We're a lot further ahead than we have been in recent years. The guys have been seeing a lot of tough situations. [Being in one-run games] has been very beneficial for us.

It's nice to see that each day we come out expecting to win no matter what happens the day before, so that's always good.

I'm a senior, I guess I'm used to it. By now we're all excited to get on the road. I'm actually having jitters thinking about it.

I want to go the whole way to Omaha. I really think we have a good shot at winning the Big Ten. If we win the Big Ten, I think we'll host the playoffs in the new stadium, so that's what I'm looking forward to.

In the time of Galileo it was argued that the texts, 'And the sun stood still ... and hasted not to go down about a whole day' (Joshua x. 13) and 'He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not move at any time' (Psalm cv. 5) were an adequate refutation of the Copernican theory.

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.