Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're beating ourselves. If you give up 13 offensive rebounds and don't control turnovers you just can't win.

We're away from home and I've got to be delighted. That's nine games now that we haven't been beaten. In fact we've only been beaten a couple of times away in 2005. We've had a great year and let's see if we can carry it forward. Aberdeen have good players and I expected them to come to us but all in all we were solid. It wasn't great football at times but we worked our socks off.

Lev Grossman

When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.

Flip Saunders

To our credit, we calmed down and just played basketball. The thing is, especially on the road, you put yourself in a position to win games. We don't beat ourselves.

Zach Galligan

Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

Through my whole career I've walked the fence and been beaten up by both sides.

Yes, I read it. And, absolutely. I mean, to be real honest with you, anything less is unacceptable at this point. We have expectations, and we're confident that we're one of the best teams out there on any given day. Really, to us, the only team that will beat us is us.

Jim Martin

We're really emphasizing team play and team effort, which is what is going to give us any chance to beat some of the good teams left on our schedule.

We're real excited and focused and relaxed. Our season is not about how we started out but how we finish. It all comes down to a one-game playoff and we feel we can beat St. Joseph.

Aaron Gray

We're real confident going into NCAA Tournament. We beat three real good teams coming into (Saturday).

We're ready. We feel like we can beat anybody. It's all about playing well at the right time now.

We're ready to make a run. That's been the girls' goal from the beginning of the year. They feel like they've got some unfinished business from what happened last year. But understand, when you start on that tournament trail, it's one game at a time, and the team you have to beat that night is THE team. You can't look too far ahead.

Michael Vick

We're ready to beat anybody, ... You just have to be confident in what you are doing.

With the plot effectively beaten back, we can now get back on track.

Rasheed Wallace

With us, we didn't like the taste we had in our mouths all summer. No disrespect to San Antonio, but we knew we could have beat them in Game 7.

Brevin Knight

We knew who their two big guys were - Joe Johnson and Harrington. You don't want to let the stars beat you. We did a good job of stopping Harrington in the second half.

We knew what we could do in our hearts, but we still had to go out and play each one of those games. We went and won seven in a row. We did what everybody said we couldn't do. We took the scenic route. We went and visited everybody's city and played on the road. They said, 'No way they could have all these games on the road and continue to win.' You know what? When you play football like we play at that point in time, and just execute like we're doing, we feel like we can beat anybody.

Brian Fitzgerald

We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We knew we were going to come up here and pound them. We're going to give the mall we've got and that¹s what we did.

We knew we were going to beat Pine Eagle, but after that, we didn't know what the heck we were going to hit. We got lucky. ... Our kids wrestled well when they needed to, and came through and won.

We knew we were going to beat Ole Miss. They came on the court talking, but we knew better.

Maurice Cheeks

We knew we were coming in here playing a team that had just beaten us on our own home court. I told our guys that until we are mathematically out of this we need to keep up the effort.

We knew this would be a very difficult meet. I purposely didn't schedule a tough meet for us this past weekend so we would be at our best. And I couldn't be much happier with our performance today. We beat a very good Owen team.

We knew this was a big game. They beat us at JM, so we wanted to win at home for sure. We don't want to lose at home at all.

We knew they would make some adjustments and make a run at us, and we couldn't respond. I told the kids if we could beat them three out of four, it would make for great memories. That was just an impossible task. They're too good a team.

We knew they were going to throw to them. But the bottom line is we had to force someone other than Brad Smith to beat us. We did that in the first half. We didn't in the second half.

We knew they were going to be up for not getting beaten 4-1 again, but we were by far the better side in the second half.

We knew they were big, but we wanted to press them the entire game. Even if we got beat a few times, we were going to press. We missed a few shots early, but then they started to fall for us.

Derrick Coleman

We knew they were a tough team, so we knew we had to play tough to beat them. It was a battle. We just tried to match their intensity.

We knew they were a great team. We saw them on tape. We heard great things about them. We knew they had a lot of great players. We had to bring our best game to beat them.

We knew they'd be getting tired. We just thought we'd roll over them, and that's not the game plan you want at tournament time. Any team can beat you.

We know what Louisville Central has back and they played our tails off last year after we got a 40-0 lead. Bullitt East has already beaten them and not looked back at anybody. So they must have a heck of a team. We can't just go on cruise into the playoffs because we are going to have some tough games right away.

Jack Foster

We know we will have to be a little better if we want to beat teams like Mount Pleasant and Lansing Catholic.

We know we're not the most talented team, but we knew the way we could beat these teams was by playing great team defense.