Famous Quotes & Sayings

You hope that every game is not close, but in this game it doesn't happen that way. The disappointing thing is when we give up two restart goals.

Byron Scott

You hope, sooner or later, the young guys understand and get it. When you have a lead like that, you can't come out in the third quarter and think the game is over. Maybe a loss like this, when we know we should have won the game, that will do it.

Mike Shanahan

You hope he can step up in games like he does it in practice, but he hasn't done it yet.

Mike Shanahan

You hope a guy can step up in games and do it like he does it in practice,

Marcus Ginyard

You hear that a lot. Maybe that's just the way people see it. But you can't really be worried about that. You've just got to get out there and play the game of basketball.

Chauncey Billups

To have those nerves to make those plays at the end of a game isn't something you really can be taught. It's instinct I think.

Curt Young

With his mentality, he knows how to dominate. He takes his game to a different level every time he throws a baseball. He loves to compete, and he's learned his trade.

Roy H. Williams

You have to understand that we've played 30 games this year. We made some silly mistakes. You can't make those mistakes at this point.

You hate to see the seniors have to have that type of day in their last games at home. As a team, we need to just keep getting better.

You hate to lose a game that way, but if not, we might have been playing here all night.

You hate to lose a game like that when the pitching is that good.

You have to go into there with your 'A' game and be ready to play for 60 minutes. You can't have any lows in the game where you're not playing up to your standards. You can't slack off for a quarter.

You have to get to the end-of-game situations to learn how to win, and at least we're getting there. When we learn how to manage those situations, we're going to turn this thing around.

The pitcher they're going to throw at us in the first game is a transfer from Texas A&M. He has a pretty good arm. He has good velocity, and he puts good stuff on the ball.

This year he has his game going. As a senior, he is giving it his all.

This would put us more in the game if we had this land designated for it.

When you play a good team, you need to execute, take self-inflicted wounds out of your game and make special plays. Obviously, that wasn't the case.

You can't come into a game unemotional and I think we did that. That shows some growth because some of these experiences we're going through are going to help us come district.

You can just see it in their faces. It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all.

Eric Schmidt

We had a solid season. Obviously, we were one game short of where you want to end up. You always want more until you can be the champion.

We had a shot at the buzzer and that's just the kind of game it was.

We wanted to come in and prove something. We're taking it a game at a time. Now we're going to get ready for Syracuse.

We wanted to come down here and do better than we did last year. This was not the kind of game that we wanted, but we're still playing.

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

We wanted to tempo the game defensively to get some run outs. We wanted them to play fast.

Gillian Apps

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.

We wanted to shake off (the Nogales) game as soon as we could and show everyone else that we are going to be right there.

We wanted to play people and look at some different combinations. Out-of-the-conference games you get some opportunities to do some things that you might not normally have.

We wanted to play in an NFL stadium with a turnkey NFL operation. Giants Stadium puts on NFL games all the time.

Jaromir Jagr

We've had such a great year and we don't want to give it away. Why? It just happened. We're not happy with the way we played. We have to play better in the playoffs and we have two games to go to get us there.

We've had a lot of games like this. We've knocked some good teams off this year. But this was the most important to date.

We've got two weeks left, we've got six games and a three-point lead (on the Raiders), so the games are very important to us." ()

Jaromir Jagr

We've got two games to go. We know what we have to do. We've had such a good year. We just don't want to give it away.