Jason Bagwell Quotations

We really had the goal to win the team title and that was pretty much all that was on everybody's mind. It feels good to win. It's something you work your whole life, so there were smiles all around, some tears and laughing. It was a real happy occasion.

She's always happy. Even through all of her treatments, she's never changed.

She did great the whole time until the last round. She got very sick that time.

I can think back to so many times over the years when they could have been doing something else instead of practicing, but they chose to practice anyway. And practices are not fun. In fact they're downright brutal. I've pushed these two girls so hard, almost to the point of them wanting to quit at times. But through all the misery of training, they persevered and now have a love for the sport that will never die and a love for our team that will never die.

This was a great experience for them to interact with, and get to know, people from around the world. I'm so proud of these girls. (They've) worked to the point of believing in themselves and believing that they have the strength inside of them to accomplish anything.

You put so many hours and hours for year after year and you put all your effort and energy into one of these things. And then to see it finally come to this ... it feels good. You don't like to lose, so it really does feel good.

It just felt like everything fell on us at one time.

That had to be some kind of omen.