Kevin Coker Quotations

We're not happy playing the No. 1 team in the country close. You lose a game, you lose a game.

If we don't go to Omaha, we failed and that's the bottom line. All this regional stuff, that's great, (but) let's just get hot at the end and go to Omaha.

He made me look real bad on the first slider. I thought, since I looked so bad on the first one, that he might come back with another one. I'm glad it fell in for a hit.

We didn't bring the same intensity as they did. Good thing about baseball is you get a second chance two days later.

We beat a very good team, one that was No. 1 in the country at one time.

I've never seen anything like that. It could have turned into a fiasco, but the players calmed down and the game went on.

They came out and had the attitude of a winner. I knew they had good workouts with us, but I didn't know what to expect. I've been really impressed with them.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. He scattered some hits (actually 11), but you can do that when you strike people out. It was the old John Wooden thing. We tell you what we're going to do, and in this case, you hit it if you can.