Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was proud of our team's effort. There were a couple of plays that I thought we botched there at the end that could've given us a better chance. But, I can't fault our guys' effort and how they competed. Duke played well down the stretch when they needed to and J.J. made all of the big plays.

Nick Hardwick

I was really down for a couple weeks. I didn't want to do anything.

Paul Pierce

I was really disappointed in our defense down the stretch. We gave up too many easy baskets. They got a couple of dunks and a couple of layups. That can't happen. Not in the playoffs. Not at home. Not anywhere.

Shaun White

I was out at the Y a couple days ago and I was just dedicated to learning that trick.

I wasn't sure that we could come back from three down with 10 minutes to go, but I thought we could make a couple of them and make it interesting at the end. I'm very happy with the team's effort.

Patrice Bergeron

I wasn't really worried about that. The main focus tonight was to get those ugly goals, go to the front of the net and get those rebounds, and I think we did. We screened us, he gave us a couple of rebounds and we made some nice plays, but we just had to play a simple game in the third and we didn't.

Jay Haas

I wasn't flawless out there, ... I was just fortunate that Dana made a couple of mistakes and paid for them.

I wasn't expecting it, and the other couple was surprised, too.

I wasn't very happy at halftime. We made a couple of adjustments, one on defense where we decided not to switch the screens, and our effort in the second half was much better.

I would imagine that 40 points would be the cut-off to make the playoffs and I think we might be a couple of points short.

I would have to think there are going to be a couple of late games here on out. If we advance, we are going to be playing some good teams and there are going to be some late-game situations. We've been practicing those situations the last two weeks.

I would like to see us do it in a couple of weeks.

I would love to have a couple of pitches, a couple of plays back. We pushed them. We had them on the ropes a couple of times. But there were some plays we needed to make, and we weren't able to.

Most of the market is anticipating a couple more Fed rate hikes and I guess the risks are if we can read anything into (the minutes) that would indicate otherwise.

Most of them are saying stay out for a couple of days.

Casper Dien

Most of my friends are non-stars, but I have a couple of friends in the business.

Merck is trying to send a very strong signal out there: 'Don't think you're going to toss you're hat in the litigation game and wait a couple months and we're going to toss you some money,' ... They're saying, 'If you're going to play the litigation game, you better be serious.'

Microsoft is currently investing a lot in mobility, the same way we did in the Internet a couple of years ago.

Joe Girardi

Miguel played a few days in a row. Josh is going to play a few days in a row. We'll eventually work up to three days in a row. It's hard because we have two catchers that need to play. We'll start stretching them out the last couple of weeks.

Whole nations will just disappear in the next couple of decades if nothing changes.

Ivan Rodriguez

Who knows? I still have a long way to go. Every player's dream is to start and finish with the same team. I still have a couple of years left in me.

Geno Auriemma

Will (Crockett) had her own office in the training room for a couple years. She had her own locker. ... Now, she never goes in there.

I think it will be great supper talk for the next couple years. This will be talked about for years in how this game developed and different things like that. It will be a fun environment for them.

I think maybe I would have liked a higher seed. It's difficult, and we let a couple (games) slip away. There are so many arguments, though.

I think I've seen him a couple of times on the other side of the rink in the last week, week and a half.

I think I've picked up the offense very well throughout the months of offseason work and the last couple weeks of training camp. It suits me very well.

I think I've got pretty good chances. I talked to a couple different teams and they seem pretty interested. I'm hoping to move on.

Reggie Sanders

I think I've been in some good situations where I've been on teams that needed a couple key players but already had their nucleus intact,

I thought he played much better, that he is getting involved and has started to get more comfortable over the last couple of games.

I thought he pitched great. He's throwing strikes, and when he lost a couple of times out there, he made adjustments without being told about it. And that was really good to see.

Pat Riley

I thought it was the first time Shaquille, in a couple of weeks, really has been running to the rim. We have to get back to that game.

I thought it was going to be just like the others: A couple of days, the electricity would go out, and then everything would go back to normal. But it wasn't.

I thought I wrestled pretty good. There was a couple things that I should have done that I didn't do, but other than that I feel pretty good about the way that I wrestled.