Roosevelt is too good a school to not come down here and win this. A lot of people haven't respected us, the city schools. But our schools are gaining that respect.

That's not very good. It's hard to elaborate on that, other than to say it's hard to win doing that for a lot of different reasons. You're in the field a long time, you're giving them opportunities. You know going in that they make you throw strikes.

You do all the camps in the summer to get to one place and then to totally blow it, not once, but twice. We have to go farther than we've ever been, seriously.

This is our year. We have never been as good as we are this year.

You always want to make sure you're mentally ahead of the other team. If you make the other team think they can't play with you, that's the way they'll start playing.

It's so hard to lose when you get down there. It hurts so bad, and I know my team this year ? we are better than we've ever been. I seriously think we're going to take the championship this year.