Session 2 Quotes - NCAA National Championships

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Ted Witulski (TheMat.com)
03/21/2002


Second Session Quotes    Travis Lee, Cornell, on victories over two seeded wrestlers  "I worked my ankle pick in practice the most. I felt like he was tiring when I came up the pin."    Tom Noto, Hofstra, upset over Leroy Vega of Minnesota  "I keep it close during the match, I felt really strong. In the overtime I knew the shot would be there. I just had to take it."    J Robinson, Univ. of Minnesota coach, after Vega's loss  "Our guys are aware when you have a loss like that. Hopefully it inspires them to fight harder and come thorough adversity. He was just waiting for one takedown. If you wrestle guys close, eventually you will lost to guys like that."    Brian Smith, Missouri coach, about JP Reese's win at 141 pound win over No. 10 seed  "He's a pinner. He's very dangerous, and the rest of the country doesn't know it yet."    Jack Spates, Oklahoma coach, about leading as a team after round one  "With Minnesota's quality team, it just shows you how well we wrestled. We really had to get after bonus points to get ahead of Minnesota.""    Robbie Waller of Oklahoma after winning over Ohio State's Johnny Clark  "I had lost to him 3-2 at the National Duals. We both have kind of the same style, so I studied the tape and was able to get the takedowns this time."    (waller on his team's effort) "It was a real downer after Riding's loss, but then a guy like Nate Parker comes away with a win. As a team, we are trying to win a national title. Each one of our guys is behind everyone else on this team."    Michael New, coach of Princeton, about having No. 4 Greg Parker on his team  "To get into Princeton, you have to start early. There are a lot of great kids in this area that could wrestle at Princeton as well as go to school there. Greg is the whole package. He achieves at a high level."    John Testa, Clarion, after beating defending national champion John Lockhart of Illinois in a tie-breaker  "This is what I wanted. I have been training for this since the beginning of last summer. I loved every minute of it. I knew I had to take him to overtime to beat him."