Famous Quotes & Sayings

We definitely had chance after chance. But then we'd turn the ball over or miss an easy basket.

We depend on hustle and keeping the ball in play. I thought they did a good job doing that.

We definitely want to get the ball inside, whether it's to 'Kat' or Taylor (Deal). Bunker Hill did a good job the first half of pinching down on them, but our guards got the ball to them in the second half.

Joe Gill

We definitely outplayed them. We had plenty of opportunities, but we couldn't put the ball in the net.

We definitely need to find ways to get Patrick and Weldon on the field, ... We've been working on different things to try and get the ball in their hands.

We definitely look to get the ball inside to our post players. We look to them to score a lot.

We gave them two runs that we shouldn't have. We came back and put the ball in play. And our short-ball players did their job. But the big stick players did nothing.

John Jay

We gave them the ball early and they didn't even have to go 30 yards to score, ... That really hurt us.

Jerry Sloan

We gave them everything they needed to get their game going and win the ballgame. They came up and put the pressure on us, and we turned the ball over a little bit, and then we got real casual. There was no execution.

We don't have tremendous offense, but our starters have been trying to keep us in the ball game.

Mike Hargrove

We don't know what happened to him. He had a 14-pitch first and a 38-pitch second, and when we talked to him after that, he said couldn't say why he couldn't get the ball where he wanted.

We don't know if the order exists in written form. It is his order that started the ball rolling on this illegal detention.

You'd like to be right there to make him put the ball on the floor or hesitate and we weren't.

Jim Shaw

You divide the game into four parts. Defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball and taking good shots. Tonight I thought we went 4 for 4.

Today we just got caught up and hung onto the ball a little too much.

Today we had a combination of playing really, really hard and the ball going in the basket, particularly from 3-point range. When you do those two things together, scores can blow up pretty quickly.

We didn't come out with our game. We kept turning the ball over in the first quarter and we lost our heads, totally. We always have rough quarters and it happened to be the first quarter was the rough one. We stepped it up a little bit, but it wasn't enough. But we did our best. I'm glad and I'm happy for my team.

We didn't change speeds much late in the game. We let him go after people. He threw strikes and we hit the ball really well.

We didn't shoot the ball well, I know that, but at the same time, we know we have to play defense. That's the one thing that has been instilled in our program over the years. If we don't shoot the ball well, we knows that happens. We try not to get frustrated. We just try to play great defense on the other end.

Sylvia Hatchell

We didn't run and a lot of that had to do with Ivory. We didn't push the ball like we normally do, get it out and go. Some of that was not getting the rebounds.

We didn't rebound the ball well, and we haven't done it well for a while. It's been a sore spot for us all year long.

We didn't really want to spread it that early but with a 20-point lead and the ball in Pringle's hands, I felt pretty good. We just put it on her shoulders and rode it on.

We didn't really play doubles the way we know how. We were out there just hitting balls at certain points, not really trying to utilize our strategy. We need to learn to stick with what is working in a match until the opposition proves that those methods aren't working. That's something we really need to get after in practice.

We didn't really help (Capuano) on offense. He was giving us pitches to hit; we just hit them right at people and were trying to pull the ball a little too much.

We don't have the firepower to overcome that. If we were a ball club that could go down and score and put a lot of points on the board, sometimes we can overcome those things.

We don't have great team speed. We knew he had the potential to go. They didn't drive the ball because they didn't have to. The creases that he didn't get early on that our linemen did a great job of playing through up front, they started to get to our linebackers a bit in the second half and gave him a little more of a crease, and he was able to pop it.

We don't have a problem pushing the ball up the court and taking a shot off of two passes. It would just be something to get used to. I don't think it would hurt the game at all, especially with the girls that want to play in college.

Jim Crace

When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

Herman Edwards

When you spot a team that many points in the first half, it's difficult to win, ... You can't play ball like that on the road. It was way too much. We kind of had our fate handed to us early.

When you see the kind of substitutes they can bring on, it's a different ball game. Every individual is a top European player.

We're not where we need to be but we're moving forward. I told these guys (the linemen), give me a couple of seconds and our group will get open. I think they're starting to understand what they're supposed to do. There have been maybe one or two mental errors by the first group in practice. That's a long way from us not even being able to get a ball off in practice last spring.

We're not valuing the ball as much as I'd like to. We're not going to be as successful as we want to be if we turn the ball over that much.

Russell Branyan

Yeah, but still, this is the big leagues. I've got no excuses. ... I haven't been on that dirt in a while. It makes it tough reading balls off the bat. I still should make that play. I'm a lot better player than that.