Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Kinsley

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Their times were fabulous. The only team the guys didn't beat was Grand Junction, which is a 5A school.

Their quarterback will also run. He'll roll out like he going to pass, but it is a designed run. He can hurt you with his running. He'll throw just enough to keep you honest. But I don't think they are going to try and beat us by throwing the football.

Steve Sampson

Their decision to go after Landon early in the game resulted in two yellow cards. This is a guy who takes a lot of beating when he plays for the Galaxy. I think quality players have to be protected - and tonight, he was protected. That made the difference in the game.

The Islamic world took a real beating because of what the clerics did in northern Nigeria, ... Islamic countries should be praised for doing so much to bring the spread of polio back under control.

Their weak-side help had a lot to do with that. We'd beat the first defender, but the secondary defense was outstanding.

Their two scores were just older kids making a play. Their seniors beat our freshmen.

The fact that we're playing at home doesn't really give us that much confidence because they went on the road twice and beat two great teams. They're a six seed, but they're not playing like a six seed. They beat a three and a one seed, so they're playing like a great team.

The feeling in this thing is that when we play our game and we are on top of our game we can beat anybody. And that's a good feeling to have.

The field has taken a beating in the last week or more. The way we've been getting the weather, there have been enough breaks in between. The big thing is keeping the infield level. It's taken some work but the outfield is not necessarily in prime playing condition.

The consensus going into the quarter was that earnings were going to (rise) somewhere north of 10 percent and they have handily beat expectations.

I'm not saying he can't beat a lot of guys. But I'm worried about Tommy in 10 years, ... As his friend I'm advising him not to fight. As commissioner I will not overrule his return if a doctor says he's fit to box.

I'm not really sure our guys were focused that much on Edwardsville beating us earlier. I think they were actually more motivated to repeat as champions.

I'm not saying we are going to go to Buffalo and beat up on them. But we have to go out there and put a good drive together to start the game and just build from there.

Ben Howland

I'm glad we got that win. That's a tough, hard-nosed team that came in determined to beat us on our home court. We were fortunate to come away with a victory.

I'm glad we beat a really good team tonight. We really needed this.

I'm glad they set it up just like that. And knowing that if we do what we need to do, we can win it all. So that's a good thing. When you play a team like Rutgers, who is obviously good, if we can beat them on their home floor it will say something about us.

Rick Barnes

I'm glad they said something like that. I'll be using that for the next few years. I guess we wanted it more during the regular season since we beat them and came into the tournament as the No. 1 seed. I don't doubt my players' desire one bit.

I'm getting real fed up with it. If you go out and lose, hey, you got beat by the best wrestler in the state. It seems to me like you should put your kid out there and see what it's like. Maybe you pick up a thing or two from this kid.

I'm getting beat by the same pitch. It's my slider, ... It used to be my bread and butter. It hasn't come around like I thought it was going to. To come to this level, they make you realize if it's good or not, and right now it's not. All my hits are off that.

Gary Payton

I'm going to try to help Jason as much as possible. He has never had a guy like me to guide him. When I come into camp, I'm going to try to help him. I'm not going to try to beat him up or beat him down.

The first thing we have to do is prioritize Florida State. I'm not even thinking about Miami or who's even on Sunday. I think we learned from the N.C. State match that we need to take it one at a time. The first part of preparing for this weekend is respecting Florida State and their desire to come here and beat us.

The first thing we have to do is forget about our last game, just understand they beat us and get back after it and get some confidence back. We need to come out like we did on Friday and Saturday and that's all we can really do.

The first thing was that we had to win our first road game ever at Mississippi State. This has all been the process of little steps where we find a way to work things out. Step 2 was beating Vanderbilt, a Top 20 team.

Kelvin Sampson

The first thing I want to do is congratulate Jim Wooldridge and his players. They won at Kansas, they were good enough to beat Texas and they were good enough to beat Oklahoma.

The first two times we beat Reed this year, I still don't know how we did it.

The first time she faced Van last year she was extremely nervous and didn't do too well. This time she was solid as a rock and came close to beating her.

Chris Collins

The first thing I heard the day I got hired, I asked, 'So, what's our tradition?' ... They said, 'Well, you better beat North Myrtle Beach.' So I've been stressing about this one a little bit. We had some problems in the first half, but our kids played hard and refused to lose.

The first time I beat him, but I knew in my heart that I was so much better than he was. I should have done so much more in that first match.

(The coaches) told the kids if we could play our best ball, we could beat them. The girls believed that and did it.

The chance of the government beating the two injunctions next week are much better and so the likelihood of privatization before the year-end is improving.

The catches were all pretty tough chances, but you've got to hang on to those if you want to beat a quality side like Australia.

Andre Agassi

The challenge is real simple. Most people have weaknesses and most people only have one great shot. Federer doesn't have weaknesses and has a few great shots. So that equates to a problem. You hit it in that corner and that corner and that corner and that corner, over and over again, and you beat him. But you got to do it.