Famous Quotes & Sayings

We slowed the game down, got some stops and forced them to take long shots. We got some easy shots and just closed it out.

Through this whole process, we're going to work very closely with the Legislature.

Through these times, we've become close as a team. We try to make teams do things out of the ordinary. We tried to make them speed their game up.

We've been so frustratingly close that you just wonder when you're going to get a break. Maybe this is the year.

We've been so close so often. We finally earned one. Maybe we brightened it up for Sam Rayburn.

We try not to look at it (the standings). Each game we win it's closer and closer and hopefully we're going to continue the next few games to keep winning. Then we can think about the playoffs.

We tried to make it as close as we could to how it started in 1974.

We tried to feel each other out back in November, so this was a good measuring stick. The margin was closer the first time, but we played a much better game tonight and competed more. The score obviously won't show that.

Bob Schieffer

We talked about a thousand things, but we really talked about our parents. She is very close to her mother, and I was very close to my mother.

We just played sloppy toward the end in that last minute and turned it into a close game.

We just played four really close games and we stepped up defensively. I think we can surprise people.

We just needed to get closer to him. He had uncontested shots in the first half, and he's too good a player to do that.

We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.

We just made some mental errors at the end of the games. We had some close games that we couldn't quite finish at the end.

We just wanted to give ourselves a chance. What we're more concerned with is 'How do we get better.' We don't have a lot of experience. If you're even going to stay close with a team like this, you have to make shots.

We just turned our defense up and the shots went down for us. It's huge because we haven't had a close game in region yet. This is just what we need going into the state tournament.

Jim Haslett

We just had way too many penalties and turnovers. We just didn't have any opportunities to get close to them.

We just got stops, rebounds and hit free throws. We've been trying to prove something every game and I think we've proven to ourselves that we can defend, rebound and hit free throws and if we keep doing that we'll win these close games.

We just got it, and need to look at it closer before we respond.

We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Derrick Coleman

We were real frustrated. We knew we could have been right there with the top teams and we couldn't win the close games.

We were pretty close to making it (as a team to state). That makes it a good year.

We were pleased to be able to work closely with ICE on this case, ... This is just the latest example of the close working relationship between the Broward Sheriff's Office and federal law enforcement.

We were overall the better team. But we didn't put them away when we had the opportunity to. It turned out to be a game of survival when they closed the gap on a 15-point lead down to three.

What the goal of that financing was is something now coming under close scrutiny.

We lost close to $1.5 million yesterday and I'm sure we'll lose another $2 million at least today.

We lost a lot of close ones in the quarterfinals. But, we have nine wrestlers left and I'm pleased with that.

We lost a lot of close matches but it was a good season.

We lost a lot of close games and we hope to turn those close games into wins this year.

We lost a couple we should have won, but we won every close match.

We lost a couple of close ones to Perrysburg, including one that went to triple overtime. We jumped out to a big lead and I really liked the way we finished. Perrysburg was scoring about 71 points a game and we held them to 44.

We look to close out 2005 with a profitable fourth quarter.

We lost two very close matches. I thought we played well considering how much competition we've had.