Famous Quotes & Sayings

Finishing eighth is remarkable for this team. We had a lot of ups and downs, but to pull it together and do as well as we did in the tournament was unexpected. When we hit adversity, we sometimes drifted. In Saturday's game with Whatcom, we surged through that and got a win to get to the last day, which was our goal.

Finishing eighth at the Open as a team is awesome.

Britt Robertson

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

Maurice Cheeks

We're not out of the hunt, we're out of the eighth spot and that's a difference. I think we'll come out ready to play on Friday night.

Maurice Cheeks

We're out of the eighth spot, we're not out of the hunt. It's how you respond.

Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.

Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the first half. We?re just too young to play this kind of game at this point in the season. I wish it was the eighth game.

I think eighth grade is really the earliest. You can tell there's a special kid there at that young of an age.

I rushed into it and couldn't get things together. I wasn't settled down. I'm not happy (with eighth place). I wanted to get higher.

That doesn't mean that if the weather was nice, we would have had a good economy. We might have been eighth instead of ninth.

Like I've said before, I can't get to a mile and an eighth fast enough.

I was thrilled for them (after districts) because when they were in eighth grade, they had potential. Seeing that I had a small part in helping them reach that potential is special to me.

I was happy with our eighth graders. They have never competed in a match like this. I am sure it was a little intimidating for them. It was a learning experience.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.

Just inside the eighth pole, he had nothing.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

Ross Mathews

I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it.

We don't feel like we have a lot of pressure. We were supposed to finish like eighth or ninth. We played Minnesota exceptionally well and we got to go into Iowa and do the same things.

We just did not shut the door. Every time you put them on base, you give them life, and then they?re a hit away. It?s just a shame. It?s disheartening to play so hard for seven innings and then just hand it to them in the eighth and ninth.

Eric Chavez

You can go back in the year and look at the seventh, eighth and ninth inning; we played well enough to win. We should have won those ballgames. ... Hopefully (the poor performance of the relievers) will be addressed this offseason.

That's two in a row on the road after 16 straight losses. This season is not over until after game 82. That eighth spot is anybody's and is up for grabs now.

We could tell he (Thompson) was getting tired in the seventh inning. He started to hang a few pitches. The temptation was to throw him back out there for the eighth because he pitched such a great game but he gave us all he had.

The market is taking this to mean they're on the verge of pausing. Other officials have been saying this for some time, 'we're close, we're close, this is the eighth inning,' but when it comes right from the horse's mouth, there's a lot more credibility.

He's played well and helped us gain our legs. It's nice to have an eighth grader who can play as well as he is playing right now. It's nice to have that luxury.

Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a sloppy game, but we keep finding ways to win. We knew not to overlook Hickman County.

Of our 49 boys, 17 are freshmen, so we're still teaching some of the guys this isn't middle school anymore. Some of the freshmen are helping in relays and others are challenging in open events. Six or seven will make an immediate impact. We're talking about kids that maybe lost one meet in seventh and eighth grade, so they're good athletes.

They've got a lot of talent and, being the eighth seed, they don't get as much respect as they deserve.

They told me I needed some ice time because I hadn't played a lot on Long Island. I agree. I don't want to sit there and be a seventh or eighth defenseman.

They're very sincere and want to improve the process. We want to take a look at the four-year plans and how they're being used. We're going to be having conversations with middle school principals very soon, because that's when they start, in the eighth grade.

They started giving ribbons instead of medals for three years between the eighth and 10th grades, then they started giving medals again.

A lot of them have been team players. They're trying to step up and do events that maybe they haven't done since maybe seventh or eighth grade.

They played like they wanted that eighth seed. We had some kids not ready to play.