Tim Walton Quotations

There are no easy games. We've got a tough game at their place. We have got to improve everything every day. There's nothing special about playing them. They bring a high level of intensity and we have to do the same.

She's probably not finished yet. She's in a good little groove there.

She's a gutsy kind of performer. I really like her style. She does a lot of things, and if she's not swinging very well, she can drop down a bunt.

Obviously they were both highly recruited pitchers, so I definitely expect them to do what they're doing. But they still have to improve. They're two freshmen that are making progress to be better.

I don't know that it's a bad rule or a good rule. It's an administrative rule that I've seen called quite a few times.

I felt like in order for our team to do what we wanted to do we needed to get a couple games this weekend.

Just trying to shake some of the cobwebs off.

I think it'll be a good game. They have a chip on their shoulder and I like that because that's what our team needs to have. That's what we're working for when we play them.

Our pitching staff still has to improve, and they know that. If they can get over the hump and make quality pitches, and we can cut our strikeouts down, we'll be in every ball game this weekend.

Lindsey is a tremendous spark for us, and that was one of the reasons I felt comfortable with her in the lead-off slot. It's not in our team's character to go out and take the first pitch. I tell them to come out swinging, so I wasn't surprised when she swung at strike one. She came back and sent the next pitch sailing.

It doesn't really matter how good they are or how they're struggling or whatever you might say. We've got to figure out a way to get our troops ready to go again and get the confidence back in them.

I was nervous two weeks ago. I was nervous in anticipation for our athletes to get that first game under their belts.

We played good defense, and that's the name of the game. You have to do a good job limiting opponents to just three outs and fight through adversity, and we did that tonight.

We were struggling. It was easy to see that their pitcher was doing a great job. It looked like we were guessing a little bit. She was throwing strikes, and we're looking for balls. She's throwing balls, and we're looking for strikes.

We won't know the true ramifications of a quality schedule like this until the end of the year when it comes selection time. That's what our goal is. We don't care about wins and losses.

We don't pay attention to anything like that. All we're looking to do is to improve every single day and that's all I can ask for as a coach.

This team is starting to believe in themselves a little bit.

We knew if we were going to have a chance against Michigan we were going to have to get some clutch hits. We showed a lot of patience at the plate in the seventh inning and Lindsey Cameron came through with that clutch hit.

Almost all of Lacy Howard's hits have all been RBI hits. I think she has more RBIs than hits. That's very clutch for us and I am very pleased to get a lift out of her.

They (Nelson and Littlejohn) came in playing a game. That helped Stacey stop analyzing every pitch and just throw. She's just living in the moment.

It's awesome, and we really have three, but you don't know it yet. When Brooke Johnson gets on base, she's fast. ...When you have speed, you make the defense do things they don't want to do.

I want to know what our record is when the opponents score first because we seem to be coming back a lot. That's just going to help us down the road to play tight and win close games.