41 Quotes by Tracy Smith

We can't use it as an excuse. We have to be tough enough to overcome that (the games are on the road).

Faith is the only thing we have right now.

We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need to use these mid-week games as prep and confidence builders for this weekend.

We want to go down to Charlotte and win, make no mistake about it. We expect to win three games, but at the same time we want to learn about ourselves as a team. But ultimately, it's all about winning.

I've been telling our guys all along that our season starts this weekend when Big Ten play begins.

Things took a turn on the field and from that point is when we started to get going.

The schedule is something we wanted to address. We think with the addition of Miami (Fla.) and some other changes we made to our mid-week opponents, we have taken steps in the right direction. We will always try and play the best teams in the nation during the non-conference portion of our schedule to better prepare us for Big Ten play and beyond.

It would be nice to get a rhythm and a groove going, but mother nature is going to do what mother nature is going to do. It's just something you have to accept this time of year.

The students really enjoyed the response from the adult day care center. I think that's when it really hit us that these little things really are affecting other people.