Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Edwards

I've always had great expectations for defense. Your mind-set as a coach, you know you win with defense, you sell tickets with offense. They understand where I'm coming from. You grow up on one side of the ball you always feel that way.

Charlie Whitehurst

I used to think if I had the ball in my hands, anything is possible, ... I don't think that anymore. I think the game is won on the offensive and defensive lines.

Brian Roper

I wanted the ball to be in Brady's hands; he's our best playmaker.

Chris Quinn

I wanted the ball in my hands to make a big play and it ended up costing us.

Jessie Davis

I wanted the ball in my hands. I knew the O line was going to block hard so I could get through.

J. Horton

I wanted the ball in my hands down the stretch, not necessarily to score but to make plays and I was able to do that.

Sophia Young

I wanted the ball because I felt like the game was getting out of control.

Anthony Winchester

I wanted the ball, and I'm always gonna try to get the ball in that situation. I can't do anything about missing them now. We just kept our confidence and won it with our defense.

Mo Johnston

I wanted more from Amado Guevara tonight. When you look at it, you want Amado Guevara on the ball more than he was tonight.

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.

Bill Delahunt

This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

Bernard Barton

Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot.

Bruce Pearl

To do special things you need have special players and special performances. Obviously you saw one tonight from Chris Lofton. We did a pretty good job of getting him open and guys did a pretty good job of turning shots down to get him shots because he (Lofton) clearly had a pretty good chance of making what he put up.

Rick Dudley

Todd is known as a very good guy in the locker room and is well known for working with younger players. He has a chance to become one of the veteran leaders of this team and we're going to give him that opportunity.

Steve Richey

We had a hard time handling their big man inside. They got a lot of second chance baskets and that hurt us in the second half.

LeBron James

We wanted to be mentally focused. We didn't want to give Portland a chance to get back in it. We did a great job of closing it out.

Steve Bruce

We've had two opportunities and to give yourself any chance here you have to take one of them and unfortunately for us we didn't.

Brandon Jenkins

We wanted them to do that. We'd rather have them run the time down and let us play solid defense.

Phil Bennett

We wanted to play great red zone defense and we did that. We just stayed on the field too long.

Brian Simmons

We've had years around here where the defense was playing well and the offense wasn't playing too well, or vice versa.

Buff Radick

We've had to work hard for everything we've gotten offensively all season. Our defense has been outstanding. But we've had points where you can't hold teams to zero. You need some offensive pressure of your own to help yourself out.

Chris Klekas

We've had six or seven people lead us in scoring in games this year. But having Gratton gives us a lot of confidence. He plays so well on offense and defense for us. When he's out there we feel we have a chance.

Don Howard

We've got a good offense, our kids can hit the ball. I really think they'll hit most any pitcher around, because they're seasoned enough to be able to hit. We do work hard on our offense, but we've got a lot to work on defensively. This is not indicative of what this defense has been.

Ed Orgeron

Well, he got ready in about two seconds on the sidelines. I think with about a week's preparation, he will be as ready as we can get a freshman ready. He is physically talented, and he has been studying our defense. We may not be able to do as many things as we could with Patrick, but I think we can run our defense with (Russell) in there.

Tim Murphy

To state the obvious, we got our butts kicked today. I thought they out-toughed us, and we never really gave our defense a chance.

Steve Koehler

To start with a road win is a good way to start a (league) season. We played tough defense and we made our free throws at the end.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

Li Na

I felt sad because everyday I had to wake up early to practice before going to school. After school I had to go back to tennis again, and then after tennis I had homework. I didn't have time to play.

Deena Kastor

It was one of my expectations as my training has been going so well. I did want to run faster but I wasn't feeling it early on. I managed to hold on to go under 2:20 which was my main goal.

Jordan Beck

It's too early to tell what's going to happen right now. Hopefully I'll get back soon and won't have to miss much time.

Dave Cassels

It is very important we get the players registered as early as possible.

Paul Tagliabue

Our goal is to play some games in the Superdome in 2006. It's too early to say what will happen in 2007.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brian Miller

We didn't execute as well offensively as we have the past few games. Rachel getting in foul trouble early on impacted the game, but we got some good offensive production without her, which is good so that we know we can get points from other places with sectionals approaching.

Brian Fischer

We have been doing that quite a bit. It's good for us early in the year to come back and win games like that. I think it'll make us a better team.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

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.

Wilbert Hamilton

We are still having problems with the half court. We are trying to play a lot of people and I guess we are putting them in the wrong positions and just not getting that cohesiveness. We've got another game to try to get it right.

Fred Thompson

We did a much better job this game staying in it mentally,

Rob Salter

We did a good job of pushing the tempo. Even though we weren't on our A game defensively, we played well offensively.

Kevin Stallings

We did a good job of getting back in the game in the second half, but we ran out of gas. You have to play really well on the road to win in this league. We didn't and they did.

Michael Redd

We did a good job (in the second half). This is a game we had to have.

Bruce Bowen

We did a better job in the second half of the game tonight.

Chris Brady

We didn't play as we normally do tonight. (The Panthers) played an all-around good game tonight. They are a really hard team to defend.

Mickey Bounds

We didn't play as well as I had hoped we would. Last week and this week we made some mistakes that hurt us. We did work on getting some wide open shots in our spread offense. This game will help us on down the road.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Mark Oaten

What are the kind of words that somebody would use which could then be implied to be incitement? This will be hard legislation to draft.

Joe Aquilante

Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.

Bart Szarko

Tony worked so hard in camp. We're hoping he comes back. The timetable says he will. He's a leader.

Mark Dantonio

Tony plays so hard and he is so smart. He is a winner who makes plays and has made himself a starter this spring.

Larry Scott

We've been testing the systems and they have been better than 90 percent accurate, which is better than the human average. We haven't set a hard deadline, but next summer is realistic. We want to make sure it is completely reliable.

Courtney Hill

We tried. We worked hard to get the word out. We did interviews, we did CNN, we went everywhere, but we didn't have any luck.

Fannie Goodwin

We tried to send a message because we heard they had a (tall) player and we were shorter than her. We had to work real hard on defense.

Doug Piquette

We just made way too many mistakes to win the game. But the kids battled hard and competed.

Todd Bradley

I feel the time is right for me to move on to another challenge.