Famous Quotes & Sayings

Luis Castillo

Once the game starts, everyone has enough pride they don't want to let another man step in front of him and beat him.

The momentum is huge. We can go in on a high note. We beat team that is a higher seed that we are. We had to have a win to get our focus right for the tournament.

Drake is certainly a worthy opponent. They gave us a pretty good game out here a couple of years ago. Drake is a good enough team to come in here and beat us. If you don't play well, you give people the opportunity to upset you.

Dreams really do come true, if you are willing to work for them and sacrifice for them. You know, it beats the heck out of singing to oilcans.

Defensively, we were about as good as we can be. When the separation occurred, we did things that were out of character for us. We had three open looks we didn't make. We had to have those to beat a team like Texas.

Drew Pearson

Defensively, our philosophy is we can't get beat deep by a long pass, ... and then we've got to wrap up and tackle.

Defense wins games, and our kids came out with great intensity and we did everything we were supposed to do. I really thought that with the young team we played against, we really put a beating on them early.

Ryan Hollins

Defense wins championships and our shots fell. That's a very, very good team we just beat tonight.

Defense set the tone; it's what did it last night (Friday night in Roaring Fork's 45-35 win over Cedaredge) and tonight. Everyone I put on the floor took their man to the one-on-one and said 'I challenge you to beat me' and for the most part they (the Bulldogs) choked. It was awesome.

Delta will move quickly and decisively to do what is necessary to beat our competitors and meet our financial commitments,

Dell looks like a momentum play and is ready to get back on its old path of meeting or beating estimates.

Allan Ray

Definitely, we all talked about it. We knew how they came in here and beat us pretty heavily last year. We didn't want to let that happen again, so we just came out with a great mindset, great intensity and really focused on our game plan.

Definitely I think our No. 1 singles in boys and No. 1 doubles teams have a shot at getting to the state tournament. Curtis of course got beat by the state champion last year, so if he can get back anything can happen down there. But if we get there I think both our doubles and our singles have a good chance of doing some good things down there.

December is one of the best months of the year for retailers. Of the past four years, retailers have beaten the market. Typically, everyone says the Christmas season is going to be horrible and they don't want to be in retailers, only to see December do very well for the market and even better for retailers.

Jack Hoffman

Deep down, I know she's beaten the odds. God definitely had a hand in this.

Mo Johnston

D.C. was the better team. There's no way I'm going to stand up here and make excuses when we got beat 4-1.

Companies are meeting expectations, but they are not beating expectations by a great amount, and I think that's part of the indecision today.

Coach (Rachel Lawson) wants us to take all of the intensity we had at the beginning of the season when we were beating quality teams and carry that into conference play.

James Augustine

Coach (Weber) always talks about how good of a team we can be. Like, he gave the example of how we beat Georgetown at home, and Georgetown beats Duke. I know it's a home win for us. But I think we're up there with some of the best teams. If we keep winning on the road and showing some character and keeping playing solid basketball, I think we can make a run at it.

Coach told us when we got into the tournament that teams like that -- Michigan State, North Carolina -- they are supposed to beat us. With that on them, that is a lot of pressure. They have to make all the shots. The pressure is on them to do that.

Coach told us when we got into the tournament that teams like Michigan State and North Carolina are supposed to beat us. With that on them, that's a lot of pressure for them.

Coach told us when we got into the tournament teams like Michigan State, North Carolina, they are supposed to beat us. Fortunately for us, we came out and played the way we have been playing all year and got the win.

Dwyane Wade

Coach told us to come in and play well on our home floor. Teams that you're supposed to beat, you've got to beat them. That's what we did tonight. At the same time, having a big lead and guys having the opportunity to rest was big also.

Coach Childress seems like a guy who's very confident in what his plan is. He's very diligent and gets right to the point. He's not a guy who's going to beat around the bush. We haven't been on the field, but seeing him and talking to him, he's not going to sugarcoat anything and is not going to sell you any pipe dreams. As players, we respect that and that's what we want ? coaches who tell it like it is.

Lawrence Jackson

Coach Carroll always preaches, ... that the only team that can beat us is us.

Colgate exposed a lot of our weaknesses. We were expecting to beat them pretty handily, and they showed us that we need to work on our midfield transition. But it's nothing that we can't fix in practice.

Graeme Smith

Coming out of the Test series, a lot of the guys who were here believed going back home we could beat them. We didn't take our chances. We had them under pressure on a number of cases in the Test series and just didn't drive it home.

Coming in to tonight, We've beaten the teams I thought we should and we've lost to better teams than us. Now, I think we got one from a team better than us.

They're a great offensive team. We just knew that every possession we were going to have to play hard defense. We thought we were talented enough to beat them.

They're a good team. They beat us twice this year and they beat us twice last year. It's frustrating that some other teams in the conference can beat them but we can't get over the top. I don't know if it's just the style of play, or what.

They're a good team and we're glad to be able to beat them.

Chauncey Billups

They're a good team, a lot better than the way they played this year. Of course they beat us already. I think they match up pretty good with us. They have a good mix. They're definitely a team we might have to see down the road some time.

Mark Wright

They're a good side, they play good football, they're difficult to beat up there, do a lot of things right and got a lot of very good players.