. And we have three guys on the bench who are hitting .300. Our st...
LARRY VUCAN We put our trust in our key guys and they did the job again.
ERIC THURSTON I think maybe some games in the past, we lost our focus and let some teams back in. Miami, they kind...
CAMERON BENNERMAN I gradually just worked on the swing and started hitting the ball better. That led to making some pu...
BEN CURTIS I think he proved to everybody what I've been saying all along: He's the player of the year in this ...
BOB TURCO Can we make it a best-of-three next year? I credit our kids for coming back. We were down by 25 ... ...
JOE LOGAN It has been a huge task to combine the staff, resources and experience of the two teams into one out...
CRAIG GORE We've finally got some guys back there who are tough mentally. We've gotten these big interceptions ...
GREG JACKSON Regardless of what was said, personally I think I need to improve. That's kind of the outlook I'm tr...
SAM HOLLENBACH It's just a matter of our guys going back and watching film and regrouping, ... It's just about clea...
DANA WALKER I had some concerns with (being too confident) coming in. Sometimes you have to get teams up to play...
ALVIN COPELAND We've been coming along all year. Everybody's pretty excited. We've been on a mission since May and ...
MELODY DAVIDSON It was a roller-coaster season. We're losing some key seniors, but we have a good core of kids comin...
JAY HAUGLAND Jonathan is just a joy to coach. Some great players you just tolerate. They stay apart from the rest...
MARCO ARMIJO Coach Green talked about teams in the league, how some teams are going to get better, some teams are...
ANQUAN BOLDIN We had the majority of the team coming back, and I felt like this was the year to do some big things...
JOEY CABRET When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we re...
ROBERT BALDWIN Our diamond racket will stay in Belgium for at least another year. Obviously we were looking forward...
BOB VERBEECK I would imagine all the teams in (the) tournament are coming down to get their first games in and co...
CARL TEBON I think that with the guys we've got coming back, we should be equal to (last year) or even better.
BILL KINNEBERG We've got a lot of fast guys coming back that were in different events, and they're all a little fas...
DAN BAKER I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I...
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ANDRE GIDE![]()
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TOM HANKS Teams are going to key in on Brian and Gabe. Guys are going to have to come off the bench and bring ...
FRAN KUNTZ Our team is finally getting back to full strength and when we have it going, we're a tough team to b...
ANDY HANSEN We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a ...
SMOKE LAVAL We've had the team to win it. I think we have it again this year. We just need to be confident. I th...
BRAYDEN ASHDOWN If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to s...
BRODI ASHTON We lost some guys to discipline and ineligibility but the guys we were counting on to come back came...
GREGG PATNER We expect [opposing teams] to look at our defense and know they are young guys and try to take advan...
AL KOHART We look for Huff and Henderson to do good this year. But we don't want them to be our only weapons. ...
RICK COMEGY I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyon...
MARK MCGWIRE We are very confident in our first year back in the PIHL and very excited about it.
ANTHONY DEFAZIO We've still got some big guys down in St. Pete that we can't wait to get back, so we're not clicking...
JONNY GOMES People bring things in all year long. We never know what's coming.
JOAN TAYLOR
EVA LANG We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are ba...
GARY TAGUE It's been key for us all year to score early and get our kids going. Last year you could tell in the...
TONY COUTURE In all three of our losses we've managed to score four or more runs in each game. The other teams ha...
JEFF HERKIMER We've been able to do some things because of them coming back. We went through those growing pains l...
DENNY PELLEY I thought the double play we turned was the key to the game. We said coming into this game that defe...
ERIC WEDEMEYER We have played so many close games this year. We lost some on crazy things and won some on crazy thi...
GREG WALKER Good placement. The key is we were able to get some guys on base and the guys coming up behind them ...
KEN GRIFFEY JR. He won't see time at running back at all this year. We get enough out of him in other ways and we do...
ANTHONY JACKSON Before the year started the question was with our pitching. Everybody said we had a killer lineup co...
JAMIE SIMINSKI My first year here we made 230-some 3-pointers, and these guys are a little behind that. We do rely ...
DAVID GIBB We have some big hitters and our top defensive players are back. We also have good leadership and (t...
GRETA GNAGY Last year we had 55 teams, and we're on pace to break 60 teams this year. We have fathers bringing i...
BRENT GENTRY Just not relax and say we beat Dayton and Amity last year, we made it to the playoffs so we'll make ...
JAMES MASON
We proved to everybody we belonged. No one can take that from us. The doubters, they can keep on dou... WILL THOMAS We worked on our punt block all week, all week. (Coach John Weber) said they were slow getting the b...
MICHAEL WOODS The guys we have coming in have had some quality playing time already this year. It's not like we ha...
BRENT ALEXANDER From losing Coach Graham to me coming in late and losing some key guys - this team has really exceed...
IRWIN HUDSON The school has been around for probably 50 years. There's a lot of history here. Back in the 1980s, ...
TOM MOFFETT We've played some good teams and some teams that weren't as good, and he's hit well against them all...
DAN OLIVER Some old-school Madonna and Beyoncé and everyone in the room went from being eighteen-year-olds to ...
LALEH KHADIVI We knew coming into this year that the bar was raised, and I think we all knew what we wanted to do....
BRANDON STEPHENSON We had some pretty good at-bats off [Carpenter]. We just couldn't find any holes. That's the way it ...
CRAIG BIGGIO Our special teams, again, we didn't score on our power play, they did. We took some bad penalties. W...
CHRIS CHELIOS We've been battle-tested just from playing the teams in our division of the Schuylkill League. We ha...
MIKE KLEMBARA When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year...
KATHY GIBSON For people to feel confident about coming back again, they're going to have to rebuild the levee sys...
IVOR VAN HEERDEN I've been there before. You've just got to keep on grinding. I proved it again to myself that you ju...
ANNIKA SORENSTAM Some of those teams (we played during the season) are here today. It proved very valuable to their e...
MICHELLE CONNORS Two years ago, he was on course, and then had some injury issues the next year that held him back. H...
TIM PURPURA We had a lot of obstacles this year. We've been in and out of trouble all year. We just seemed to ba...
ADAM LAROCHE There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some col...
JASON ROBINSON We even offered to stay over in a hotel and finish the game on Saturday. They just said, 'See you ne...
BILL MORGAN I've been working with eight guys. There are still some things to piece together, but things are com...
ED YATES They didn't want (Smith) to hold it very long because Mathis and Freeney and those guys, they're com...
CATO JUNE We just didn't capitalize on some things. We got some key stops, we got some rebounds, and then we'd...
JAMELLE CORNLEY Coming out of the first class season back home a lot of the guys have some runs under their belt so ...
IAN BRADSHAW We've always said we need more than me and Ray. When we get other guys coming on like that, it makes...
RASHARD LEWIS Honestly, I think it's probably a here-we-go-again thing. These guys have had to play catch-up all y...
DEREK MAZEITIS It's easy to get to this level and try to do spectacular things, which we all do, ... It's been a le...
GREG DOBBS I expect us to be in the playoffs next year. We've got a great group of young guys and hopefully it ...
DWIGHT HOWARD It all seems to be coming together at the right time for us. We've been able to play well in back-to...
JOE HILLOCK Defense. Our defense has been the key for us this year. When teams put the ball in play against, the...
JAY ARTALL They surprised the heck out of me. They came in together last spring after the tournament and said, ...
DAVE URICK We tried not to let it rattle us. We knew we just had to come out and stay composed, that's one of t...
JOSH DUELL They're obviously disappointing losses. We played some good teams on this trip and, to me, it just l...
CLIFF ROBINSON Teams have been coming at us all year. We get everyone's best shot and the last (few) games were no ...
MARK FEW It will be nice to play on a consistent surface in warm weather, as opposed to here. We are going to...
LESLEY SHEEHAN It's a lot better than coming home to a hotel room. The town is really pretty, too. It makes it a lo...
KAREN DELANEY I'd been feeling like this for a while, the continual looking back, the stuckness of it all. I blame...
SARAH WINMAN At the end of the year we only had one guy who was with us to start the season. When that many guys ...
GARY JONES When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to mak...
LEMAR MARSHALL That's one thing we focused on coming out of the locker room was five guys crashing the boards defen...
JEFF BRIMHALL It's been a key for us all year, to get that pressure at some point during the game. It might not ha...
LOU POSTAGE A lot of these guys weren't around last year. I try to keep them from getting too big-headed and sta...
BRYAN RICE We've relied on that this year. Getting teams to quit with our defense, but they aren't going to qui...
BEN COCHRAN We just didn't finish this year. That's been our main problem the whole year. It came down to it aga...
MIKE HART We had some key players that were out. They got them back and they have made a difference. They are ...
DANIEL VALDEZ trying to get guys to understand that you have to work the count, you have to swing at strikes, do a...
DAVE ROBERTS We're just trying to get it to another level. We've been working a lot on defense, playing a lot of ...
JOE GAITHER They said they'd love to have me back, and I would love to be back, if we could see eye to eye on so...
VERRON HAYNES It's so much fun in the locker room. Guys enjoy coming to the rink and we're showing it on the ice. ...
ZACH PARISE I just wanted to stay home this year and focus on getting back to the basics in practice and being w...
BILL PALERMO With everyone back and the awesome recruits that we had coming in this year it has been absolutely i...
KRISTEN MERLINO They have been doing that all year. And we have three guys on the bench who are hitting .300. Our st...
LARRY VUCAN We put our trust in our key guys and they did the job again.
ERIC THURSTON I think maybe some games in the past, we lost our focus and let some teams back in. Miami, they kind...
CAMERON BENNERMAN I gradually just worked on the swing and started hitting the ball better. That led to making some pu...
BEN CURTIS I think he proved to everybody what I've been saying all along: He's the player of the year in this ...
BOB TURCO Can we make it a best-of-three next year? I credit our kids for coming back. We were down by 25 ... ...
JOE LOGAN It has been a huge task to combine the staff, resources and experience of the two teams into one out...
CRAIG GORE We've finally got some guys back there who are tough mentally. We've gotten these big interceptions ...
GREG JACKSON Regardless of what was said, personally I think I need to improve. That's kind of the outlook I'm tr...
SAM HOLLENBACH It's just a matter of our guys going back and watching film and regrouping, ... It's just about clea...
DANA WALKER I had some concerns with (being too confident) coming in. Sometimes you have to get teams up to play...
ALVIN COPELAND We've been coming along all year. Everybody's pretty excited. We've been on a mission since May and ...
MELODY DAVIDSON It was a roller-coaster season. We're losing some key seniors, but we have a good core of kids comin...
JAY HAUGLAND Jonathan is just a joy to coach. Some great players you just tolerate. They stay apart from the rest...
MARCO ARMIJO Coach Green talked about teams in the league, how some teams are going to get better, some teams are...
ANQUAN BOLDIN We had the majority of the team coming back, and I felt like this was the year to do some big things...
JOEY CABRET When it happened on the other relay, we were all pretty upset. But we just talked about it and we re...
ROBERT BALDWIN Our diamond racket will stay in Belgium for at least another year. Obviously we were looking forward...
BOB VERBEECK I would imagine all the teams in (the) tournament are coming down to get their first games in and co...
CARL TEBON I think that with the guys we've got coming back, we should be equal to (last year) or even better.
BILL KINNEBERG We've got a lot of fast guys coming back that were in different events, and they're all a little fas...
DAN BAKER I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I...
JACK BUCK
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a... ANDRE GIDE
Once humankind has been some place and found it entrancing, they always go back, ... I think in the ... TOM HANKS Teams are going to key in on Brian and Gabe. Guys are going to have to come off the bench and bring ...
FRAN KUNTZ Our team is finally getting back to full strength and when we have it going, we're a tough team to b...
ANDY HANSEN We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a ...
SMOKE LAVAL We've had the team to win it. I think we have it again this year. We just need to be confident. I th...
BRAYDEN ASHDOWN If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to s...
BRODI ASHTON We lost some guys to discipline and ineligibility but the guys we were counting on to come back came...
GREGG PATNER We expect [opposing teams] to look at our defense and know they are young guys and try to take advan...
AL KOHART We look for Huff and Henderson to do good this year. But we don't want them to be our only weapons. ...
RICK COMEGY I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyon...
MARK MCGWIRE We are very confident in our first year back in the PIHL and very excited about it.
ANTHONY DEFAZIO We've still got some big guys down in St. Pete that we can't wait to get back, so we're not clicking...
JONNY GOMES People bring things in all year long. We never know what's coming.
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