Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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 a very courageous effort. The season is starting to take its toll. Molly is on ice in two spots, Hamilton has been beaten up a little, and Barker has missed a couple practices. It was a very, very gutsy performance.

It was important for us to finish in the top four to get two home games. We had a taste of reaching the final four last year before we were beaten by Sanborn (eventual 2004 champions) so its not completely new territory for us. But before we can talk about that, we have some work to do.

It's a confidence thing that we've beaten Warroad this year. We feel that, if we play the way we're capable, we can do it again.

Casey Miller

It's a big rivalry. We haven't beaten them in a long time, and to beat them twice in one year is awesome. I don't even remember the last time we've done that.

Tim Henman

It's a good win. He's a top-20 player and I've beaten him twice this year. Hopefully I can keep building on this.

Maria Sharapova

It's going to be a very big test because I haven't beaten her yet. I've done pretty well in the past few weeks. It's not always easy coming back from a Wimbledon win, and now I'm going to play a top seed on a hard court. I'm very much looking forward to it.

It's going to be a tough day (today), no question. Two of the singles (players) have beaten the guys they're playing before, so we're sitting pretty good there. In the doubles, either one of those could go either way. What happened before doesn't count.

It's going to be very tough for me. I've never beaten her and she's full of confidence as this is her second final in two weeks. I'm going to have to play my best tennis for sure.

It's going to be tough, there's no question. It's good going into the game that we've beaten them, but we have to play much better than we did (against La Salle) to beat UE.

It's been a lot of blood, sweat and tears to this point. It's a great, great way to end the season and I've said it before, this is the way these three should go out. They deserve every recognition and everything that's come to them because they've worked hard, been great leaders and we've beaten some very good teams to get to this point.

It's a very high-pressure job, and while he's beaten the cancer well and truly now, there's still some ongoing treatments that take some time and I'm sure that was part of John's thinking.

It's been a difficult stretch for us. We're young, we've been beaten around, and we've played 10 of our first 12 games on the road.

It's been a constant struggle. We started so bad. We were shut out so many times. We got beaten up early. You see this team in the World Series and say, 'How did it happen?' But here we are.

It's been a long time since we've been beaten like this. I wouldn't say we competed with Winterset tonight. Getting hammered at home like this is the disappointing thing.

It's great. I haven't beaten Haven since I was in junior high, so this was a really good win.

It's off the beaten path for tourists. It takes a little bit of promotion to get people to come up here.

Joseph Allen

It's off the beaten path, and that's part of the problem.

It's the first time we've ever beaten them since I can remember. It was nice and it's a great win for us. The kids will remember it for a long time. They (Canton) were 11-0 in dual meets last year. They swam a good lineup, but I think they were a little shocked.

It's the first time we've been beaten this year and I hope it opened our eyes a little bit. We were really disappointed in the meet overall but hopefully this is a wake-up call with the conference meet not too far off.

It's the first time we've beaten Hotchkiss in my lifetime. We are hot right now. There's no magic wand. These kids are talented, and they've started to believe.

Darryl Sutter

In the end, they just had more legs than we did. We were beaten by a great team. I thought our guys played great.

I really thought our match was like the championship because I believe we would have beaten Memphis. Our season could have been a lot better. I lost five starters from last year, two of them to injury. Not having Danny Caldwell (who broke his hand in the league meet) really hurt us last night. It's kind of discouraging.

Paul Walker

I'm very happy with how they played. They played a good team. We were beaten by a better team.

In the past two years, sides beaten by 100 points or more - 70 per cent have won the next week. It doesn't mean it happens automatically, but people come out pretty determined.

In the past, they have beaten earnings estimates somewhat spectacularly.

In the case of the tech sector, I think they've been so beaten up that I don't think there's much more negative news that can hurt it.

If you were to buy those industries that in the prior 12 months had beaten the S&P 500, if you had purchased those, held them for another 12 months, you indeed over the past 10 years would have beaten the market seven of those 10 times.

I guess this is big. People have been telling me it's big. It's only the fourth time we've beaten them here.

I think our chances of making the tournament are pretty good, considering two of three teams we play we've already beaten this season.