Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mel Stottlemyre

You've seen the way the club played at the end of the year. A lot of other clubs with similar problems that we had and that sort of thing, the individuals he has to deal with here, a lot of other teams would have collapsed. A lot of people think we collapsed; we just got beat by a better team.

You see some teams that are demoralized by injuries. We're one team ... that's confident we won't miss a beat whether it's the first-string guy or the second-string guy.

Matt Leinart

You saw that with Fresno State, who after us completely went downhill, and that's a really good football team. And that's a perfect example of really giving us their best shot and giving everything they can to beat USC, and then they don't have enough to beat (Louisiana) Tech and Nevada, teams that they should beat by 20, 30 points. That's why what we've done is so special.

You run each race in a different way. The first time we ran here, we felt he could go to the lead and still beat them, which he did. A lot of people, I think, thought that that's the way he had to run. But it's definitely not. You can do about anything you want with him. He's a pretty kind horse.

You take away the middle, you make people beat you from the outside, you'll take your chances. When she got it down in there and we gave her good position, she did something with it. Most times we didn't give her good position.

Jeremy Jones

You take away one thing, and they're going to beat you the other way. Every pass their quarterback threw was on the money.

You stop Tomlinson, you've got a chance to win. You don't, you can't beat them.

You're not going to beat that quality of an opponent by making those kind of mental mistakes that we made. At this stage of the year, it's very disappointing to see we would make some of those errors.

You're not going to beat Richard Pombo on the Endangered Species Act. But corruption is an issue that's on everybody's mind. If he's vulnerable on any issue, that would be it.

You're not going to beat a team that's doing that. And we can't let them do that.

Mike Carey

You're not going to beat a team like Rutgers shooting like that.

Aaron Rowand

You're not always going to get out of the gate going good. The best thing you can do is look forward to the next day. If you dwell on this, and let it beat you up, you're going to kill yourself.

Brandon Jones

You're going to get beat here and there. For the most part, I'm here to make plays. This is my first day out here. It's going to pick up in a little while.

Jeff Saturday

You never like to get beat at home. Splitting at each team's stadium is not the way to do it.

You never liked to get whopped on like that. They beat us pretty good. A new year is a new year: different people and different players.

You need to play a near-perfect game for a team like us to beat a team like St. Andrew's because they've got a lot of weapons.

You really can't enjoy it too long. As we learned in our season opener, if you are not mentally prepared, you can get beat on any given day.

Ned Yost

You really can't count on scoring five runs off of Roger Clemens, but tonight, luckily, we did. Any time you can beat him, you've done something.

You might put 100 bucks down that you'll beat your former team. It's nothing big. It's more for bragging rights than anything else.

Kelvin Sampson

You may upset one team, but you don't sneak up on the next one. This team is not Cinderella. This team is the security guard at the back door. They'll beat you up.

Vince Spadea

You need a weapon to beat him or you have to out-tough him. That's his game, being tough.

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You never want to lose. I don't know any guy out here who says, 'I want to go out and lose a game.' They beat us in the playoffs, and I look forward to getting out there and trying to get a win.

Stephen Ames

This is big. This is characterized as the fifth major. I beat the top players in the world.

Greg Olsen

We're looking forward to the challenge. (Pendleton is) a really great team and they beat a really great East Lake team (to reach the finals). It will take a close to perfect game to win.

Greg Murphy

We're looking forward to it. If you want to get some respect, you've got to play the best and beat the best. It's not usually what the doctor orders, but hey, we'll take it.

We're happy to win the tournament and happy to defend the title. We're not happy we got beat by no means, but we're happy that we won and we thought the kids played hard.

We are going to have to play great to beat them, we know that. We're really excited about it. We have great respect for them.

We've sat down and had some nice talks and set some definite goals with this group. We should be the team to beat in the conference.

We did it before, so we know we can do it again. And we already beat them at home, so I think we match up well with them. We might even get some mismatches because we're a little bigger.

There are some things I can get better at. That's what preseason is for. You're going to get beat once in a while. But the good players learn from their mistakes.

Mike Scioscia

The only way you can beat Oakland is with good pitching. You've got to match them pitch by pitch.

We decided not to press. We haven't been getting back on defense, so we went to our zone and made them try to beat us from outside.