Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Western Conference is jam packed with good teams. So every conference game counts.

The weather is getting warmer, our players are playing better. This is a fun time in the season as we are approaching the conference tournament. We are looking forward to the remaining of the matches.

This gives us a good start. We feel a lot better winning than losing. We think there is going to be a lot of difference at the conference meet and we are going to need our kids to step up like they did tonight.

This doesn't wrap up the conference numerically. But it gets us very close. Everybody else has at least three losses and we have four games left.

Daniel Alfredsson

This conference playoffs is going to be very tough.

Ayad Allawi

This conference is not the end of the road for us, it is the first step ... to open up horizons of dialogue,

This conference is about gold. But there's going to be other conferences, I hope, dealing with other subjects, especially art, which is an enormous subject.

Jay Wright

This feels like a conference game. It feels like it's the middle of January and we've got BC next. I don't know if that's going to be positive or negative for us.

E. O. Wilson

It's a dream. This year has been especially hard. We were always the underdogs. Since conference play started this year, we've been in first place. We had a target on our backs. It's harder to play with a target on your back.

It's a fairly young franchise. And it really hasn't had much postseason success prior to this year. Everybody was talking about it. That seemed to be the big news. The ('83) team reached the conference championship. I was 7, 8 years old then.

I told our guys, we're going to see them again. You want to win as many games in the conference as you can, so you can host playoff games at the end of the year.

It means nothing. It's just something the conference does and we very rarely end up where the conference predicts we will.

Tom Izzo

It might be the toughest six-game start in any conference anywhere.

It really is good. It was so lopsided with them in the conference. It's tough going into the conference meet knowing that you're going to get beat.

It's a huge week. Hopefully we could be playing for a conference championship in that last game.

It's a great time of year. There's a lot going on, and there's a lot of focus being paid to conference standings and potential NCAA tournament teams. It's a time of year where some people thrive and others struggle.

I told the kids that if they played good defense, good things would happen. And I can't say enough about how well they did. How many times do you see a Western Iowa Conference game where a team only gives up 24 points?

I told the kids that this is our conference championship.

Steve Alford

Everybody thought they'd be a very, very good team, but it's kind of hard to duplicate what they did a year ago. And yet, here they are going into conference play undefeated again.

Everybody who plays UPS thinks (it is) the No. 1 team in the conference until someone knocks them off. They've had the success so they know how to win the big games.

Every game we have to show up to play. The whole conference has really strengthened.

Every game in our conference is tough. We made a couple of nice plays there and that's hopefully where our experience pays off.

Every league game seems like a conference tournament game to me. You're looking at two sets of standings: who's winning and who's at the bottom. It's a tough, tough thing on coaches. That's why I rent (a house) and I didn't buy.

Every institution is responsible for creating an environment that's compliant, and if you have holes in that - which this is - then you're susceptible to evaluation by others. We submitted what we've found to the conference office, we've submitted to the NCAA, so we've opened up everything for everyone to take a look at.

Every conference I went to in 2005, this was the topic.

Every conference game usually the teams step up and play harder. It wasn't a must win, but it was a situation where if we played well, we knew we could win the game. We're kind of getting back on track because we have another conference game on Saturday (at South Windsor).

At that meet, you have to dig way, way down, and hopefully you come up with the performance of the year. If you don't, somebody else in the conference will. We are progressing along, we have just got to continue to get better at competing. ... That is one of the main things right now.

At the conference meet he had a great meet. For the field events, he?s the man. He could come out with 14 points!

At this point, they should get better every time they take the mat and learn something. It's important that we pull together when it really matters at the conference tournament.

At this point in the season, it's the second half of conference play. The good thing about our group is we're motivated, we're playing good soccer, we've been shutting teams down and, like we've been doing all season, we're creating good chances.

The ones that pop up at the last minute at conference are rare.

After our loss at Whitworth, we dropped to 3-5. And to go into conference at 8-6 is a great turnaround. We have won five out of our last six games and we have some great momentum heading into conference.

Southmont is a conference rival, and it's a senior-dominated team. We know they're going to come after us. We're going to have to win three games to win it, so we have to go the long route.