Famous Quotes & Sayings

First-round games are some of the toughest to play. But we have to remember this and learn from it.

Jeff Smith

Every time we get together it's a good game. It usually comes down to the wire. Most of the games last year were one-run games.

Every time their games went into overtime, they won. I've seen many instances where the pressure is really on, and they come through.

Craig MacTavish

There's probably going to be a player or two from this group that starts the year and maybe two or three more that play some games as we go on. That will all be dependant on them as we go by.

Kent Mercker

There's plenty of time from this point to do what I need to do. I think I got into two games two springs ago, when I was with the Cubs. There were fives games left and I hadn't been in one.

Jose Theodore

As the games went on I feel better and better. In the playoffs you need a goalie to make the big saves.

As the games go on, we need to separate ourselves from those other teams. We need to keep winning so that by the end there won't be a three-way tie. We need to keep moving up the ladder.

At some point, we'd love to get all our games on TV.

At 9-8, we're approaching our 20 losses much quicker than our 20 wins. We need to somehow, as a team, understand what the season is all about. The preseason is about winning a lot of games for regional (playoff) consideration down the road. We just haven't done that.

Vince Carter

At this point in time, we are just trying to win as many games as possible. Some ugly, hopefully some impressive wins, some wins are going to be by luck. By any means it should be our goal right now.

John Glover

D.J. threw some great games for us last year, but other than that we're going to be searching a little bit.

Could you write it any better? You win the last seven games and you win the West.

Dana Altman

We're disappointed we're not in the NCAA tournament, knowing that one or two games was the difference. That really makes you disappointed. But our program will never be at the point where we can look our noses down at the NIT.

We think that the two should be put together. We will work toward that. But, let them put the games on now.

We think (Orton) can win games for us, ... not just manage games for us.

This will undoubtedly be one of the strongest swim teams we have ever had at the Commonwealth Games and we have had some great teams in the past.

There have been games this season when we've played 12 people. We've never had that luxury.

We are very much in the mix and we have got good games to come.

We are still two games out of a playoff spot.

We are still looking for someone to step up as the No. 2 pitcher. You're not going to win many high school games giving up the number of hits that we did today. Everything in this game hinges on pitching, and we didn't have it.

We did a nice job working together up front. Defensively, we're pretty solid and we're getting better reading offenses and picking things up as the games go along.

Bo Ryan

We did a much better job today than other games getting in position and getting people off their feet. That's how you get to the line, and then play with the lead.

We didn't panic. There have been times in the past where we've panicked, and those are the games we don't want to revisit.

We didn't make shots. We can stay in games and play really hard, but if you don't make shots, what can you do?

We went through a lot of great games last year, but really, I can't remember as much tension and pressure as this game (had) for us. This was right up there with the victories we've had.

Dan Johnson

We want as many games as possible. We also want as many rounds as possible.

Ben Roethlisberger

We like to think so. But we're not going to say we can go three games in a row because we want to go one game in a row. It starts this week at home. Nothing happens if we don't win this game (against Detroit). We're not thinking about anything else.

Jared Dudley

We're going to win more games in this league. We've just got to play our game.

We saw some things that we can work on. In Wilson we got away from our passing game, and it hurt us, but we had three games this week, and I think they still have a little on their minds about this weekend. We can make good things happen for us out of these games (lopsided wins) if the girls let it happen.

Nathan Vasher

We know that it's on us. We know that you can win games without putting up 100 points a game. We've seen it before. We know what we have to do.

Brad Shaw

We feel like we probably have to get to the 90s. But we can't win 10 out of 12 games in one night.

Scott Skiles

We feel like they are all must games now. We have to put together a string of wins, but that will be tough to do.

We feel like the kids are playing well and getting better, but it has been two tough games away from home to start the season. We couldn't quite get over the hump.