Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Knuble

We had a lot of shots but we didn't have a lot of great chances. They did a great job of keeping us to the outside. They've won a lot of games and here they are.

I wasn't thinking about that. I just go into games ready to play. We wanted to come out and give it to (Quinnipiac).

Most of our games have been pretty close, so that part really isn't new to us. We need to do a little more work on our offense, but as a whole, I was pretty happy with the way we waited for a good shot.

Michigan made shots all night. Michigan always seems to have a lull in games where things don't go their way. They didn't have that tonight.

Michael's done that for us all year. He always comes up big defensively late in games. The last two times we've been here, he's fouled out. It was important to actually have him there at the end this time.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Nikolai Khabibulin

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

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

The ACC games are right around the corner. We can't play like this because it's a different level.

Grant Hill

That was the Rucker Park Princeton offense. We've had so much in and out (with injuries) that we haven't run that offense great since the first two games of the preseason. It's like the triangle offense in that you have to really stick with it and engrain it into the system for it to be effective.

That was what we talked about in the locker room. We won our last three games at home and to come here and win our opener is a great way to head into the tournament.

That was the first time in a long time that I didn't get double-teamed. If I can get more games like that, we will be better off.

Phil Jackson

That was something to behold. It was another level. I've seen some remarkable games, but I've never seen one like that before.

That was a different life for me, ... Golf and hockey are different games with a different set of skills. But maybe some of the competitiveness from hockey rubs off on golf.

That was one of our goals, and that's why you play the games is to try to be the No.-1 seed and try to get that first round game at home. That's an important game in a lot of respects.

Lance Briggs

That was probably one of the games where we started to get some respect, started to get noticed a little bit.

That was our focus, stopping him. I saw the film from other games and I went, 'Oh, are you kidding me? This kid is for real.' We have two guys who can guard a guy like that and we were lucky we did.

Kyle Farnsworth

That was one of the strangest games I've ever seen. How did we not win?

Dave Allison

(That was one) of the grittiest games we've played. That Houston game was an eye-opener.

That was long overdue. There's been tension in his play because of the lack of goals but in the last two games he's been outstanding in running the line and his hold-up play.

That's the way AFC West games go - down to the wire. We were on the winning end when I first got here.

That's what happens when you play two of your toughest games back to back.

That's the way the games are in the new NHL. With a lot of power plays and 5-on-3s, it makes it tough. It shows no lead is safe.

Dennis Scott

That's the refreshing part about it. This is someone who has gone to work every day for 1,400 games in a row. And it's not like this is a Monday-to-Friday job. This is every day of the week.

Tarence Kinsey

That's the problem. It seems like some games we're up and hyper and ready to play, and some games we just come out lethargic. Right now, we've got momentum because we don't want to go home. And that's the only momentum we need.

Thomas Brooks

That's two games in a row. Maybe we are pretty good on defense.