Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shaun Pollock

To protect a defeat and still go down 1-0 in the series is pointless. We've got to give ourselves a chance to win.

Albert Pujols

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Dan Bollinger

We've had trouble sealing the deal this season. We let our chance get away. They scored two with one hit in the first inning, and that was a (slap). We've had a lot of games like today's.

Randy Albano

We've had a really good run since 1999. I think we have a good chance to have a winning record, win our conference and win some games in the postseason.

Joan Bonvicini

We've had a difficult season. This was our chance to start over a little bit.

Marcus Knott

We've had a chance to watch some film on them and it's like we thought -- They're a pretty talented team. We're going to have our work cut out for us.

Mack Brown

We've had some great freshman backs, but none of them have responded like he has, ... He has a chance to be one of the great players to come through here.

Tom Slater

We've got a chance to win this series, and I think our kids will come out ready to go. We need to pitch well.

Jose Reyes

We've got a chance to play for a long time together. In this game you never know what's going to happen. It changes quickly. We want to stay focused and do our jobs.

Tim Barrera

It is a great opportunity for our players to compete in what should be a fun tournament. Each school will have two teams and play four games each and the winners of the two brackets will play for the tournament championship. Everyone will get a lot of playing time and it is a great way to start off the spring.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Jim Scheer

We have an exceptional team preparing to compete in these Games. We feel that this is, without question, the most accomplished team and perhaps the strongest team we have placed on the field of play in a Winter Olympic Games.

Andrej Lemanis

We have to view it as positively as possible or we won't be in the right frame of mind to compete on the court.

Pat Jones

We just didn't compete for the first 16 minutes of the game. And they're too good to be able to get away with that. Soquel played a great game, and Hannah was just unconscious.

Patrick Chan

I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.

Damon Coupe

Today was a tough day emotionally and physically. Most of us had been up since 5:30 a.m. and to travel and play a night match all on the same day was rough. I'm just proud of the girls that they were able to compete hard and get the job done.

Dave Tippett

We got these guys three times in a week, you're going to get to know each other well. I like games like that. For our team right now, it's a good thing. You like putting your team in situations where they have to compete hard, because that's when they feel good about yourself. That's the kind of games you want going into the playoffs.

Eric Nicoli

We've moved on from the days when the main impact of digital technology was to harm our industry by facilitating rampant online and physical theft. The day is surely within our sights when digital growth outstrips physical decline and we can all compete for share of a growing pie.

Willie Smith

It feels good; I'm just real proud of myself. I felt like I had a great senior year to put me into this position.

Sierra McCormick

There are some subjects in school that I love, but it can still feel like a chore. Acting never feels like a chore.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Martha Whiting

We went into the game treating them like any other team. We prepare for every team with the same intensity, and I think that really helped us.

Matt Sylvester

We went into the game knowing we had to get this one.

Nick Rimando

We went into that game trying to win it. It was an ugly game, but a tie on the road is actually like a win for us. In the 80th minute, you're just thinking to yourself, 'A tie's not too bad.' Then you play a little conservative and get back a little more.

Nick Rimando

We went into that game trying to win it, ... It was an ugly game, but a tie on the road is actually like a win for us. In the 80th minute, you're just thinking to yourself, 'A tie's not too bad.' Then you play a little conservative and get back a little more.

Glen Drury

This will be a very tough game for us on the road.

Steve MacFarlane

What really matters is whether the other unions at Northwest will support us. And that remains to be seen. At this stage of the game it's pretty standard for everyone to remain silent and see if a strike occurs.

Kevin Bullis

We had a game plan from the start to mix things up. Unfortunately, we went through games 2 and 3 we didn't execute.

Tomas Vokoun

Twenty-two shots is usually the whole game total for us. So for us to do that in one period was great. There's no substitute for hard work and that's what we were doing out there.