Famous Quotes & Sayings

We will push the ball and try to get transition baskets. We like to force the ball down the court more than most teams.

Ultimately, what did us in was we turned over the ball too much and we didn't rebound it enough.

We had a great second half. We did a better job handling the ball and playing more focused. Kubik and Johnsen stepped up huge for us tonight. I'm proud of them both.

Bruce Bochy

We had a great opportunity there, and (Cardinals starter Mark) Mulder, he got out of it, ... We're just not cashing in at this point. The double-play ball killed us.

Pat Riley

We had a great fourth quarter defensively. We did not get into foul trouble early and made some really big defensive plays. They shot the ball extremely well tonight. We were down going into the fourth quarter and really raised the level of our defense.

We had a great defensive game. We just can't get the ball in the hole. It's tough to win on the road when you're not shooting the ball respectably.

We had a good night on offense. We moved the ball well and hit the open people.

We had a good look at the basket. We got the ball to Anthony (Cousin) in the corner. The ball just hung on the front of the rim and decided to fall out.

We've got a lot of talented kids that can do great things, and there was a lot of ball movement and attacking.

Benjamin Watson

We've got a lot of places to spread the ball around.

We've got a lot of guys who play to win, ... We were down, but we didn't give up. We started out slow, but we played hard, took care of the ball and came out ahead.

We will be handing out party favors and there will be champagne stations around the casino. There will be a balloon drop in the Crown Room at midnight.

We will always have people that think that stats are everything. Truth is, our defense and special teams give us the ball in great field position, so our offense doesn't have to take it far to score. We have a lot of weapons and it's tough to get them all involved.

We have a different team this year. Everyone is better. They all played travel ball during the summer.

We have a complex case with complex legal questions that got wrapped into a ball and rolled in here, ... It's just not presented in a way that a court can rationally deal with at this time.

Jim Tressel

We have a clock for each team, ... What we try to point out is you need to use every second to get ready for the opportunity to play a ball game because you only have, in this day and age, eleven opportunities, and next year begins twelve. You have to make sure you use your preparation time to get ready for that and most especially use your preparation time throughout the entire year so you're at your best in that last game. That's just something we believe in terms of preparation and something that we talk about and obviously have.

We had to keep our composure. We were turning the ball over. A couple of times I had to settle the team down.

(We had to) just keep hitting the ball and make the picture throw pitches. In the past we've been trying to jump on the first pitch. We made their pitchers throw.

Jack Rio

We had to have a defensive stop. We were one play away from getting the ball back.

Vince Wilfork

We had to get the quarterback off his spot. Once I saw Jarvis make a few inside moves, the ball popped out as he tried to throw it, and it was right over one of his offensive linemen's shoulder pads, so I had to reach over his shoulder pads and get it.

We had to get the ball and go. Drew was having a rough offensive outing that night. When he got the ball, he made a nice cut and got far enough open to where he could let it go and he knocked the shot down.

We had to get him focusing on the delivery and delivering the ball to the plate and not thinking about what you want the ball to do. I think it was key for him, because hitters didn't know what was coming.

We had times when we played pretty well. Our defense did some good things and I thought we rebounded well, especially in the first half. But we just didn't shoot the ball very good.

We had tight ball games last season and that says to me our pitching and defense were strong but we couldn't get the hits so that's what we are really focusing on this year.

Tom Coughlin

We had thrown the interception and didn't think we would ever get the ball back,

We had three or four kids shoot the ball well. We shot it better, which is something we've struggled with at times. And we made free throws.

T.J.'s always clutch. It's just fun to give him the ball and watch.

Marcus Vick

This week I concentrated more on staying in the pocket and getting the ball out of my hands, ... I didn't want to take any unnecessary licks like I did last week.

This weekend is going to be a tough test for us because we're going to play some good ball teams.

Those people criticizing (Davis) have never bounced a ball for IU. They haven't bounced one ball and haven't taken one jump shot. We're out here playing.

Pat Cash

Those two guys hit the ball very hard, but it was fun... I moved quite well.

Those two guys both threw the ball really well.

Those two ball games we just showed up. That's my fault.