He's not the loudest kid out there, but you know when he goes out there he is going to compete. He's a leader because he's a leader on the field. He goes out there, does things and inspires people to do well. That's what he does.

The haters always scream the loudest.

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

It's a funny game. Sometimes it's the little things that don't go your way. As a pitching staff, we are just going out there and try to throw up zeros because we know we want the next guy to go up and put up zeros. Everybody is trying to pull up each other.

For everyone coming back, for all the things we have going for this program - the talent, the makeup - you've got to feel that we have a shot to get to Omaha. It'd be taking this program up that big step, that next level. We want to do that. We want to do that. For Hunter and Culp, it's the same thing. You're not playing for the draft. You're playing for Omaha.

I used to have the worst head jerk, my hat would fly off sometimes. That's how violent I was. It was violent, real violent. I was so raw.