Famous Quotes & Sayings

When I saw the bracket, I thought the top half looked a lot tougher than the bottom. But you have to beat the best to be the best.

Baron Batch

Those (Abilene) guys are great players. They beat us this year. They know how to play and that's the biggest thing, knowing how to win and what to do to win. This is a really good recruiting class.

Thomas is the team to beat right now. They're playing solid baseball, putting runs up and getting solid pitching.

Thomas is the team to beat in the league. They are playing solid baseball, putting runs on the board and getting solid pitching.

This year we have a different kind of chemistry. As long as we work together as a team, then yes, we can beat any team on the court if we bring it.

This year, we got beat by 20 a couple of times and that was hard to take. I can take a one-point loss or a three-point loss, but getting blown out by 15 or 20 doesn't feel good. Even at home we got beat by a lot at times and that's a personal pride thing. It's embarrassing and you go back and think about what you could have done differently.

This time we were beat by a lot better team. Randy Davis, he's awesome. He did the scoring and got the key rebounds when they needed it.

This time of year it's not about winning by a certain number of points. Now, it's about wanting to advance. That's a good team we beat tonight. They came out and pounded us and we weathered the storm.

Reggie Hamilton

This time, I guess we wanted it more. We had to prove we could beat this team.

This time, coaches, managers and players can't cut us up and beat us up in front of the fans we're trying to sell the game to.

We just have to take care of business right now and try to beat SPU and NNU. That's all that we can control right now.

We didn't get those bonus points early. We felt our top three (lightweights) could beat their top three.

We were well and truly beaten last season but the lads will be determined to put the record straight tonight.

Willie McGinest

We don't make excuses for our losses. We play fair and square. They outplayed us. We are not going to say we were banged up or we didn't have everybody. We went out there and faced them like men and they beat us.

We can't take anything for granted. They are going to come and play hard. They've got tough kids there. They are going to want to beat us after what happened last year.

We really did a good job on limiting our turnovers, which we thought would be a key, but they're big and strong and they really beat us on the boards. They just wore us down the last 10, 12 minutes. They got a lot of easy baskets.

We will eventually see the negative impact of rising rates -- we can't dodge that bullet -- but doesn't usually happen at the beginning of the cycle. I'm not sure we will continue to see the market beating expectations by these margins, but I don't see the market collapsing in the next month or so.