Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our ultimate goal is to win the state championship. Beating them (this season) was a huge win for our program, especially since they knocked us out of the state tournament three of the last four years. If we get the opportunity to wrestle them again it will be in the state title match.

Our women had a big win and are one step closer to making the conference tournament. I am really proud of these girls. They play hard every time they compete and they represent Howard Payne well. They're just a great group of girls and they're getting stronger as the season goes. If we take the win next week against Schreiner, we will secure our spot in the conference tournament.

Our win against Ocean Springs was huge for us because it gave us home-field advantage, and we put a lot of effort and energy into that game. It's important for us to be playing at home because we get a chance to watch two teams play before we do.

Our whole team is excited for this win. We didn't play with a lot of patience in the beginning, but we settled down eventually and got things done against a very energetic and tough team.

Our whole family revolves around sports and it was always competitive. I remember childhood games going against my older sisters and everything was so competitive, but it was a lot of fun.

Our weakness right now is definitely inconsistency, ... They played very well against Michigan State, didn't play well against Louisville and I was pleased with the way they played against BC. They'll need to be much more consistent.

Our young guys are winners. They want to keep on going. They're competitive guys. They've played against some great competition before they got here, and they're going to keep doing what they're doing.

Mike Vrabel

Our worst game last year was opening night against the Colts. We need to take this and build on it and move forward. We think we're a better defense than what we showed . . . but we need to go out and prove it.

James Wolfensohn

Outside these walls, young people are demonstrating against globalisation, ... I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate questions, and I embrace the commitment of a new generation to fight poverty. I share their passion and their questioning.

Annika Sorenstam

I'm here and I can play, and I can play against anyone, ... I've proved that to myself over and over again. To me, I love having the opportunity to do it when I need to.

Barry Bonds

I might not play again this weekend, ... That's how much pain I'm in right now.

Kobe Bryant

I'm innocent. I didn't force her to do anything against her will.

Steve Sampson

I think this team understands that we have to be able to resolve those issues in the first half and bring more energy to the game, and play more tactfully more intelligently. More players have to have better games than what we saw tonight, ... We have to use this game as a motivator for our upcoming matches and I'm sure that they will. This team will show its abilities, I'm sure in the final parts of this season and I'm sure that they will so our fans get what they want to see in the Open Cup Final against Dallas on Wednesday.

We've thrown a lot of things against the wall and really haven't got them to stick. We've got a number of associate sponsors that want to participate for sure ... we just haven't totally put the funding package together.

We've talked about what it is going to be like playing against each other. We're good buddies, and it is going to come down to who wants it more. Coming back and wanting to show the gold medal off is a big incentive to me.

We need the game against Scottish and then a full week's training to be ready for the new season,

We need some tests and we got one tonight. This is why you come to these tournament. You want to play games like this against good teams.

We need reconciliation. There were hundreds of ordinary people in the ranks of the Taliban. If we give them a chance, they will work for the future of the country rather than fighting against it.

We need performances like that and like we had against Wisconsin. At this time of the season you look to your older players to lead the way. Isaac has had a good career and we'd like to give him the chance to get to 61 wins.

Kolo Toure

We now need to do something good against Blackburn. We need to do the same thing in the Premiership as well. We have the second half against Real and it's going to be tough. But we just need to think of the next game.

We now hope that those responsible for removing Gladys' body will return her so she can lie once again in her rightful resting place.

We now have our backs against the wall and we will need both of the remaining conference matches to get into the conference tournament.

We now believe that the first Fed rate hike will not come until December, and we continue to worry the Fed may be forced to ease again before it begins hiking rates,

We never really had control of the game against Buffalo. Their players took it to us. I believe the lack of practice time and not having enough players to put together a team were the reasons for not winning. When the last day of the season came down, we just weren't well prepared.

Jessica Lynch

We never really found a true solution to the R1 issue. We said we're going to enforce it more, but that doesn't solve the problem that you're trying to fight bad behavior with a law that singles out students and tries to keep them from living somewhere, ... Until we start talking about solutions and not treatments, it's going to be an issue again whether we like it or not.

We never know what to expect with Sweden. If they have the confidence, they can have a good game against us and it's up to us to make sure they don't have that confidence.

We needed a win. We needed a confidence win. When you're 0-6 against top 20 teams, you're still 0-6.

We need a little payback for Storm Lake last year. They kind of ruined our season and we haven't forgotten that. We want to show people we can play well against them. They're a very good team, a very physical team. They like to throw a lot, so it's going to give us a different set of problems. We want to rise to the occasion and come back with a victory in week two (of district play).

We need a good finish this weekend in Fontana. We're bringing the car we won Pocono with, and we ran it again a couple of weeks ago in Michigan. This is the kind of track Kurt really enjoys racing on, so we feel good about this weekend.

We need a fair contract. Teachers feel totally disrespected. A lot of the vote was against the disrespect that's ongoing.

Ron Wilson

We need a complete team effort in order to beat a team like Detroit, especially here and we didn't get it. We'll just throw it away and move on to the next game. If you're going to have one of these games on the road trip, I'd sooner have it against Detroit than somebody else.

We'll be a little different with Knapp. But I'm sure we'll be ready to play against Robert Morris.

David Jones

Well at least we are healthy. But once again we were doomed with a slow start in the first and third quarters. That doesn't cut it. We dug ourselves a hole we couldn't get out of.