Famous Quotes & Sayings

We can't feel pity for ourselves, cause the opponents don't. We're trying to beat them and they're trying to beat us.

Scott Williams

We can't come out with just a decent performance and expect to beat them. We were just good enough to lose a close game to them. I thought we competed hard and played hard. That's part of the equation, but we have to learn to execute better.

We were unbelievably fortunate that second time. It's difficult beating them two, much less three times.

Chauncey Billups

We'll be on their turf, where they beat us before, so we'll be looking forward to it.

We were mainly freshmen and sophomores this year and they stuck with it. They knew we were going to get beat in a lot of meets because we couldn't fill a full lineup, but they kept working hard.

We were able to get more quality shots (Tuesday). We beat a Pearce team who plays a very finesse brand of soccer. They pass and shoot very well and they force you to go to the outside.

We were a bit scared of the South Africans because they beat us in a friendly at home.

We are blessed to have three kids at 119 and three at 125. And the competition is very close in both weight classes. In fact, we just had a freshman beat a two-year starter in a wrestle-off for 119.

We are beating ourselves. We're giving them too much, giving them too many opportunities. We need to make them earn their way on base.

We are beating good teams right now. The Big Ten has a lot of really good teams. We went up to Michigan State and lost, but we came back and got some things ironed out and played really well tonight.

Josh Smith

We can play with the best we beat Detroit, San Antonio. We just couldn't come up with the win tonight.

Luis Suarez

We can only progress by beating historic rivals, gaining respect, rising step-by-step.

We can't beat them if they shoot well. Windsor just has more bodies and seasoned guys. They played very hard, but our guys didn't back down.

We can't beat ourselves like that. We were a little too aggressive, and not using our heads always. That's something we can't do.

We doubled down on their big guy and made him kick it out to make someone else try to beat us. I have a lot of confidence in my guards. But that's all I've got -- guards.

O. J. Simpson

We really beat ourselves. Our guys were making a lot of silly mistakes, like hitting it long while rallying, things like that.

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 played horrible. We were beaten on the boards and in transition.

We put a total game together on defense and offense. We guarded. We didn't get beat off the dribble, and we neutralized the post.

Arjen Robben

We played great soccer and with a bit of luck, we could have scored a couple more. Now we'll have to beat the Latvians.

We played good, but you've got to play great to have a chance at beating (Wheeler).

Eddie Jordan

We played a very good team. They are a team we would like to model ourselves after. ... They beat Detroit twice, and that was no fluke.

We have to tighten up in the field. We had some injuries coming in with Katie Cooley having surgery on her toe (on Monday) and Gina McCloud struggling with a back injury. We're a little beat up right now. We need some people to step up and that's what we struggled with tonight.

Tom Renney

We have to stay out of the penalty box to give ourselves a chance. The one thing I know for sure is that we are not going to beat the New Jersey Devils from the penalty box.

Kirk Hinrich

We have to run him off his shot, we can't let him beat us. He's good but they have Wade, they have Shaq. We just have to do a better job on him.

Sarah Lewis

We hope to beat our score last year and do better than eighth in the nation.

Larry Foote

On the sports shows this week, people weren't even breaking down our game. They were just going right to the other games, saying Indianapolis was going to beat Pittsburgh. But that doesn't matter. When the whistle blows, all that stuff is out the window.

Dwight Howard

Our coach said before the game, we got three good teams coming up in Miami, Dallas and San Antonio. We want to go out and try to beat all three teams. We started off tonight with a good win.

Our coach, Jack Wallace, would nod and clap, and that meant you had the green light to steal. The first time he did it I wasn't sure if I had seen right, because there was only one out. But he did it again. It was probably our only chance to beat Ryder. He had struck out something like 22 batters that day.