Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wanted him to wrestle. When college scouts saw him on tape, it was already a no-brainer. But once they saw him on the wrestling mat, taking on and beating kids bigger than him, their interest grew to even greater lengths.

I wanted to get off to a good start this season because I didn't do that the last couple of years. I'm shorter in my swing and I think I'm a different hitter this year. We came out and beat some good teams and we really didn't hit that well as a team.

Lee Corso

Texas is the most complete football team I've seen in the nation this year. They have every chance in the world to beat USC.

Bobby Knight

Texas impressed me as being as good as any team I've seen play in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but a lot of them were forced by the way they played. We just got beat by a much, much better team.

Texas finally beats Oklahoma but falls to No. 3 in the Harris poll behind Virginia Tech.

Sorry I beat you, ... but I wanted to win this one really bad.

So often, our kids get beat up a lot. If you give kids a vehicle to give back, they will take that." ()

Keith Andrews

Sooner or later we've got to beat them. We rushed a few shots and that's when the lead spreads from seven or eight to 14 or 15.

So much of this game is confidence. When you get on a positive cycle, the confidence is there and the momentum is there. George thinks he can beat any one in the world.

Sometimes in a losing streak you don't know what to say as a coach. Each time we got beat 1-0 it was heartbreaking, but (those games) are more motivating than if you lose 3-0.

Phil Garner

Sometimes, I like to see a guy get beat up a little bit and see how he reacts. I like to see what a guy does when that happens - 'cause you're going to get it every now and then.

Teams try to take Johnny out of the game by beating him up. It usually doesn't bother him. Tonight, he let it get to him a little bit. Sometimes we forget he's only a sophomore and he's 15.

Teams that we play that normally beat other teams weren't doing that this year. What are you going to do? You've got to play who you get.

Technology is needed not to beat the fish, but to beat other fishermen. The fish would still come back... if we would wait.

Telecom infrastructure got beat up so much after 2000 and now going forward, there's some stabilization and near-term demand. It shows you there are cycles,

John Hannah

Terrence had one of his best days. In the finals he was down early but worked to beat Raymond's Walter Crow (by a 6-3 decision), who was fourth in state (last year).

(Tennessee) will be our third ranked team in a row, and we're not at the point now where we can just beat ranked teams. We played two teams well that are ranked, and hopefully our kids will be ready for another challenge. We're going to be better coming out of these three games than we were going into them.

Ten and 0 is pretty exciting. Maybe we'll get a chance to play on Saturday since they beat us at the Akin tournament.

Sometimes, St. Francis comes in here and gives us a scare -- not that I'm not confident that we will beat them -- but if you don't take them seriously, you could end up on the wrong end of that stick.

Sometimes the trap game for us is the Saturday game. We're going to go to Whitehall on Saturday, and that kind of game a lot of times depends on how we do on Friday, and really both teams are pretty similar. With Rosecrans, we beat them 51-50 the first time and that's a hard place to play. That'll be a key game, too, in our league.

Sometimes it isn't pretty, but we've found a way to get it done and we've found a way to be in the position we're in right now. So if we beat Atlanta, we're 11-5 and we get in the playoffs. Anything can happen.

Steve Bruce

Sometimes away from home you hold your hands up when you have been beaten by a better team. But, for me, the best team lost - but then it's the same old story.

I've played well every week, but there's this one guy that's been beating me every week.

Marat Safin

I've played him many times, six times, but the way he is playing this year, with confidence, to beat him will be very tough. A little bit of luck would be great.

I've only beaten Clifton once before, and to beat them like that was really nice.

Chris Davis

I've really seen myself as a top scorer but more as role player. With my speed, I've gotten a lot of chances at the net, getting close in on the net, beating defensemen wide and getting breakaways. I like to call myself sort of a gritty player. I use my speed to get in there in the corners, but also I like to show a little bit of grit, get in there and throw the body around a little bit. I'm not the biggest guy out there, but I still like to throw a couple of hits.

It would be a really good birthday present to beat them and get to the finals.

It would be a big step for our program no matter who we played to get to the Sweet 16. We know how hard we've worked to get here. We respect Tennessee and it's going to take one of our better games to beat them, but I can promise you we're not intimidated.

It would be so special to beat Chelsea in London,

Hines Ward

It would truly be a fairy tale story, to go on road, beat Cincinnati and come in and beat Indianapolis, then to get Jerome back to where it all started for him in Detroit. Somebody needs to write a book about that. It would make a lot of money.

It was typical Reno, give them credit. They get on those rolls and that is how they beat people. Our kids just weren't able to respond.

It was very satisfying to beat our big sister.

Kelly Miller

It was very important that some of us stepped up tonight. If you stick to the systems, you can beat any team in this league. My theory is they shut it down in the second period.