Famous Quotes & Sayings

West is one heck of a team. We'll work to get better for the conference meet.

We're in a position we haven't been in a lot since we've been at Searcy. This time of year, we're usually trying to finish the conference strong and find out where we'll be sitting for the playoffs. This year it didn't happen like that, but these guys will continue to battle. This team has guys with high character.

We're in a good position. We control our own destiny, but with the conference being the way it is, we just have to take one game at a time. We've yet to play some good teams like Northwestern and Ipswich.

We started out round two (in conference play) on a good note. The girls played well tonight.

When you walk around the conference hall here, delegates are saying there are lots of issues on the agenda, but there's only one real problem, and that's the United States.

When you've got guys that are willing to sacrifice individual talent and put it together for the team, you're going to have many, many victories. That's showing as we're on our way to a big one Wednesday and hopefully a conference championship.

Elton Brand

There is no question that series would be exciting to play. Not only for the Western Conference finals implications but also for the rivalry.

We'd like to do it (tonight), because Lourdes is our only conference loss. We'd like to get back at them.

We're going to think about the result of this match too much, because a lot of people were happy with the way they played. We're excited to go out there on Saturday and finish the conference season off on a positive note.

Jeff Tedford

We're going to play in conference games that are going to be close, and those type of things will come back and haunt you. Special teams had a letdown tonight and we didn't play to our potential.

We're going to need those guys when it comes to conference time.

We're going to focus on everyone staying healthy. Our goal is to take everyone we can to the conference meet.

Wes Moore

What they've done in the Southern Conference the last four years has been amazing. If they had gone out any other way, it would have crushed me and probably hurt them, too. They deserved to go out this way.

Woody Harrelson

When we did the press conference in the range there was this interesting-looking guy who asked, 'So, you played a mass murderer, a pornographer and now a lawyer -- is there any depth to which you will not sink in your roles?' I thought it was really funny, as if the most extreme of them was a lawyer,

John Boehner

When we get to the conference with the Senate, we'll consider it, but the Senate language, I think, is irresponsible,

Jeff Schweitzer

We're still playing for a share of the conference championship on Friday and that (a conference title) was our goal from the get-go.

We're looking forward to getting into conference now.

We've got conference games right around the corner and still need to work on our defense. If we do that and continue to work hard, we will be OK.

What makes him a vet is he's been playing since he was a freshman, ... He has experience under his belt. He's been in this conference for two years, and he knows who the opponent's threat is and what they are going to do. It's good to have him back there. He's real helpful. He guides us in all directions ? picks us up when we are down and gives us praise whenever we're doing good.

We're going to have to make some improvements on the men's side. We need to go back to work and pick up the intensity. As the season goes on we need to keep working hard to make a better impression at the conference championships.

We're just ready to see the teams in our conference for a change.

We're just looking to the conference tournament. If we had won just one more of those (SLC) games, we could be up there tied for the seventh or eighth spot.

We're just looking to go out and finish conference strong, improving like we have been and hopefully finish out with six more wins before we start the conference tournament.

We're just looking to get back into the flow of things. We're hoping to sharpen our skills and execute our offense and defensive schemes. Getting to see other quality schools not in our conference is also going to help us out down the stretch.

Charles Tupper

Yes ; I say that delusion has been completely swept to the winds by the conference at Winnipeg.

We knew when we won conference we could go to state. And our defense was the difference.

We did not end the season on a positive note. But, as always, we have high expectations. We have a lot of guys returning (from a team that finished 19-7-1 and won the conference title for the fourth-consecutive year) and we have quite a few skill-players.

We've talked about it in the locker room. It would be nice, but the girls know the race is to 10 (wins) and then we start working our way up (in conference seeding) with every win after that.

Davin Joseph

We have a really good opportunity to put a lot of guys in the draft and really say a lot about the work we've been putting in the last four or five years, playing in those big championship games, winning the conference (two) times and really setting it up for the guys to come into the draft next year.

We haven't been to the conference semifinals in two years. A conference championship is still our goal, though.

This win kept us from being mathematically eliminated (for the conference title). If we had lost, we would have been eliminated with four losses. It was a huge win for seeding purposes for the playoffs.

We treat it more individually now so we can focus on the team come conference time. It's training now. We need to peak when it counts.

We're 5-2 in conference and 7-4 overall. This keeps us on the heels of Horicon there. Good senior leadership and a solid second half. We had seven turnovers and I think that was a key. We played solid basketball.