When you go in facing Texas and Texas Tech, [which] are always up there in the baseball polls, they're going to be ready. It's a Rice-Texas game. It's always a shootout.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution.

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

This [was] only my second game, so obviously I'm still a little nervous playing in front of the home crowd trying to represent [my] school. After the first at-bat in the Central Missouri game, I kind of calmed down.

Coming off the day I had, I was just trying to relax and not do too much. With guys like (Josh) Rodriguez and (Joe) Savery hitting behind me, it's really hard to pitch around me.