John Papa Quotations

We have a special group of athletes on our team this year with a strong nucleus of athletes that compete to the best of their abilities every single meet.

Outside our hallway, we have an academic board. The students want to see their name up there. It may not seem to be a big deal for someone walking down the hall, but they do care.

Everybody did a nice job out there. We're progressing quite nicely and we're headed in the right direction.

I think that some of the kids need a study table. It shows the students that we care. It is a solid indicator. You just have to have the attitude of, I have to do it, I have to get it done.

We need to get much sharper in the upcoming months. From what I see in practice so far, the coaching staff and I are very excited about our potential, and we should be a very good team throughout the year.

With the competition coming in, we should be able to achieve many first places.

We've never gotten anybody from anything like that. When you get a kid from California, they're not coming to Slippery Rock. They're fishing for scholarships, so we're out of that market.

Since most of our kids aren't on scholarship, if you get a student that's a little shaky, then they're probably not going to make it.

We should be able to place very high in every event against these teams. I was very happy with the way the kids came back from the winter break conditioning-wise, very impressed. The only group that isn't really ready yet is the distance runners.

Vera, as an incoming freshman, has really helped us out, there's no doubt about it.