Pat McMahon Quotes (53 Quotes)

Obviously, I have great feelings for Stetson University as my alma mater. It is a university that means an awful lot to me for so many different reasons.

I thought he pitched very well - he located his pitches and he pitched aggressively. I like his makeup.

I thought we competed well and pitched well. We just continue to make strides.

In pitching, location is a key ingredient. So many young pitchers have velocity. But location and movement factor into that, too. You'd rather be optimum in location and movement than velocity. Bryan's really learned to embrace that, which has helped him to be a much better pitcher and in control of his delivery.

I really like Arkansas' club. They're so well-prepared, they play hard, play with great intensity, pitch and defend well - I just enjoy that series.

One of the hardest things for a pitcher coming out of high school to this level is to learn to back off of the velocity. He has learned. That's a sign of maturity.

To be a good ball club you've got to pitch well, defend the field and when outs are given to you, you've got to take those. Those are areas we continue to improve in.

I think that losses are very difficult to handle. Everyone would say they want to win, but it is how they handle it when they don't win that matters. Our guys play with class, work hard and give an all-out effort. We have to continue to battle through this stretch and we will. I am really proud of Bryan's performance. He competed his heart out and we defended the field better behind him.

The production at the top of our order was a big part of the success today. So many different guys contribute on a ball club, but obviously you want to look at the production of guys who are capable, with experience, of doing that.

He feels better today. But I hurt for Darren. He's an integral part of our ball club.

Avery has worked extremely hard. We're just trying to create some offense. He has won an opportunity to play. He's a baseball player. He's the kind of guy I like to be around.

I thought we swung the bat well tonight. We hit the ball right at people and hooked a couple, which means we need to keep it fair.

The players deserve an awful lot of credit for their approach. They work hard to pull each other through.

Sometimes unknown questions are harder than known ones.

Now we have an opportunity to get better for tomorrow. That's our continued focus.

It's another disappointing loss for us in every way. I'm not used to this and don't accept it at all.

I'm very proud of his development. Last year he was a dominating pitcher for us. He gave so much of his heart. I think he's ready for this (new) role on our pitching staff.

They swung the bats as good as I've seen in a long time.

I think our guys are excited about the opportunity of being honored in front of our tremendous student body.

Darren battled his heart out for us. To come up one short on the road like this is a real, real tough loss for our ball club in every way.

With the way we've been swinging the bats, we've got to keep games close and we didn't do that. But to our guys' credit, they kept playing tough the whole game.

This was a difficult loss for a lot of reasons. And they were all hard.

He handled it the way we hoped he would. We told him that he could pitch here and that we believed in him. Use it as motivation.

He pitched through adversity today. He pitched through some runs and pitched through some errors.

This was a good start for our ball club.

This one hurts significantly. I wish there was one thing we need to improve on. I've got a priority list and it is pretty long.

I've got an idea, but I want to see who we match up against, and I will go from there.

That's part of the challenge for us to become a better ball club.

Craig Gentry is a great center fielder and today was a game of little things.

Our schedule, by design, is one of the toughest in the country for that reason. That's how you get better.

He deserves the opportunity to start. He is a three-pitch guy with great field presence. He does a great job with the running game and with the short game, and against Florida State, that is a huge part of what we need to do to be successful.

He's a hard-working guy who has a great career ahead of him.

When you look up and down the order, there were a bunch of different guys contributing and that's very positive. We still have a long way to go, but our guys are playing hard and doing some of the little things well. That will help us in the big picture.

I was very pleased with the way Tommy Wynn stepped forward and pitched us out of some jams. I thought we made quality plays to keep the game close, but we elevated too many balls. We have to be more selective and put the ball on the ground. These guys have great character and will push through.

We talked about hitting being contagious. We're working hard to be a good offensive club, and a club that can manufacture small things.

I'm really proud of Brian's performance. He showed great determination and competed his heart out.

We pitched through some adversity tonight.

They're a very good offensive club that plays the game with a design. They've got some outstanding hitters, and (the home runs) were a huge part (of the Series).

I love the University of Florida, and I am so proud to be here. And so, as much as we all love to compete, my feelings for Stetson are out of the equation. Once you play the game, the game to me is the focus of attention.

I think the journey or the road to Omaha is probably, for all of college sports, one of the toughest climbs.

That would certainly make for another exciting series.

We're not pleased with where we are today, but the adversity faced by this club, bar none, in all my entire years, is unbelievable. There's a lot of different issues, and they haven't let anything get in the way. They just keep battling.

That's happened to our club all year long. We take that as a challenge and as a wonderful compliment.

I'm proud of Bryan Ball's performance. I thought he really competed. He gave us seven innings, so it was a quality start for him.

I don't like the outcome but we got better today. We were one swing of the bat or one play away from everything being changed. Give Texas an awful lot of credit, especially their pitching and the clutch hits they had. But we have an opportunity to play our hearts out again and we will.

Our guys hurt, and that in essence is good. The fact is that they understand and care.

He's one of the outstanding prospects in the country. Bar none.

I thought it was an outstanding game from a pitching perspective and defensive perspective. It gets down to so many little things, and that's what it is. It's a game of small, small things.

Good teams find a way ... when the opposing team scores, to respond immediately. We did that. Good teams find a way, with two outs, to produce runs. We did that. Those things are winning baseball.

We just ran out of outs today. We'll take that and learn from it.