Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff VandeLoo

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

Cedric Bozeman

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

Chris Richard

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Tim Brasic

That's when I really took a picture of the defense and everything started slowing down. I just saw everything so perfectly on that play. I really started to get a good feel for it.

Duane Akina

That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.

Rodney Carney

That's what we've been concentrating on throughout our other victories: defense. Once we got the defense clicking, the lead just extended.

Jim Delmar

We held a highly potent offensive team to 16 points in the first half. The defense was getting it done. It was the offense we were lacking.

Steve Payne

He's never complained or felt sorry for himself. That's been the hard part for me, having to watch him go through this. It's been an inspiration for our guys and our program to see how he's handled everything as far as being unselfish and how tough he's been.

Greg Oden

I know that's where I want to go, ... I'm not really worried about other schools or things like that. As far as signing, I just haven't talked it over with Mike or Mom yet.

Ernie Whitt

I know you are not supposed to look too far ahead, but you have to in a tournament like this.

Kent Anderson

The feedback we've received thus far seems to indicate that people are finding these very useful.

Kevin Flanagan

The Fed may pause even if the risks aren't balanced. He is trying to tell you that we will still pause even if the numbers come in as they have so far this year.

Obie Schramm

The far majority of students do the right thing. We need to make sure we're protecting all these kids.

Todd Jones

I'm not saying how far we might go, but Jim has been in this situation before. When he managed the Florida Marlins (in 1997), he knew that team was put together specifically to win a championship. And it did.

Brian Seo

I'm not really worried about (King). That's really far off. Second or third, that's right up there where my goal is.

Marcus Conigliaro

I'm not so sure how we would respond at first. Personally, that loss (to Stout) took the wind out of me. But then I think we all realized that we had to stay together and move on. We had come too far for that to end our season that way.

Timm Bechter

We've gotten to the point where Cisco needs to be more optimistic than they have been.

Doug Baggett

We've gotten to play the kids that haven't had an opportunity to play a whole lot.

Mike Quade

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

Nick Williams

We've gotten quite a big turnout. We're hoping to have a lot more people tomorrow.

Jennifer Henson

We've gotten 10 times better (since the last meeting), especially defensively.

Paul Kemp

We have been warning about these things for a long time and haven't gotten far. We were predicting overtopping of the levees on Saturday. If you look at some of those animations on our Web site, it's pretty chilling.

Nigel Wright

We're very pleased with how Jeff and his team have gotten off to a running start with Spirit.

Darren Aronofsky

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.