Workouts Quotes

(On her serious weightlifting workouts): "I`m not a waif-like girl, and I like that. Never mind dainty; there`s nothing even remotely ladylike about a squat."

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic.

In 2003, the South African adopted a regimen of twice-daily workouts to improve his fitness. His game improved significantly ... until he hurt his right wrist walloping a boxing heavy bag. `I was thinking of taking out a little frustration on the punching bag, but I`m not a pro,` he said.

Twice a week I`ll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Of course, I played for Coach Andy Borland and I remember some 6:30 or 7 a.m. workouts. I can remember getting up at 5 o`clock and walking up here '¦ it`s a good thing; the tradition is there,

We had six, lost three, then gained three, and have six again. We have a nice group. Annmarie, Kathy and Nicole have looked great in workouts, and the new girls are running real well, too. We have six good girls who run in a pack. I don`t know how we`ll do, but I think we`ll be tough to beat.

(After 5-6 and a bowl-less 2004, it's time the Hogs get it done, Baker said. He likes Osceola and all, but doesn't want to spend the entire Christmas holidays there.) When the bowl games are on, ... and you are home watching them play, it makes you come together as a team when you get back. It makes everyone come together so you are not sitting at home watching other teams play bowl week. I really do think we'll get back to a bowl game because from the start of summer workouts everybody has been pushing each other saying, '˜ We can't go 5-6. '

I was thrilled with both groups. I could not have asked for it to be much better than this. It is not like we rested this week. We had two workouts this week, so this is a good start, and we will be able to move forward from here.

It`s designed to fit my workouts.

Being through workouts together, the Pre-Draft Camp, playing against and with each other for the last several years, ... the relationships are something that are defintely strong with this class.

I got good two- to three-hour workouts every day out there (in Sacramento), ... It`s organized like a practice, and we play full-court.

I try to get threshold workouts in at least three times a week during pre-season to help the kids increase their oxygen intake.

(In a move Stone favors, the NCAA has modified the women`s rules for the preseason workouts, increasing the individual skills time from two hours to four hours per week and permitting more than four players to participate at a time with coaches, meaning full teams can go through drills.) I think it`s a great thing, ... You can build chemistry.

I am throwing more combinations in my sparring and in my workouts - hitting the bag, things like that. My footing is changing a little bit, so my footing is getting a lot better, where I can let the combinations go fast and go rapidly, and a lot.