Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've seen a couple of their games and there's a lot of pressure and quickness out there. I certainly think they have us beat in the quickness department. Not that we're slow, but they're faster.

Roy H. Williams

I've said all year long that Virginia Tech is one of three or four best teams in the league. I really believe that, and I said that before they were a 45-footer away from beating Duke at Duke. ... I think they're an NCAA Tournament team at the end of the year, and I strongly believe that.

I've never lost a game like that. They didn't beat us. We lost it. Every turn of that game was in our hands. We gave that game away. Maybe that's the wrong thing to say, but we gave it away.

Elena Dementieva

I've never seen such a long break. I didn't think it was a fair play. You know, if that's the only way she can beat me -- I mean, it's up to her. I just don't think it's fun for the players, or the crowd, to see someone lying down for 12 minutes.

I've never seen so many good saves in a game in my life by a goalie. They beat us at our game, and our game is outworking teams and directing pucks to the net and they did a good job at that. That's the hard part to swallow.

I've never seen it in my lifetime. When that Central Michigan group decides that it wants to play, they are going to be able to beat anybody. They have the greatest coach in the country and there is no doubt in my mind that they are a good team.

Jim Kiick

We don't root for them to lose. We're not bitter old men, like some people make us out to be, but we're proud of our accomplishment. You can't beat perfection -- you can only equal it. If the Colts do it, then we'll make room for another chair on the mountain.

Tim Ryan

To get there, you've got to beat the best. Without a doubt, they're one of the best.

To keep up with that level of intensity for the entire game isn't easy. We simply got beat by a better team tonight.

To have something like that happen -- I don't know if we set some sort of a record for being beaten up on but it sure felt like it.

You have to play them some time so you just play them when the schedule says. We realize we have to beat one of them to get in. Buford is always tough and few people have been able to beat them. But we always go into a game thinking we can win if we do certain things. This week is no different.

James Farrior

You have to play a full 60 minutes to beat a team like that. They're the world champions, and they didn't get that way for nothing.

Tom Izzo

You have to pick your poison. We just tried to stay up on the shooters and not sag as much on the inside. Dials did hurt us, but he didn't beat us. On that day, they missed some shots that I think were contested. And I think they missed some shots that weren't. They weren't on a hot streak like they are now. They were still shooting well. But, lately, they've been on just a barrage. Bruce (Weber) has one of the best defensive teams in the league, and if they can do that to Illinois, that's scary.

You have to paddle with the river, not beat it. You can't beat it! It's moving 1,000 pound rocks down the river with ease.

Johnny Mathis

You have to make sure you don't overdo one thing or the other, especially at a certain age, especially with the voice. You can't beat it to death.

With grass the infield gets beaten up a lot more. Turf gives a more consistent surface.

you have to beat the best to be the best

You have to beat someone good to get here. Seth did that. Hopefully everyone else in our program will see that and realize what it takes to do it. Hopefully everyone will use it next year.

You have a bunch of guys where a couple have won a national championship, and the freshmen are from very good high schools. We beat Cornell by a goal; we beat Princeton by two goals. We have some good leadership and excellent freshmen.

Joe Maddon

You have to get good pitching to beat the Red Sox, period. They win a lot of close games. We've got to beat them at their own game sometimes also. When you have pitching like they do, you can't expect to come in here and go toe-to-toe with them and beat them 9-8 all the time. You're just not going to do it.

This year our team is going to get a chance to play in the state finals early. We get a chance to play Bedford (in the District). I think we're closer to them than we've ever been, but Bedford is the team to beat in the state.

This year, I think we will beat the 64 we sent last year. We have so many more projects that can make it.

When you perform and people are yelling, it's the same, like people (who) are yelling when you're running for a touchdown. The preparation is the same before a performance and before a game. Your heart is beating just like before a football game.

Shay Doron

We've proven we can beat them. We know we can beat them. The biggest difference is, we're just as good as they are.

Charlie Whitehurst

We've proven we can beat teams with this kind of talent,

Jason Maxiell

We've practiced hard, but we're tired of beating up on each other,

Ken Hitchcock

We've played with this back-against-the-wall mentality on the road. In order to beat Buffalo we're going to have to play with that mentality for every game.

We've played very strong since the opening three games. Right now we feel like we can beat any team in the state.

Pedro Martinez

What can I say--just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy. I can't find a way to beat them at this point.

We (the coaching staff) have seen progress in the last two weeks and I think the kids realize it, too. Obviously you want to win every time you got out to play. Everybody wants to win. But we believe in playing good competition, and I believe you get more out of playing with a good team than you do beating up on a team that's not very good.

We tend to beat ourselves. We tend to get a little hesitant and I just can't figure out why.

We spend most of our time on defense. It started from day one. ... We're always going to be physical. We have to be because in order to beat a team, you have to rebound, and to rebound you have to be physical.

Brendan Morrison

We've been struggling of late and we're in a real dogfight in the division, so when we play games that we're supposed to win we have to ... beat these teams. These are the teams others in the conference have been piling up points against.