12 Quotes by Al Scates

He was running different routes. I don't know where he was going. He was doing a lot of verbal routes. It was between him and Dennis. He was running all over the place.

Playing down to their level is usually a problem, but we have to have a mind-set that we're going to play hard before we get there. Last year they had all the emotion and we were lucky to get out of there with a win, and they're going to be excited about playing us again.

We were very critical of some of the things the players were doing during an hour videotape meeting (on Friday). Then we had an hour and a half of video before the game where we looked at the tendencies of all their servers.

We were a .500 team and not very impressive. Lately, we've upped it a bit and a lot of players are playing their best ball all year.

We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.

We weren't really shaken by that horrible first game. I told them we couldn't play any worse than we did.

Right now, this is the worst serving team I ever had. But we're going to keep banging jump serves, and by the end of the year, we'll be better.

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

David was very energized. We hadn't really gone to him earlier (in the tournament), but we decided to go to him tonight. He was on, so we kept going to him.