Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Erickson

There were times last year when we had offensive and defensive linemen going both ways. There are times when guys are so beat up, they won't practice on Wednesdays. They won't practice on Fridays. So you've got to have some guys fill in.

There really are about five or six guys competing at 171 that could win it all. It's been proven in the past that on any give night one of those top guys could step up and beat the other. In the lower state, there are five solid guys so one good wrestler isn't even going to qualify for state.

A champion team will always beat a team of champions

A couple kids were respectable. They're one of the top teams in the league. If we play our best we still don't necessarily beat them. No one did exceptionally well. It wasn't good enough today.

A cord was wrapped around his neck. A metal pipe was used to beat him with. It was a gruesome torture.

It's just another game. We beat a good team, and we have another good team coming in here on Saturday.

Joey Harrington

It's just one game and we all realize that. But let's face it. It's the Packers. It's the team that has won the division longer than I care to remember. We're all tired of losing the close ones and looking up and seeing green and yellow on top of the division. It felt great to beat them.

It's just good, clean football. It's a rivalry and all, but there's not that hate or anything like that. But being neighbor counties, we still want to beat them and they want to beat us.

It's just frustrating. We're not showing our potential at all, not even the tiniest bit. In my mind we can beat any team here and we're not doing it.

Ben Olsen

It's just D.C.-MetroStars stuff -- that's how they all are and that's how it's going to be. That's the beautiful side of a rivalry -- it's heated, there's passion and maybe you want to beat them more than another team because it's such a heated rivalry.

It's kind of crazy right now. The Southwestern Conference is just ridiculously good to begin with, so to compete in this conference, you have to bring everything you have. It seems like any team can beat any other team. It's far from over, that's for sure.

It's just all the more reason for us to stop them. We can beat this team.

It's just a lackadaisical mentality -- coming out and not being solid on the offensive end and defensively not digging down and making stops. We let a team we should have beaten handily stay close with us.

Chris Burke

It's just unfortunate we're not stringing any hits together, and to beat the better teams we're going to have to play more consistent.

It's just hard to duplicate their speed in size in practice. I really feel the only way they're going to get beaten is if they beat themselves. I just don't know who can beat them.

Charles Barkley

It's embarrassing. If you are a man and you can't beat girls or the smart kids, you shouldn't be playing...I'm retiring from golf. I'm not going to play again.

It's exciting, especially to beat a team like Steamboat who's so well-coached and has such a good team.

It's exciting and a relief to beat them. They have been good for so long.

Tom Smith

It's estimated that 13,000 localities will be competing for 1,200 business relocations in the next year, making the competition fierce. We believe our county is a persuasive competitor, and we want to make sure we use all of our resources to beat the competition.

It seems like we beat ourselves on the road. Whether it's due to turnovers or missing free throws, we just beat ourselves. We always have a strong game plan going in, but sometimes we'll have an inconsistent half and look up at the scoreboard after 20 minutes and realize that we've dug ourselves a big hole and now we have to get out of it. Hopefully, as we continue through the season we will learn from our mistakes and start coming around.

It's extremely important (to believe USC is beatable) if you want to win. If you look at how good they've done and how good they are, you're beating yourself before you step on the field. They are just college kids just like us.

It's extremely difficult to beat a team five times like we have had to this year. At this point, we know each other so well, you know it's going to be a tough game.

It's fantastic for them. It's fantastic for their country. Any time a country with as few curlers as Italy beats Canada, it's a big deal. It's pretty hard not to call them a powerhouse.

It seems we are being beaten to death with good intentions.

It's easier to stay on top when you're a team that's there and established. It's hard to break through and have that respect. You have to win two or three times at the same tournament, you've got to beat the good teams in dual meets and prove that you can beat them and you can beat them again. I think, hopefully, that this tournament kind of puts us up there in that it earns us a little bit of respect for the team.

It's early in the season. We aren't thinking that we are a good team yet, but rather a solid one. It is more important right now that we set the tone that we will be tough to beat at home.

Jeff Heath

It seems so surreal to me right now, what we have done. To beat a team like Provine, you have to bring your 'A' game. Our guys were more than ready tonight.

Dusty Baker

It seems like whenever you walk a guy late like that, especially a speed guy, he ends up scoring. We had some opportunities early, but Drew drove in both runs with two two-out hits to beat us, and that's the name of the game.

It's a slight beat but not nearly as big a beat as the headline suggests.

It's a tough loss. It's tough to handle. We really wanted to get a win today. Indiana, I haven't beat them guys in four years.

It's a rivalry, it's about bragging rights. It was very intense, the teams want to beat each other, the coaches want to beat each other, and the communities want to beat each other.

It's a rivalry and everybody wants to come out and see Dwyer and Lakes play. When they beat us earlier, that was the first time I'd lost to them since I was a freshman and I didn't want to lose twice to them my senior year.

Jim Boeheim

It's a tremendous honor but it's like anything you get in life. It really doesn't change the future. You still have to go out and recruit and try to do the best coaching job you can. There is no better honor but it's not going to help us beat anybody.