I've just got to draw from this and try to play this well when I'm playing tournament after tournament, week after week out on the tour by myself.

We're looking forward to the challenge of playing at the state tournament. We have to go up there and play our game. We can't let the excitement of the state tournament get us out of our routine.

My boss is gracious enough to give me a week off to work this tournament.

It's really tough. I just feel like if I can win this bracket this week, I can win any tournament I enter. There are so many good wrestlers.

When you're working with little kids - like at the basketball tournament we had last week - it was fun working with some of the younger girls and knowing that they have goals of someday being a varsity player as well.

I talked about playing in the tournament, and what it's like (to win) and to be able to sit back for a week and see your name, and have everybody talk about you, and where you're seeded and how great you are. It's a much better feeling than sitting on pins and needles, wondering.