Famous Quotes & Sayings

We picked up our intensity down the stretch and pulled one out.

Our intensity level wasn't where it needed to be. We were sluggish, then we picked it up, then we were sluggish again.

Our press was working in the first half, but we weren't converting. In the second half, we picked up the intensity on our press and it really worked. We just stayed after them.

Carl Jung

What we lack is intensity of life.

We got too comfortable with our lead. We didn't match their intensity at the end of the game.

We just didn't match their intensity tonight, plain and simple.

Jaromir Jagr

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

We have a lot of momentum going after this weekend. If we can just keep that going and keep our intensity high, we should be all right.

We have to make sure our intensity level stays up and we can't take anything for granted,

We have to learn how to be on a varsity team and the intensity it brings. We?re getting there. We made progress from Monday, so that?s the positive.

We had more intensity in the second half,

Paul Pierce

We just couldn't match their intensity in the second half.

Tubby Smith

That's been our profile all year long. I just don't get it. We just seem to play with not as much intensity and maturity to start the game.

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more and not reading as much. Students are getting to the point now that if it's not on the Internet, they don't trust the information.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

We were very generous. The turnovers, the mistakes, the lack of intensity on our part played a big part in us not playing well.

We realized that we had the opportunity to win. We kept our intensity up.

We went out there with the intensity and wanted it more than they did.

An ugly win is better than a pretty loss. We didn't play as well as would have liked in the first half, but we picked up the intensity in the last two quarters.

Everything was the same. We had just as much intensity as we've ever had.

Pryor is a tremendous talent and Rick has them playing well. I think Jeannette has traditionally been in the playoffs. They know where you have to be and, you can talk to kids, but they don't know what the intensity is like when you walk on the floor.

At the end of the day, a lot of New Yorkers want some relief from the intensity of everything else that's on their air. This is an alternative for them.

Kate Kelly

Doug lived life large -- he had an intensity while he was at work. It was something he always wanted to do from when he was a little boy.

They were just so much quicker than we were. And that's the intensity level.

They've been using different kids. We don't know much about Brown, but we have to wrestle with just as much intensity as we would in a meet where we knew our opponent.

They turned it up a notch, and we just couldn't get there. Our kids played hard, but they're very talented. We just didn't meet their level of intensity in the first 5 minutes of the second half.

It seems like we get a little lead and then we relax and let them back in it. We just don't have a lot of intensity right now. We need to pick that up if we want to play at a state championship level.

Defensively our intensity level picked up. They went through a spell of about 25 possessions from midway through the second to about mid-third quarter where they only scored six points.

That's why you can never lay back. You can't play to the other team; you have to play with your own intensity that your team always plays with.

What pleased me was I knew we could play with that kind of intensity on defense. There was a lot of quality mental and physical basketball.

Rafael Nadal

The worst thing is to play too defensively. I need to play with more intensity and be aggressive. If I do that, I'm going to do well because my touch is good.

You have to have intensity for 32 minutes. It didn't happen.

We just turned cold, and we couldn't make anything. We were trying to live on the jump shot, and we lost our intensity on defense.