Famous Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't about winning the city or winning the states. That was nice, but I wanted to win the whole thing. That team wasn't better than us. If we played them a million more times we'd beat them every time. We just let go of it.

It was not meant for me to be the world champion. If I was going to get beat, I was going to beat on the ground, and that's what happened - I got beat on the ground. I'm either the world champion, or I'm nothing, and I'm nothing. This will be all over, and I will move on.

It was a good game. When you beat a team like McDowell, one of the best-coached teams around, you feel good about that.

It was a good game. They beat us fair and square.

It was a good game for us heading into next week. Our starters all got 24, 25 minutes of good work in. But we also know that now it is tournament time and we're not going to continue to beat people by 30 or 40 points.

I wanted to beat them pretty bad. It was a pretty tense game with all the fans.

I've got to hand it to Franklin. They came out with a great game plan. We're just lucky to come out of here with a win. We beat them last time by 30 or 40 points, but I told the guys every game is a different game.

Gary Sheffield

I've hit third all my life. But I'm hitting fourth for the Yankees. You can't beat that.

I've heard that they might be able to beat the Oakland Raiders. They're a great team. There's no getting around that.

Steven Wright

I've known Ian for a while. It's not about beating the best pitcher. He's still my buddy. I'll probably hang out with him tonight. It's just another game to me.

I've known her since she was about 10 years old. I knew she had a real competitive spirit. She's always been that way. She's got a great inner drive and liked beating the boys.

Andrew Johnson

I've learned how to deal with some things (this year). I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Hasim Rahman

I've been working and working for this fight. This is the end of the road for me if I can't beat Klitschko. If that happens, I'll congratulate the man and move on to another chapter in my life.

It was fun to beat the cross-border rival. It was a great change to play everyone.

It was fun because we were all doing well, not necessarily because we were beating somebody that bad.

It was fun beating them. They were surprised we made such a drastic improvement.

Sarah Taylor

It was fun and it was crowded, but being out in a relay, I was inspired to beat the other people that had the relay tag.

It was frustrating. I was beating myself up for fouling out again.

Ryan Miller

It was flattering to hear them. Our fans are great. It just feels really good. I just want to beat the Flyers no matter what. I'm not going to pick out the other goaltender and key on him.

John Madden

It was crucial. It's something you have to do during the regular season to maintain your confidence. If you haven't beaten a team and you have to play them in the playoffs, it weighs on your mind.

LeBron James

It was exciting. We did a great job. Yao (Ming) is very talented and it's tough to beat this team. To get a win on their court is even better.

It was exciting for the kids. But it was disappointing not to win. We really should have beaten that team.

It was always one of the biggest rivalry games of the year. I always bragged to coach Gerber that I didn't think we lost to him when I was there. But we did look it up, and Garden Plain did beat Cheney one time.

Bill Russell

It was down to my last guy. Steve Marsh beat his man by a stroke.

Jeff Adrien

It was real hard to just get it going. We tried to get on the glass and we kind of got beat up down there. Next time we have to come out tougher and we're really going to be ready. ... We're going to be hungry. We're not going to let that happen again, especially to them.

It was real frustrating seeing my team get beat and me not being on the court with them. It was a lot of motivation.

It was quite a monumental win for our seniors, because they never had beaten Glades Day.

It was SAT day, so I know for certain (Mountain View) held out one of their top runners, but if she were to finish where she normally does, we still would have beaten them by a few points.

It was real tough to watch. They were just a lot better than us that night. I had seen our best, and that wasn't it. It was real tough to sit there and watch it, too, because they physically beat us up. They had guys running our guys all over the place.

It was really tough to play four games in four nights and also trying to get prepared for a team that ran so many sets. Their coach has a great offensive mind. We beat a very good team.

Dave Wannstedt

It was really in my mind a turning point, ... We needed to beat a good opponent. We were more confident than we had been in the past.

Ryan Fitzpatrick

It was really getting boring having to beat them every year.

It was a very important win for us, because we were in a three way tie for third place in the section and one loss could put us out of a play off position. We beat a team we know we should have beat before, being able to call revenge will boost and rebuild our confidence for all the other games we know we should have won and didn't.