Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Tavis Smiley

We give you the facts. I told you information is power -- knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

We gave them a good battle for 17 minutes. I promised my team that when I watch the tape tomorrow I won't look at the scoreboard. I'll look at how we played. We played hard. They made one of those phenomenal runs on us and the show was over.

We gave them a good battle for 17 minutes. I just think (Connecticut) is so good, so well-coached. They just made one of those phenomenal runs on us and the show was over.

There have been some great battles this year. For whatever reason, we just seem to match up with one another pretty evenly.

Chris Barron

There is a brewing battle in the GOP for the future of this party,

We knew that this team would be a challenge. I knew it would be a battle and I thought we did a good job of weathering the storms and scoring stretches they put up.

We knew that if we could stop her (Bowman), that would be half the battle for us.

We knew on paper that it was going to be a battle between the University of Houston and ourselves, and it was a good battle. Our kids competed exceedingly well. We just didn't have enough.

We're not in position like we were in the past. We're not doing things defensively out front. Our guards aren't controlling penetration. We really used to win the battle defensively in the backcourt, wearing people down. We're not wearing people down at this point.

We think they have already lit a fire under management to a degree, persuading it to take several positive actions. We expect it to continue on this course. So the Icahn group may lose the battle but, if the stock goes up, it will have won the war.

Jamie Dixon

To be successful, we need to win the battle of the boards. It sets up everything we do.

This time we came fully prepared. It was just the battle of the two best teams and the best team won that game.

Brian Kelly

This time of year, you go onto the field and know that you can go and fight for a championship. We don't have any preconceived notions out there. We're just trying to get to the playoffs. Every year, if you go out there and battle and play hard, you have an opportunity to go to the Super Bowl.

We also have some good battles to make our Top 5, so the lineup could change from week to week.

To see him battle all of the injuries and illnesses is exciting. Everything has happened to this kid. He sees it as a challenge. He's out to prove a point. A collapsed lung isn't going to keep him out.

Wade Boggs

Toronto was the team that we had to contend with all the time, and Oakland. Those were the two teams that we had to battle all the time. Once I went to New York and we started winning, then the rivalry started to come back just a little bit. And then once I left New York, it's full-fledged now. It's a rip-roaring force fire right.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan's future viability, stability and security lie in empowering its people and building political institutions. My goal is to prove that the fundamental battle for the hearts and minds of a generation can be accomplished only under democracy.

The only shame is we have Huntington next who we have to battle in the sectional. I'm sure we won't see their ace, and they're not going to see ours.