Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew he was going to have the ball in his hands. If I was Coach Smith, I would have done the same thing.

Ryan Bowman

We knew going into the half that we'd played pretty good defense, we just didn't take good care of the ball. Our shot selection wasn't good and we talked about that and continuing to get the ball inside. Shots started falling for us. The kids kept going to what they needed to do.

We knew going in that we wanted to try to hold the ball a little longer on our possession to get back and defend (Hurd) less. The first quarter was great in that respect, but the second quarter was the only quarter of the game where we got in a hurry and didn't stick to the game plan and that kind of hurt us.

We knew coming in (Wauneta-Palisade) was a good ball club. It could have gone either way.

Ben Roethlisberger

We knew coming in that we wanted to throw the ball more, ... It's like a building block for things that we are going to have to be able to do down the road.

We knew coming in that we could not turn the ball over and we had to rebound. We didn't know how important free throws would be. They haven't been in the last few games, but they were tonight.

We knew coming in that in order for us to win this game, we would have to get rebounds, and to hold the ball on offense. The less possessions they had, the better off we were.

We knew any run we could get in would be a plus because we weren't going to knock out any (in this game). The small ball worked.

We knew a game was going to come down to a pitch pass sometime. Paul and I would go out in the street in front of my house and practice it. Someone pitches him the ball and Paul bombs it to me.

We kind of sat back and defended the ball for a long, long time. You can't play good teams like that, you have to go for the next ball.

We kind of put ourselves behind the eight ball here. We had them. For three quarters we hung with them, but lost in the fourth.

We kind of just panicked and they got us caught up in what they wanted us to do, throw the ball away.

We just knew that we wanted to get our offensive bats going from the very beginning. I think I wanted it a lot, too, because this is region play and we haven't beaten Spanish Fork in high school ball since I was a freshman. I just wanted it really bad.

We just kept playing hard away from the ball and at the ball. We knew the ball was ours, and we played like it was.

We just kept grinding. We ran the ball a lot. You can only do that when you're blocking well.

Ron Gardenhire

We just kept banging away and fortunately enough, they made one mistake, missed a ball which hurt them. You've just got to keep playing because you never know what is going to happen in the game.

Tom Cullen

We just hit the ball poorly today. This is going to be a tough conference this season, and you can't expect to win games when you hit like we did.

We just hit the ball, and it wasn't just one guy doing it. I've been saying we just needed to put the ball in play, and today we put it in play hard.

We just have to work a lot harder right now. We played good ball at the start of the season, but since the Hanford High game have struggled.

Through the first three innings, we were sticking the ball pretty good. We came out swinging at good pitches and hit the ball hard. Once Globe had that rally, though, I don't know if it took the wind out of our sails or what, but we just didn't respond to it.

Unconscious. Mary Pat wanted to win this game so bad, it was written all over her face. Every inning, every pitch, she was humming the ball in there and hitting her spots. She was in command, but she was psyched up to play and she showed such emotion. You could tell, every batter, she was fired up. It was awesome.

Twice now they've dropped the ball where we've learned about something happening with our son from other sources, like the media. There's no excuse to put a family through this.

Twenty-three assists is incredible for a high school team. We were getting such good looks, and that's because we were passing the ball so well.

Pete Carroll

Twenty more yards of field position wasn't going to make a difference. The series before, Texas had great success moving the ball downfield. If we get the first down, we win the game.

Twenty-four hours after the ball drops, it'll sail.

Turnovers were the biggest disappointment. A lot of turnovers that we just haven't done in a lot of games. We've played 14 games. We should be valuing the ball a little better.

Turnovers were definitely the story of the game. Today it was a little different than what has happened early in the season, but I felt if we could have gone when we had the ball at the one, it would have changed the momentum of the game and instead it went in reverse.

Turnovers were a big problem earlier a year ago and we have matured so much. We really took care of the ball and looked for that extra pass in the second half.

Tom Izzo

Turnovers really killed us. We struggled not to turn the ball over.

Mark Brunell

Turnovers killed us. You're just not going to win if you turn the ball over.

Turnovers in the last four minutes of the ball game cost us, but we've still got a lot more basketball left. If we continue to play good defensively and take care of the ball offensively, we'll be there at the end.

You hit a few good shots and you get some confidence back. Overall, he hit the ball a lot better. I am optimistic that we got him back on track.

Bill Terry

To hit .400 you need a great start and you can't have a slump. There year I did it, I was around .410, .412 all season and I was really hitting the ball on the nose.