Brian Beckwith Quotes (21 Quotes)

Obviously, it hurts a lot. He's battling to get past that. It's going to be tough the first couple of practices to get used to having a hurt finger. He's not going to give up. He's always playing hard. Whether that thing is falling off, he'll still play,

It puts everyone on that level playing field. It doesn't matter how many years you've been here or how many games you've started. The cauldron affects everyone. That's why it's so great. It makes it equal.

I hope Friday and Saturday night we get tons of UH students there. Hopefully these two promotions will get a lot of students in the games and it gets rowdy.

Their defense is incredible. It just beats down on your ego when balls keep on coming back over and over. I give props to them.

We were going off based on what we knew (from the summer) and grapevine stuff. We had to make in-game adjustments.

When you have friends on the other side, you get more fired up for the games. There's no problem in feeding a guy who has that little extra in him.

We were controlling the ball really well. That enabled me to get so many opportunities to my hitters. When we have ball control like that, I can go anywhere, and it makes it tough for the opposing team. They have to worry about five guys hitting at all times.

Today was bittersweet, without a doubt. I'd much rather have a win than first-team anything.

There are so many different scenarios that could play out that we can't be thinking about that. We have to focus on Friday and then on Saturday.

We definitely didn't make a very good emotional investment. We didn't put ourselves on the line like we usually do. We thought we could walk through this one, and obviously we couldn't.

The thing with the old screens is that you couldn't see everything clearly. Now, you can see each and every play and even mid-play action. It's kind of freaky.

They changed their lineup, but that's not a problem as long as we take care of the ball on our side. They came out tough and played hard. We played harder.

We wanted to send a message that we could do the same thing to them that they did to us. We did not want it to go four. This is a very big win for us. Irvine is a very, very good team and they crushed us Wednesday.

There's added incentive, playing SC, with so many past schoolmates and teammates playing for them. It will be fun to play against them.

I was just trying to move the ball around as usual and keep them guessing. I saw that opening down the middle and decided to exploit it until they stopped it.

We got going there at the end of the first game and started cutting down on our errors. Then our control of the pace of the game really showed in the second and third games.

He's a good hitter because he runs his route hard, no matter where he is. He calls for the ball loud. It's tough not to give someone like him the ball.

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

We tried to keep them guessing. With these back-to-back matches, the scouting can be so right on sometimes. They almost know where I'm going to set before I do. I took the liberty of scouting myself and changing my game. Not so much to the point where my offense was different, but to where my situational thinking was different. A hitter has to make the right shots, and I have to make the right decisions.

I saw the opening, took advantage of it and had no problem making that choice.

We got caught in a few mental errors. We were a little anxious after a long, restful weekend. We can improve on that, as well as working harder on our serves.