Conference Quotes

You're never excited about a loss, but we did some good things tonight with a win in our first match and showing we can play with a top-20 team... We're going to need what we learned in the Texas match tonight when we get into conference play. When you play a good team like that, you have to know they are going to respond and take it to a next level. We have to find a way to respond as well and answer back consistently. - Ole Miss

You're going to have your differences in the way you practice. There are no hard feelings from our side. It's an important preseason game for us, to show we're getting better. We don't have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us. They're not in our conference; it's over with. - Jeremy Shockey

You're always striving for the pollsters to translate into an excellent spring. But there are seven or eight teams in the SEC that can honestly challenge for (the conference), so it should be pretty exciting. - Michael Hegarty

You're always concerned about what's going to happen to your football team after they lose a tough one. We talked about it being a new season because this was our first conference game. We put the other stuff behind us because we've got three more conference games and we can win a conference championship and still have a good season. - Cal McCombs

You'd like to win them and I want to win them. But you go back a few years and we were 2-0 in exhibitions and lost our next three in conference, so it's really irrelevant. - John Bartolovic

You would think to have a winning record against the third-best conference in the nation, you should have an opportunity. - Marsha Sharp

You work so hard to get the program to be a Final Four caliber program and then not to make your conference tournament is really slipping. Regardless of how close we've played teams, that wins you no medals. - Rick Pitino

You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference. - Richard M. Nixon

You will shortly have a press conference. I want you to reveal your own feelings. - Junichiro Koizumi