Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Green

Why didn't I fall for all the vices of young stardom? My dad would have beaten the s--- out of me if I had gone the drug route. I'm not kidding. Plus, I never really felt the need for it. I mean, I'll go out and party. But I've also had the good sense not to even drink too much. I've also seen my friends get into trouble. I will walk up to a friend and say you're drinking way too much.

Why couldn't we beat those numbers? I dunno.

We've definitely talked about playing O'Gorman again, especially since they beat us in districts. We're looking forward to getting another shot at them.

Rudyard Kipling

You have heard the beat of the off-shore wind, / And the thresh of the deep-sea rain; / You have heard the song - how long? how long? / Pull out on the trail again!

You have great results there. They beat and raised guidance, so things look very, very strong.

Thomas Doll

You have to come out with draws like this sometime -- a year ago we probably would have been beaten by three or four goals.

Tommy Amaker

You have to be disciplined, you have to be tough, and sometimes you have to be a little lucky and hope sometimes he's going to miss a couple of those shots. We've seen him before where he's made a lot of those shots and beaten a lot of people by himself. Fortunately for us, we had that performance on our side tonight.

Too naive ... We keep beating ourselves. We know soccer doesn't end until the referee blows the whistle and we've just got to keep working and not make so many mistakes. . . . It's a slap in the face to wake us up and realize there are people out there that want to beat us badly. We missed a good opportunity tonight.

When I saw the bracket, I thought the top half looked a lot tougher than the bottom. But you have to beat the best to be the best.

Baron Batch

Those (Abilene) guys are great players. They beat us this year. They know how to play and that's the biggest thing, knowing how to win and what to do to win. This is a really good recruiting class.

Thomas is the team to beat right now. They're playing solid baseball, putting runs up and getting solid pitching.

Thomas is the team to beat in the league. They are playing solid baseball, putting runs on the board and getting solid pitching.

This year we have a different kind of chemistry. As long as we work together as a team, then yes, we can beat any team on the court if we bring it.

This year, we got beat by 20 a couple of times and that was hard to take. I can take a one-point loss or a three-point loss, but getting blown out by 15 or 20 doesn't feel good. Even at home we got beat by a lot at times and that's a personal pride thing. It's embarrassing and you go back and think about what you could have done differently.

Paul Brooks

This tournament is wide open. Who knows who is going to win? Everybody has beaten everybody. It will be the team that can play their best for three straight games.

This time we were beat by a lot better team. Randy Davis, he's awesome. He did the scoring and got the key rebounds when they needed it.

This time of year it's not about winning by a certain number of points. Now, it's about wanting to advance. That's a good team we beat tonight. They came out and pounded us and we weathered the storm.

Reggie Hamilton

This time, I guess we wanted it more. We had to prove we could beat this team.

This time, coaches, managers and players can't cut us up and beat us up in front of the fans we're trying to sell the game to.

We just have to take care of business right now and try to beat SPU and NNU. That's all that we can control right now.

We didn't get those bonus points early. We felt our top three (lightweights) could beat their top three.

Tom Izzo

We didn't get beat by some chopped-liver team. I mean, don't kid yourself: They're going to win a lot of games -- a lot of games.

Allen Iverson

We didn't get any stops. We are trying to get better defensively but we got beat by 30 points, so obviously we are not getting better defensively. ... Obviously if you get beat by 30 points then the coach can question your effort.

We didn't expect that. We were as happy as they were that we won, but it wasn't like we were unranked beating the No. 1 team.

Clive Woodward

We did not play as well as we could or should have last night, but I am in no doubt we can beat New Zealand. Gareth's leadership will be central to meeting that challenge.

We had a come-from-behind homecoming win that year that really stands out in my mind. One of the games, we were really down at halftime. He really put on a show in the second half, and we came back and beat West Georgia.

We had a chance to beat them, but we didn't. I'm upset about that.

Jim Zalesky

We had a chance to beat (Minnesota) and the matches like at 141, 149, 157 were all pretty tough matches and we lost them all. We just weren't good enough that day to beat them.

Steven Soderbergh

We had a big night over there, where I destroyed Misty Wilkins in a game of straight pool. She was talking trash and we went over there and I beat her senseless.

Matt Murphy

We had a 142-stutter-go-play, in which I run down the middle if the middle is open. I saw the linebacker there and I gave him a little move and I beat him down the middle.

We had 32 minutes of focus. I think we had small lapses, but I think we had a lot of determination. They beat us earlier this year, so we've been sitting on that.

We had 20 turnovers, that's ridiculous, and missed (19) free throws. You're not going to beat an eighth-grade team doing that.

We got it down. But give them credit. They responded. We got beat by an outstanding team. If there are many better teams, then we're going to have to reassess our whole recruiting.