Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shawne Merriman

When he left the game, it gave us more of an edge. They tried to hit us two times for big plays. When they finally figured out they weren't going to beat us with 60 or 70-yard plays, they had to change their game.

When he is ready and does everything right, I do not know how you can beat him. He is explosive in every position, he is dangerous from everywhere.

Warren Sapp

Whenever you're playing together, it's tougher to beat you,

James Wright

We had beaten Whitehouse earlier 5-0, but I knew it could be different this time. They were coming off a couple of wins in this tournament and were playing pretty well, I thought.

We had beaten them by four the first time but that was when our defense was unpredictable and sloppy, it was actually quite good this time. We've put together two good defensive efforts in a row, which we hadn't gotten, so we're making progress. It took us a while but we finally did it.

We had a wake up call. We thought it would be easy and just got beat by two solid teams. We realize now we have to work harder.

John Gilmore

We had a very talented team at Aragon last year, ... but beating Serra with everything they had going for them was something.

We had a very good season. We did pretty good, but we got beat in the finals.

We had a very good day. This is the first time we've beaten Princeton this year, and to beat both Princeton and Washington by good margins is very pleasing. We ran a great race.

We had a very competitive year. We only lost four games by a total of 20 points. We lost to three teams, two of which we beat later.

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Mike Carey

We needed all the breaks this game for us to beat Rutgers and we got them. We'll take them every time we can get them. I'm just so proud of the girls. We were coming off a tough season. We lost eight in a row after Meg went down and we really couldn't find our identity. But right now I've never been prouder of a group of girls to really regroup and do the things they've done here in this tournament.

Todd Rundgren

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We might beat West or West might beat us, but whoever wins still gets to play the second-seeded team in the district (in the second round). (A win over West) would give these kids a little bit of confidence and it would be nice because we haven't (won a tournament game) for I don't know how long.

Tom Conway

We won the first two section championships. The second year we beat former USF and Chicago Bulls center Bill Cartwright at Elk Grove in the semifinals.

We've taken on a lot of quality opponents, we've played a lot of good teams and we've beaten a lot of good teams. I still think some teams don't think we're for real yet.

We've sat down and had some nice talks and set some definite goals with this group. We should be the team to beat in the conference.

Bill Cowher

Mile High is a tough place to play, and we're going to have to play our best to beat them.

Howie Long

Mine was, 'I'm gonna wait for you in the parking lot and beat you up in front of your family.'

Milwaukee tonight will beat a lot, a lot of people. They were very good.

Mill River beat up on us. They out-physicalled us and out-sized us and out-quicked us in just about every facet of the game. I think the majority of the boys are young men we had last year. They've got pretty good memories and that's one I know they wouldn't forget.

John Flaherty

Mo did a great job with both Manny and Ortiz. He made his pitches, and if they were going to beat him, they were going to beat him on his pitches. He walked both of them, but he kind of dictated the at-bats.

Mt. Carmel is a good team, so beating them is big for us.

Mount Anthony looked terrific. They had five kids in the top 10 and it's pretty hard to beat that.

Guillermo Coria

Moya is playing at his best and it will be very difficult to beat him. But I am really hungry to win a tournament this year. I know he has been invincible in finals here in Umag but I hope I can be the first one to break this record of his.

Maybe we have to beat Duke to get the respect we need.

Maybe we did run out of gas; then again, maybe we got beat by a better team.

Gilbert Arenas

Maybe we aren't as good as we think we are. We keep thinking we're a playoff team, but we are getting beat by teams we're supposed to beat. We need to come out and play a little harder, play with a little sense of urgency. We have the talent.

Me and my coach (John Smith) will go back to the drawing board and set our goals for next year . . . right now trying to beat the Yanks in Osaka.

My kids feel vindicated. Losing the dual meet to Valley was rough. They weren't too good of sports after beating us, and my kids didn't forget that.

My kids are as down as down can be, and in some ways they should be and in some ways they shouldn't be. They played as hard as they could, but to beat Ohio State you have to do a lot of things right. You have to do most things right, let's face it. We did some and we didn't do others.

My first personal reaction is that it's maybe not surprising since Mars gets beaten up a lot by impacts.

Nobody gave us a chance to beat these guys. We hadn't won on the road. It definitely leaves a good taste in your mouth.