Augie Garrido Won Quotations

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

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.

I'm glad they don't judge wins by the number of hits each team has. This weekend, we won three games but it didn't belong to us. Every inning was a battle.

The game was 20 innings and it was cold. We finally won it when the players started getting delirious. They got to laughing and that's what broke the ice - literally.

The first game (Saturday) we didn't play very well and we still won the game, 5-3. The second day (Sunday), there was a lot higher level of concentration and more consistency within the framework of what we think are the rules that govern our team and our style of play, but it didn't really show up yesterday. Today, it did show up. The two teams really separated themselves. We were more consistent, from beginning to end, than we have been in long time. It's extremely encouraging...It almost looked easy. That's the way it's supposed to look when it's well done.