Famous Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't pleased with our defense in the first half and I challenged them at halftime to come out and play Skowhegan basketball.

I wasn't happy with them when I called the timeout. The one good thing I can say about this team is they respond to challenges, and they really got after them from that point on.

I wasn't happy with our energy early. Sometimes it's hard to turn it around after a heartbreaker. I challenged our guys at halftime. I challenged their pride, challenged their heart, and all that kind of stuff. And I thought we responded well in the third quarter.

Jerry Smith

I wasn't comfortable last night. I think it's going to be a challenge for me all week. I don't try to deny anything, but maybe my game will start feeling a little better as the week goes along.

I was not happy about giving (the grand slam) up, but I had to challenge the hitters because it was the seventh inning and we had a 7-1 lead.

Pat Gillick

My challenge is to try to coax five more wins out of this team to try to get us into the playoffs. Once you get into the playoffs, as we all know, you never know what happens.

Meridian is very talented. They have most of their team back from last year. We'll have to play well. Our challenge is playing teams with size.

Middle's always been able to put up points. But this year they're playing much better defense. That's what's going to challenge us.

Henry Blodget

While the combined entity will have a large global footprint, we think cultural and managerial integration of the two companies could pose a challenge longer term.

Neil Young

Who is a better person to tackle that challenge with than Steven Spielberg?

Whoever plays Lynden is uniquely challenged. It's a different ballgame. The main challenge is that it's a different kind of a game plan, a once-in-the-season test. I think we will respond well and have a bend-but-don't-break style.

Whoever plays Lynden is uniquely challenged, ... It's a different ballgame. The main challenge is that it's a different kind of a game plan, a once-in-the-season test. I think we will respond well and have a bend-but-don't-break style.

When the challenges come up, it doesn't concern me one bit, because I know it ain't going to go in our favor.

Anthony Daniels

When that (incident) happened, it fired us up. Coach challenged us to play harder and we stepped it up. He told us to play harder than them and that's what we did.

We need to put 8-10 play drives together. Right now, that's a real challenge for us.

Laura Bush

We have overcome the institutionalized bigotry that Dr. King fought, ... Now our challenge is to make sure that every child has a fair chance to succeed in life.

Jim Hamilton

We have our work cut out for us and we challenge every year.

We just did a great job and we executed. I really thought that if we could stay out front, we could challenge their shooters and they would struggle to score. We didn't give them any easy looks and that was key.

Linda Ronstadt

You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''

You can always file a lawsuit. The challenge is to make sure that the full scale of the public's right to compensation is protected.

You can have the same guy voting 10 times if you don't have the infrastructure to determine that the guy on the other side is who he is claiming to be. It's a challenge just getting people to get their viruses updated. Getting them to get their PKI authentication in place is something else entirely.

We have a lot of good players at a number of positions; we have so many of them coming. The challenge is to find places for them to play.

We have a lot of players who can contribute, including more depth than we have ever had in the past and we are going to look to play a lot of players. I've never had more of a challenge than I do this year of trying to figure out a starting lineup.

We wanted to make something a real challenge that took time and effort, so we said, 'Let's swim 100 miles in a weekend,'

We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.

We've got some excellent team chemistry. We're just trying to get better every week and every game. There are so many facets to this game and so many things you have to have figure out and that's going to be our challenge over the next couple of weeks.

Brian Behlendorf

We've made a lot of claims about what we can do, now we issue a challenge to analysts to go and figure out a way to measure it.

Mark Parker

We have challenges but challenges have always made us better and stronger.

We have to hold ourselves more accountable. Two years ago, I played on a team that went 1-10 in January and went on to win the Stanley Cup. We had good character guys. We have good character guys here. We just have to rise to the challenge and have to push each other.

UTSA is obviously a pretty good team having already defeated us this season. Having them at home gives us an advantage, but we know it will be a challenge and that we will have to compete for all 40 minutes.

We're still trying to rebuild inventory. We're not anticipating a great September. September will be a challenge and we will have to make do with very lean inventories.

With the 'Three Ks,' it is a guessing game to see who will take first each race. It is nice they have each other to challenge every race.

We've done a lot better than expected overall. The next challenge for us is to win on the road.