Famous Quotes & Sayings

This team can beat anybody. We've beaten some good teams. We just don't always play the way we can.

Dwyane Wade

This team came out and beat us. Every time we made a run, they came back and made a run. We lost this one. ... We know that we're a couple of shots and a couple of defensive plays away from being a great team.

This team beat us in league earlier in the year, and I'm proud of the way the girls played defense and stuck to our game plan.

Ron Wilson

This was the opposite of the last game. They had five guys missing, and tonight it looked like we did, too. Five or six guys missing. You need a complete team effort to beat a team like Detroit, especially here, and we didn't get it. So we'll just throw it away and move on the next one.

Bobby Knight

This was the best team we've beaten this year.

This was the best effort I have seen from a team since I came to UTEP. They dug down and got after it today and beat people head-on. The 3,000 really clinched the meet for us when we finished 1-2-3-4.

This was pretty good for our first home meet. They ran enough to beat the competition. This was kind of like a workout for us.

This was by far our best game this year. We've been playing much better over our last four games. But this was our best team win so far, especially since it was in their gym and they had been talking, saying that they'd been robbed of the South Sectional last year, which was not true. We beat them this year and last year and I'm just so proud of these kids.

Derrick Coleman

This was a win-at-all-cost game. We wanted to prove we could beat them. I think we made a statement.

This was a very good Harlan team we beat tonight. The game was billed as two of the best teams in western Iowa, and nobody went home disappointed.

This was a typical Blue Mountain team that doesn't beat themselves, hustles, plays hard and their coaching hasn't lost a step.

This was a remarkable quarter for the company, probably our best ever, and I'm proud to say our 18th consecutive quarter of beating estimates,

This was a quality win. This is the best team we've beat all season. And to get a win on the road makes it even better.

Tom Crean

This was an unbelievable conference win. This is a special night in the program's history. We beat a premier program in our first game in the Big East.

This was a continuation of Villanova. We still felt that intensity, that fire of beating Villanova. We brought it right through to (Wednesday's) game. It died out, because they (South Florida) played tough defense.

This was a championship game. To beat them at their place was huge. That's what you have to do to compete for the league championship.

This was a big win. There's a big rivalry with Taft, and the last couple of years they've beaten us, so this was important for our confidence.

This was a big win for us tonight. This was the best game we've played down here and the first time since I've been coaching that we've beat Corvallis.

This was a big relief. My sophomore year, we made the playoffs but didn't win. Last year, we outplayed Brentwood but we lost. I think it helped that South Side Beaver beat us before. They're good. Their record is deceptive.

This was a big game for us. We have such a young team. To beat the Red Wings is something we can build on.

This was a big game for us as far as playing our rival, IU, on our home floor and they came in here and beat us. To finish last in the Big Ten is something nobody ever wants to do, but I'm happy with our team due to the fact that they stuck with it and played hard through everything that's happened to us this year.

We were thinking that they beat us at our place, so let's beat them at their place.

We were the underdog here tonight, but in our eyes, we knew we could beat them. They talked about them all the way in the paper. There was nothing in the paper about us. It was like they forgot about us.

What I wanted from them is what I got. I wanted the effort to win and if you give the effort, that?s all you can do. No one expected a team that?s 9-11 to come out and beat a team that?s 19-1. Nobody. If we could have done just a little bit better job in execution and had some more continuity on the offensive end, I thought we could have played with them.

What I've been telling my teammates is let's go out and win. If we just go and lay down and get beat the first round, the (NCAA) Selection Committee is going to say, 'I told you. They can't even win a game in the NIT. What makes you think they deserved to be in the (NCAA) Tournament?' So I just told them let's go out and play hard and win it, just to prove everybody wrong.

We focused on the two of them, and we challenged the other players to beat us. And, their role players had trouble doing that.

We focused on that all week, we knew he was back this year. We made it a point to not let that guy beat us.

We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they didn't beat us, but it was more that we lost the games.

We finished second in the section last year and our only two losses were to Baldwin. I expect the section race to come down to Baldwin and Thomas Jefferson again. Beating Baldwin on the road at the start of the second half will not be easy.

Paul Kelly

We finished first in the league, but we beat two teams in the tournament that have had the upper hand on us. We lost the last two to Bethlehem, and Clifton Park beat us last week.

We got a nice boost from Nate in the first quarter. We got beat on some second-chance shots in the first half, but we did a better job of not having that happen in the second half.

We got a little pay back, as they beat us by seven points in our gym. We came out of the blocks well, something that we haven't been doing, and shot well early. We made our free throws down the stretch and played good defense all game.

We go on runs, we get it within reach, and then we make a turnover or miss a box out, get beat in transition. That's what we do.