I think, this year, his concentration skills have gone to another level. He's taking strikes. There are very few people who can take strikes and wait for the strike they really want. Carlos can. That's a tribute to his work ethic and natural ability, |
I thought defensively, we were very, very good this afternoon. We've been off for eight days, but I thought our kids played with a lot of confidence tonight. We've had three very good days of practice, and they were looking forward to the tournament. |
I thought Faulkner established himself as a legitimate ace. It was our first time out and we had some errors, but the kids battled back. I'm pretty happy with the way we hung tough. This is a senior-laden team and I have a lot of kids with character. |
I thought I put entirely too much pressure on myself. We were winning, and I wasn't having fun. I don't want to act like I was depressed or miserable. But instead of worrying about what wasn't fixed, I needed to start enjoying what we'd accomplished. |
I thought our defense played exceptionally well. They had beat up on a lot of people. They were big up front and had some good people in the backfield. I thought we did a good job. We were able to take advantage of some mistakes and win the ballgame. |
I thought that we missed an opportunity, we out shot Racine Park but we are not disciplined playing defense. We took third place in the tournament, but we could have done better, we came out with a winning record, but it was disappointing as a whole. |
I thought the tempo went to us in the first half. The latter part of the game we got tired and back on our heels. We played Northfield today, travel to Montpelier Thursday, and have U-32 here Saturday. We were hoping for some momentum from this game. |
I told him in the beginning of the year how good he was going to be. He doesn't even know that. That's the scary part. He has no clue. Anytime you focus on trying your best and not worrying about the result or thinking of failure, good things happen. |
I told him not to worry about it. I told him not to put too much pressure on himself. The way he hits, his timing has to be perfect. But there are still a lot of games left down here and he's going to have plenty of at-bats to get his stuff together. |
I told our girls I was happy with the way they fought back and took it to five games, but I thought we never should have been in that position. We were a little wrapped up in what they were doing ... they forced us to play their game instead of ours. |
I told the guys and the staff that this was a special game for me, they knew that. But the most important thing was to get three points and move out of last place in the East, but everyone knew it was a special game and I thank them for their effort. |
I told the players, 'I'm going to keep 85 percent of this the same. Allow me 15 percent wrinkles.' So every time we'd do something, Steve Young would go, 'Was that the 15 or was that the 85? What is that? You're going over. It's almost 20 (percent),' |
I told these guys now they belong. Now we're going to go on the road and get our first Big East (road) victory. We're going to be in the Big East Tournament. I gave them things to feel good about themselves because they deserved it. They played hard. |
I try not to think about this being my last college game. These guys have been my best friends for four years and it's going to be tough not playing with them any more. Right now, my focus is to win the game, but afterwards, I'm sure it will sink in. |
I turned to Abe with about 16 minutes left, when we were down by about 15, and I said, we can still win this game. He looked in my eyes, and you could just tell he believed it. We believed it, we all believed it. We've been in those positions before. |