Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Monson

We need to play a little better, especially on the defensive end. They came in and got into an offensive rhythm.

Brandon Siler

When you come out and stop a team like Tennessee that you know is capable of running between the tackles all game, that's making a statement. That's what we came out to do. We knew we could do it. It was showing everyone else that we could do it, and that's what we did.

When you come into this gym, you never know what's going to happen. The fact that we came out here and presented ourselves strong in the first half, I think we set the tempo for the rest of the game and our kids got confidence when we had a 12-point lead at halftime and it just flourished into the second half.

When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in the church, and our music is very different from the typical church band. It's not praise and worship music.

When we sort of got close to production, her name kept coming up. She came in and read and she nailed it.

When we saw this we were amazed. The first year we came out here, it was just a tomato field.

When we saw it all on the map, it was like a light came on.

When Wayne came back from Italy he said one of their main problems was their defense wasn't involved in the offense, and that he doesn't want that (to happen) here now. He told us defensemen we have to jump into the play and play as a group of five people on the ice. Hopefully, it's going to create some offensive chances. At the same time, we have to be careful of turnovers.

Tom Smith

When Tim came and spoke to us (last March), he laid out the things he was going to do in the next few months. Probably 94.8 percent of those were done when he said they?d be, and I can?t honestly tell you what the other 5 percent are.

When this idea came up, I thought it was a ploy from my mom.

When this came up, I thought, what an honor to be able to do something for my country in a job I love to do.

Bobby Cox

Let leaders lead. It's a long season, so you have to have fun. I've liked Roger since Day 1. I'm not worried about him. I think he's going to do a great job. We're happy to have him. He came out of nowhere for us.

Leon is really a highly competitive person. When he was struggling shooting free throws earlier in the year, he was getting up at 5 in the morning and going to a gym near his home and shooting free throws. Then he came up with a couple of 10-for-10 games, 10-for-12, 12-for-15. I think that's a testimony to who he is.

Justin Gatlin

Leonard Scott ran a very good technical race, Sean Crawford came through easily, everybody's running really fast and times are pretty much equal in the first round. So everybody's going to have to come out and put their game on.

Leigh played well today and made good contact. She really came to the park ready to play.

James Ward

Licking Heights has done so much to better itself since the year I came to now my junior year.

Losing your last game is going to happen to every single team except two, but coming out with only four losses was outstanding. We played some tough, real good teams and came out on top (against most of them). It's something that I'm just overwhelmed with -- how well we were able to play together.

Losing to Carolina and then to Maryland was tough for us, but it came at the right time.

Jose Fernandez

Losing the way we had can wear you down emotionally and mentally. I'm really proud how we came back and did what we needed to do. In this conference, you have to take care of things at home.

Louisiana had been on a roll, but they literally came to a crashing halt, ... New Orleans is not going to be a good location for filming, probably for several years.

Lou came down to perform there, part of his military tour.

Lots of the time, the music came to me before the text, so I had to find the text that matched the music.

Lots of interesting stories came out of it, needless to say.

Losing Grant was a key in this game. Dan was nervous out there and made an error early on, but then he made 3-4 great plays. He didn't give us the offense Grant would have, but we didn't expect him to. He came in and played defense the way we wanted.

Last year, we came up short and our sophomores put it on ourselves that we didn't want to do that again. So, we told ourselves we were going to leave it on the floor ... no regrets.

Last year, we came so close and knew a few plays made the difference. This year, we don't want to have that feeling. We want to take it all the way.

Rudy Gay

Last year we came out with a loss. We played BC, a team we definitely thought we could beat. This year we just want to make our presence known, especially with this being a new team. We want to show them how the Big East is.

Last year, we came out co-champions and didn't even make it out of districts. So we knew that what you do in districts is all that really matters.

Tim Collins

Last year was neat because it was first one in school history, and it came down to the last night of the season. This one is nice in that it's undisputed. We don't have to share the trophy with anybody, it's all ours.

Kevin Love

Last year was a little different. We came in there and we were really happy to be there, and we also really wanted to win the game. This year it's a good feeling to be here again, but we've got one mission, and that's to come out in first place and win the state championship.

Last year, they came in and they were on top a lot and we were kind of the underdog. This year, I feel like they have different guys filling different roles and have a great sense of urgency.

Last year the costs came out to about $8000 just to be in this one league. We didn't have the commitment from the students to be able to not forfeit games and to travel.

Last year's team was more explosive, more capable of putting up tons of points. I think this year's team is more consistent. We jelled better this year, came together throughout the season. Really, it's a more cohesive team.