Famous Quotes & Sayings

Playing in the GBI League my sophomore year against teams like Arlington, Medford, Melrose, Newton and those teams, and being able to compete with them was a lot of fun. We played a lot of games in the Boston Garden my junior and senior year, which was also nice. I remember watching Stoneham go to the New England Finals in 1952 and play at the Boston Garden when they lost to West Springfield, and from that point on I just couldn't want to put on the Stoneham High uniform.

(Playing in the district final) was an excellent experience for us. We had nothing to lose going up against the No. 1 seed. I thought coming in that player-for-player we were OK and we were a lot quicker, but our shots didn't fall.

Playing in a conference like ours, you need to always bring your A game. If you don't bring your A game against UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, really anybody, you'll get beat.

Playing Center Grove during the season really taught (the players) a lot of different things. It gave them an idea of how to play their best against a tough Indy team, and it motivated them to play harder to get to where they needed to be.

Playing behind Jason Kidd , or just to go against him every day in practice, you can learn. I'm really excited about it.

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 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.

Maybe in the first round, you don't ski too fast because you don't have competition next to you. You're focused more on synchronicity. If you seed well, you ski against a weaker team. In the finals, the competition gets harder and you need to ski faster and still hold it together.

Maybe I lost sight of the thing. Everyone was telling me how bad he was. That's all I kept hearing. And there was a possibility we could recover a first for a guy we drafted with a second. There was nothing there that said, 'Ken, you're right and they're wrong.' Everything was working against me.

Man, I thought we'd play better, but it's a new week and a new opponent. I would never have thought that we wouldn't force a turnover, and that's something we've got to do against Pittsburgh. But we have to be patient. If you try to do too much, you'll make a mistake and hurt the team.

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.

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.