Quippy Quarts of Quotes

"One-third of the game is physical, the rest is all mental." - Coach McLaughlin after beating up on AZ 3-0. Mussie, Morrison, Perry and Swarbrick only make up one-third? Then what's all this recruiting I keep hearing so much about?

"This is a game of ball control." - Top Gopher Mike Hebert. So...is one third of ball control physical?

"Growing up and watching Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer battle it out on the beach motivated me to start playing volleyball." - Ramblin' Wreck skipper Bond Shymansky. Well, that explains the hair. If Tom Paszko was similarly inspired, we're on to something.

"As they say, you take their hit and then go to work." - John Cook re: the win over Colorado. Who says that? I spent hours thumbing through my Great Big Index of Sports Cliches, and I can't find this one. Is this some saying I'm not hip to? "Dude, you totally take their hit and then go to work. Peace out."

"We need to go to the wizard and find a heart." - NC State's Charita Stubbs. These quotes just keep getting better, and better, and better...

"I was a little scared of Joe [Lynch] at first." - Iowa State head coach Christy Johnson, talking about her husband and assistant coach Joe Lynch.

"Christy seemed just kind of shy and not very outgoing." - Lynch on his wife and boss, Johnson.

"My famous line was 'Oh, so that's why they live together.'" - Iowa State junior Mary Bisenius, quick to pick up on why Johnson and Lynch had the same mailing address.

"It doesn't work that way." - Johnson on what would happen if Lynch got a job offer at another school.