Famous Quotes & Sayings

The opening round is a wonderful thing for two teams to battle it out to take on a one seed. I was a little confused. I thought we had a better strength of schedule and better quality wins than Southern and should have had their 16 seed.

Neil Newhouse

There is nothing overnight that the White House can do. It's not like a football game where you make that Hail Mary pass. It's a long battle back.

There is still concern about distillates. Once a big batch of cold weather moves in, prices will surge.

There is still a feeling of disappointment that some lives are not valued as much as other lives and that there's a great deal of education that needs to happen, ... Because if this was not a crime of hate, I don't know what was. ... The battle and the fight for equality and for understanding is far from over.

David Brown

There is still a battle royal going on between the hawks and the doves over easing.

Annalee Newitz

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Tim Berners-Lee

There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.

Arlen Specter

There could be a real tough battle here and a real tough fight, depending on whom the president puts up,

UMD came out harder and gave it to us. We talked about it after the second period and said 'This is what it's going to be like in the playoffs.' There aren't going to be a lot of pretty goals and you're going to have to battle for goals. We played good enough to get the job done.

We had a great practice yesterday. Very intense two hours yesterday, a lot of situational softball. It ended with batting practice and you can just tell that they're figuring some things out.

Dave Allison

We had a great first and third periods. We just got soft in the second. We didn't really battle the way we have to.

Dick Adams

We had a good start after the bats struggled in the first game.

Becky Hammon

We have a lot of veterans on this team; we know what it's going to take. We're ready for battle ... I guarantee we are going to leave it out on the floor.

Donald Stewart

We have a bunch of good kids on this team. We had to battle a lot of injuries, and we could never put it all together, but I am proud of them.

We had to change a boys' bathroom to a girls' room every day at 1 o'clock.

Tommy Amaker

We had to battle our way through with Miami. They were a tough, scrappy bunch, and they fought until the end.

We had to battle in that first game. We were down 10-2 but got the bats going. Everyone stepped up.

We had to battle from behind all game long. And these girls just kept coming. They never quit.

We had to battle back and we brought home a win.

This was kind of a character test for us to see if we'd battle back, and we did.

This way we'll still have his bat in the lineup everyday. He does it all, so we're going to need him.

This weekend will dictate a lot of what happens to us this year in the conference. These are a couple of teams we will be battling with all season to make the tournament.

Those three kids have swung consistent bats all spring and they came through with those doubles all in a row. That was some great hitting.

Marty Turco

Those points put us pretty much where we are, away from the pack that's battling for the playoffs.

Aaron Hill

This team's always been good at even if we don't win battling back and not giving away at-bats. We kept in there and ended up on top.

This was the major battle ground in the negotiations and we have won.

Fernando Alonso

This was a very different race to the other two so far this season. In Bahrain, I was fighting with Michael Schumacher all the way and in Malaysia it was Jenson Button and I battling for second place, but in Melbourne it was quite comfortable. There were no fights and I was very relaxed for a lot of the race.

This was a triumph for him here briefly, and he thought he was on a roll, ... Then he discovered as he moved south into New York that things were not going to go so easily for him. He was outmanned and outmaneuvered at the two battles of Saratoga and he was forced to surrender.

This was a total team effort tonight. We won the battle on the boards (48-32) and I thought we really executed our offense well down the stretch.

This was a defensive battle between two teams that pride themselves in defense. There weren't many open shots, and there weren't any transition baskets. And both teams, because of the defensive intensity, had trouble finding a rhythm.

This was a big game. It has been a good battle this week between two teams.

This was a battle worthy of a state semifinal kind of game. It felt like November (the playoffs) tonight.

Edward Kennedy

This was a battle that needed to be fought.