Matt Paxton Quotations

Marcus has never beaten his brother before. He beat him today.

He set it Tuesday and he re-set it tonight. The record had been standing since 1983.

We had a real strong one, two and three man today. It's nice to see that third man running a lot closer than the other two. We've been waiting on that all year.

Every one of my top seven runners had their best time of the year tonight. Our three through five runners dropped a full minute. That's where our boys program was at four years ago.

Galen's really talented. He's our fastest sophomore ever.

(The first three boys) ran as a pack the whole way. They did what they were supposed to do and they pushed each other the whole time. They ran as hard as they needed to.

I was very impressed. We ran a hard workout on Thursday. We ran seven miles. I thought they'd do OK, but I knew we ran hard two days before. I never thought they'd run well enough to win state.

We've never done that before. Our kids are good with leadership and they set good examples. They get good results and because of that, more kids come out to run.

Flury was just phenomenal. You put a freshman in the 2-mile who has never run the 2-mile, and he goes under 11 minutes. You don't run under 11 minutes the first time you run the 2-mile.

We were thinking he had just an average day, but he ran a 17:36. That's great. That's where you want to be. He would have been our second fastest runner on our team that went to state two years ago.