Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you know someone, you want to win that much more. You want to beat people you respect even more than the people you may not know. It's just like with (Michigan) coach (Lloyd) Carr last week. I love coach Carr, he's a good friend of mine, but I wanted to beat him in the worst way.

When you get to this point you always have to play your best game. The teams that have made it this far deserve to be here because they have beaten good teams to get this far.

Michael Cammalleri

We've got to find a way to beat them. We can't play hang-on hockey. We've got to go out and take it to them and make plays and be aggressive. If you play hang-on hockey in this league, they're going to beat you.

We've got to figure out how to hold onto leads a little better. We've got to close games like that out. Obviously, we would have liked to beat them in regulation, but I think the team that worked harder won tonight.

We've got to fight for everything we get. You want to prove you can beat the teams you might face in the playoffs.

We've got to beat them up inside. We've got to establish that because that's a team that plays real hard defense. They aren't going to let you get easy shots. They are going to come with a hard foul.

Jamie Langenbrunner

We've got to beat them and Montreal to have any chance of anything. That's the only thing we've got control of and that's the only thing we can worry about.

Tiki Barber

We've got to beat our injury bug. Other than that, we have the pieces in place.

Jon Gruden

We've got to always beat them up a little bit, make sure we keep these guys grounded.

We've got the No. 1 ranking in the state, but everyone knows, especially in the northern half of the state, to win a state title, you have to beat Hales.

We've just got to treat everybody the same. If we do that and play our hardest, then we can beat anybody.

We've just got to put this game behind us and look forward. We were able to beat them at our place and we just got to come ready to play.

We've just got to continue to do what we're doing. You don't get to 25-1 then start changing things. We're going to stick with what we're doing and people scouting us are going to understand that's what we do and they're just going to have to stop that and beat that because we're not going to change.

We've just gone to two places and got beat pretty badly. We go back home, the last time we were at home we played a great game. We're one game away from a regular-season winning season, and that's something we haven't done (since 2002). We get the opportunity to do that Saturday.

We've just been on a roll lately, all through the lineup. Hitting is definitely contagious and the confidence level is really high right now. When everyone is hitting like this, we feel like we can beat anybody.

We've just been focusing on defense and rebounding. You know how Coach Pearl is, he's a perfectionist and he wants us, regardless of the score, to keep competing and keep beating teams on the boards.

We've improved, but I'm sure Heath has as well. The last time we played them there was a 30-4 free-throw difference, and you don't win many games when you get beat 30-4 from the foul line. Taking all that, I think it's going to be a real battle. We like our chances.

Mark Kurlansky

With cultivation, the New York oyster industry thought it had beaten nature. But the city still didn't take care of its water. London, where oysters once came from the Thames, has a similar story.

Jonathan Toews

With our team this year, it was kind of a struggle for us, everyone knows we're a young team, we're up and down. We've beaten good teams and lost to weaker teams here and there and struggled to find consistency. So it's great that we've come this far.

With the best match of my life, I'm not sure if I could beat Grayson - he's that good. But again, I know I did the best I could in both of those matches.

With Terry, we can put our hands on a machine or fabricated part or piece. With Chad, it was all legal parts and pieces orchestrated or fashioned in a way to circumvent or beat the rules.

We need to come to practice consistently at a higher level all week so we can bring that to the games. We have to play better; Princeton just doesn't make mistakes. Offensively, they're not as good as us but they pass and play defense. If we pass and play defense we'll beat them. It is as simple as that.

We need to bounce back and not panic. (SPU) beat us tonight, but I don't think every night they'd beat us. It's really important for us to bounce back. These two games are huge.

We need to be ready to battle. We beat a good South Carolina team in under 2 hours. We can't expect to do that (today). We've got to be ready mentally to play longer if that's what it takes.

When you are talking about a Bob Knight-coached team, you know they are going to run motion offense, play man-to-man defense and not beat themselves. Our transition defense will be huge. And we have to prevent Jackson and Zeno from having great games.

When you are playing with just five players out there, you get tired. But that's the hand we were dealt tonight. But we can't take anything away from South Iron. Even if we had had everyone healthy, they still would have beat us pretty good.

Mike Martin

When you are playing the University of Florida and you are a Seminole you want to compete hard and play well and certainly you don't forget that they beat you the year before. But we have to move on to the next ballgame. Certainly we're happy.

When you're at the top you're the team everybody gets up for. We had a team beat us the other night and you would have thought they won the Stanley Cup by the way they were yelling and whooping down the hall. The good thing is, that gives our guys the extra incentive to win. They don't like to hear that.

Maurice Ager

When we play that way, it's tough to beat us. The key was passing the way we did.

When we play, a lot of times we kick our own butt and make a lot of mistakes. I think maybe it comes down to stops, maybe it comes down to executing offense. But I think when we're playing our best, no one can beat us.

When we lost Bryan everyone was like, ?Oh boy, this isn't good', but Sean has stepped in to do a great job for us. He's getting better and better with every match he wrestles. He was able to beat a pretty skilled guy tonight, and the momentum starts to begin after you get that first win.

Sam Baker

When we hired Jeff he said the key to being successful here was beating the College of Charleston head on. Year in and year out, Charleston has had good teams and Davidson is an outstanding program.

Bill Belichick

When we turn on that tape, we see them beating Cincinnati, we see them beat Pittsburgh, we see them beat Seattle. There are not a lot of teams who are saying that.