Quotes

"Sometimes, it hurts a little bit, but it’s worth it if we get the ball up and get a kill"

Harlingen libero Vicki Jo Flores

referring her diving attempts at keeping the ball in play

"My dream would be to become offensive coordinator under my dad. Maybe I could convince him to throw the ball a little more.”

--Iraan quarterback Drew Fellows
referring to his backup career plans

"It's easier to be a leader when you're always on the field"

--Canyon Randall senior WR/DB Bret Scheve
referring to his ill-fated junior season when he broke his ankle during the summer and tore the meniscus in his knee during the season

"We lived in a house and he kept telling me we couldn’t plant trees, that coaches didn’t plant trees. I finally just planted some trees.”

Abilene Wylie football coach Hugh Sandifer's wife Brenda Sandifer
referring to Coach Sandifer's instructions despite his 32 years in Abilene

 "If I call it rap, they think it's good music."

--Euless Trinity football coach Steve Lineweaver
describing the music he got his team to sing before the first day of practice

"At Falls City, it's like Christmas when we get to play on artificial turf. I can't even fathom playing in air conditioning."

--Falls City's Will Kirchhoff
on playing in the Alamodome for the THSCA All-Star football game

"The La Feria Independent School District Board of Trustees recently proved that it doesn’t know how to fire a coach. Now it’s shown that it doesn’t know how to hire one either."

--Dave Favila, RGVSports.com columnist
expressing his dismay at the hire of Bo Camacho La Feria's new athletic director/head football coach

“I’m old school. It would satisfy me if only one went”

--Brady football coach Glen Jones
reacting to the UIL increasing the number of football playoff teams to three.

"Some might say it was a little presumptuous."

Denton Guyer softball coach Keith Medford
--on placing pictures of Texas' McCombs Softball Field --site of the state tournament -- in the locker of each player before the 2010 season.

"We’re used to lightweight hurdles in high school, and you can (often) keep on running after you hit one. But the collegiate hurdles they have here are a lot heavier and when you hit one, it’s a game-changer.”

Cisco girls track coach Lori Whatley
talking about Brooke Witt who went from second to sixth after clipping the second-to-last hurdle in the 300 hurdles