Famous Quotes & Sayings

We gave them a 19-0 lead the last time we met and came back to win, so we know they are a very good side with quality backs and a good pack of forwards - but we have prepared well.

We want to get that road win thing off our backs before the end of the season, but we also want to win the last five games. Then, in their minds, we start the season 5-0, and that's a good thing.

We knew going in that there was going to be multiple backs in there. If we had ran just two guys, I can guarantee at least one of them would have rushed for 100 yards.

Nicholson Baker

Women are much more in touch with the backs of themselves than men are: they can reach higher up on their back, and do so daily to unfasten bras; they can clip and braid their hair; they can keep their rearward blouse-tails smoothly tucked into their skirts.

Tom Renney

Two different teams. I'm sure if everyone would be honest with you, they'd say they did their best to get ourselves excited and ready to play. But in the backs of their mind, they probably were thinking we should get this one tonight, all things being equal.

We had a good day today. We had a bad quarterfinal round (Friday night). We dropped a lot of close matches we should have won, but to have 10 guys in the wrestle backs for two straight days, that really is a tribute to their character.

Matthew Lewis

We had three great running backs so we can stay fresh the whole game.

Those three that won it for us were just phenomenal. I was so happy to see Daniel get his first and Taylor and Derek did what they always do. They were the two holdovers from our state championship team and since that year they have just put this program on their backs and kept it at the highest level in the state.

Those teams all had exciting running backs. You didn't have to look to the quarterback. They had running backs who could make plays.

We felt we could run on them. But after that (fumble recovery), all of our backs started to run a little bit harder.

Chan Gailey

We hit some balls outside deep, we hit some balls inside over the middle, we hit some short passes, we hit backs out of the backfield. We did some things that we have not done in a while, and I give Reggie a great deal of credit for making those reads and getting the ball to the right guys,

Maurice Cheeks

Us coming off back to backs and playing a team that gets out and runs was going to be a challenge for us. I'm not totally upset about this game. We knew it was going to be a tough game just based on the way they play.

You find running backs with one or even two of those qualities. But very few have all four at such a high level as Carl Robinson.

Every year we are counted out. Our backs have been to the wall every year.

Ronde Barber

There's not a lot of words to describe him. Just put the film on, and you see what you have in this guy. There's a lot of great backs that have come through this league. For him to outdistance them all in the first three games of his career, he should feel good about it. We definitely feel good that he's running for us.

There's no doubt that our backs had plenty of opportunities thus far in the tournament.

There's not the same fear element when you play United these days. In the 90s I must have played them 15 or 16 times and I can't even remember getting a draw. But it's not the same now. We knew there would be times when we had our backs to the wall but winning doesn't surprise us.

The top three backs are out, so that right there is proof that we're gonna need as many as we can possibly have. That's crazy when you think about it, but it can happen very easily because we're gonna run the football, so we just have to build the depth. I think we've really been able to do that this spring.

Michael Huff

I started wearing them this summer. A lot of our defensive backs and receivers have them too. They've really helped me on the field as far as seeing things better.

What they are after is attention. They want to cause conflict. They want to cause division. They want people to react to them. The mayor believes the best way to react is to turn our backs on them.

We tell our backs to just get on the back hip of that guy on those pulling plays and just ride it out. Randy does an excellent job of that. There were a couple of times where he's actually been looking back over his shoulder to say, 'Hey, where are you, baby? Come on! Come on!' We love to see that and we love to execute those kinds of plays.

We were prepared for the blitzes they had, we worked on it all week. We all have rules. Running backs have rules. The linemen have rules. We have rules as far as protection. If we had stuck to the game plan, stuck to the rules we had, I think we would have been fine. But they did run some twists that were really fast and caused some hits on Bones. ... The game speed was a little bit faster than what we're used to seeing.

We lost a couple of key running backs and that kind of left me here in the position that I'm at. I'm happy to get the chance to take over. I've waited the last couple of years to kind of be in the mix and get the chance to hold the rock.

We missed the holes as running backs at times, but there were also a lot of missed assignments and not great effort. There wasn't a lot of fight. Every man has to realize it's a dog-eat-dog world. You have to want it very badly.

Sage Rosenfels

We'll take as many good running backs as we can get. Obviously he's got some exceptional abilities.

Those are people who are cooking in the backs of vans, SUVs and vehicles,

Tom Kenny

Weaker consumer spending backs the case for interest rates on hold.

Unfortunately, the president's budget would balance the books on the backs of our veterans.

Andy Reid

We?ll let the young guys play and see what they can do. We?ll make a decision after that. I?ve been pleased up to this point with the backs.We?ve got four backs that we feel pretty good about.

Let's just say things are going to be turned inside out, but we are not going to lose the shirts off our backs in the process.

Ryan Pickett

Losing three starters, that definitely didn't help. But ... we get our backs to the wall, we're supposed to stop them. We didn't do a good job of that, obviously.

Lots of people see the opportunity to make lots of money off the backs of consumer debtors, and that should make people extremely cautious about this.

Norm Chow

Last year, we relied on our receivers because our backs were so young. Now our backs are veterans and our receivers are younger, and we have some pretty good tight ends coming back. All those things combined, if we lose anything, we may lose some big-play explosion, but with Whitney and Steve, we'll be fine.