Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Camp

We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three studios -- a big one, a medium one and a small one. Every one of them came down to the same thing, control,

Dirk Nowitzki

We slept through it. They came out on fire and we couldn't hit anything. That's where we lost the game.

Thurgood was amazing. He came up huge when it counted. We have two freshmen out there paying the price in pressure situations. It's going to pay big dividends in the future.

Through the past few games, this team has definitely come together. When I was a freshman, that's what happened when we were playing. Our seniors stepped up, and we definitely came together so there are similarities.

We've been talking about this since he signed. When he came and played Utah we were all going to come and watch him. We've been looking forward to this for months.

We've been struggling to score runs all year, and just the way we came out hitting early I thought eventually we'll get some (run-scoring) hits today.

Katsuya Okada

We've been steadily making efforts for this day. Now we have finally came to this opportunity to change the government.

We tried to pick charities where 100 percent of the monies are going directly to the victims or families of the victims, ... That's what took us a little while, to do our due diligence and look into these groups we came up with.

Joe Glenn

We tried to get that many people (90,707) at practice in Laramie to give us a look, but we couldn't round up that many people. But we made a great effort and came away with a nice check ($700,000) and a healthy team.

We talked about having one person step up for us, and tonight we had five. Whoever came in for us tonight really did a nice job for us.

We talked about defending better and we came out and did it.

We talked about coming out with intensity and playing hard and not overlooking anyone. The guys came out and played well early and didn't take these guys lightly.

We just played really good defense. They can flat run. This is a team that came out and scored around 80 points on us the last time we played, and we held them to 55.

We just played real lethargic the whole first half. They got a good chewing at halftime and came out and went on a huge run. ... We went out in the third quarter and just lit it up on the scoreboard and played real hard defense.

We just missed too many key shots, too many free throws, down the stretch. You always want to go out with a win in your last game, and that's why we were fighting so hard. We just came up short.

We just wanted to qualify for state, winning the sectional was just a bonus. We had a real good team effort and came away with a tight win.

Ben Wallace

We just wanted to give ourselves every opportunity to win games. Guys came out ready to play with a lot of energy but the playoffs is a whole different beast. This game won't mean anything for that. Everybody knows teams step up their game once the playoffs start.

Steven Anderson

We just wanted to come out and show the first half was a fluke, ... We came out and played smash-mouth football and that's our style.

We just tried to work on faking our passes, spreading the floor. We tried to trap. It's hard to duplicate that. It came down to players making plays.

We just tried to concentrate on playing all five of them as tough as we could, whether that was inside or outside. Unfortunately, Holtz got off to a hot start, and Johnson came on to pick up where she left off, and that was the difference.

We just had to rely so much on Lauren in the first half and she really came up big for us. You know she wasn't 100 percent, but sometimes when you're hurt you are focused only on the game itself.

Marion Jones

We just had to keep our composure and play as a team and we couldn't go wrong. We were down 10, came back and proved that we're the champions.

We just had the inning where the wheels came off. The merry go-round started.

Mo Williams

We just grinded it out, made a few plays here and there and came out with the win.

We just got hot. We were really in trouble in the second quarter. They had us on the ropes. Our subs came in and did a good job to hold it close until halftime.

Pat Riley

We weren't sharp. They came out with more energy and their offense was much more crisp.

We weren't really over that loss when we came back. We needed to start competing better and do the things we need to do to win.

We weren't on the same page all the time. That's where some of their pressure came from. Overall, the offensive line didn't play well today. We need to execute and sustain for 60 minutes, not just put together a good drive at the end of the game.

We weren't mentally prepared to play basketball. It was as simple and as complicated as that. On a good point, the kids gathered themselves in the second half and came back and did a fairly good job.

We weren't intimidated coming in here and we came in with everything we had and we came out on top.

We were really forcing a lot of shots in the second quarter, but in the third, the girls came out with a lot of intensity and started making the extra pass for easy baskets down low.

We were really determined to win. We were not going to go two-and-out. We just weren't going to let that happen. We really came together as a team.

John Stevens

There's some dogs in this town we need to worry about. If your neighbor came out swinging a gun at you, you wouldn't feel safe in your neighborhood. But if you're going to have a neighbor's dog... come out and run you down, that's not any more right than a neighbor waving a gun in your face -- especially if they know it's a dangerous dog.