Jack Warner Quotations

I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.

We want to showcase our athletes. It's going to be a festive atmosphere; running in front of 40,000 people is always exciting.

This will probably be one of our largest squads at an away meet. The meet being so close enables us to get a look at some of the people that didn't go to Georgia.

Leah was solid in all three of her events. She will impress a lot of people this year.

She came in and enjoyed some success as a freshman and sophomore and then she got voted as a captain. She's been a tremendous leader, a solid performer and we're going to miss her bright smile every day.

She has a good shot. She's gonna be stressed a little bit, but the plan is for her to go out and defend her title.

Sheena James' performance was nice to see on Saturday.

Obviously, when you can defend your title it shows how good of an athlete you are. And to do it by beating the No. 1 seed is impressive.

Obviously, when you break a school record it means a lot. She is amazingly talented. She is doing things that typically takes two or three people to do.

On the men's side we are short in some areas, so we hope to see strong performances out of the areas in which we have strong athletes. We look to continue developing in our throwing events, while also getting our distance runners going.

I would really like to move up in the standings from where we finished last year. I'm looking for the women's team to make a big jump up.

I wish I could have come here this afternoon and say we have all the money. I wish I could have come here today and say that the team will be comfortable based on all the money we have received. But sadly enough I can't because we simply do not have the money we need.

If this recommendation is accepted then a repeat of the unfortunate statements that came out of the 2004 internal elections, which brought the party into even higher levels of disrepute would be avoided.

I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.

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I can't remember when 40 points was the last place total at indoors. I knew we were on shaky ground coming in, but if you told me we would score 40 points - I'd thought that would be good for seventh place. I'm sad to finish last, but we're loaded with young talent that will help this team in the future.

I give notice that Joe Public will be back on the scene in a big way. You won't have a two-team league no more.

I was looking for seventh but the main objective was to get off of the bottom. And we did that and now we have several kids competing at the national level.

(James) is slowly distinguishing herself in the shot put. I think she could challenge for a top finish at the Big Ten Championships.

Our goal on the men's side is to be where we were a year ago, if not better, and for Rickey and John to improve their qualifying marks, and for others, like David Rae , to make it onto the national lists. Rickey is going in trying to defend his title. If he is able to do that, it will get us rolling. We also hope to score well in the pole vault because we have four solid athletes in it. David Rae is capable of scoring us some major points in the 3,000. We are a young team, but we have a lot of people capable of doing great things. Hopefully, Big Tens will be an awakening for them to compete at a high level.

Our team has a chance to really establish the Purdue program. I expect our men to finish in the top three.

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Our women should be pretty competitive. It should be a pretty balanced meet for us and we should do well in the scoring.

Right now she is closing in on the school records for both of those events. She will break those before the end of the season. She is ready to have a great season.

(Pinkney) has had hamstring problems in the past, but he's gotten over that this year. I felt that running the 100 would help him run faster in the hurdles and we will need the additional scoring in the Big Tens.

Our last place team could have probably won many conferences across the nation. That's the good thing about it (Big Ten). It spears the athletes on and pushes them to better performances and that is why we are here.

Lindsay ran a good race. We would have liked to see the other women runners close the gap a little though, but it was a nice way to get our feet wet.

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

I think last week made them hungry and made them realize they can qualify. I think they've got their sights set on regionally qualifying. I told them to run anyone over if they got in their lane.

I think the team was a little upset of how it went last week. They wanted to make sure we didn't lose the Cup.

Most records get broken by small margins. This was a no-doubter.

We need some of the young kids to step up. It is going to take a total team effort.

I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great.

I wasn't satisfied but I wasn't displeased. We struggled on the first day a little bit and came back the next day and performed well.

We've lost a lot of throwing points from last year's team, but our vaulting will help replace some of those scores.

We need to work on our bunching in this race. With every race, we are building up to our championship month, which is in October.

We have not been given the exact figures. But all we have asked for we have gotten.

We leave here feeling very sanguine, very positive that when we come again we will see changes.

We will get a challenge when we run against Eastern Kentucky. They have some Kenyan runners on the team and it is always a challenge when you run against that style.

(Tuggle)'s believing in himself more and more each week. He's working hard and staying healthy. That goes a long way for you in this sport.

We have a lot of title threats. When you get those points before you know it you have quite a few points in the hopper.

We should have beaten the OSU men but that is what happens in a meet like this. On the ladies side, I thought we had some good performances.

Both meets will be good indicators of where we are. We just have to continue to get better and we will be fine. I think we are going to surprise a lot of people come Big Tens.

Brooke has been great for us. She will have to wait until Big Tens to get the school record but that time will come.

Cross Country is such a pack sport. In our first two races we did not pack up very well. If we want to catch some of the top teams, we need to work on bunching up.

IU returns their whole team. They finished second in the Big Ten last season, so they will be good.

The simple fact is that no budget could have sensibly been prepared unless all the facts and figures are available, where, by and large, they now are.

The team has reached this far without government funding and the team shall reach that far the same way.

Sometimes when you get two thoroughbreds like that, they have a tendency to race each other and forget about everyone else. And then someone sneaks in and wins.

Quite a few of our athletes will be off this weekend, getting rested and ready for next weekend's Big Ten meets. This meet should be pretty low key, but it will offer us a chance for final preparations and tune ups for Big Tens. Those athletes who need to rest will rest and those who need fine tuning will have an opportunity to do that as well.

As a whole we have definitely improved since last season. And we have two or three other athletes who are really close to that mark and will do it.

This goes to also say how fortunate you are to have this chance. We do not want to say that we qualified for a World Cup in a one-off situation.

They are critical, they are important, but in the (overall) scheme of things they are not mind-boggling.

They are seconds off school records and are buried in the pack. That shows how talented the athletes at this meet were.

They are really believing that they can compete at the Big Ten level and be successful. Especially after what they did in cross country; they moved up a few spots.

This meet will give us a good look-see at where we stand in the Big Ten competition. We will be able to test the waters and challenge our team a little more than we did last weekend.

They're capable of doing that; they should be doing that.

It wasn't until Friday that we decided to take him. He wasn't healthy but he would have won if he was.

It is very difficult to compete in all of them. Part of that got to her. But she is still young and can improve on that.

I told Rickey that if he gets out quick then he'll (Porter) start pressing. Rickey, however, kept his composure and finished strong.

David has dealt with a hip injury of late. It will be important for the guys that he scores points for the team even if he is not feeling great.

That really got us rolling. It helped close the gap on Indiana State and then our ladies led us to the victory.

The automatic timing system failed to activate, so they had to re-run the race. (Indiana State officials) were having problems with cameras and timing all day, which was frustrating.

Anytime you have to triple in events like she does you really have to be on top of your game. It's not like she will be able to go into any of the events fresh.

At the end of the indoor season we could be talking about Leah holding three different school records. It is very possible. She can do it.

The inspection team met with some positive results and some negative ones as well, but the problems that exist aren't something the Canadian Soccer Association can't overcome.

I must correct you on the talk about this being project for 2010 and 2014 alone, because anyone of you here today by your performance out on the field can be good enough to have a chance with the senior team, then you will be looked at.

I'm taking a pretty big crew of ladies; we've got some pretty tough competition down there in Georgia, Florida, Minnesota, South Carolina and Georgia Tech. It will be highly competitive for our kids, so I'm anxious and looking forward to it.

I think all our preparation work (for Big Ten's) is complete, and tonight's performances were a good indication of that. We should feel confident heading into Big Ten's. We keep getting better every week and I'm happy to see both my teams coming together.

He ran well. He got off to a real good start, tripped up on a few hurdles in the middle, but what counts is that he scored and earned All-America recognition. I think this is redemption for being left out of last year's indoor meet.

You were very good playing a bitch-heroine, but you shouldn't win an award for playing yourself.