Greg Olsen Quotations

We're looking forward to the challenge. (Pendleton is) a really great team and they beat a really great East Lake team (to reach the finals). It will take a close to perfect game to win.

Losing, it doesn't happen here. It's not accepted. That's just the way it is. Winning is the standard that's been set by the past teams, and each new team wants to live up to those standards. So expectations here are as high as ever. Every time we take the field, we expect to win.

I grew up in space times. In seventh grade, my teacher said we had to do math and science because the Russians were beating us in the space race. It was a real catalyst. I wish we had something like that today.

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

I don't view it as a risk at all, ... Soyuz has an excellent reputation for safety and reliability.

I don't view it as a risk at all.

Just to float in the air is such a great experience. I'm still literally on cloud nine about it.

I think there might be a short-term decrease because of the negative publicity, but a year or two down the line you're probably going to see an increase in value.

People have been asking me if I'm going to do this. My answer is that I'm really interested but one flight at a time.

The partnership makes a commitment. You do your part and we'll do ours and not impoverish you.

We feel we should be undefeated right now. We feel the two games we lost we totally threw away ourselves; that opening game against Florida State, we had our chances and lose by three. We lost to Georgia Tech by four. And it had nothing to do with what other teams were doing. We just didn't play well. We just didn't get it done. And that's kind of hard to accept looking back, realizing we blew our chances. Now we have to finish up the season beating a good team in a big bowl.

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

There was just that floating sensation. It was really magical.

It's like a combination of college and military training. It's not five star, you're not babied... I was expected to do whatever was asked of me. There are frequent exams and I was expected to pass the exams. I haven't had that in over 30 years, the fear we all have -- here's the test, I'd better not fail it.

That (loss) was in the back of everyone's mind. We had to come out here and play an outstanding game to beat them. It was one of our best offensive nights of the year.

It was a great week on the mound for us. Can't say enough about our pitchers. Their mind-set was to go after hitters, throw strikes and change speeds. They went out there and pitched on hearts and guts.

they both said to me that whatever I feel now about space I will feel better when I'm up there.

I'm looking forward to connecting with the students to be able to share my experiences in space. I think it's very important to encourage the youth of today to dream big and let them know that anything is possible through hard work and dedication.

I had a minor medical problem and they said I couldn't go. It took me a year to get well and then I finally went into space. That should just let you all know that you should never give up.

In order to repeat as champions, we were going to have to play three outstanding ball games.

He pitched on guts and heart tonight. He did an outstanding job throwing strikes on all three pitches.