25 Quotes by Paul Mainieri

We know they're going to be tough, especially at home. They're a Florida school and they've got good players and a good coach.

You'd much rather be recognized by the pollsters and the people in the community than not. The thing we have to guard against is living in the past.

You'd like to see more of a battle from your clean-up hitter in that situation.

What we've done so far has put us in position to have a very special season, but in order for us to finish the job, we have to get the job done over the next four weeks.

We don't need any incentive when we play Rutgers. They've been our big rival since we've been in the Big East. We both entered the conference in the same year, and we've been pretty consistently the top two teams in the league ever since.

Wright State out-pitched us. I told coach (Rob) Cooper that if his team pitches like that all season, his team will win a lot of games.

This shows we could be a good offensive team; I hope this carries over for the rest of the week. Scoring early is important for this team because we are not a home-run hitting team and we don't have an enormous amount of power in the lineup.

First of all, anytime you go on the road, it is tough in-conference. Second of all, Georgetown got our attention last year by beating us here. I think they're going to be tough games, and hopefully we'll play well in all our phases and get off to a good start.

I've coached too many games against Rutgers to know they were not going to quit on us.