The win-loss record doesn't show it, but we're a far tighter team than last season. We're not going to throw our hands up and give up. We can beat the Cats.

Eating crappy food isn't a reward -- it's a punishment.

It was another tough loss. The effort was great. I appreciate the effort. It's almost like groundhog's day. We play good for stretches of the game. Then we have a few stretches where we struggle and then we fight like crazy at the end to give us a chance to win.

The irony is that these (executives) want to be a lot more successful with their approach to a horse than they want to be with their approach to a human being.

I made an error and kept compounding things with another to the point my confidence was a bit shot by full-time.

We feel like our crowd is unlike any others. They have the closeness of family. Everybody knows everybody. They have spirit and a passion for basketball.