Rick Rivera Quotations

Like all the other teams in preseason, we need to work more on that. I think we left it all on the field against Franklin. We had played our hearts out.

He has some good hands coming out of the back field as well. Very versatile.

He looked better than I thought he would. I couldn't ask for anything more. I told him he did better in his first fight than I did. I didn't know how to finish my opponent and Enrique did.

We've got a lot of goals. One is to win a team state championship. In order to do that, we've still got to wrestle tomorrow, regardless of what the score is. If we were to lose everything and someone was to win everything, they could still catch us, so ... plus we have a lot of guys who have the goal of being a state champion.

Every game is a playoff game for us now.

They (Rockets) touch the ball pretty well. They have good speed, they have good players and they play good defense. They're a good team overall.

It will be a gut feeling Friday night.

They honored themselves well and McLean well. Some of the situations they were put in, in that last inning, they played very mature softball and it was incredible.

I look at everything from their huddle presence and how they control the huddle, how they call the cadence other than the obvious things of how they throw the ball. There's a lot that goes into that decision. Whether or not they know the offense to put people in the right position.

I never went to class, and when I did, I treated it like high school, like I could get away with stuff.

You can't stop everybody, ... We just hoped to slow them down. But we couldn't sustain long drives, and that opened up the game for Long.

You can still play sloppy and not get after it and still score points. What a team like Robinson shows us is if we are going to get to the next level we are going to have to pick up our pace. This is what the good teams do.