Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Tom

If I had it in a perfect world, I'd like 12 under par to win the tournament. I've always said if you can do that, you've challenged the players, but they're not playing the U.S. Open, either.

I challenged the team. I told them to go out and prove they're ready for tonight's game.

I challenged them in that timeout. We were looking for energy and leadership out of our team, and we wanted them to have fun.

I challenged them all week in practice. Our defense played really well. They made tackles, and we hadn't been doing that.

James Ellis

I challenged the kids to come out of halftime with a defensive stand. Holding them to two points in the third is what put away the game for us.

I challenged the guys to get off to a quick start. We needed quick strikes. That was our plan. Lakewood Ranch can be very dangerous.

I challenged some kids after last week (a 20-14 overtime win over Bloomsburg). I knew we had a lot more potential than we had showed so far. We had a great week of practice this week.

I challenged out team as a whole, and maybe we did a gut-check on our manhood so to speak. But basically, the majority of the halftime was spent with the defensive adjustments. And fortunately, the adjustments paid off for us.

I challenged our starters to set the tempo early. I thought our starters one through five stepped up and played well tonight.

I challenged our post guys that they had to step up.

Roy H. Williams

I challenged our guys at halftime because I saw no sweat on anybody's part. To me, that meant we hadn't worked nearly as hard as I felt we needed to work, and I thought we did a much better job of that in the second half.

I challenged our girls at the half. I told them we've worked too hard to let it slip out of our hands now.

I challenged our big guys to step up. I was glad to see Tony respond tonight.

Karl Hobbs

I challenged Omar, Mike (Hall) and Regis at halftime and told them: 'You haven't scored yet. You guys have got to step up.' And we responded the way we should at home. I was very proud of the way we finished the game.

I challenged him at halftime. Tyler played the second half the way I expected him to play the whole game, and the way I expect him to play the rest of these playoffs. He's too good not to be playing like that.

I challenged him a little bit. I told him he's been good, but he hasn't been special. The first thing he said to me after the game was, 'Coach, was I special tonight?' And I had to say yes.

I challenged him after yesterday. Yesterday, he did not come out ready to play and today he was dominating. He showed what he could do.

I challenged (Finch) at halftime ? I challenged all of them at halftime ? but I think I made her mad. Sometimes that's good.

Steve Alford

I challenged Bru as much as I have ever challenged him at halftime. A first team all-league choice doesn't come in at the half with no rebounds and no field goals. He responded.

I challenged Angelina during the third quarter. She went out and put up some big numbers in the second half and played well on the boards. She kinda took over the game.

I can say I challenged him, ... and he got me.

Melissa McCarthy

I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.

Amy Vanderbilt

And with fee demonstration funding, Glacier has been able to put a lot of funding into making it more accessible. The key element is that the physically challenged visitor wants to have the same experience the other visitors have. They don't want to be singled out.

Everything we do starts with our defense. I started to watch them stand around in the second quarter, so I just challenged them at halftime to dig deep down.

Sidney Crosby

was amazing. You don't have a choice but to play your best. They force you do do that because they're smart and that's the fun part for me, I'm being challenged to think faster and be creative.

We are going to continue to be challenged and we are looking forward to it. It's not easy. You want losing to be tough. But we've got to get over it when we go to Arkansas.

We are going to be challenged in 2006 to get supply and demand back in alignment. We've got our work cut out for us.

I've challenged the team to make sure in the future when we have leads that we don't let another team back in the game.

I've challenged them to be prepared to get better every night. They want respect, but they haven't done what they need to do to get it yet. It will be interesting to see how they respond to this loss.

Tim Thomas

We lost everything. That's a challenge. Not many of these kids have had a whole lot of varsity experience. I have a lot of seniors on this team and I've challenged them to continue what last year's team did.

Robert Webb

We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

We don't want people to think they have to put on pearls and furs to see opera. We want people to feel comfortable and have an engaging experience. We want them to be challenged by the material, but not by the economics. Opera is not just for the wealthy.

We challenged Timmy at halftime to really get in his face.