Smoke Laval Quotes


You circle 'em up. That's the nature of the beast, especially in Baton Rouge. It starts with football, goes right through basketball and to baseball. You're expected to win every one. Until you experience it, with a lot of the younger guys, it happens too fast. - Smoke Laval



You can't really judge pitching on a day like today because anything can get out of the park. If you swing the bat hard enough, good things will happen. That was our game plan today, to get quality swings that we didn't have last time. - Smoke Laval



You can see teams mature now. You can see teams putting their system in when they're young, and then a year or later being very good. Mississippi State did that. Then you have to start over again. - Smoke Laval



We're playing an Alabama club that's always feisty. They have a great Friday night guy and two others that take them deep into games, and they have a good closer. - Smoke Laval



We're finally starting to get our offense in sync. We haven't been pitching well, and now we lose a handful of key guys when we really can't afford to. So now we're forced to throw some of the guys who really struggled back into the ring of fire. - Smoke Laval