8 Quotes by Kristina Thorson

Last year I had a shoulder injury, so I had to change my motion over the summer so it wouldn't hurt. But (yesterday) I went back to my old motion and I felt like myself again. I was getting more snap and power on the ball. Plus, I haven't done well in the last couple of weekends, so I felt like I had to prove myself in this one.

My body was just exhausted from the heat. Just playing in the World Series you have a lot of extra adrenaline anyway and my body just wasn't working the way I needed it to. My ball wasn't moving and I didn't want to hang the ball for them to hit.

We gave it our all, and that's all you can ask for.

Everything is just firing on all cylinders right now-we're really clicking. We're getting runs across the plate and our pitching and defense are keeping the other's teams off. We're doing what we're supposed to do.

That shows why the NCAA tournament is the Pac-10 Tournament. We all beat up on each other.

There were definitely some people crying. I was fighting tears on and off all day. After playing with these people for so many years, we're never going to play with them again, and I think that's the biggest reason people were crying.

It just wasn't the same without Lindsay out there.

She'll laser one into the dugout. In Hawaii, she did it five times in one at-bat. The fence is 3 feet tall, and we're sitting under it to protect ourselves. She has so much power, you don't have time to react.