Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Barnes

We really beat an outstanding team today. This is a team that we respect as much as any team we have played this year and the fact that they play hard. They compete every possession.

Kim Clijsters

We're all very excited and for the fans here in Belgium, it's a great opportunity to see us together and hopefully we can live up to the expectations. Russia is the defending champion and we'll have to play our best to beat them.

We realize we beat them twice last year. But at the same time it's a different team for us and for them. GW is one of the best teams in the nation right now, and they're playing like it.

We realize it's going to be even harder to win because everyone out there wants to beat us. The way I look at it, any team can beat us and anything can happen out there, so the team that we face each week is our biggest threat. Our quest is to repeat as champions. To do that, we have to take it one game at a time and continue to work hard.

Shaun Alexander

We realized what it takes to beat good teams. We got to see it in one crazy environment. D.C. has some loud, great fans. That was an eye-opener for us.

We've got to stop him. We can't let him beat us.

We've got to play very well to beat anyone. We'll need some timely hitting, and we'll have a chance. This time of the year, no one is gonna throw a ton of pitches. All of the guys have to get it done.

We've got to keep it simple. When we do, we're very effective. We can't try to beat guys one-on-one.

We've got to go on the road and play what I'm sure will be a very motivated St. Norbert team. We're going to have to play our best to beat them.

Bob Riley

We've gone through quite a 24 hours. Our Gulf Coast has been beaten and battered.

We take a lot of pride in earning the number one seed. However, we also realize that means all the other teams will be gunning for us. It is always a little more difficult beating the same team twice in a season. Hopefully we'll be up to the task of defending our title.

We stumbled. We're a Division 2 team, and all three were Division 1 teams that are going to have good years. We do think we can beat those teams, but on Saturday that didn't happen. We're still 1-0 in conference. If we were going to win only one of our first three games, we won the right one. It's still early.

Doug Baldwin

We told the kids that you have to enjoy wins like this. We waited so long to beat Fort Frye that you can't take these wins for granted.

We told our kids that everyone on our schedule is capable of beating us from here on out, and I'm not sure if they believed us until halftime.

We told our guys that if we played soft, they would beat us. When we did play soft, they went ahead. But when we played tough, we were able to pull the game out.

We told Dustin that first match was crucial because if he lost there were two top?notch kids on the other side. He knew it. I think he has a good chance to beat Weber.

We threw four interceptions, one they returned for a TD, and they scored 22 points off of them. You're not going to win a game when that happens. The difference tonight was two things. The first thing was they capitalized on our turnovers and we didn't capitalize on theirs. And the second thing was their defensive line beat our offensive line at the point of attack.

We thought, 'We have to make them beat us from the outside,' and they did.

We thought we had a shot last year at being a real good team. This year, we've got to be consistent and not beat ourselves.

Michelle Wie

When I play, my mind-set is that I can beat everyone, ... (But) I don't really think I'm the best yet.

We are feeling pretty good. I think we have done a good job of taking the teams we have needed to beat in five innings thus far.

We are familiar with them, but it is a whole new season. When you lose to a team early on you want to get that game back. But I am not looking at it as revenge. We're just looking to beat them and advance.

We can compete with them physically. We are more skilled. If we play to our technical level we will beat them.

We can compete with them physically but, on a technical level, we will beat them. We will try and beat them by skills.

We can come back and have a good season. If we can figure out a way to beat Franklin Central, there's no reason we shouldn't be in the hunt to win another conference championship.

Lawrie Sanchez

We can catch Austria who we play last. I think England will beat them in the next round of matches,

To get close enough ... making some free throws ... in 24 hours we could be playing for the conference championship. I thought SEMO played well. They made some big plays down the stretch. I thought we got beat by a good team that played well.

Daniel Kessler

To get beat by a last-second shot, it's a feeling you can't really describe. You can't help but go over and over in your mind about what you could've done different and what you would've done different.

To compare it, it would be like one of the local football teams, Centennial or Meridian, beating the No. 1 ranked team in the Northwest. It's huge,

To come over here to get it... it's a big win especially after they came over and beat us at home. It's good to know that you can make adjustments and beat somebody.

To come in play at home and beat a team of this caliber is a result we are happy with. I'm really proud of where we are at.

What you have now is corporations trying to manage expectations with the intent later this year and certainly early next year of beating those expectations, ... So this market is really getting set up for a major change in perception once we begin to see some kind of economic pickup.

What we wanted to do was slow them down. We wanted to control Heard, and what we really wanted was to force other people to beat us.