Famous Quotes & Sayings

They came out and took us out of our game and I congratulate them. They came into our place - and I thought we had a good chance of beating them - but they came out and played harder than us.

They are good at beating you off the dribble. They can get penetration and if you close on them they can kick it to someone else.

They were beating us to the edge. I can't name one team that's done that to us before. We'd have him contained and he'd just bounce away from our linebackers. I've never seen someone do that before. I saw that and said: That's a special back.

They were beating us on the boards in the first half. That's something we've been working on.

John Whisenant

They were beating us in ways that we normally beat other teams.

They weren't thinking about doing that. Even if they were, I wouldn't let them. We hadn't experienced that since beating Temple City in 2003. And only a couple of these guys were on that team. So this is a new experience, a new feeling.

They've wanted to play us for a couple years. Now they have a chance. We know that they're very capable of beating us. I think they're underrated; they should be in the top 10. We feel we have everything to gain.

They were talking about beating us by 30 points. But we have confidence in our game and, when we come to play, we can pretty much beat anybody.

They look real promising. But we're back to square one. I'm thrilled to coach them; they're a good group. And beating Golden Sierra, I was thrilled. I was really proud of my kids.

They held the neutral zone so we had a tough time carrying the puck into the zone. We had to dump it in, and they were anticipating that and beating us to the puck.

It's definitely special. Beating a ranked team, also a team that's been dominant in the Pac-10, would be huge.

Drew Stanton

It's huge. This is my biggest win at Michigan State with the magnitude of the rivalry and beating a Top 10 team on the road. This is a great momentum builder.

Tim Henman

It wasn't a good season for me in 2005 and I wanted to try to get off to a good start. And beating a guy of his caliber is what I was looking for.

Steven Wright

I've known Ian for a while. It's not about beating the best pitcher. He's still my buddy. I'll probably hang out with him tonight. It's just another game to me.

I've known her since she was about 10 years old. I knew she had a real competitive spirit. She's always been that way. She's got a great inner drive and liked beating the boys.

Ohio did us a favor by beating Illinois twice, now we have to take care of business. I could try to describe to somebody what it feels like to be in these kind of games, but until they're out there -- you just have to experience it. I don't want them too fired up, but I don't want them scared either.

Not being in conference hurt our program. When we started beating people we have gotten more respect, there's not too many big boys in the state that want to play us anymore.

It was a great team effort, our best effort of the year. I was impressed with the way we finished the game. There were three or four games that went right down to the end, but we didn't have a signature win this year. Beating the first-place team on the road is what we wanted to do.

It was a great trip for me and I was so proud of the way my team dominated in such tough competition. There weren't a lot of high-ranked California teams, but you never walk into that state and start beating up people.

It's always hard finding buyers. Nobody's beating a path to your door.

It's always good to start off conference play by beating a tough opponent. Everyone battled today and it was satisfying to see Romain come back from down a set. Now we have to get ready for another tough Mountain West match.

Brett Butler

It means everything. You don't want to go through your four years of high school with a certain team beating you four years in a row. You always want to show them you can come out on top in the end.

It's funny and it makes for good listening, especially beating up on your boss. Listeners love it.

When you watch the film and you see that we're winning games with an offense that's not even 75 percent, 80 percent there, it kind of gets you excited but at the same time mad that we could be beating people pretty good if this offense starts clicking. This offense could be a lot better than it is.

As you know we'll play the U.S. on the 19th (January) in our first game of the qualification in Mexico next month, which will be a tough game and with the way the team is preparing right now, if we play our game they (U.S.) are gonna have a hard time beating us.

At this stage all of the teams are capable of beating one another.

That's enough that you have a chance of beating the competition. If it had been a 20 percent improvement, you don't have enough to write home about.

Richard Petty

A rivalry doesn't happen in one or two races or in one year. It happens over a period of time to really get a rivalry going. We race together three or four races and get to beating on each other, that's not a rivalry, that's just a happening. You do that four or fives years, that's a rivalry.

The kids felt like the burden was lifted after not beating them for two or three years.

The knock on Ohio State and coach Cooper is that we couldn't win the big game. But I think we showed that would could by beating the No. 5 team, and doing it in their stadium. It might be bragging, but I think we have the best offensive line and the best defense in the country.

Paul Collingwood

The derby games are the best ones, ... I always remember beating them at St James' in 1999. It was pouring with rain and we were drenched but very, very happy. Kevin Phillips popped one in the top corner and we were singing 'Can we play you every week?' The Newcastle fans were fuming.

All of the guys are capable of beating me. If I wrestle up to my potential, I am capable of beating any opponent.

Mike Vogel

All of our stunts guys, too. Rich Taylor, David Pingry, Dave Castillo, Jimmy Roberts, our stunt coordinator, these guys all came off the pro circuit and at 28, 29 years old they're retired from the sport because their bodies had taken such a beating at that point I've gone out riding with those guys a lot since the film, and it's cool because you don't get that kind of training every day.