Famous Quotes & Sayings

Practice Wednesday was pretty good. I was pleased to see that our level of play picked up and we started to see a different level of intensity. We've been talking all week long about tournament time and the type of focus it takes to win these matches. You've got to be able to find your rhythm and get out and still execute at a high level.

Offensively, when we execute, we have enough pieces and weapons that we can put points on the board. It's just a matter of if we'll execute and if we are going to play defense. If we do, we'll be fine.

They're a good team. They execute well, and defensively they run well to the ball.

They picked up the intensity tonight. We were ready to play. We just didn't execute the little things well enough to get the game closer.

They were good. They forced us to play their style out of control. We didn't execute our press offense.

I told them I'm proud of them. They didn't do anything on purpose, we just didn't execute like we usually do.

Dwane Casey

It's not really who you play; it's us. It's how we mentally prepare. It's how we execute offensively. It's how we execute defensively more so than who the other (team) is.

They had a lot of good pressure on us and we didn't execute our plays like we probably should have. We were just making a lot of simple mistakes that we could have corrected.

They do keep you guessing, and they execute well.

This is not the same old Lafayette team and if we want to come out of that game with a win, we're going to have to execute a lot better and play an up-tempo style of basketball.

We're disappointed, ... We felt this is a game we should have won. But it's a great lesson, showing the kids we need to execute every game.

We didn't make the pitches. We didn't make the plays and we didn't execute at the end. We had one outburst and that was great, but we just didn't get it done.

We didn't look as sharp as we have here at home, ... We did not cleanly execute vault and were stumbling and walking all over the place.

You look at a team like Creighton which has struggled with injuries and things like that, but they still have a roster of veteran ballplayers. For us to be as young as we are and finally be able to show some poise during their runs and execute down the stretch, it says a lot about how far our team has come in the last month.

We want to get a tradition started and to do that we must execute on each play on offense and defense. We must practice as we play and we just can't be satisfied.

We want to execute our offense and get back in the flow of things. Hopefully we can get back to where we were (before the break).

We just failed to execute when we had to.

Terry Hoeppner

You have to physically execute and pick up the blitz. They didn't sack Michigan State 12 times just with their line rush.

Aaron Harang

You can never tell if you're going to have a good game like this. I felt like I was able to execute my pitches.

We'll have to get a broom or something to make our guys taller. We can't simulate those guys, so our focus is just to execute better.

Judd Gregg

We all know we're going to have to put this off because of the present intensity of the Katrina issues, but whether it's two weeks, three weeks, I don't know. But the view is we're going to still execute this reconciliation package in a timely manner,

Tonight we didn't get the big hit and we had too many errors. We have to execute at the plate and on the field. I know we can. They were playing not to lose instead of playing to win.

Jim Johnson

It was very disappointing. We did some things well. We didn't execute on offense very well.

Mike Sherman

It was tough to watch any part of that game. We didn't execute in any phase.

Casey Fossum

Throw something the guys aren't looking for. I think a lot of it for me now will be if I'm able to execute a lot of my pitches. It's just a matter of figuring out what they're looking for. Over time, since I've seen the hitters more, I've gotten better about doing that.

We just made it harder for ourselves. I think we just have to execute and play harder if we want to win the division.

Jerry Sloan

We just got annihilated. We had one quarter in which we executed and that was the second quarter. When we don't execute our offense, we don't get anything. We were just running around out there.

We look to run. If we don't have it, we want to execute and get a good shot.

We have to execute better on the road if we are going to win. You can get away without execution at home sometimes, but that can't happen on the road.

Laurieann Gibson

With Lady Gaga I really stretched myself as a creative director, and because I was with this artist from before she got signed I was able to really take control of the opportunity and execute as a creative director.

We expect Oracle to immediately execute a round of layoffs targeted at Siebel's back-office and administrative employees.

It was a great effort, but we've got a long ways to go. We've got to execute our offense better in the red zone.

Tom Izzo

I'm more disappointed how we played in the first half. It kind of set the tone for the game. In the second half, we probably outplayed them in every facet of the game. ... We just didn't execute in the last three minutes.