Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're really in no position to say we're better than any other team in the league right now. There are some games that, on paper, you should win but those teams are just as hungry as we are and then they see us, they're probably thinking the same thing so they also raise their level of play a little.

Jamaal Magloire

We put a good string of games together and win some then we don't stick to it. We've been going up and down all season.

Kobe Bryant

We played hard tonight. Even the last two games that we lost on the road, we played hard. We just did not come through down the stretch of the game. Tonight was no different. We are a physical team and we got after them a little bit. All around, it was a good victory.

We played hard in the first two games but by the third we were lost mentally.

Mats Sundin

We played good for a long stretch. We have to get back to the things we were doing. If we can do that, we can get back to winning some games again.

We have tough region games a tough schedule.

We do know that there's a lot of season left. But if you keep saying that there's a lot of games left, before you know it, you're not going to be in good position. So it kind of is an urgency. We do need to win two out of three and hopefully even sweep.

Those guys are skating fantastic. I'm here for the games and to perform my best. Once I get on the line, I hope to make some magic happen.

With all the games we've played, I don't know who will start in a number of positions Tuesday. We need some leadership on this team, and everyone is waiting on someone else to take charge.

We have to regroup. We better get focussed. If we play two games like that (in districts), we'll be out of it.

Jennifer Rizzotti

We have to really schedule tougher in our non-conference and we have to win games that we're not 'supposed' to win. And then we've got to win our league.

We have to play the rest of our games with a purpose, like we did tonight. If we do that and work hard in practice, we will make things interesting.

Amir Johnson

Yeah, it hurt to lose those two playoff games lasts year. But this is another year. We're a better team than we were last year. We're more experienced. We just want to keep on playing.

Yeah, I thought about it. I knew that the Superdome was messed up and that they'd be playing all their games on the road.

Bobby Jones

You always want these games so you can prove people wrong.

Michael Ballack

Yes, the 1996 final, that's one of the games I'd like to remember. It's not the same situation but I am sure the Czechs will be seeking revenge and it will be a tough match.

We're a good shooting team, normally. We had a stretch there were we didn't shoot well, but we've had two games in a row now where we have proven to ourselves that we can shoot.

We don't take any of these games lightly. Quite frankly, we got surprised last night, and I think it took us a while to recover.

We established momentum right off the bat. We were a lot crisper on offense and a lot better with our shot selection. Jonathan Moore had one of his better games all-around tonight.

We're already preparing for tomorrow. Sure it helps that we've done it before, but we've just got to take these next two games one at a time.

We're a lot better than this. We have to pick it up. We can't play like that. We were just kind of sleepwalking through those games right there and you can't do that, get your butt whipped ugly like that two games in a row.

Drew Gooden

We really wanted this one. The last three games were a step backwards.

We really need to get some games in.

We really needed to win all three games last week to have made the states. We lost a tough one to Nottingham and then we had the heartbreaker at Allentown.

Ozzie Guillen

We really lost two games where we didn't have a chance.

Brian Gionta

We got away from (playing our style) the previous two games. We just have to worry about ourselves right now.

Andrew Brunette

We have stretches in games where we kind of lose our train our thought, we start opening up and making mistakes in different areas. We really got to make sure that we do the right things for 60 minutes. We had that nice little stretch in January when we did that and were successful.

We have sophomores that started all 10 games last year that are being pushed all around for playing time,

Larry Beinfest

We have some middle infielders, and we'll see. We're in Spring Training, once you get the first weeks of games in, there starts to be communications with other teams about wants and needs and teams that may have a surplus in other areas.

We are trying to find ways to return to the Olympic Games as quickly as possible,

Drew Stubbs

We couldn't string together rallies. It's tough to get shut out, but it's not the end of the world because we still have a lot of games to play.

We played two pretty good games last week.

We played two big games in a row. They want to stay on this roll. Undefeated in our league, -- that's a hell of a thing right now.