Quotes by John Spini

“We have a real exciting team this year. We will be depending on seven freshmen . . . and with some of the other kids we have, we think we can be very competitive at a high level.”

“It is going to be a learning curve mentally for mental toughness. But we have great leadership and great young freshman class, and the chemistry is really good.”

“Ashley is doing a superb job. We do have to be careful with her ankles. They are fragile. And Lauren is going to be a great asset for us in three events.”

“Right now, I just want the kids to be very aggressive and stay confident. Confidence is the uniqueness of our kids this season. Im really pleased with what Im seeing on their faces when theyre competing. I have a lot of confidence in this team.”

“We wont figure out our lineup until we get to Washington and go through warm-ups before the meet.”

“I was really pleased with how well we competed tonight. I think this will help us continue to move up in the rankings. This will give us even more confidence to get to where we want to go.”

“We put it all out on the floor and I really went after it. That was the second-place team in the country and we lost by seventy five-one hundredths of a point.”

“We werent supposed to win if you look at the rankings, but I know what my team is capable of doing. Is it disappointing? No. But Im mad. I personally just dont like to lose, but at the same time, Im happy with how exciting this team is when theyre competing. I think this is the best team that I have ever put on the floor since Ive been here. Were going to challenge for a national championship.”

“The meet really looked worse than it was. We had to count a full point in falls, while [Stanford] had a perfect meet and beat us by four-tenths [of a point].”

“Nicole is one of those kids thats going to win many meets for us. She just wanted to do really good for the team [with Orlando out], and I think she got frustrated with herself. I just didnt want to see her take another fall on that routine.”