Famous Quotes & Sayings

We need to rely on our defense. We've won games that way and will continue. I hope they will respond next week.

We need to raise the game with respect to our competitive standard.

We need to progress one game at a time and hopefully end up in the big game.

Bill Belichick

We need to play better. What else is there (to say)? We aren't going to win many games playing like this.

We just want to win as many games as we can win. It's not about who we play. It's about how we play when we get to the playoffs.

We just want to take it game-by-game now. We still have some tough games left in the regular season.

Jim Brown

We just want to point out places where they can hit and what they should hit off the tee. (We) just (have to) get in their mind a kind of game plan for each one of them and hopefully they will stick to that game plan.

Jim Lefebvre

We just want to play the game hard and play the game right. The important thing is we are setting our sights on getting better and better.

We have one more game left. When we go to Indiana we need to make a statement, and let them know we're ready to play.

We have one more game and everyone's even again. It starts all over.

Rick Barnes

We have one game left. If we're good enough to win the league, we'll win it.

We haven't won back-to-back games in two years. For the most part, we haven't played a game that mattered in two years.

We haven't won a road game and we haven't won two in a row. We spoke about trying to end the season on a good note. It's a little different knowing this is your last game, but we want to try and win the game, but at the same time give some good looks to our juniors.

We haven't really tested Theodore all series long. This was more the type of game we played all year.

We just can't get guys to make plays at the end of games. We haven't put a whole game together this season where we make enough plays to win.

J. J. Johnson

We just couldn't hit a shot. Unfortunately, this wasn't the game to go 1 for whatever we had, but that happens.

We just couldn't find any holes in their defense, ... We had only three kills in the first game and 25 hits.

Richard Jefferson

You can do that because you won the first game. Just wait until after Game 2.

You can do anything you want with him. You can hit-and-run with him, bunt. We push the game with him quite a bit.

You don't ever want to intentionally hurt anyone. But the key is to take him out the game mentally.

Kyle Hall

You'll take an ugly win obviously, but that's not where we want to be. It may be one of the ugliest games I've been a part of.

You'll see 37% more of the rink, so our games will be 37% better because the screen will be 37% bigger.

You'll have to manage your game and stay patient.

David Eckstein

You like to win the game but there's something about the squeeze play. It's do or die. I get more opportunity to do that, too.

You learn what each player does. That's all it is. Everybody's playing with new guys. Sometimes you see some weird bounces or weird passes, the chemistry's not there, but that will settle down the more games we play.

Ramon Hernandez

You keep your head up, ... Every game is stressful. You've just got to keep pushing and pushing.

Avery Johnson

You just play it out, because you're just trying to win as many games as you can. Wherever you land in the playoffs, you've got to go out and play anyway. I just couldn't see myself doing anything but giving 1,000 percent on the sideline.

You just love to see someone that loves the game the way that kid does. I think that can be contagious.

You just had to manage your game for the conditions, be very smart and patient and that's what I was.

Nikolai Khabibulin

Winning hockey games when we don't play well, that's a step forward.

Clint Hurdle

Winning a season series is something we didn't talk about much after the first half. You look at the numbers and see where you are and think maybe we can steal a game or two from them. . . . Obviously, we've been able to do a little more than that.

Winning a game like this might be better for us that if we won with an eight-or nine-point spread because we had to work. We didn't come in here thinking it would be easy.

Winning 20 games was one of our goals before the season started.