Mike Hebert Quotations

We faced a good team playing at home and weren't quite sure we had enough to beat them. It's a difficult environment and they are notorious for knocking off teams.

We're still evaluating people and trying to figure out how we play best with the combinations on the court. And so that's the thing that is creating the most anxiety in me right now, is trying to settle on a lineup.

From my point of view, we're lucky. It could have been a lot worse.

Our tournament this weekend in Dallas gives us three matches. And that will have to do it, because we start the Big Ten right after that. And we open up at Wisconsin, which will be a pretty severe test.

Meredith and Jessy played at a level much higher than anytime last season. They were much more mature and reliable.

Unlike Nebraska, we didn't know what we had going into the match in terms of the strength of our team this year. And on the basis of what I saw, I think we're going to be pretty good.

We had solid passing and I was impressed with our blocking discipline. We need a ton of work on our offensive rhythm, but that comes with experience.

By this time in the season, I was hoping we would have one settled on. But we're still evaluating people and trying to figure out how we play the best with the combinations on the court.

Individual and team discipline ultimately come down to practicing a small set of principles over a long period of time. Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory, but rather embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. Said in yet another way, discipline is to an athlete what scales are to a musician. Mastering the scales is what allows the musician to perform music. Mastering the skills of self discipline is what enables a person to become an accomplished elite athlete.