Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third game. I saw positives throughout the match. Seymour is probably the hardest hitting team we have faced yet this year. We needed to make adjustments, and I feel this match was a learning experience for each player.

Bear Bryant

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

Overall it was good to get outside the last two days, even though it was cold. To get out here and work out a lot of the kinks before we kick off the conference season on Tuesday, I think it will make a big difference.

Overall it was a good weekend, with several more Big East qualifiers and with two more weeks of preparation, I think we will be ready for our first ever Big East indoor conference championships.

Overall, it was a good meet. We're very optimistic. We have a much better team than last year. A top-three finish at the conference meet is the goal.

Overall, the team has been working well. I am happy picking up two wins in the conference this week.

Our young team has worked hard, and it showed in the opening game. This was a great conference win for us.

Our young guys don't even know what they're getting into with the conference schedule. With the more physical players we'll see now, we could get overpowered inside.

The past two games have been a huge confidence boost. After we lost two games on the road, we had a sense of urgency because we knew the conference is going to get tougher and tougher as we go.

You look at the conference results last year, and that's where we deserve to be. Those teams don't know us.

Today our season starts over. Hit your reset button, it's 0-0. No matter what you do up to this point, conference is all that matters.

Tim Hunt

I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.

We'd like to win these two games, but the conference games on Saturday and Sunday are more important for us.

We'd like to have been in the championship game, but we won two out of three and at times we played good basketball. We were disappointed but hopefully this gives us some momentum for next week's conference play.

We'd like to have a couple of those early ones back. We took our lumps early to figure out some things, but we're right where we want to be at the start of the conference season.

We were kind of spotty in our last game; fortunately a few of the guys stepped up. It's just another two good games to help prepare us for our conference season.

We were kind of irritated when we heard everyone saying how wide open this tournament was. We were the most consistent team all year. We?d only lost three games and two were to these guys in overtime. We wanted to win this ?wide-open? conference tournament.

We definitely want to play in the postseason. Postseason is very important for this young team. Even the conference tournament is important for us to get them that experience.

Tubby Smith

We don't have room for any mistakes right now. We've already dropped two conference games at home, so we've got to play with a real sense of urgency. We need intensity on every possession.

We are really a good team, and I have no doubt we will work through these struggles and be ready for conference play. I love these kids. They have a lot of heart. They just have to learn that when they step onto the field, they have to be focused and ready to play.

Dana Perino

We are reaching out frequently and regularly in a variety of ways, including conference calls, small group meetings and personal meetings to a variety of groups.

We are playing better now and we just need to keep improving on it. You want to be peaking at the end of the season. We're definitely not happy going into conference 3-8, but there's nothing we can do about that now. It's a new season, we're 0-0, we just have to focus on conference now and learn from the preseason.

The political process in the Congo is due to end with the swearing in of a president on 30 June. The conference will be held after this.

We're colliding awfully early. I don't think it will decide the conference championship, but it will definitely set the tone the rest of the way.

Kamala Harris

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

The only team you can guarantee is going to miss the playoffs in the Western Conference is Phoenix. Somebody's going to be this year's Calgary and we think it could be Nashville.

We have had a tough schedule these first twelve games, with the level of play we've seen. That's only going to help us get better and be better players come conference time.

We have had a rough road recently. We are now 5-2 in the conference and have our 11th win. This will be our 20th year with a winning record so we are proud of that. The kids have worked hard and I think this five game stretch is going to help us in the long run.

We have a much tougher schedule this year than in years past. I have focused on playing as many ranked teams as possible. Our conference schools have become much more competitive this year. We do not have any walkover matches.

We have two games left, but we want to keep on winning. We don't want to go into the conference and region tournaments on a downfall.

We have to understand that what we did in preseason meant nothing in conference and what we did in conference is not going to determine the outcome of this game. Everybody is even keel. We've got to play ourselves into the regional tournament and anything can happen.

We played one of the top teams in the conference. They're very skillful. They have the returning conference Player of the Year (Cornelius) and three other all-conference players.

We can still win our conference if we win out, but it's going to be tough.