Herman Demmink Quotations

Knowing that we're going to have somebody with heart, playing as hard as he can, gives us a little more motivation.

He had a hard slider and was working in and out with his fastball. Give him credit: He hit his spots.

I think the biggest thing right now is we want to come out, and play well. But there's no reason for us to panic if something out of the ordinary happens this weekend. Hey, it's not likely we're going to go 56-0, so at some point we're going to lose a game. We've just got to put it behind us and be ready to play every day.

You just have to give O'Connor credit for what he's done with the program -- where it was a couple years ago and where it is now.

That's a very good confidence-booster. We haven't been playing with a lot of confidence.

We know this is the time we have to start getting hot.

We needed to get a positive, get a little momentum and take it into the weekend.

We use it as motivation. But we know we haven't done anything yet.

I haven't struggled this year, but I haven't done the right things. It was more of an approach (Sunday) to each at-bat that I wasn't going to waste any opportunities.

He throws a very heavy ball and it's hard to pick up. He has a lot of velocity and his split-finger is fantastic. It's great to know ... that when we have a lead in the eighth or ninth inning, we're going to get that win.

Any team we think has a chance to compete for a national championship needs to be able to take the show on the road.

(The Cavaliers) are executing very well, and their pitchers are doing a very good job of keeping our hitters off balance. Give them credit for what they are doing. We are hitting a lot of balls in the air and not putting pressure on their defense.

You could see the younger guys improving and all of us getting better.

It's very apparent that anybody can win. The rest of the country has shown that, on any given day, you can be beat if you're not ready.