Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a very positive statement that the team is playing a majority of games in Louisiana. I think that's the right decision. The long term really has not been discussed. The league obviously is going to have to be involved in that.

Ben Gordon

It's a very painful loss. We just weren't able to make the plays we needed to down the stretch. It's just really frustrating. We're losing these games because of one or two possessions.

Michael Mayer

It's been a real good series. They have been tough games every year.

Jay Smith

It's been a long January. We've had a lot of away games and tonight we get to sleep in our own beds, wear our home uniforms and play in our own gym. The only problem is that you don't get a win just for playing at home - nothing is guaranteed when it comes to that.

It's been a key for us all year, to get that pressure at some point during the game. It might not happen all the time, but there are points in the game when it gives us our key, our momentum booster, when we need it.

It's been my game plan for a very long time.

Martin Brodeur

It's good. You don't want to not play well for a long time. We're going to go on the road and we haven't won a game on the road yet. It's nice to get this win before we leave.

Maurice Cheeks

It's great for us to win a game like this. Understanding the game is not over when we were down really paid off for us.

It's great for the game. It's a part of the game, it's where the game is going. You see girls are getting bigger, stronger, faster, quicker.

It's great for the club. There's massive local interest in the game and there will be a good crowd.

Beyonce Knowles

It's great to come home. I am so glad we're having the All-Star Game in Houston. It's such a great city.

It's ridiculous this talk of 2-2. You saw out there two teams wanting to win the game so please, no more questions about that.

Shawn Horcoff

It's second nature to play a simpler game on the road. That's probably why we have a better record than at home. The proof is in the pudding.

That's probably the greatest curling game in the history of Italy. You saw it. You just saw curling in Italy.

Clint Hurdle

That's probably a pitch you'd like to have back. But we made a lot of mistakes in the game that put us in that situation.

That's possible. And to win a game like that one, or like this one, there's no telling where that can take you as a program. But it's a process. We want to keep building.

Ray Allen

That's Reggie. I don't think he was playing any different because it was us. He's always one to get in the game and play hard. He knows how to play us, he knows what we're going to do.

That's really all you can do right now. We have been in a lot of games and if we just keep working we will be there.

That's real big. It was pretty bad. If we could have knocked those down, the game would have been a lot closer.

Jose Guillen

That's part of the game. You just have to get used to it.

Guillermo Diaz

That's part of the game, and I love it. And I knew when it went in, it was game over.

Eddie Guardado

That's part of baseball. You're going to have those days. The name of the game is picking each other up.

That's our plan. We want to get on a roll, but it goes back to the same thing, just worrying about Detroit. You really have to take it one game at a time.

That's our main concern. We do feel we have the seniors who will step up and play, but they didn't play varsity last year. Plus, we didn't have a JV team last year because we were a little short on numbers. So these guys haven't had a lot of game experience.

Mike Fisher

That sounds great and that's our plan. But we feel we have to improve from Game 1. We feel we can play much better than that. Playoff series are tough. Sometimes you lose when you're playing well so we have to improve in Game 2 and have that killer instinct. If we play the way we did in the third period we'll be fine.

That's something we've seen too much of and that needs to change. We've been thinking too much, rather than just playing the game as it goes.

That's something we've been working on in practice end-of-game situations. We've let some games slip away and we've got to get past that. It's the middle of the season now.

Billy Donovan

That's something we'll have to look at on film. You look at the last two minutes of the game but sometimes you don't look at how it got to that point. The offensive rebounds Tennessee had in the second half really hurt us.

That's something for you guys to keep track of, not me. If you didn't tell me that, I wouldn't even know it. I'm just trying to win games every time we step on the field.

Fred Smoot

That's terrible -- you can't start the game off like that. What can I say? It's embarrassing. But I can promise you this: That's the last time it's going to happen if I can do something about it.

That stayed with us the whole year. We've been waiting for this game to have some closure. Saturday would be a good time for that.

That's taking a big part of the game away.

Rick Barnes

That's stupidity. ... We're six games in. You've got to think teams are going to get better. That's just people wanting to write something. Our guys never thought that.