Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geno Auriemma

Playing at Louisville, at DePaul, at Villanova, at Notre Dame, at Texas, and we're going to go to Rutgers... I think we've had the toughest stretch of anybody else in the league. And for us to play well and to win, that's a huge step for us because I don't think this group really believed last year that we could win on the road against good teams.

Playing a team of that caliber again so soon is going to be awfully difficult. I looked at the pool of teams and there isn't anyone I would be excited about playing.

Playing against West Milford was just like looking in the mirror. They match up well against us.

Playing against those kind of teams will help prepare us for the Public League season.

John Kerr

Playing against this kind of competition right now is good for us. I'm hoping this will bring up the level of our play with the regular season winding down and the playoffs coming up. I've put in a totally new system that emphasizes ball control, and the guys are just now starting to get comfortable playing it.

Playing against the United States is important but not just because of the rivalry (between the U.S. and Mexico). It's a good team and they've improved and are getting ready to go to the World Cup so for us it's a test even though it was just in training.

Playing against them is a lot of fun. Nate does a heck of his job with his guys, so when you?re going into any game Nate coaches, you know his team is going to be well prepared and they?re going to play you hard. It?s awfully fun being on the sidelines for that.

Chad Anderson

Playing against that type of speed, we learned that we can move the ball if we execute. We've just got to be more fundamentally sound on the defensive side of the ball.

Playing against Sweden, well, you could not get a better situation. Unless you were born in Finland or Sweden, you would not be able to figure out what it means.

David Beckham

Playing against some of the best defenders in the world, he ran away from a couple and held off a couple and that's not easy to do,

Scott Simon

Playing against good competition, we had to step our game up a notch. I think that down the road it is really going to help us out.

Playing against Clemente is always something very special for us. We are two high schools that truly pride ourselves in our baseball programs and it is always a great game when we meet on the field.

Playing against a player among the world top 10 is a good opportunity for me to learn from her. Never say die.

Playing against a former coach has nothing to do with it. We do it the same way whether we're playing Elizabeth City, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, South Carolina State. Now it's Norfolk State that's right in front of us. Coaches can't play the game. Coach against coach -- I don't buy into that. You gotta have your team prepared to play and then they play.

Steve Novak

Players have to step up when you're playing against great teams. Now is no different.

Players' feelings are hurt when they don't win during practice. And that's a good thing. That shows competitive nature. Hopefully, we can take that on the road and use that against Rockford in our first game.

Players always seem to do better against one team or another. Maybe he likes the Biscuits.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

Played my best, and I am sad that Amelie lost, but I am happy for myself because I work hard enough and I think I deserve place in the final. But she's my friend. I'm not going to go there and be an animal against her.

Pick your poison with Warren. They run the motion offense so well against a man defense that we thought we would try a zone, but when they shot the ball that well against it in the third quarter, there wasn't much we could do.

People who set up repressive machinery always think it's going to be directed against the Bad Guys (whoever they think the Bad Guys are) and never against themselves

Really, the last two ballgames have been better. Against (South Bend) Adams, the first three quarters, we played maybe as well as we have all season, but just didn't finish it off; and then against Marian, we played well again, then hit a dead spot, but the kids did a nice job of not having the attitude of 'here we go again.' They made some defensive stops and got it turned back in the right direction.

Mark Gottfried

Really in the last two, three or four years we've been as aggressive as anybody in the country with our non-conference schedule. I hope that doesn't hurt us. I hope that all of a sudden that's not used against you, because we could have played three easier teams in December and we'd be 20-9 and everyone will be celebrating.

Regardless of the number of participants we have on May 30, and I'm confident it will be 33, we will have again for at least the second year in a row, one of the deepest and most competitive fields in the history of the Indianapolis 500 with more cars, more teams and more drivers capable of winning than this place has had in past history.

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Recent rises in yields of Japanese government bonds, combined with this emerging uncertainty over prospects for US interest rates, are expected to weigh on the US currency against the yen in the near term.

Paul Cook

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