R. Ingram Team Quotations

To hold a team to 21 points, we played pretty well defensively. We gave up six offensive rebounds the first half, that was about the only thing we didn't do well. For 2006, it's a good way to open the year.

It wasn't a real pretty game, but a win is a win. That's all you really want. Coach always tells us, good teams find a way to win.

They didn't have anything to lose, but we fought and came together. That's what championship teams do at this point in the season.

We are getting better each day and are on the doorstep of being one of the better teams in the conference. We will learn from this game and move on to our next game.

You can't give any team in this league a moment to regroup. We sat back a little and they came up with two quick goals and all of a sudden we were down. It's going to be like that from here on.

I think we've grown more as a team in this series than we have all season which is saying a lot. We've had a lot of ups and downs this series but all 23 guys pulled together and got the job done. I'm happy and excited for them and now we have to beat another strong team.

You want a guy like that on your staff, a guy who's unselfish. He roots for his pitchers to get the job done. He wants them to do well when he catches. That's what a good catcher does. The offense is just a bonus. His value to a team is his ability to catch and call a game.

For the first few days, it was kind of hard. After I talked to my mom and family, they told me not to worry about it. Then my teammates started really joking about it so it kind of opened me up about it.

When you're at the top you're the team everybody gets up for. We had a team beat us the other night and you would have thought they won the Stanley Cup by the way they were yelling and whooping down the hall. The good thing is, that gives our guys the extra incentive to win. They don't like to hear that.

We got lazy and we got away from our systems. We did it before in the first round and we've done it in this round. We've lost our focus and to me that isn't acceptable for a team that won 30 games this season.

He scores goals in bunches so its obvious we're going to need him and everybody else to show up for the next two games. When we don't bring our speed to a game we're a pretty average team but on the nights we're flying we're pretty much unstoppable. I think the guys realize what team we need out there to wrap this thing up.

He?s got to grow up. He?s got to be alert and aware on the bases. He?s got to create positive plays and not let teams off the hook. I?m speechless on that play.

She was a great leader, a great soccer player. The strength of the team is the team, not the individuals. She was somebody we looked toward to make things happen. And her personality was even stronger than her soccer ability.

They got off to a quick start and we had to do something. My teammates found me and I made a couple at the right time.

We build the team off the defense. You'll see Kevin jump on certain opportunities, but the main focus for him is defense.

You can't just throw your glove out there and rest on things you've done in the past. The other team's trying to win, too. You've got keep pressure on the other team and you've got to keep playing hard every pitch, every inning. We didn't play hard every pitch, and definitely not every inning.

I love the way we came out in the first period. But then we had a four-minute power play and only got two shots on goal and in a game like this you just can't do that. We sat back and got complacent and against a veteran team like (the Braves) they'll beat you every time. We have to stay up for the entire game and play with urgency.

He shows the guys. If things are down, he'll step up his game. He goes out every game like he wants a championship. That shows his teammates what it takes to be successful. He leads by example with his effort.