Famous Quotes & Sayings

We wanted him to rely on other guys. We never said that we wanted to get physical with him. We just wanted other players to take the shots. We didn't want him to beat us.

We were thinking that they beat us at our place, so let's beat them at their place.

We were the underdog here tonight, but in our eyes, we knew we could beat them. They talked about them all the way in the paper. There was nothing in the paper about us. It was like they forgot about us.

What I wanted from them is what I got. I wanted the effort to win and if you give the effort, that?s all you can do. No one expected a team that?s 9-11 to come out and beat a team that?s 19-1. Nobody. If we could have done just a little bit better job in execution and had some more continuity on the offensive end, I thought we could have played with them.

What I've been telling my teammates is let's go out and win. If we just go and lay down and get beat the first round, the (NCAA) Selection Committee is going to say, 'I told you. They can't even win a game in the NIT. What makes you think they deserved to be in the (NCAA) Tournament?' So I just told them let's go out and play hard and win it, just to prove everybody wrong.

We focused on the two of them, and we challenged the other players to beat us. And, their role players had trouble doing that.

We focused on that all week, we knew he was back this year. We made it a point to not let that guy beat us.

We finished tonight and I had talked about how we didn't finish in the other two games. We felt they didn't beat us, but it was more that we lost the games.

Paul Kelly

We finished first in the league, but we beat two teams in the tournament that have had the upper hand on us. We lost the last two to Bethlehem, and Clifton Park beat us last week.

We got a nice boost from Nate in the first quarter. We got beat on some second-chance shots in the first half, but we did a better job of not having that happen in the second half.

We got a little pay back, as they beat us by seven points in our gym. We came out of the blocks well, something that we haven't been doing, and shot well early. We made our free throws down the stretch and played good defense all game.

We go on runs, we get it within reach, and then we make a turnover or miss a box out, get beat in transition. That's what we do.

We gave them all the credit in the world. We got our butts kicked. It wasn't even a game. We know to beat them we have to play our best game, no question about it. They are an exceptional team.

Bobby Robson

We gathered great experience in the Champions League last season and you cannot beat experience in whatever you do,

We have a 3- and a 4-year-old who will race each other in Tiny Tots. But they could beat quite a few adults.

We had a game plan to pack it in and make them beat us from the outside, and we pretty much stuck to it. But for about five minutes there (in the second quarter), we forgot what to do.

We want to offer developers a carrot rather than beat them with a stick.

We want to finally beat a top team -- that would give us a boost. We will now concentrate fully on the match. Everything else is secondary.

Antoine Walker

We want to even this thing up 2-2. It's more or less psychological for people that don't believe that we can beat them in a seven-game series.

We were one and done. We missed outside shots and we weren't able to get offensive rebounds. Their size was a factor. They beat us on the boards.

We weren't very good tonight. That's a fact. But I'm not sure that even if we were good tonight it would have been good enough to beat Bradley the way they played tonight.

Steve Sullivan

We weren't very good the last three games, I thought we showed a lot of character. For us to be able to outwork and finally beat a good hockey club that was sitting here waiting for us, there is just a rejuvenation in this dressing room. Now we're ready to keep going.

We just feel like we can beat anybody.

We knew if we wanted to be the state champion, we had to beat Bellevue West. If you're going to get the title, you want to beat the title-holder.

We knew Harrisburg liked to play exactly like us. The key was we had to beat their press. And we knew they liked to go to the hole, so we had to defend well. And we had to rebound. We did those three things.

We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready.

We knew coming in that their goalie is one of the top in the state, so it was going to take a couple of spectacular shots to beat her. And Meg's goal was spectacular.

We knew coming in it would probably be awfully tough to come in here and beat them.

Henry Clay

We kind of saw it coming because it's an emotional night but at the same time we did beat them before, ... As a team we just hung in there. They scared us but we knew it would come.

We just knocked off Essex and they were ranked number one and now this team (So. Burlington) is fourth in the league and we just beat them.

Gerry Fleming

We just kept things out of the middle. We kept our feet moving instead of looking to make a play. When we got it inside the offensive zone, we really simplified things. Let's get the puck to the net. They're a good defensive team. In order to beat them, you're going to have to get people and pucks to the net.

We just kept coming up empty and empty and empty. You can't beat good teams when you shoot 25 percent. To beat a great team like Memphis, you have to shoot at least 40 (percent) and play great defense.

Through the first round of league, I'd say Scappoose is the team to beat in the league.