You've got to have a mind-set to play your own game, almost like you're behind. Guys out here are pretty good. Someone can come from four or five behind pretty easily.

If I can just get my tee ball in the fairway, I should be in good shape. It's definitely going to be an exciting day.

What happened a year ago doesn't have anything to do with what's going to happen tomorrow.

We're going to regroup come the off-season, bust our butts, keep training, train hard with one thing in mind, that's the national championship--ending up back here.

He's at his best with two strikes. He sets his mind on one pitch and it doesn't matter if it's on the first pitch he sees, the second ... He was taught right. He's kind of a natural. He knows how to control the bat.

The last thing on my mind [during that play] was how my knee was doing. There have been a couple of times where I've run out of the cage and thought 'should I go or not?' But instinct takes over.