Mike Skelton Quotations

We experienced the classic cliche -- the thrill of victory and agony of defeat.

We treat them like athletes; we don't treat them like girls. They understand that. The girls who have grown up in our program have seen Jessica or know that she was a captain one year. They don't get any special treatment outside of a separate locker room or the occasional joke about having the nicest hair on the team.

Brad is more of a steamroller and Geary is a more polished wrestler. Geary is capable of high-powered matches. He'll get into 30-second flurries ... the type of scrambles you'll see in college wrestling. Brad is more defensive than Geary. If you go in our weight room, you'll find Brad. He's one of the hardest-working kids in the school.

It was the opening three minutes that put us in too deep a hole.

Spencer ambled his way through November and December, and it showed in the Gorman. The last few weeks he became focused. This isn't like playing 10 football games. These guys have 50 matches a season and it's hard to say they're all meaningful. He understands which are truly significant, and he's locked in right now.

The MOAC should be happy with 11 champions.

In my 30 years of coaching I have been celebrating the success of other fathers' boys. I think I shed a tear when he qualified for the district.