Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's been an up-and-down season for us. Obviously to come in as the sixth seed and to win the first game, that improves your chances dramatically.

Tom Izzo

Do I feel as confident as last year? Last year, I really was confident. I'd say it like this. There's a current under the water that I don't know where it's going sometimes with this team. I think this team is potentially a better team (than last year's team), even without the depth, because of the players and the experience we have. Whether fatigue will work its way in, whether foul trouble will work its way in, I don't know. But I like the chances for us to play for a while.

Conditions favored us and not the holes they changed. Today was perfect conditions so we could get it out there. I played pretty decent. I didn't make too many mistakes. I had chances early on.

Mike Lieberthal

You think about that stuff every year, because there are only so many chances that you get in a career. You see guys who play 15 years and never get the chance to go to the playoffs. And you don't want to be one of those guys.

Sidney Crosby

That's part of my job, to create some chances for us. We did everything we could except win.

That's something we've been struggling in all year. We had a couple of chances to win it, but give them credit.

That's such a tough decision sometimes for guys with his abilities. You know if he doesn't go, his chances are excellent that he'll sign and get a chance to play pro ball. That's every kid's dream.

The turnovers gave us momentum and gave our offense more chances to score. We've been pretty good at forcing them this season.

Larry Robinson

It's just a matter of time before he gets hurt, if we keep giving up chances where he has to stand on his head all the time like that. Something's going to happen.

David Wright

It's just that we did have our chances and it would have been a good game to win.

This move should make the investigation easier and increase the chances of convictions.

Sven Eriksson

It's a great partnership. Michael Owen will score goals for them and it's great that he can play together with Shearer, ... He's a big target man, good header, and he will give Michael many chances to score. I'm sure about that.

I told him we could mount a defense of extreme emotional disturbance but I also told him his confession is extremely damning. His chances for acquittal are extremely remote.

Ozzie Guillen

This kid showed me he can do this job, do the role. I'll go by my gut feeling. Hermanson's opportunities will be there, but the way Jenks throws, I'm going to take a lot of chances with him.

They have many chances to respond before we place a lien. It's more of a last resort.

Jose Gonzalez

We are probably in better shape than we were last year, ... Our chances to go all the way are very good. Right now, I don't think there isn't a way we can't make it to the playoffs and hopefully the finals.

We stopped talking, stopped moving and that really hurt us in games three, four and five. We had chances but we didn't take advantage. I think we got too comfortable (after game two) and kind of let up a little bit.

Steve Cotterill

We were asleep. I think if I'm honest Norwich deserved all three points. We had our chances - it could have been 5-4 - but I think in the end 2-1 was probably a fair reflection.

Bobby Bowden

Our chances of winning the conference championship five years ago was 95 percent, ... Now it's down to 50-50.

Robert Ballard

Our chances for rain are diminishing and it looks like that will hold. We're sort of at the tail end, not out of the woods yet. But overall we're doing pretty good.

Our goalie kept us in it and we had a ton of chances in the third period. We just couldn't score.

Out of the gate, we just weren't playing very well. But once we outscored them in the second quarter, I felt pretty good about our chances as long as we played the defense I knew we could.

We had our chances ... we didn't give up.

We had our chances to win in the second half. We had more speed than they did but today it seemed they got the bounces.

Miikka Kiprusoff

We had our chances to win, but their goalie did a very good job in making the stops that he had to.

Doc Rivers

We had our chances tonight in the game that we never really played great, never had any offensive rhythm. We had one stretch where we did; other than that, we didn't and we just didn't come through.

Tony Banks

We had our chances late. We just couldn't seem to get our shots to fall for us.

We had our chances late in this game, but we wasted a couple of possessions with a lack of execution. We got a great shot at the end of the game. It just didn't work out for us.

Drew Brees

We had our chances in the second half to make it a one-possession game and we didn't do it.

We had our chances early but couldn't take advantage. Then you have those errors and it just magnifies everything.

Graeme Souness

We had our chances but didn't take them. We don't have enough goal-getters in our team,

Christo

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.

Joel Quenneville

We gave up some of the highest quality chances we've seen at any point all year. David kept us in the game and gave us a chance. The last couple periods, we were way better.