Cal Hubbard Quotes (31 Quotes)

It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

both improved a lot as players over the years.

She's a more mature player this year. She's able to handle adversity better this year,

Our ball movement wasn't good, and that's a credit to Quincy Notre Dame. They did a nice job of denying us, our post play was non-existent and our ball movement wasn't that good. Our shooting was worse.

I went to PE classes and started getting kids out there, ... They'd say, 'I've never played golf before,' and I'd say, 'I don't care.'

For these kids it was huge. We've had it broken several times and somehow, we get our hearts broken, but these kids have kept a good attitude and I'm really proud of them. It was a good win.

Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.

But they played real good golf in critical situations yesterday and today. Our six-person score was pretty impressive both days.

I thought our kids played as hard as they could play. We had the game won several times Eureka had the game won several times. We left everything on the floor. We didn't get the win we've been snake bit for the last two weeks now. You just needed the one break and we didn't get it.

He's always had good timing and a good knack for the ball. He's not a very good jumper, but he's got a nose for the ball. Tonight he did a real good job on the weak side of coming up with rebounds - key rebounds.

Lisa is coming around. She's played varsity for four years and never had to compete for a spot before,

Christine is really striking the ball solidly. She's a hard-working girl, pounding balls and working on her swing. Cheryl is very good around the greens and has very good imagination. She's excellent at scrambling. Chelsea's the most powerful player we have. She bombs it. She can go low.

I think the depth of our team was a factor. We've got six kids that can count, at any time, and we have a lot of consistent players. I thought the conditions were tougher today, and our kids competed real well.

We have seven kids (including junior Erica Woodall) who are really close in average, and I think that gives us something a lot of teams don't have, ... This is the first time I've felt we are capable of winning and have a chance to win, and all you want in athletics is a chance.

When it was time for a player to go, he went.

Brittany is a lot stronger. Her swing is more consistent. She's getting to a good place in her backswing. She struggles around the green some, but her chipping has improved.

The big deal was, they did anything they wanted to in the second half offensively, and we didn't have an answer for it.

I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.

I don't talk about winning nine straight. All I talk to the kids about is trying to get over their bad shots, putting them behind quickly and keeping on an even keel emotionally. We're not as strong mentally as we need to be to play when the rain is coming sideways and it's cold, but we're pretty far along.

The girls seem to have really turned it up a notch the last five years, ... I think we're getting kids who play golf because they see it as a way they can have success. They're saying, 'I can do this.'

If you commit six turnovers you should have won the basketball game.

It's always nice to get a win on Senior Night. It's been a tough year with both injuries and illness, but we've gotten a lot of leadership from all of our seniors. Matt Anderson has been a big for us coming back from a broken foot. Tyler McNeely (senior No. 4) was there for us all year until he broke his wrist. We'll miss all of them.

Excellent. It's a good group, ... We won last weekend (at the Decatur Eisenhower Cleveland Invitational) and shot 311 and 320. Those are good scores. It was ideal conditions. But the kids played well. The second day we had three girls in the 70s.

Golf is really important at U High, and kids work on their games,

We didn't have a single stop or rebound in the first quarter. We changed our defense, did a good job of staying in front of the ball and were able to stop their penetration in the second quarter. Our first substitution rotation seemed to help as well.

The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

I thought Jeff Higgins came in and gave us a real big lift because we were really dragging. He did a good job on both ends.

It makes a great difference if you have parents who are supportive. It is a very expensive sport and it takes a lot of time, and if you don't have the support at home I don't know if there's any way you could become a good player.

All we're really worried about is the kids competing on the course and not giving shots away because they're so emotional or upset about something they've done wrong, ... Obviously, they're a really talented group.

The course was much tougher today because of the wind factor,

As long as our kids can focus on playing their games and not worry about what everybody else is shooting at them and they take care of attacking the golf course, I think we'll be OK,