Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chauncey Billups

That's how we beat people. We always know there's strength in numbers, and that's why we play the way we do.

That's how they beat us last year. We knew if we kept them off the glass, we had a chance to win.

That shows why the NCAA tournament is the Pac-10 Tournament. We all beat up on each other.

That's in my opinion the best team in the league and we can play right with them. They have a senior pitcher, six or seven seniors, but we'll be okay. I hope we'll be in it, but I think they are the team to beat right now.

That's huge. We know we can beat them and they know we can beat them and I love not having a day off in between so we can get right back on the ice and finish it while we have the momentum from this game.

That (shot by Henderson) hurt. We played great defense, and then he just kind of flung it up there to beat the shot clock.

Trevor Ariza

That's his choice of words. I'm a little shocked ... To hear it from somebody else telling me that somebody has beaten me out without flat-out outplaying me, I've never had that happen before.

That's happened to some teams this year, too. Texas was ranked No. 2, and they lost to Tennessee. But we just need to focus on what we need to focus on. We know that every game we play, whoever we play, they have a chance to beat us, especially from this point on in the year.

Ben Howland

That's my expectation, that we're going to feed off this win and it's going to make us better. We're going to need to be better, a lot better, to have a chance to beat Memphis.

That gave us a big lift. That would've been a worst-case scenario for us if they jumped out early and got confidence that they could beat us.

That game, I know it helped us beat Winthrop. I think there was a motivation there. You could see it in their eyes that they were determined to be better than the letdown of losing that game.

AJ should have just gone to first, stole second, stole third, scored and then flipped the guy off at home plate, ... You play the game to beat the other guy, not to beat him up.

Danny Green

We've got a lot of guys contributing and that makes us a dangerous team. I think this proves we're capable of beating anybody.

We have a difficult portion of our schedule coming up now. We have beaten some tough teams. We will try to keep it going in the right direction.

We have a chance to win this thing - we can hang with all those teams. In fact, we should have beaten all of those teams in the regular season.

We had to have a great game. If not, no one would be thinking we could beat Kentucky. Now with the win we have tonight, there's no doubt we'll be able to go in there and fight with a lot of confidence.

We had to get fired back up. When we got off to that big lead, we thought we'd beat them. We figured they were done. Then they came back and scored, and that lit a fire underneath us.

TI will beat the numbers. The question is how much do they need to beat the estimates by in order to keep the stock going up. That's a tough thing to call.

This was like a championship atmosphere. This place was packed on a Tuesday night, we never see that. It was senior night for them and this was their opportunity to beat the top dog and they did. I give them all the credit in the world.

Ben Howland

This was just a great gut-check win for our program. We beat an NCAA tournament team tonight, and to come out in this type of environment and play so well is a testament to our guys.

This was huge for us, beating them in their gym after they've beaten us the last couple of years. They're a really good team, we just got some big rebounds when we needed them and played good defense.

This way, both spouses are kept in the loop, and there are no secrets. There's no blame, no shame. It's taking your financial pulse: Did we meet our goals? What can be done better? You don't want to beat each other up--you want to make the finances work better.

This weekend will be a good test for our team. We need to beat squads like San Jose and Cal Poly. If we play with intensity then we should be able to compete with UCLA as well.

This weekend didn't help in terms of getting an at-large bid, ... We certainly didn't beat any of the teams we needed to beat.

Those three guys have all made winning plays to help them win three games in a row. And those were games they could have all been beaten in.

Those things are not going to beat us.

Serj Tankian

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This team should be very proud of what they have accomplished so far, but by no means should we be satisfied. We're one of four teams left with a chance to win the national championship. If we play like we're capable, we're capable of beating anybody. But there are three other really good teams there other than ourselves.

This team never quits. We were down 5-0 to Hernando Christian and we came back to beat them for the district title. No one will ever out-work this bunch. They've worked hard to get this far and we hope we can keep right on winning.

Paul Davis

This team is still the same team, the same guys on this team that won all those games in the preseason and beating some of the top teams in the country. We have to get back to that. We have two games to do it here and home, and it's the perfect time.

Ben Roethlisberger

This team is an unbelievable football team. They're as good as it gets in the NFL. It's going to take our A-plus game to go out and beat their B-minus game.

This team has played like this for years and years. They wait and wait and capitalize on mistakes. There's no secret. They've been playing this way for a long time and they're good at it. They challenge you to beat them.

Lute Olson

This team has exactly the same record as the 1997 team (which won the championship). And I remember in 1980, we came here and beat Syracuse -- and they were a one seed -- and then we went on to the Final Four, which was . . . in Indianapolis.