Famous Quotes & Sayings

To be drilled on your home court is not how any of us envisioned this. Coming in here with two home games and home-court advantage, we thought we had a great chance to move onto the Western Conference finals. ... I have to give Van Chancellor and Houston a ton of credit.

This one is much harder to take because we had a chance to win.

This one is all about money, but it gives Minnesotans a chance to show their support.

This one hurts, but they all hurt. I thought we really had a chance to win this one tonight. Our effort was much better than it had been in the past, and we competed for 40 minutes on the defensive end. We just couldn't find a second scorer on offense.

Dick Advocaat

We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four times, what more do you need?

Ami Ayalon

We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.

We should do pretty well - we have a few skaters who are very good in all four distances. We have a good chance on the women's side for all three podium spots.

We shot the puck more than we usually do, and we got a lot of second chances. Usually, those second chances result in goals. But it seemed like there was a wall up tonight.

We're disappointed. But it isn't the worst thing that will happen to us in our lives. We still have a chance to keep playing and we're going to get ready for our NIT game on Thursday and try to do everything we can do to win that tournament.

We think the chances of a hike next week are virtually zero.

We think that the hottest team heading into districts has a chance to win it. And we want to be the hottest team.

We think our two horses will make a good showing. This is a very good chance to get things going in the right direction.

We think of this as a neighborhood place, ... And just by the numbers supplied by the previous owners, we saw that there was a chance to come back to life.

Forest Whitaker

was a chance to expand myself and deepen my connection with the universe and with God.

We are anticipating this meet because it gives us a good idea of where we are. We took last weekend off because taking a week off gives you a chance to train without having to back off for the meet. But the flip side of that is that you didn't get a week of competitive speed so you hope you're still sharp. We will be able to tell after this weekend.

We are very likely to develop our own team of internationally leading scientists, as China enjoys the world's fastest economic development, which has created the golden chances for Chinese scientists to show their creativity.

We are still very young on the team. We've had the chance to mold the team the way we want to, and so far the players have reacted in a very positive manner. They come to practice and want to work very hard every day.

We are still trying to get the players to understand that they are not executing our offense the way we want. Because we still have a chance to win at the end, it is hard for them to understand this, but we are not there yet.

Josh Howard

We did a great job with our team defense on him. Everybody who had a chance to guard him did a hell of a job.

Dwayne Roloson

We did a great job defensively. We played a smart game. We didn't try to create things that weren't there. I just tried to give our guys a chance to win.

We did a good job of protecting the lead from there. The girls haven't had a chance to play the slow-down game much, but we have worked on it a lot. They executed well, and that gave us some good looks.

We did a good job frustrating Batista down low. But with Morrison on fire, there just wasn't a chance for us to get many boards.

Ron Wilson

We did a good job and had a lot of people involved. I think they only had one scoring chance when we ran into each other on an entry. But other than that we didn't give up any (quality) shots and that's a real positive.

Alex Tanguay

We didn't have the start we were looking for, but we have the toughest division in the NHL. We're pretty happy with our standing. We have a chance to be first in our division, and that's what we're looking for.

Joe Girardi

We had some execution lapses. We had our chances and we didn't get it done.

We had some chances to tie the game. But ultimately, catch-up hockey is losing hockey.

We had some chances to make some big plays,

Dan Haren

We had some chances today, but when it comes down to it, it's the pitch I made to Ramirez. I just look back at it and I'm mad at myself. I let that pitch get away from me. The loss is because of me.

We had some chances in the second half, but we don't know how to finish.

Rick Carlisle

We had some chances down the stretch, but we couldn't string together consecutive scores and stops. That was the story when all is said and done.

We had some chances, and I'd like to think that maybe if we have those same chances a year from now the outcome will be different. Tonight wasn't our night. What are you going to do?

We had so many shots and so many chances . . . We had good control of the game, but we just couldn't finish. Scoring can be really tough in soccer. We had a lot of people that had chances. It wasn't just one player. That's the way it goes sometimes. You always have some of those games throughout the course of the season.

We had so many chances and opportunities to get the fourth goal and go up 4-1. That would've iced it.