A winning effort begins with preparation.

Tom puts as much effort, if not more, in his preparation than anybody on this team. I'm not worried about him.

There's a little luck involved, but preparation is what gets you to the top, ... We've learned that winning (state) is attainable for our program.

The effort of the guys has been great. They've been setting goals for our early meets and taking meet preparation seriously and that's great to see. Preparing correctly is important to performing at a high level. I think we're headed in the right direction, but we have a long way to go.

Our batters, and especially our bowlers in the heat - it has been a real team effort. [on winning the South Africa series, 2005]

Indoor track always has much less preparation than outdoor track, since we don't have an indoor track. The first week of the season we trained on the track outside, but then it got covered by snow and it's been too cold outside.