Quotes Database

«Her second-place finish was great. She was in the hunt for the crown until the very end.»

«It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.»

«We knew we had some work to do, but we had a plan. We needed two years to kind of be competitive in the Big East. We have got to be ready to fight. It's going to be very intense. All of a sudden everything is going to matter that much more. It's going to be in a great setting, a nice facility, and there's going to be tons of people in the stands. Every little point is going to count for a lot. All of a sudden the stakes are a lot higher. It'll be a good learning opportunity for all of us.»

«It's an incredibly inviting place to be. It's comfortable, clean, new, vibrant, and bright. At Crawford it was hard for us to develop a home. It was more of a place we went to practice and then got out of there. I really appreciate that my office is right here. It makes a big difference. We can train long course, which is really a big plus. We have a nice locker room. It has been great for the team. They feel like big-time athletes.»

«Individuals actually qualify independently to the NCAA championship. We have a number of individuals that I think have a great opportunity in their hands to try to achieve that, which is a huge accomplishment in swimming.»

«Heather is someone I'm looking forward to watching. Leslie has incredible versatility. She makes us a lot better.»

«That's why it's nerve-wracking; you've just got to sit there. As a coach, you're helpless. There's nothing you can do, but it's fun.»

«I can honestly say that we've had the best year that we have ever had here in my tenure. We've performed very well throughout the year. Men and women, both sides, have really swum at a whole different level.»

«It's always a bit of an anxious time. In swimming it comes down to one event. There's not a whole lot of room for mistakes. You've got one shot, and that's it. It's an intense time, an intense preparation. I'm really pleased with how we look in the water right now.»

«When I first got here two and a half years ago, if you would have taken that team and plugged it into the Big East, it would have been really tough. We are going to go and race tough. Our goal is to finish the year in the top 30 in the country. We accomplished that last year, on the men's side, finishing 27th. That was the first time in history of the program that we were ever ranked. Last year we broke 32 school records, mostly in the conference meet. Our goal is to try to top that, and to get better as a team.»