Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've been committing mental errors early in the games, and it's put us in a hole every time. I like the way we keep battling back - these kids don't believe they're ever out of the game - but we've just not executed well in the early parts of the games.

We've been battling it out the whole season. They've pretty much beaten us by one point or two points in every race. I'm hoping our guys can move up and edge them out. It's going to be super-close.

We've been battling back and forth about it. I told her this year would be our year to get them.

Aaron Rowand

We've been battling and battling and battling. It's part of the season. You have to go through it. Hopefully we can get through it and get it out of the way.

We always tell our kids to never give up. They just kept battling back.

This one was pretty rough. I think it's probably the roughest one I've had. I just have to keep battling away and hopefully find that rhythm that I'm looking for.

We did a good job of battling back. It's tough, but we have 14 conference games left, and we're going to keep battling.

Marian Gaborik

We want to finish strong and get some wins. Some guys are battling for jobs and stuff, obviously. You want to end things on a good note for the fans. They've supported us the whole time, so we want to finish the best we can.

You hate to say it, but there's a bit of a breaking in period, during when a guy gets needs a break, to pitch a good game and get good results, and the confidence grows. That's what we're trying to get now, a positive roll. He won a spot in Spring Training, and now he's battling to continue to pitch here. He's facing an 'A' lineup every night, but, as a pitcher, you have to be able to separate that and understand that it's about making pitches.

Matt Barnes

What an effort by my kids. These kids kept battling and battling. We had a chance. We kinda showed what Olympus is all about. We've got a lot of character and heart. O We knew we were heavy underdogs coming in. We were under the radar, and we were one shot away from going to the championship.

Pacman Jones

We've got a battling thing going on and that is what great players do. He is getting me better and I am getting him better.

It's really nice. I'm sorry Kelly Meek wasn't on the sideline to make it more enjoyable. But a win's a win and we need it. We needed to win here tonight to keep us battling for the league championship and to let people know we can still play with anybody.

Dane has had some injury issues this year, which kept him from competing for a good month. But he kept battling back and ended up doing a great job for us this weekend.

Darcy Tucker

The not gaining ground part is tough but until we're mathematically eliminated we're going to keep battling and clawing and fighting.

Darren McCarty

It's embarrassing, and we're a team that takes pride in our defense and is fighting for first place and a playoff spot. To come in with a performance like that, especially after battling back and scoring late in the first and tying it up, and battling back a couple times in the second, all in all is definitely a low point in the season.

It's early. It's Game 1. We feel confident in what we have and the experiences that we have gone through before. We don't feel like this is a new thing for us. We have been battling back the whole year. It's been that kind of year for us. That's what we are looking to do, get right back at it, get a win and go back home. Now more than ever it's one game at a time. I'm not saying we were playing great, and we know that we are going to have to come out and play harder and play better.

Andrew Ference

It's not just because we're close in proximity. For the first time in a long time we're both battling for the playoffs in a tough division and a tough conference. When two teams, whether they're just down the highway from each other or not, are both fighting for the same spot it's going to be good, intense hockey. You should expect nothing less.

For four years here, we've been battling to gain respect. With 16 teams left in the tournament, everyone is good.

Frank Beamer

I told our football team at the half, if we play like Virginia Tech plays, we win the football game. That?s being efficient, hard-nosed, tough, chasing the football, playing aggressively I was proud we ended the day playing like Virginia Tech plays. I thought our kids gave great effort. They hung in there and kept battling and kept coming back.

It's a little bit disappointing, because we did have a chance to get into the playoffs all the way until this last series. But the guys did well and continued battling through the end.

Bob Taft

That's the competitive environment we're in, whether you're Democratic or Republican, ... Every governor is battling for these jobs.

That's a credit to these girls that so many things didn't go their way, yet they kept battling and had opportunities to win. We played hard, just not well.

That kid we faced tonight is a very good pitcher. I think he threw two no-hitters last year. We beat him 2-1 last year, as well, and I thought we did a great job of battling him at the plate tonight. He's not a power guy but he's a great pitcher.

That just shows what kind of guys I hoped we had. These guys don't ever give up. They just keep battling like little bulldogs.

Sean Burroughs

It's so big because the team's battling out there and we're in a pennant race.

It was a real good game. They went up on us, we bounced back, we went up 3-2, they tied it in the seventh... We kept battling and found a way to win." ()

Valentino Rossi

It was a tough race with quite a few strong riders battling it out at the finish. It was not easy to overtake, but a few of them managed to do it.

Mary Ford

It was a tough race. It was long and a lot of side-by-side racing action. It was a good race overall, though. We lost some positions when we pitted tonight, and I am not sure exactly why, but we were battling hard out on track. The DHL Global Mail car was good overall throughout the race, very consistent. It was fun at the end fighting with cars to earn my eighth place finish. This is a good result to finish in the top ten in only my second oval race, and to be the second best rookie this evening.

It says a lot for the character in here. We've been battling hard for 7-8 games. We just have to find ways to keep winning games.

Ned Yost

It shows the character of our club. We kept battling until the last out.

This weekend will dictate a lot of what happens to us this year in the conference. These are a couple of teams we will be battling with all season to make the tournament.

Marty Turco

Those points put us pretty much where we are, away from the pack that's battling for the playoffs.

Aaron Hill

This team's always been good at even if we don't win battling back and not giving away at-bats. We kept in there and ended up on top.