Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'm really proud of their effort. To take the Division 1 fifth-ranked team to overtime without your starting point guard, I'm pleased with that.

It's very hard to get a Division I job. I knew if I didn't go after this one now, it may have been another 10 years before a similar opportunity opened up.

It took some heart out of us. It took some time to put the pieces back together. We're in a tough league (Ark Valley-Chisholm Trail Division II), and we had to play tough.... We had to keep fighting. We always emphasize the end of the year.

They did it properly. They didn't rush it. Just look how smart they were in going from one division to another, to get where they're at and being part of the Big East.

They were picked to win the division for good reason. They know how to win.

They have players who can make shots. At the Division I level you have to guard guys. They shot extremely well tonight.

John Gibbons

There's no secret. When you're in the division with these guys, you've got to slug it out. When you go head-to-head with them, very rarely is there going to be low-scoring games. ... It's tough to shut them down, to hold them to three runs or less. You've got to score with them.

Barry Alvarez

There's no doubt the profession has changed. At the top of Division I they are going to pay you well and expect you to produce. But none of us should complain. We know the rules going in.

Dave Tippett

There's no excuse to give away games like that, especially division games.

There's only 105 teams in Division I still playing. We're fortunate to be one of them, and we really want to end the year on a positive note.

Marty Schottenheimer

We're playing a division opponent, a team we split with a year ago. I understand those that might say, 'Well, you know, play Philip,' and all, but that's not the way the National Football League, in my view, is set up. Our goal is to get our 10th victory.

We sought out what we thought were the toughest teams in Division 2. I think the total experience since they've been playing together has prepared them well.

They're always going to the Division II World Series. We've played a number of people in the past like Olivet Nazarene and Quincy and haven't done well.

They're a way better team than 1-4. I've said it all season ? every game in this division is going to be tough.

They're a very good team. They're a top team in Division II and they're loaded. We played pretty well and we've really improved this week.

If you make it to the Division III tournament you're going to see tough opponents. The only way to prepare for that is to play strong teams in the regular season.

Billy Blanks

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn't play Division I.

Matt Palmer

I thing they're really rolling well right now. They've been putting in a lot of hard work and it shows. I'm very happy. We moved from 16th place to eighth place (in Berks). Here we had a tougher division than we had last year, and we wound up with the same record at 3-2.

I think our guys feel good about going to Division II. They know they can compete.

Petr Nedved

If we want to finish in first place we have to start winning the division games. We have to make the most of it because those games are four point games. It?s pretty easy math. If you win most of those games, then you?re sitting pretty there. It?s easier said then done though.

Willie Randolph

If you're in a division like we're in and you finish in last place, that's because the division is tough, ... What are you going to do? If you were in a different division with the same record, you might be a few notches up the ladder. But when you don't win, it doesn't matter.

Troy Polamalu

I'm very excited about that. It's something we all wanted. We've been the leader in this division the last few years. It's pretty disappointing to us the way our division ended up. It will be nice to go up there and even the score.

I'm happy that we won the (Div. 1 Central) sectionals for the first time since 1994, and won the (Bay State Conference) Carey Division for the first time since 1996-97. Next year, we want to be back as sectional champs and win the states.

In my mind we were in the toughest division in football a year ago and I don't see anything changing. There's a new staff in Miami so it's just a matter of time before they get things rolling, and you have three other teams that are playoff-caliber teams, so I don't know if you can find a tougher division.

This is a division game, so it's obviously a very important game. We're 1-0 in the division and they're undefeated. And you always want to win at home.

This is a big division game. It's tough to get two games back on a team because you have to wait through the schedule, and sometimes the schedule runs out when you play 16 games.

Willie Randolph

They're the division champions. Those are the guys we've got to go through to be where we want to be. We feel good going into the series. We want to feel good going out.

David Boies

They're talking about meetings that took place at other times -- we're not saying that they engaged in market divisions every time they talked,

John Schuerholz

They've all been rewarding. Each division championship you win has its own measure of reward. But this year is the most rewarding because we had to (overhaul) our roster in midstream.

And they're better this year than they were last year. They've been a powerhouse in Division II for a long time.

Early in North Division play we went from 1-0 to 1-3 on the road. Now we're facing those same teams again, but two of those three division games will be at home. If we can win two of three at home, it puts us in pretty good shape.

John Stevens

Fans want to see a winner, and when the home team wins, it's great. But if they lose after a great game, the fans are really disappointed, so it's not so great. And it's a tough way to lose a point. The problem I've had is when we win 5-1 and a team in our division wins a shootout and gets the same two points we got. That's tough to swallow.

Alex Rodriguez

There's probably eight or nine teams that are legitimate World Series contenders in the American League, and that's very unique because you probably haven't had that in over 20 years. There is great parity in the American League. There are probably three teams in each division that can potentially win the World Series.