Jeff Thompson Quotations

We're going to taper down a bit. Make sure everyone has fresh legs. It's going to be all positive and encouraging. We're going to need everybody at state. We feel like this team can do it. We're just inches away.

We wrestled well. The kids looked great. A couple of JV kids stepped in and wrestled well.

When everyone is working in their studios you don't really see what they are working on. So it's nice to see everything come together like this.

Nobody over there wants to be on the first team that loses to us again. We know we'll get their best lineup. We've got the skill level to hang with them and make it close in the end. When you can make them worry about being the first to lose to Auburn in like 85 contests, maybe that will play to our advantage.

He's healthy, and he's gunning for that state title.

I think it's good she's going to compete as an individual and sit and watch and realize our team is just as good as most of the teams that are going to be there. Hopefully, it will light a fire under her for next year.

Julie finished similar to how she did last year at the championships, where she was bumped from the finals at the end. She's just been solid for us on beam all season long and I thought her vault was the best vault she's ever done.

Julie Dwyer is on cruise control right now and we are glad we have her on our team.

I would like to finish strong. I use technology to help me train correctly.

We really proved a point. We can compete with the best teams in the country.

We knew it was just a matter of time before Lindsey got her first all-around victory. She has been super-consistent over the past few weeks and that consistency has turned into greater self confidence and a more determined will to win.

We had a good start. We had our best vaults of the year and we won the vault as a team tonight. I'm really proud of our team in the event. Unfortunately, our youth and inexperience in big meets caught up to us tonight.

VoIP has really changed the way we do business.

We are very pleased with tonight's performance. Although vault and bars weren't the best we've done this season, I was very happy with the way they rebounded on beam and floor. I think the girls may have been looking ahead to next week's rematch with Alabama and not really concentrating on the performances needed to defeat Illinois-Chicago.

After (Friday's) game, we'll have played more games at West Perry than we have at home.

They've been so solid, I don't think we'll faze them. This is one of those years where the only team that can beat Georgia is Georgia themselves. But man, wouldn't it be fun.

It's the same as last weekend and the weekend before. It doesn't matter who we're competing against because our routines are the same. That's the approach I want them to take. It shouldn't feel harder because it's Georgia. It's the same routine they do every day in the gym.

Steve Wells did a real good job defensively. We played a real good team game. That's kind of how you like to see us. They couldn't stop Bruce inside.

I'm really proud of the team's performance as a whole in a tough environment on Senior Night in front 10,800. ... Whatever the reason, we weren't as sharp as we needed to be to give Alabama a challenge.

In the summer I was getting up at 5 a.m. every morning and driving to Fort Worth three times a week for rehab. I've been working hard trying to get back. It really put everything in perspective because you never know when it's going to be gone.

But in the last two weeks I have had calls from five people to talk about building houses.

He's any parent's dream. He's so well-rounded. He's great in the community, does so much for his church and student government. He's a great athlete, and he got great SAT scores.

Good memories are seeing a lot of good friends,

These guys already are the fastest and best of the best just by being here today.

The implementation of VoIP was the only solution that would allow voice traffic at a very small cost,

A lot of kids wrestled way above their seeding.