Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our first eight games are all tough games. We've played some quality teams, beat them. Maybe we can be a quality team, too.

Raja Bell

Our game plan was to try to contain everyone else and hope that Kobe's whatever he wound up with wasn't going to be enough to beat all 12 of us.

Our game plan was to go back to the triangle-and-two that we used when we beat them last time and obviously not having him on the floor threw a monkey wrench into that. We didn't get the job done on defense tonight.

Our front seven did a good job of getting (the Falcons) into a lot of second-and-longs and third-and-longs. If you're going to beat an option team like that, that's what you have to get them into.

Overall, our defense did a good job. We know we can beat them. It's just a matter of everyone playing their A game.

Overall it was a pretty streaky game. If we play as well for 40 minutes as we did the last 2? minutes of the first half, we're going to be a tough team to beat the second half of the season.

Amber Smith

Out of anybody, we look to always beat Sky View. They're our biggest opponent. They are a tough team and we know that they're tough.

Larry Foote

On the sports shows this week, people weren't even breaking down our game. They were just going right to the other games, saying Indianapolis was going to beat Pittsburgh. But that doesn't matter. When the whistle blows, all that stuff is out the window.

Dwight Howard

Our coach said before the game, we got three good teams coming up in Miami, Dallas and San Antonio. We want to go out and try to beat all three teams. We started off tonight with a good win.

Our coach, Jack Wallace, would nod and clap, and that meant you had the green light to steal. The first time he did it I wasn't sure if I had seen right, because there was only one out. But he did it again. It was probably our only chance to beat Ryder. He had struck out something like 22 batters that day.

Jacque Jones

Other teams aren't going to stop trying to beat us because these guys aren't playing. We got to try to soften some of the blow we have been dealt right now.

Right now the biggest difference between us and West Sioux are our second and third runners, because our second and thirds are over 30 seconds faster than their second and third. We feel pretty good about how we're doing heading towards districts. West Sioux had beaten us earlier in the year and we've beaten them twice in a row now. But we can't ease up, because they'll be competitive and right there with us and they'll beat us if we do.

Jerome Bettis

Right now, teams are saying, 'If we can stop the running game, we can beat the Pittsburgh Steelers,'

Risk-averse American decision-makers would have to be focused on the possibility that the Chinese will beat us back to the moon. It would be a reasonable worry from the political perspective,

Robert has been one of our go-to players all year long. He has been able to score inside and he can also step out and hit the outside shot every now and then. He has been playing real well defensively, but we are going to need a good team effort to beat Spiro.

Robert Cleary played well, ... We didn't skip a beat in there, in terms of blocking for the run or the passer.

Flip Saunders

Rip did a great job and Redd didn't have a lot of breathing room. One of the reasons we aren't a big fouling team is that we don't produce a lot of steals. We don't jump out and we don't gamble. We play position defense. That's why so often our man-to-man looks like a zone. We try to make teams beat us over the top and contest every shot.

John Calipari

Rodney scored a bunch of points, but let me tell you what Rodney did -- he defended. Late in the game, he did not get beat on the dribble one time.

Rock 'n' roll is a young form. People over twenty-five ruin it. This whole censorship thing has come about because old people are playing with a form that is essentially young and rebellious. Do you know how brilliant it was for The Beatles to break up when they did?

Robin went in there and did a very good job. He did not get beat on pass protection. We didn't miss a beat.

Resurrecting the kids from the Carolina defeat and bringing them back to the point to be able to beat LSU, that's a huge dynamic. That's a huge achievement.

Tony Dungy

Pittsburgh was 15-1 last year, so beating them is huge,

Pleasant is a good team. They're really good. I knew we had to shoot well to beat them.

Playoffs are a crapshoot. I don't know if our team is good enough to beat everybody, but we're just going to play to win and if we play well, we will.

Physically, he's the same guy, but mentally, that hurt him. Castillo is a great fighter, and Juan knew he could beat him. He knew there were so many things riding on a win there. And it was a close, close fight, particularly in the first half. It hurt him to lose. Badly.

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Playing at home gives most teams an extra push to play well, so hopefully we?ll be all right. But we realize they have beaten us and we need to play a certain way to beat them.

Adam Clark

Playing a team four times, that's tough to do. We were able to beat them the first three, but not the fourth.

Players don't win, teams do. We weren't going to let one player beat 11 men on defense.

Physical play, running, good shooting, we see it all in Metro. We beat up on each other all year, but it gets you ready for state.

People who play this game learn to love it, and the camaraderie issue is what it's all about. It's a sport where you block and tackle and beat up each other, but after you go out and have a party.

Really it often gets down to luck of the draw. If the boys can get a win early to build their confidence, they can beat any of the fighters coming to Melbourne.

Adam Campbell

Red River beat us two out of the three times we've played them this year. It would be fun to play them.