Augie Garrido National Quotations

Rice's pitching staff fell apart the year after they won the national championship. You just don't know until the season starts.

We look at fall practice as an introduction to the personalities on our team and a way to get to know the people involved. We are also not trying to defend the National Championship, but instead going out and playing the game, which is a lot easier said than done. We are talking to the players about the importance of enjoying the process without feeling the external pressures of trying to live up to something.

When we won our first national title at Cal-State Fullerton in 1979, it wasn't even filmed. You can't find a foot of film of that game.

We thought throughout the season we had a championship-caliber team, but I know you can't be national champion without the right things happening, and they did in this case,

You want to win everything along the way, because that buys you 24 hours of peace, but the national championship is the goal for this program.