Words, glorious words! From people! About things!

“After the match I asked the team, ‘What are we?’ We can either be poor, average, pretty good, good or great,” new Bruin guru Mike Sealy.

"We were devastated to lose to Campbell because they are definitely not at our level." - NC State libero Kelly Wood. Big talk for a program that won 8 matches all of last year, less than half the number won by Campbell. Boy, get off to one decent start in the past decade, and it goes right to your head. 

"Also, keep in mind there is [sic] only three big colleges in Rhode Island for women's volleyball, so to beat Brown makes us feel pretty good." - Rhode Island's Kalyn Klaess on their big win over Brown. And by "big," we mean...what exactly. And aren't there only four "big" colleges in this state, period? Who do you think she's counting as the third: Bryant, or Providence?

"She's not dynamic, she's not the best athlete on our team." - Delaware head coach Bonnie Kenny, not sugar-coating her description of her senior Paige Erickson. Harsh, Bonnie. Harsh.

"...but her work ethic and her IQ and -her volleyball IQ -are pretty high. She knows the game." - Coach Kenny again. Ohhh. Guess we should have read the whole thing first. 

"It is really important how we digest (tonight's win)" - Texas A&M coach Laurie Corbelli talking about how her team will mechanically and chemically break down their win over Texas so that it can be absorbed into her team's collective blood stream... or something like that.

"We seemed to score points in weird chunks," Illinois State coach Melissa Myers. Weird chunks? Like, decimal fractions? Pi? Is Illinois State scoring in chunks of 3.14159?