Andy Lopez Quotes (47 Quotes)

We are not really hampered by this, not with the young team we have. If we were a junior dominated team, I would be a little more concerned. We have so many people coming back, with 22 freshmen, that it won't hurt as much.

I am looking forward to it. I really am. I used to do it every year (while coaching) at Florida. We went every year to Miami, a 7-to-7 12 hour trip. I think it's good. It makes our guys appreciate what they normally do on a road trip.

It's really our first class (to get drafted), and I miss those guys. But it's been great to have them be a part of it this weekend.

The goal is to play the game soundly, and we did not play the game soundly at all this weekend. We took a couple of steps backwards.

I really think he's going to be a good, good player. I mean a dynamite player when it's all said and done.

I guess they just didn't want good weather schools (to be) successful in the postseason.

It may not bode well for having a sparkling win-loss record at the end of the year, but you make or break yourself with what you do in the Pac-10.

We have to get better pitching performances. When you face a team like Fullerton, you know their Friday night guy is going to be there for six or seven innings.

He deserves that chance, and he is a Friday night guy that can go out with the best pitchers in the country and compete.

We needed a better pitching performance. When you face teams like Fullerton, they're always going to have a good Friday-night guy.

I'm not all that concerned about having to replace guys. I've done that everywhere. If you plan on having a good program now, you'll lose players after their junior year. If Senior Day has 14 guys awarded (with letters), it's not a good year. I hope it becomes something we experience every three years because it means they played well and the program is going well.

I thought when I walked in here that we were in Birmingham at the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Mark was not as sharp as he usually is, but that is going to happen from time to time.

It makes life easier, doesn't it It makes our team easier when they -- for lack of a better word -- produce. It takes a lot of the strain off.

It's hard to measure what you really are doing if you're playing bad people. When you're playing good people you get a chance to figure things out pretty quickly.

My dad fought in the Second World War, and it offends me when they put our military down. That's why I am here to defend our president.

He looks like he's 12 years old.

Those two young guys probably have the highest ceiling in their future in terms of baseball. The other guys are going to be good players for us, but Ryan Perry and T. J. Steele have the makings of being real dominant players when all is said and done.

What is the famous line The best-laid plans of mice and men sometimes go astray. We will see. We need to find a Friday night guy.

I think it went well the turn out was good. I hope people got educated on how they could help out in immigrant issues and just hopefully just keep reading up on certain issues that will affect them in the future.

In a great year I am going to have 10 days where I go home and feel like I should be a truck driver. Tonight is one of those were I take one of those ads down and get the number and put it in my back pocket and think about it for a day or two.

I guess that UCLA education and 28 years of coaching doesn't count for much with the NCAA. The innings I saw were pretty good.

I thought their guy gutted it out. He hung around for nine innings.

We have to get on base, get a guy over and then get a base hit to score them. We have talked all year about getting to first base, and we have done a good job of that.

Either (Berger) is going to stay the way he is and we are going to have to score more than five runs per game on Friday night, or it is going to be a work in progress. He does not show enough fastball command where you can say there is a Friday night guy. Our guy has the ability.

Three years ago nobody was talking about them, ... Three years ago they were just names on paper, and now you're asking how to replace them.

It was a little bit of a gamble, changing it up that late. There are certain athletes that sit around and ponder themselves into slumps or bad situations. I don't think Brian's ever going to be accused of that.

We're going to get a brand-new scoreboard and playing surface and some type of shade roofing on the stadium. Our immediate plans include a new playing surface and grass berms in the bleachers near the bullpens.

That's frustrating. If you have a club that's going to hit 40 to 60 home runs, then you can take that. But you don't want to make mistakes in the air.

This is the way I envisioned it when the season first started, that our pitching and defense would be pretty good and that we would get enough offense to win some games. That is what we got in these three games. A couple of different pitches and we might have had three (wins).

He has had moments where he has looked really efficient. We need to find out if that is going to continue to be the situation.

I would have bet my next five years' salary that the NCAA committee would not have sent a top-10 team to the site of another top-10 team for a regional. You just have to wonder what their thinking was. If I knew that, I would have fought like heck to host a regional.

We have a lot of work to do. We have more questions than answers, many more questions. I'm very, very, very disappointed in what we did. I hope this is as poor as we can play. I don't know if I can stand another weekend of this kind of baseball.

It's not a far-fetched idea that one of these guys may show up with their sons one day on a Little League field built with those proceeds.

With Boyer, we expect him to play like a senior.

I'm really happy with him. He's really, really been a good player for us this year in the fall. If you looked at the numbers, you'd say it might work out pretty good.

A magnet for a baseball.

The one thing I learned a long time ago is you can't really concern yourself with the guys that aren't here. They're not here, whether you cry about it or not. So you spend all your time and energy with the guys that are here.

There's a lot of sloppy baseball being played in college baseball. Either you can be a part of it or you can be above the standard. I saw sloppy baseball on both ends today.

Their guy pitched a gem. He kept us off balance. He made quality pitches with guys on base and got some big double plays.

They all get to that point now. I don't think your season ends tomorrow if you don't win. But you're definitely going in the wrong direction.

The hard part is these are young guys, and we talked about executing a plan on each pitch.

I told them I was not unhappy with them. I also reminded them we have not been blown out of the water. With a few hits here or there, or a different pitch, we would be the talk of the town.

When they get five hits in a row, I'm not sure I've seen anybody get five hits in a row off of him in two years. Yeah, I was surprised.

That's what really is missing on the West Coast. It's an electric conference. It inspires young guys to play even better than they can at times. . . I lived it for seven years. There is no margin for error, no mercy, no grace.

It was pretty special. It was a great way to show how to not set the tempo. That's probably the one thing this club could not afford to have today.

He doesn't have very good command of his fastball. He's not exactly the Friday-night guy we thought we were going to have. Either he's going to stay the way he is, and we're going to have to score more than five runs, or it's going to be a work in progress.