Troy Sunderland Quotes (15 Quotes)

It was almost like he could do no wrong.

When we came back, we had a good talk. It's disappointing to get a loss when you have five kids win and five kids lose. It puts a negative, somber note on the weekend. We're a good team, and we didn't wrestle as well as we should have. We need to wrestle with a sense of urgency and make the small adjustments.

We finished in the top 10, so that is a real positive to take away from this season. To have three All-Americans is a real accomplishment. The kids battled hard I'm really proud of them.

There's not much you can say on a night like this to make someone feel better.

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

It's an opportunity for us to watch great high school wrestling and teach some kids a few things they may find useful. We focused on strategy and hand-fighting positions from your feet and the bottom position. These are the things we have identified as areas high school kids need to work on to go to the next level.

Anytime you've beaten a guy before, you're certainly capable of doing it again. The only risk is to overlook him. That can change the outcome of a match. We have to not look past a match because we've beaten someone before.

He was really disappointed about that loss in the quarters. But I'm really proud of the way he was able to focus after that.

I'm proud of my guys. They wrestled with a lot of heart. They battled through a lot of things.

It's not like he's not at the level he needs to be to compete, he's just relaxing in some situations. You like the fact that he's confident and feels he can beat anyone in any position. But when he gets in trouble, though, he needs to learn to fight to get out of the situation he's in.

Oh, man, what a tournament to be a spectator at with all the great matches. It's been so exciting with all the big upsets. (Today) won't be a day to be in the consolations with all of those guys coming back through.

Some matches we need to win are 33 and 57, 65, 87, 97 and heavyweight. Those are some matches that we're capable of winning if we wrestle how we should.

I couldn't be more proud of him. Ever since he began working with team since he was 10 years old, I've seen him progress so much. There is nobody more deserving to be an All-American than him...I am so happy for him.

The guys know the importance of this weekend. I talked to them a little bit this morning. We're 0-2 in the Big Ten Conference and that's not what we want. We gotta start things off on the right foot tomorrow night.

I think that's the other adjustment as a freshman, you have a tough match and you get up for that match and then the next three or four matches you don't have that caliber of competition. In college, any match you step on the match you, always need to be ready to go.