A. Hodge Definitely Quotations

I don't know who's going to get coach of the year, but he certainly deserves it. I don't know how many coach of the year awards he's received, but this is definitely the best job he's done.

The American riders tend to do a lot better on the finish circuit. They are more used to it than the European-based riders. This will definitely play into who wins the stage - it's who wins the turns. I like one of the American teams for this stage.

We're definitely doing more blitzing (than in the past), and when you blitz you've got to communicate more. When you're blitzing, everyone has to be on the same page.

It's definitely behind me now. I know I'm strong mentally, so I got past it pretty fast. It happened on the court a couple of months ago. I know I'd been feeling pain in it for a while now, but I just played through it.

It's definitely been a challenging first 10 days under coach Karl, ... He's really tough on me, and I like that because I know it's going to make me better and make me cut down some of my bad decisions on the court and make me that much smarter of a player.

Being from New York City was definitely tough going, and coming out here to Colorado, I was definitely thinking that was real ironic. I'm very happy and I'm going to take advantage of each day that I'm here on this Earth.

I don't know if it was a turning point, but it definitely killed us. That whole drive we had marched down the field and Texas had not really stopped us.

I don't want to say what coach Karl is throwing at me isn't tough - that it isn't as hard as my brother - because he's just going to throw more at me. I'm not going to set myself up, but growing up in Harlem, New York, it was definitely hard and this is just another bump in the road. Once I get past it, I'll be that much stronger.

The competition should be very entertaining and it's definitely worth seeing. Hopefully we can get a lot of support from fans (tonight) and find some momentum heading into the Missouri Valley schedule.