23 Quotes by Larry Peterson

We decided to take about $1 million out of reserves to redo the roof on the Japan Airlines hangar. That's a big bite, but we're at the point of Band-Aiding it each year, which doesn't make sense after a certain point.

We're playing good softball. We just didn't get the hits when we needed it. We made one mistake defensively and it cost us but I'm not too disappointed. Port Charlotte is a good softball team.

We're looking forward to the second half of our district schedule. We have got to be the best 2-5 team in any district. A couple of key hits and we could very well be 6-1 in the district right now.

Last year, we didn't care if (opponents) knew where the ball was going. But now we don't have a hitter who can go up against a double block and score consistently.

My girls finally showed what they're made of. We've lost a lot of close games this year. I'm extremely proud of my kids.

We're obviously going to miss Ali. You just don't get many opportunities to coach players like that in your lifetime. It's going to be different because we depended on Ali an awful lot, but the truth is we couldn't have done all we did with just one person.

I thought we were ready to quit there when we got down, but Nicole really got us fired up and was a good leader out there. We had five sophomores out there playing most of the night and I think they were really nervous at the beginning.

I think she had to get a ticket to get back in the ballpark.

We didn't seem to get the key hit when we needed it. But I'm proud of the kids and the way they competed.