Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gardenhire

Our outfield's been beaten up pretty bad, and Jacque's the one guy that needs to step up. And he's been doing that.

People need to understand that, by the end of the year, Gulf Coast was better than Trinity Valley. That speaks volumes about our region. We've already played and beaten some of the best teams in the country.

People involved in the day-to-day, they often miss turning points. They get beaten down after so many years. Or they're burned out. They may have stock options but don't believe they're going to be valuable.

Pat Summitt

Our team respects Texas. They have beaten us four in a row and beat us by 10 last year in Knoxville. We were not surprised.

Our girls are pretty level headed. They know even though we have beaten them by double digits all three times, last two games were two-point games at halftime. I don't think overconfidence will be a problem.

Right now the biggest difference between us and West Sioux are our second and third runners, because our second and thirds are over 30 seconds faster than their second and third. We feel pretty good about how we're doing heading towards districts. West Sioux had beaten us earlier in the year and we've beaten them twice in a row now. But we can't ease up, because they'll be competitive and right there with us and they'll beat us if we do.

Playing at home gives most teams an extra push to play well, so hopefully we?ll be all right. But we realize they have beaten us and we need to play a certain way to beat them.

Man, there have been times I've walked through a line, and these girls are slapping my hand just as hard as they can after we've beaten them.

Melbourne were terrible, I reckon Carlton would have beaten us today. We never looked like we were in it.

Jeffrey could have been better in some areas. He had some chances to challenge more shots when other guys were beaten on drives and had opportunities to get some more rebounds.

That was the biggest win of the day. Celia hadn't beaten her in two years of trying.

Shawn Smith

That's two years in a row we've beaten Howard. We're improved a little, but I think the rest of the county is too. We'll see.

Arron Afflalo

That's the only team that's really beaten us this year.

I was pretty dirty on that after getting beaten so I felt that I still wanted to play and now I have an opportunity to go on tour and play some more football which I'm very happy about.

I think it's the pattern from pre-announcements to earnings ? these are two companies (Motorola, Yahoo!) that have beaten lowered expectations, beating pre-announcements. When you expand that to the Microsoft story, it makes it even more powerful today.

Erlana Larkins

I think that was really good. If we would have played a team that we would have beaten by 30, that wouldn't have been good for us. We might have gone into the next game and relaxed.

I think some of the sectors that have gotten beaten down the hardest probably offer some of the most promise now. The technology sector clearly, some of the health-care names, more the biotech and technology health-care names than the big pharmaceuticals. But what investors really want to own think are companies with very, very strong top-line growth, and there are very few industries that have those. The old leaders will probably be the new leaders again.

I was worried about the 140 guy. (Franks) had beaten us earlier, so getting the pin this time was a huge swing for us.

I was working out about 12 times a week. I was tired of seeing kids I had beaten (in other tournaments) wrestling in the state meet. I wanted to be there.

Marquette has had a lot of close matches with teams that we've had close matches with. So we knew it was going to be a close match. In addition, they are very strong at doubles. They've beaten two teams that we've lost to for the doubles point. So going in, we knew they were pretty strong at doubles.

I was very pleased with our team score and success we had out on the course. Earlier in the season Belle had beaten us by one stroke on the same course.

Brad Ausmus

I was tired of waiting. I had to get ready for the game. Now, if I had known we were going to get beaten 11-2, I would have stayed and gotten the ring.

John Beilein

It felt like 10 years ago that we had beaten a really good team. We didn't have that quality win yet.

I think people weren't expecting much of us at the beginning of the year, but we've shown how much we've wanted it and we've beaten the odds. We're improving every game and becoming more solid as a team offensively and defensively. We play together well. Nobody tries to run the show. Everybody works together to try to win the game.

Lindsay Davenport

I still feel like I would have beaten a lot of players today. She's going to be at the top as soon as she plays more and more.

I think if you look at sectors that have been beaten down, a lot of the retailing companies come to mind,

It didn't really mean anything. They'd already beaten West Chicago by 26 and 36 points in the first two meetings, so in the back of their minds, they knew they could just show up and win, and that's what they did. With an extra day of rest and preparation, they'll be ready to go.

I think Merrillville is the clear favorite. They've beaten everybody in our sectional and I think everyone would prefer not to have drawn them. ... We get a break with the bye, but we have to beat Merrillville at some point, so why not start out with a chance to beat them.

Andy Roddick

I think I would have beaten most people today but credit where it's due, he played a very good match. The shots he was able to come up with were very good. I was surprised that he was able to lean in and hit some of the backhands. ... I haven't seen that before.

Jon Gruden

I don't give a damn what we are, ... Donovan McNabb is questionable and they're talking about him having surgery. No, if the guy's able to play, you play. We've got to win games. We haven't beaten the Jets in 20 years. I've got a lot of concern with this game.

I couldn't see the shot, but I knew he was going high-glove. I saw his face move, I saw his head move and I knew the shot was coming. I knew where he was going with it and I knew I was beaten right away.

He knows an any given day he can be beaten if he doesn't wrestle.

Half the people who voted for him last time are looking for an alternative. Your poll shows that he can be beaten without the need for a runoff in a primary and that he is unelectable in the general election.