Brad Dancer Quotations

When we have eight days off, it feels like an absolute eternity. I'm ready to coach again and I think the guys are ready to play again.

Unfortunately, it won't do much for his career. It's great and outstanding in terms of an honor and a motivation to keep going though.

We were capable of winning this match by even more of a score margin. We don't want to stay status quo. We want to keep growing.

Maybe a wounded bear is the hungriest bear. We have to come out and act like we're the wounded bear - like we're hungry and like we want it. If we do that opening night, that will show.

He doesn't talk about it. He's a tough guy. You can see it in his speed and some of his movement.

We're pleased to have them with us. It shows their commitment to Illinois tennis because they are giving up this opportunity to play Davis Cup to help us take another step toward another regular season conference championship.

You are almost honored as a coach to have two guys of that quality, not only in terms of tennis ability but also because of the people that they are. You wish that you could keep them for another four years.

We could easily have stumbled at any time (this season).

We had a good finish to the weekend today. Monte really impressed me with his play today. He was the star on Sunday.

We just play each match one at a time. We played better today than we did yesterday and we're going to keep moving forward. The guys will take a couple of days off and will get ready for our 'second season.' Everything from here on out will be geared toward the outdoor season. We've already put the nets up outside and hopefully Mother Nature cooperates and we'll be ready to get out there.

We're disappointed and frustrated that we lost both matches over the weekend. But we're going to pick ourselves up from the bootstraps and get right back at it. Nothing very good came out of those two loses but we need to start making good things happen as we move forward.

Brandon has made such great leaps forward. He has such tremendous value to the team and is a person of such high integrity. He just has such a great spirit.

Doug Stewart is a very dangerous player. But we won't play scared of him.

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

It was an extremely intense match and A&M played very well. Losing two matches doesn't change our goals as we go down the road. We'll get right back at it Thursday against a very good USC team.

Right now, we saw what a loss of a player does for us, but some teams respond really well to that.

That's how you fuel the dream and keep the dreams on fire. You show them that it's possible.

They're very, very good, better than their rankings. I have a lot of respect for them and their program. But, our guys are going to be fired up and ready to go.

It's a bit of a disadvantage for us, which is good, because we need some obstacles to overcome.

This is a very fascinating part of the schedule. It will be interesting to see where we are at the end of that.

I'm definitely going to defer on that one.

I'm very proud of the resilience that we showed. It was a great response to the adversity.

In doubles, they are getting better in their concentration. Four or five months ago, they wouldn't have been able to win 8-1.

He's a main draw player there. He was in the main draw there last year and he'll be in the main draw there next year.