Famous Quotes & Sayings

Any win on the road is a good win. And having your first conference game on the road is a good test.

Any win in our conference is important because it's such a great conference. People aren't necessarily expecting us to win; we think we can, but not everybody else does.

Any loss is disappointing, but when you're playing for a conference championship ... well, it's over now.

Any conference win on the road is big.

Any conference that gets four teams here shows you how competitive it is. We've got a great deal of respect for that.

Anything is possible. This insures us a piece (of the conference). Our main objective is to keep working toward a state title, but you have to get through the conference first.

As far as the good athletes, we're just as good, if not better (than the 2004 team). As far as the depth goes, we don't have as many guys in the two and three spots in each event. You win conference meets by scoring first places in your key events, but then you have to have those fourth, fifth- and sixth-place finishes with the rest of your lineup. That's where we've got to get to. We've got a great team right now.

Television exposure is so important. I am not sure many people know that Robert Morris is in the Northeast Conference, especially people outside this area. We understand being in the Northeast Conference that we won't get the exposure of other conferences, but whatever we can get will help with recruiting and help people see this is a competitive league.

Ron Cranford is trying to make heroes out of people who have done some really evil things. The whole conference needs to be opposed. It's a morbid and sadistic thing they're promoting.

Right now we're really focused on the conference, so 10 in a row in conference is what we're thinking about. Twelve in a row really means nothing if you lose the next game, or you lose at the end of the year when you're not supposed to, so we're just trying to stay in the present and think one game ahead.

Presenting at the Vegas Venture Forum resulted in an invitation to present at the top private equity conference in my industry. This dramatically increased our visibility and helped us to raise the funds we were seeking.

Realistically, conference meet is not the ultimate goal for him. We'll put more emphasis on the state meet.

Francis Bacon

Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Currently, we do not have the facilities to host a conference of 500 people,

Ever since we put ourselves back in the hunt for first place, we've been playing like we've got something to prove. Each game, we've been playing harder and we finally get to feel what it's like to be conference champions.

There's a reason why they're the conference champs.

There's a reason why they're conference champs. They played like it.

At least from our conference there's not a really big stage for us to play in. This is the goal -- to get here.

All of us are working hard and preparing for this press conference (Monday), and that's all we can say.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

They're very important games. We need to win all four of them so that we can keep ourselves in the Mountain West Conference race.

They (Terre Haute North) execute so well. To be able to win 14 games in the conference they play in (Metropolitan Interscholastic Conference) shows how good they are.

A lot of people are making a big deal of (the layoff) and obviously we wish we had one more game. But, we're going into our conference season motivated and healthy. We know the only way to get into the playoffs is to win our league. So I'm done feeling sorry for myself for not having 10 games. Let's get going and play ball.

It's very disappointing, but it's something that happens. It happened to us today. Yeah, it hurts. It's going to hurt for the rest of the day. We know tomorrow's a new day. We've got to keep our heads up and hope the NCAA realizes what we did in the pre-conference schedule and in the conference and picks us.

John Chaney

For any stellar player in our conference to get hurt, I really feel for that. I'm sorry to hear that.

It's one of our most important games of the season. The next four games are set up for us. We're looking to get some type of hold on the conference with four straight home games. We're looking to this game to get our momentum started.

It's not what I thought we'd finish. You've gotta' have some talent, but you've gotta' have some depth. Depth is just as important as talent at this level. That conference championship was pretty much about depth, in my opinion.

It's the largest educational conference held each year in Auburn.

Ryan Hansen

It's television-related in a lot of cases. And it helps split up the conference season.

Alex Ferguson

This is good for football. Burton have done the Conference proud.

This is another big game for us. This is the conference season and every game from now on is big.

This is the first conference championship they have won. I was happy for the seniors to finally win a championship.

This is probably the toughest the conference has been. If we're not playing well, we could go 0-7.