Jack Warner Quotes (33 Quotes)

Our last place team could have probably won many conferences across the nation. That's the good thing about it (Big Ten). It spears the athletes on and pushes them to better performances and that is why we are here.

They are really believing that they can compete at the Big Ten level and be successful. Especially after what they did in cross country they moved up a few spots.

We have a lot of title threats. When you get those points before you know it you have quite a few points in the hopper.

I have a theory of relatives, too. Don't hire 'em.

She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.

Cross Country is such a pack sport. In our first two races we did not pack up very well. If we want to catch some of the top teams, we need to work on bunching up.

On the men's side we are short in some areas, so we hope to see strong performances out of the areas in which we have strong athletes. We look to continue developing in our throwing events, while also getting our distance runners going.

Lindsay ran a good race. We would have liked to see the other women runners close the gap a little though, but it was a nice way to get our feet wet.

I wish I could have come here this afternoon and say we have all the money. I wish I could have come here today and say that the team will be comfortable based on all the money we have received. But sadly enough I can't because we simply do not have the money we need.

Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

I must correct you on the talk about this being project for 2010 and 2014 alone, because anyone of you here today by your performance out on the field can be good enough to have a chance with the senior team, then you will be looked at.

David has dealt with a hip injury of late. It will be important for the guys that he scores points for the team even if he is not feeling great.

That really got us rolling. It helped close the gap on Indiana State and then our ladies led us to the victory.

This meet will give us a good look-see at where we stand in the Big Ten competition. We will be able to test the waters and challenge our team a little more than we did last weekend.

He ran well. He got off to a real good start, tripped up on a few hurdles in the middle, but what counts is that he scored and earned All-America recognition. I think this is redemption for being left out of last year's indoor meet.

I think the team was a little upset of how it went last week. They wanted to make sure we didn't lose the Cup.

Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well.

This goes to also say how fortunate you are to have this chance. We do not want to say that we qualified for a World Cup in a one-off situation.

They're capable of doing that they should be doing that.

She has a good shot. She's gonna be stressed a little bit, but the plan is for her to go out and defend her title.

The team has reached this far without government funding and the team shall reach that far the same way.

Our goal on the men's side is to be where we were a year ago, if not better, and for Rickey and John to improve their qualifying marks, and for others, like David Rae , to make it onto the national lists. Rickey is going in trying to defend his title. If he is able to do that, it will get us rolling. We also hope to score well in the pole vault because we have four solid athletes in it. David Rae is capable of scoring us some major points in the 3,000. We are a young team, but we have a lot of people capable of doing great things. Hopefully, Big Tens will be an awakening for them to compete at a high level.

Our women should be pretty competitive. It should be a pretty balanced meet for us and we should do well in the scoring.

I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.

I'm taking a pretty big crew of ladies we've got some pretty tough competition down there in Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, South Carolina and Georgia Tech. It will be highly competitive for our kids, so I'm anxious and looking forward to it.

I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great.

Brooke has been great for us. She will have to wait until Big Tens to get the school record but that time will come.

I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.

It is very difficult to compete in all of them. Part of that got to her. But she is still young and can improve on that.

I would really like to move up in the standings from where we finished last year. I'm looking for the women's team to make a big jump up.

I can't remember when 40 points was the last place total at indoors. I knew we were on shaky ground coming in, but if you told me we would score 40 points - I'd thought that would be good for seventh place. I'm sad to finish last, but we're loaded with young talent that will help this team in the future.

We should have beaten the OSU men but that is what happens in a meet like this. On the ladies side, I thought we had some good performances.