Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've played hard all year and we'll play hard again on Saturday. Sure, we'll be pulling for Central against South. We want to stay home and also, to be a competitor, you always want to be No. 1. If you don't, you should get out.

Tommy Bowden

We've played a tough schedule, and when you play against people like that, you get lots of games that go down to the wire. Sure, I wish we could have won a few more, but I like the way things are shaping up.

We've played a lot of sets against each other, a lot of play to get them used to serving and their strokes. We want to make sure we get everybody in the right order and see what they can do.

We've played a lot of ranked teams and we compete well against them, so it really wasn't a surprise. It was a good win for us.

Steve Yzerman

We've played a lot of games against each other, and a playoff series, and lot of guys on their team, and on ours, have played in the other building. Home ice doesn't mean a thing. Everybody feels comfortable, and all the games have been good.

We've played against them before. We beat them last year. (They're the) same guys, same team. I feel pretty confident going in, especially playing at home this year.

Rajon Rondo

We've played against each other in high school, so we've been big rivals. I believe he's one of the best shooters in the country.

Flip Saunders

We've played 37 games and different guys lead us over different parts of the game and play unselfish...How we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played over the first half of the season, very unselfish.

Win Butler

We've only toured in one-month chunks, ... We started in November, then we took Christmas off, then we started again in January, and we took some time in February. And then we did a little bit in March, and then we had a bit of time off this summer. The longest break we had, the first time we went home, was for June and July, and then we went back out again in August, and we'll be done at the end of October.

We've now reached the stage where we're running out of games. We hope to see the town turn out in large numbers to support us in a game against one of the most famous clubs in the world.

We've not seen anything like what we've seen here, this domino effect of counties establishing de facto moratoriums. These are moratoriums discriminating against one industry.

We welcome their decision. All along we have been saying that there is discrimination against Hindus irrespective of the outcome.

We welcome the government's decision and think it's a wise one. The government has never had a case against Dr. Chase, whether civil or criminal.

We watched tape of our game (against Lebanon). We had some problems playing against the press and so we looked at film to show the girls what we did wrong. Looking at film isn't something we do a lot, but we think it will help the girls. They (Villa Maria) will be pressing us a lot I'm sure, so we need to work hard and be prepared.

Mike Connolly

We watched films and knew we would have some success with the running plays that we used in the past against them, ... I think overall this is the best team we've played so far. We're in the same position we were in last year. We need to win the last six. Me being a senior, I want to be able to say they we went 7-3. We've all grown up playing together and it's almost a family attitude more than friendships. The seniors won't give up and it's up to the underclassmen to follow.

Katie Douglas

We watched a couple of clips (yesterday) morning and we know what we can do in order to kind of close the gap. And we're going to just concentrate on us. Right now it's about us. Backs against the wall, got to win and we're going home. We would like to force a Game 5.

We want to use this experience to build momentum for the upcoming Class AA playoffs. We were tough against some fine teams.

We wanted to give Katie a chance against a quality team in a tight situation. We wanted to see what she could do because you're only a sprained ankle away from having to put her in there.

We wanted to get the ball to posts against their zone. Defensively, we played great all game. We got on the boards and stayed disciplined all game.

We wanted to get off to a fast start. We struggled against them earlier in the season. Tonight we played our hearts out.

We wanted to get a fast race against the best kids in the country.

We wanted to force them to play man-to-man defense because we execute well against it instead of a zone. The zone hurt us the first time around. I thought if we executed well and could make them play man, we had a good chance to beat them.

We had some young guys out there playing on Sunday, mostly out of necessity and partially out of it's that time of the year where they have to stand up and be accountable, and they have to help us get through ballgames. They have to help us in the rotation, and I think it will be a big factor again this week in Arizona.

We had some tough foul calls against us down the stretch that hurt. We didn't lose our composure, and some of the guys who have been noted for that showed a lot of maturity.

We had some time but they smothered us. We'll look back and kick ourselves about what could have been, but you've got to give Atlanta credit. They fight hard, they play well, they earned the victories against us.

We had something like 200 more passes than rushes attempted on us last year because no one could run on us. When you look at the stats, it may seem kind of crazy that we're giving up all these passing yards, numbers can lie. We're going to be good against the pass.

We had some talented kids take off. We also played a much smarter game in the second half and we also rebounded better against a much bigger team.

We had some sophomores on the field a couple years ago when Bath hung 50 on us. Those kids are seniors now and they remembered that, and I think that served as motivation. No way did they want Bath scoring 50 again on this field.

We had some signature wins against some traditionally strong programs like Tensas and Riverdale. It wasn't a one-game season, but this was the most important game of the season. It was a disappointing way to end it.

We had some other good performances. They just weren't in the top 10. It was a great meet. We went against some of the best competition in the state.

We'd definitely like to repeat as state champs. I think we have the talent to do it, but it's hard to tell when you're scrimmaging against yourself all the time.

We'd be honored to match up against them.

We'd be ahead on goals for and against though. But it is still early in the season.