Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

You cannot beat a warm home like this.

You can't do things like get picked off when you need runs. You can't beat yourselves.

Rick Carlisle

You can't do that and beat a good team like that.

Don Davis

You can make excuses and say, 'Well, there are some new guys in there,' but you know what? A lot of these guys have been playing football for a long time. What it comes down to is beating your man and going and making the play. We didn't get that done.

You can look back and say we beat them twice, and that's good. But, in reality, we beat them by a total of four points. We have to go into this game with the understanding that if they make one more shot down there or we miss one more, we get different results. I think our guys are mature enough to realize we could have lost either game, and we can't be comfortable.

We had a really nice start to the season. To play five matches in one week and win them all is pretty impressive. Then to play a tough team from South Jersey and beat them is even better.

We had a really good day. We beat two AAA teams and just lost to Grundy, who is ranked second in the state, by two matches. It was a great effort today by the kids.

Corey Parker

We wanted to come out here and play strong and play hard and we thought we were going to beat them easily. But it didn't work out that way. They played good and played hard, but a win is a win. It's not the way we would have liked, but we got the win.

David Hale

We wanted to beat (Lovett) because they beat us twice last year. I wanted to out there and kind of get revenge from last year.

Brenden Morrow

We wanted to beat LA. They've had our number this year. We had a good effort, but could not get the goals we needed.

We wanted this one pretty bad. We haven't beaten them in a while.

We wanted to stop their run game. We changed a couple of coverages after the beginning, but you always want to see if you can go man with them, but Johnson beat us deep.

We wanted to run (tonight), that is our style, but clearly that is their game as well. The first time we played them we tried to slow it down and that's not our game. I told our girls that I'd rather risk being great with the risk of losing than playing it safe. I'm very proud of the effort. They got a lot of second shots and they beat us on the boards on both ends.

We wanted to prove that we were the better team (Saturday), and I think we did that. We talked all week about beating Danvers because we respect them as a team and a program.

We've had trouble going out and beating a team we should beat. This is where we have to stop the trend that we've had in the past few years.

We've had their number the last two years, but you have different players on both teams. We'll have to be at the top of our game to beat them.

We've had a market where negative news on the economy and the corporate profit picture have dominated. Companies may have beaten lowered estimates, but we're expecting weak economic reports this week.

We've had a lot problems scoring. When we make shots, we're competitive and we can beat some pretty good people. When we don't make shots, it's like this.

We've had a lot of close meets this season. This is one of the teams that beat us last year, so we're very excited. Our team is driven by close competition.

Andy Roddick

We've had a lot of close matches, and I haven't come out on the better end of them, ... Which is a little rare for me. I want to get another crack at these guys. The only way I'm going to beat them is by playing them and putting myself in position enough times.

Kyle Whittingham

We've had a great time since we've been here. This beats the heck out of Memphis, Tenn., that's for sure, and one of the best places to see Las Vegas is in your rearview mirror.

Dick Vermeil

We've had some very productive offensive games in Denver, ... but we've never been able to really slow them down enough to beat 'em. So we know what we have to do.

We've had some rough years in the past. And to have a chance to win five games and win the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy is pretty incredible. It would be the perfect ending to a good story. I'd like to beat Navy at least once in my career.

We've had some health problems throughout the year, and we got beat by them earlier, but we weren't healthy. We are now and we're hoping that'll make the difference.

We've had some great practices, but we're beating up on each other. We're ready to play someone else.