Eeek! Quotes!

"We pushed Gorana a little bit. She's tired. She swings at a lot of balls hard." - Duckville's Jim Moore on import Gorana Maricic after she collected 54 kills in two matches.

"They thought I was tired, but I'm not tired." - Gorana Maricic, refuting Moore's previous claims. "I'm ready to hit every ball. I'm ready to jump for every ball." We get it! You're not tired!

"There is a old Japanese proverb: "Fall down seven times, stand up eight." - Daily Utah Chronicle's Tony Pizza, on Utah's loss to BYU. Are there any Japanese proverbs about the pitfalls of starting a volleyball article with a Japanese proverb?

"It's a mind game. You can get them out of their game by just yelling different things at them." - NC State head coach Charita Stubbs's husband, Melvin, on yelling at the other team during his wife's matches. "It's not disrespectful -- it's just a mind game. Somebody once told me that if you get into a fight with someone you should yell 'peanut butter' in the middle. It will mess their head up -- this is what I'm trying to do. Plus I just like to yell at them." With the Wolfpack's record of 3-25 overall and 0-18 in the ACC, sounds like Melvin needs a new game plan.

"Arizona volleyball trains harder than any other volleyball team out there." - Arizona's Tiffany Owens. With a 3-11 record in the Pac-10, maybe "harder" doesn't equal "better"?

"I've heard they're very good." - Arizona's Dave Rubio on 18th-ranked Colorado State...before being swept by them.

"We're going to come in and surprise some teams in the end." - Bekah Brinkley of North Carolina as quoted in the Daily Tarheel, thereby completely ruining the element of surprise. Way to go...