Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can't do things like get picked off when you need runs. You can't beat yourselves.

Rick Carlisle

You can't do that and beat a good team like that.

You can look back and say we beat them twice, and that's good. But, in reality, we beat them by a total of four points. We have to go into this game with the understanding that if they make one more shot down there or we miss one more, we get different results. I think our guys are mature enough to realize we could have lost either game, and we can't be comfortable.

We had a really nice start to the season. To play five matches in one week and win them all is pretty impressive. Then to play a tough team from South Jersey and beat them is even better.

We had a really good day. We beat two AAA teams and just lost to Grundy, who is ranked second in the state, by two matches. It was a great effort today by the kids.

Corey Parker

We wanted to come out here and play strong and play hard and we thought we were going to beat them easily. But it didn't work out that way. They played good and played hard, but a win is a win. It's not the way we would have liked, but we got the win.

David Hale

We wanted to beat (Lovett) because they beat us twice last year. I wanted to out there and kind of get revenge from last year.

Brenden Morrow

We wanted to beat LA. They've had our number this year. We had a good effort, but could not get the goals we needed.

We wanted to stop their run game. We changed a couple of coverages after the beginning, but you always want to see if you can go man with them, but Johnson beat us deep.

We wanted to run (tonight), that is our style, but clearly that is their game as well. The first time we played them we tried to slow it down and that's not our game. I told our girls that I'd rather risk being great with the risk of losing than playing it safe. I'm very proud of the effort. They got a lot of second shots and they beat us on the boards on both ends.

We've had their number the last two years, but you have different players on both teams. We'll have to be at the top of our game to beat them.

We've had a lot problems scoring. When we make shots, we're competitive and we can beat some pretty good people. When we don't make shots, it's like this.

We've had a lot of close meets this season. This is one of the teams that beat us last year, so we're very excited. Our team is driven by close competition.

Andy Roddick

We've had a lot of close matches, and I haven't come out on the better end of them, ... Which is a little rare for me. I want to get another crack at these guys. The only way I'm going to beat them is by playing them and putting myself in position enough times.

Dick Vermeil

We've had some very productive offensive games in Denver, ... but we've never been able to really slow them down enough to beat 'em. So we know what we have to do.

We've had some rough years in the past. And to have a chance to win five games and win the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy is pretty incredible. It would be the perfect ending to a good story. I'd like to beat Navy at least once in my career.

We've had some health problems throughout the year, and we got beat by them earlier, but we weren't healthy. We are now and we're hoping that'll make the difference.

We've had several guys sign already and several more will later on, but it all comes down to the mentality they bring to the park every day. One day they will be really good and look like nobody can beat them. Then, the next day they just don't.

We've got a chance. We've got to win this week and hope North can knock off Whitley. There's a lot of hope involved in there. When we played Whitley, we had chance to beat them. But we've still got a prayer.

We've got a bracket car hot rod and you can't beat that.

Herman Edwards

Well, I don't know if he struggles. I think at times if we don't clearly pick up the protection or if we can't beat the guy that is guarding us. ... Sometimes they got a good player guarding us and they make the play.

Well, I bet if they had their hand on a bible, they'll tell you they don't think we're really good because they beat us four out of seven, so I hope we throw out the regular season. We saw them play well, and they play well enough to win a championship, and that's really what counts. They're in the tournament.

We'll have to beat either one of those teams, and all the teams in between.

Jeremy Roenick

To not have the opportunity to go back one more time and try and win the gold is obviously, in my opinion, very disrespectful. They can beat me down and say I'm over the hill or say that I don't have it anymore, but to me, I know that I do.

We also did not play good team defense, and they beat us on the boards all night.

We already wanted to beat BYU for our seniors, but this loss just makes us even more frustrated. Now we're even more determined to make sure we beat BYU.

We all worked hard in camp, but when you get in games, it's a little different. We're not going to beat our guys up. We were all part of this deal. We'll watch tape tomorrow (Sunday) and see what happens. The big thing we told the guys was they had to stay together ... we're just going to roll our sleeves up and work. We have some growing pains right now.

We all thought we could beat them. Nobody really had faith in us or hope in us, so we kind of had a chip on shoulder a little bit. We just go over there and we just tried to leave it out on the court and just play great defense because it was going to determine the game.

Everybody (in Rolla) was cheering for us in the tournament finals but nobody really gave us a chance to beat that team. After that I was feeling very good about our chemistry. We were starting to get some point production from several people and that was going to be critical.

Everybody will beat up on one another. The team that stays away from the losing streak, takes care of their home court and gets a couple (wins) on the road will be successful. You'll qualify (for postseason play) with your resume, and there's a lot of time to do that.

Everyone wants to talk about that series two years ago. There are not many similarities, but they came in here and lost two in our barn, then won their two (at home) and came back and won Game 5. It's not out of the realm for us to beat that hockey club. But we need to win Game 3. We don't have to win the series in Game 3, we just have to try to win Game 3.

Every team needs one. It may come down to who does and who doesn't get one. You want to start hot in this district. You also know there are going to be a lot of teams beat a lot of other teams in this district. The talent level in this district is pretty impressive.

Michael Campbell

Every part of his game is very sound, very sharp. He's going to be tough to beat tomorrow. But I believe I've got the tools to beat him.