Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Ginyard

As long as we understand we didn't give the effort we needed to give tonight, we can learn from it going into the tournament. We're still excited about the NCAA tournament and what we'll be able to prove to some people in the next couple of weeks.

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

That was a big offensive rebound. That and a couple of big defensive plays may have turned it for us.

That was a big key to the match because, boy, if you give them an inch they'll go and get five or six or seven points. We held. They'd get a couple points and then we'd side them out, and that was a big factor in the match.

That's what we've been hanging our hat on the last couple years. We're not fancy; everybody knows and we've just got to play hard-nosed football.

That's what we're waiting for (today). We're going to play even harder. We remember what happened a couple of weeks ago and we are a much better team than we played down there.

Byron Scott

That's why those guys are here. Their job is to give us a boost, and be aggressive. We have a couple of guys who we rely on to do that, especially with P.J. (Brown) and Desmond (Mason) out of the lineup.

Mike Fisher

That's nice to get a couple of wins after the (Olympic) break. We played well at all ends of the rink, from the goaltender out.

That's just not my game. I was disappointed in myself. The last couple of years, I got back to doing what I was doing.

Chris Warren

That's how I figured it was going to end. But we made a couple of mental errors in the sixth, and it turned into a completely different game.

That's huge growth in a couple of years. It's more competitive now.

James Cook

That game was so important to us that guys were down for a couple of days, ... Really, it was a big momentum-changer for us around here. But we've had to suck it up this week. We needed that game, and not playing well hurt us.

Dee Brown

That game two years ago, when we won 51-49 there? Yeah, I remember that. It's a tough place to play. But you have to steal a couple on the road (to win the Big Ten). It's going to be a grueling game. But you can't knock 'em off your schedule. You have to show up and play.

Rick Carlisle

A.J.'s the starter for now. We'll see how the next couple of weeks unfold. We were in this same situation in January and probably rushed him back too soon.

Dwyane Wade

A little shot in the butt. It started kicking in after a couple minutes out there and I felt good after that.

Willie Anderson

Bratkowski has been preaching to us the last couple of years that our will to prepare to win has to be greater than our will to win. That's what the good football teams do. They out-prepare people. We have to get our young guys' football knowledge up. You don't need to run a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash to do it. We've got to play smart football.

Mark Stevenson

Beth is a walk-on who has competed a couple of times for us over the last few years, and has done a really nice job for us when we needed her to step in when we've had people out. Beth stepped right in whenever we asked, and its always good to have people like that on our squad.

Everything they hit was through the holes and I left a couple of pitches up. I'm not going to worry about it too much.

Joe Sakic

Everything is short term now. Hopefully, a couple more years and then we'll see at that point. I feel good, but to be realistic, I don't have any long-term plans.

Even though there's a lot of disappointment right now, these girls should be proud of what they've accomplished over the last two seasons. This team went 35-16 after a couple of tough years.

Padraig Harrington

Eventually he didn't finish off the match, really, and then I got a couple of breaks. It was more or less up to Vijay. I just hold on in there and really I really struggled with my shots today, worse than yesterday. I don't know what it's going to be like tomorrow.

Either race is very, very tough. Let me just think about it for a couple of days. I want to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

Mark Buehrle

Being a starting pitcher, you want to go out there and get as many runs early as you can. It happened a lot early in the season, and then the offense had been struggling lately. But any time you get a couple of runs early, it's nice to work with.

Everybody's used to it, and we've raced up there once, ... We know what we need to work on, and the package we run is the one we ran at Richmond and a couple of other places.

Everything didn't go as they wanted, but they have come a long way in just four years. They started on a JV schedule with just a couple wins, and finished off some nice careers.

Joe Garagiola

Every game is kind of the same. He rushes a couple up there at 97, 98, then gives you a couple of off-speed pitches, the changeup, the curve, ... It's so unfair. It's just wrong.

Porter Goss

Every day is a new day for the intelligence people. I would say that we are probably a couple of years away from getting through all the material and talking to all the people we need to talk to about exactly what was going on.

Matt Barnes

Every couple of innings they kept putting in a new pitcher, so we were seeing something different.

Every couple of hours, he'd pop back up. We knew he was there. We're not just going to walk off on that.

E. P. Thompson

Football and television are like the couple running in slow motion at each other on the beach. They form the perfect marriage.

For an organization that's been struggling for a couple of years, to come back with this much excitement is great. I think it's going to be fun for everybody involved. I can't wait to be part of it.

Billy Graham

For a married couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.

Then things went their way for a couple minutes. With 11 seconds left, we missed a one-and-one, and that meant we had to try for a three at the buzzer.