Ray Tanner Quotes (60 Quotes)

It is very important. (But) will this weekend have any affect on what happens in the end I'm not sure it will. There's 27 games, counting this weekend, left.

They're a great college baseball program. When we get together it's always a good game and a good atmosphere and well attended.

They are no average freshmen. They are above average talents.

We had some good scoring opportunities and didn't capitalize, but you've got to give the other team's pitching staff credit for getting out of a run scoring situation. It was a game that could have gone either way.

We're trying to make some changes. We're at the point in the season that we need to get some quality innings.

We've probably got more youth that is probably going to get immediate playing time than ever before.

There's nothing better than a veteran team, that plays hard, that plays smart and has great leadership. But there's some teams where you have young players on and this is one of them.

They had runners in scoring position and it was tied at one and with a big hit there things could've gone a different way. We took advantage of an opportunity in the bottom half of the inning without getting many hits. You have to be opportunistic and we've been able to do that the last few weeks.

Quinnipiac isn't in awe of South Carolina, and they are coming down here to win. The fact that we were able to answer whenever they got some runs was big.

The lefty they had out there to begin with was very effective and did a nice job. We really didn't do much offensively except for the one inning.

We're excited to be moving ahead with a stadium and a location that will be second to none in college baseball. The new facility will be a special venue for our former players, current players and our fans.

That's baseball. They did more things to win the game than we did.

I thought he was trying to be too perfect. I told him we needed to be competitive because the bullpen was getting ready to warm up. He responded.

I don't think we've ever had a team where we've relied on freshmen like this season. They play with more maturity and poise than their age.

I was hoping to use one or two less pitchers than we did today. It's unfortunate it was a little bit chilly because it was a quality baseball game for the fans. ... We made a mistake early that allowed a run, and they made one late that allowed one.

Let's make no mistake he was a good hitter to begin with. But good hitters need to be strong, too. The added strength has made a lot of difference for his this year.

Everybody has turned it up a notch. The teams that were a little bit short years ago have narrowed the gap. You can't pick a team to play. It's one of those things that's hard to put a finger on other than to say, 'Everybody's good.' And it's not just coach talk.

I think it's great that we have two teams playing baseball tomorrow where it's hard to get a ticket. That's outstanding.

We've gotten better, but as I reminded the team there is just a few steps between the outhouse and the penthouse. You've got to play with heightened awareness all the time.

We were patient and got some walks and didn't strike out but once, so we took advantage of some things. Today we got some extra outs and were able to score guys that got on base other ways than with hits. We hit balls hard, but again we didn't have a lot to show for it.

I doubt he ever saw that sign at Bishop England. But he's in the fire. He's a tough kid. He's got thick skin, and he's ready for this type of environment and did a nice job.

We gave him a start early in the year. We kind of made a decision that we don't like him out there for five or six innings we like him a little bit shorter than that. We extended him a little bit but he did a super job.

Everything went well. The doctor told him that he should be ready to go by the time next season begins.

I was optimistic going in after the week of practice that we had. I thought we were more comfortable offensively. We swung the bats better, and hopefully things will continue in that direction.

This is an outstanding class with numerous potential draft choices. The talent level in this group will make an immediate impact as we continue to compete for SEC championships, postseason NCAA berths and a return to the College World Series.

We were a little more comfortable offensively and we did swing the bats better. Baseball's a hard game and we have to be more comfortable when we play it. Scoring early today helped us relax a little bit.

He's been doing a good job for us. Beverly's been giving us five or six good innings each time, and we've been able to keep his pitch count down. He could go longer, but we want to make sure we use everybody in the bullpen and try not to wear ourselves down before the end of the year.

That's the way this game is. We caught this team at a time they were playing their best baseball.

(Cruse) was only going to go two or three innings at best, and obviously it wasn't a good outing for him, so we went ahead and sat him down.

I think this gives us a little validation. We think we have a pretty good team, but we're young. It helps us a little bit regardless of what happens tomorrow. I think our guys will feel like, hey, we're pretty good, too.

He didn't want to try and come back and pitch this year if he wasn't a hundred percent. I certainly agree with his decision.

It's a conference that has administrators who care about baseball and resources are provided, and they try to put you in the best situation to win.

Drew understands our situation. Most other guys would have been in my office by now. He has an argument for being in there every single day.

I was really optimistic going into practice. I thought we were a little more comfortable at the plate today.

You win the first two, you want to do a good job on Sunday and try to get the sweep. But it's hard to do, and we just weren't able to do it today because of Crawford.

(Campbell's) been here a long time and he's come up with some big hits. We were very fortunate to win this game.

He has great poise and composure for a freshman. For any pitcher, you have to have those traits to be successful. He throws four pitches for strikes, and he'll throw them at any count. His competitive nature is as good as anybody. Plus, you throw in the fact he has the genes to be successful.

They're blue-chip prospects. They have been everything I have thought they would be and more. Not only are they talented, but they handle themselves well for young players. ...They will make an impact.

Do we want to win Yeah, we want to win. I don't think we've been struggling ... but we've got to be able to win some close games.

There are guys who pitch on Friday, but there are only a few Friday night guys like Wade LeBlanc, those special guys. He may be the best guy in the league.

We caught Alabama at a time when they were playing their best baseball. Today it was simple, pitching and hitting. They did both better than we did. My guys played hard but they weren't good enough.

Honeycutt was scheduled to go and he got sick. He came in Saturday and threw a light bullpen to get ready and before the game today he was on the training room table with some type of virus.

Pelzer looked good coming out of the blocks. We thought he threw the ball well, and we actually thought about getting him out after the fourth inning but decided to leave him in for a few more pitches to try and get the decision. He'll be in the mix all season.

We feel like if we can get a pretty good offense together, we'll win some games. Pitching's been good all year long and the bats started coming around today, which is good because we've been talking about it way too much.

I just hate doubleheaders in general. But it had nothing to do with what happened today. We played a team today that's very, very good and we caught them at a time when they're playing their best baseball.

I don't usually go back that far. But that's when he caught my attention.

I like it the other way I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.

Probably scoring early today helped us relax a little better offensively. We'll do a better job with the bats than we've done in the past couple of weekends.

We chartered a couple times in my career, but we go commercial most of the time when we fly, and we try to bus as much as we can. It's hard to move a baseball team commercially.

We extended him a little bit today, he did a super job.