Famous Quotes & Sayings

To play against a team like that, you need better guard play. I thought we played really tentative the first quarter and a half.

To our kids' credit, I liked how our defense competed in the second half. We'll build on that. I think our kids will bounce back (next week against rival Normal West). I don't think they are going to think about this game too long.

Throughout the '80s, these were very violent and very massive protests against the dictatorship.

Paul Davies

Through our four-year career, we haven't had our best record against them. With the chance that this is the last time playing them, it feels pretty good going out this way.

Joseph Joubert

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

We're really excited to play California. This is probably one of their best squads they've had in years. It's a good opportunity for us to compete against the nation's best and really evaluate ourselves to see what top-level tennis is about.

We're real confident at home. Everybody's knocking down shots and things like that, getting to loose balls. But that's typical of a young team because being young, playing at home, you're in your comfort zone. Going away, you're uncomfortable, the crowd is against you and you've just got to be disciplined and focus in.

Mike Mitchell

We're real close to where we want to be. Especially after the way we played against Wesleyan Saturday night, against the quality of the team we were playing against, if we put it all together, I think we're as good as anybody.

John Spratt

We're ready to work with the Bush administration, ... But we're also ready to work against any budget that returns us to never-ending deficits and a mountain of debt.

We're ready to line up against someone other than ourselves.

We're ready. The players are so tired of practicing against each other. They're prepared to play someone else.

Billy Davis

We're ready for them. Right now, let's see what we can do against one of the top offenses in the league since coach Martz has been doing it.

We're ranked, so we get everybody's best game. But you get better from that. We can learn from this, grow from this. You find out what you have to do to compete against the upper echelon teams.

We're racing against BMW, Mazda and Acura teams with years of experience with their products. We're the new kids on the block and although we know we're not going to dominate anything, we're happy to know we can win our share.

With the staffs that we'll be going up against in the division, ... there just won't be too much room for error.

With the severe winter approaching in a few weeks, we are racing against time to save people and have asked them to come down from the highlands,

With the road games that we have had, especially playing at Texas, we know the magnitude that it's going to be and we just have to make sure we pull together as a team. It's something that, when you have thousands of fans screaming against you, that the 11 or 12 of us need to pull together. We are going to show that we will come together and be a wall to have to deal with.

With the pacific countries getting so much better internationally it's a great opportunity to test ourselves against superior and great gymnasts.

With what they have on offense, we wanted to keep them on the sideline. As far as the second half, our game plan was to eat up the clock. Heart, that's all I can say. We had our backs against the wall, and the one thing you can't coach is heart. Tonight, our heart came out.

With what they had stacked up against them, they played pretty good.

Jeff Johnson

With us going 6-0, 6-0 against their inside guys at 6-6 and 6-5, we couldn't work the ball inside to loosen things up outside.

Dusty Baker

We knew what we were getting with Juan. We've seen him do it so much against us. We did it a couple of times last year. I keep pointing out that you have to have the personnel to do something like that.

We knew what we had to do and we did a good job against their offense. It was a good team win.

We knew we would beat them, as we matched up really well on paper. We had a lot of strength going up against their weaknesses. The freshmen really showed some heart in the win over McDaniel. It felt like a new team against McDaniel and that really got some momentum going.

Harry Kewell

We knew we were up against it from the first minute, even with 11 men.

We knew we weren't as bad as we looked against Hammond on Feb. 15. I was real pleased at the way we responded.

We knew we were going to have a tough time in the championships. Not to say we were underdogs, but we knew we were up against some kids who had beaten us before. I thought all our guys wrestled well in those matches.

We knew we were coming up against a strong team with a great tradition. I'm extremely pleased with our effort, especially with our defense in the second half, which I felt was the difference.

We let two explosion (big pass) plays happen early, and they scored 10 points against our first defense, but other than that, I was happy with our defense and offensive execution. West has an excellent running team, and we did pretty well against it until the second half. They just keep coming at you.

Jerry Glanville

We let them know we're working on Alabama's stuff, and they know they have to do things exactly right. We can't compete against Alabama if we make mental errors. They have too good athletes.

Brian Miller

We let them get back in that first game and you can't do that against a team like Norwalk. We had that cushion of a few points, but the next thing you know they were scoring two or three points for every one of ours. We couldn't close them out, but give them credit there. In the second game our serve receive struggled. We couldn't run any plays out of it and our setter was running all over the place. It's hard to get any quality attacks when that happens.

We knew this game would come down to whoever blinked first. I think Nicole held her own, but we're going against probably the best pitcher in the state.

We knew they were talented. We didn't come out with the focus and composure we needed against a team like that.