Dan Campbell Good Quotations

We hit the ball well (Tuesday), which is good to see. We had a lot of girls take some good swings, and it was up and down the line-up.

She had another good outing. She's going to get plenty of work this weekend (in the CMSU Invitational), so it's good we didn't get to play hardly any games this week. But it was good to get her out there and let her throw five innings, and she had another good night.

She asked me if she could show bunt and then swing it, and I said, 'I don't care, as long as you put it in play. Do whatever you've got to do,' ... She kept doing that and she hit a good line drive to right.

Lauren had another good night for us. She's tough, and if you can just get her a couple of runs, we have a good chance of winning the games.

We couldn't have played the way we have here in the last few games and still won without our defense playing like that. They're really shutting it down over there. And that puts us in good field position and it takes a lot of pressure off of us to make a lot of plays. Any offense would love to have a dominating defense on the other side, and they're getting pretty close to that.

We've been focusing on the offensive side. Coach (Chris) Wyrick has been doing a good job with those hitters, and it paid off for us (Tuesday).

What we've done is good enough to get him what he's got. Is that acceptable? No, it's not. On the flip side, we're throwing the ball pretty good. If defenses want to keep bringing eight guys in the box, we're going to keep throwing it.

We always tell the girls to play like it's 0-0, and we kept scoring and scoring which is good to see because you don't want to let up. I'm real proud of the girls. That was one of the best games we've played in a long time.

They're a good hitting team, take nothing away from them, but we gave them some breaks they shouldn't have had, and you can't do that against a good hitting team.

The bats came alive, which is good to see going into Warrensburg this weekend. ... Our lineup's getting set -- I'm getting pretty set on who I want where.

That guy has made some big plays for us in the last five, six games. You look at the catches he's made. He's got arguably the best hands on this team. He's a very good athlete, and losing him, yeah it's gonna hurt.

I didn't see it as clearly as my assistant coach did, but he's got very good judgment, and when he was arguing about it, I knew we had something there. But (the umpires) said they didn't see it, so that's the way it goes.