33 Quotes by Mac Gifford

She plays to win and she is a very mentally tough person. She just can't stand to lose.

She played great against a player who was recruited by many schools. She just played great even with the pressure and stuff she had to go through.

I don't think we lost because it was a shape issue; we literally played three days in a row and I don't think we lost because we were tired. I think we lost because we were overwhelmed by the situation, we got off in the latter part of the match. It's a learning lesson for us all, and we have a month to prepare for the tournament.

We've done well with adversity, and we've done well playing with a woman short. We're older and we're better, and we have higher expectations.

God only knows the player with the most determination and fight is Katie, and seeing her go down early because she can't move is tough on everybody. It really affects (the team).

Katie, her stress fractures, even though she is able to play, by the end of two days of playing, she's really sore and her mobility is really affected; same thing for Victoria with her arm. We need to have some other people come up in singles and contribute.

We are dealing right now with several key injuries that affect how we play later in the matches. And that's something we are going to have to deal with.

We've never seen these Midwest teams before and we're starting to realize that we can play with them and even take them now that we've had a taste of them.

Ashley was playing a girl that was just irritating her. She was saying things and stalling. I told her the only way she is going to lose is by letting the girl get to her.