Famous Quotes & Sayings

Avery Johnson

We hope we're back, as like any Western Conference team that's going to playoffs. But we've got too much work to do.

We didn't want to be co-champs. Deep down, you want your first conference championship to be an outright championship. We controlled that by winning and Washington losing.

Charles Howard

We've seen each of the teams in our conference once this season. Now it's just a matter of playing more consistently the second time we face them.

The fact that I knew a few National Trail Conference players that went on to play there helped.

We've still got a lot of conference play to go. We've won five out of the last six, though, and the good thing is that eight of our last 12 conference games are at home. But this one? Yeah, this one's a big one for sure.

There are a lot of good teams in our conference where 100 percent of the players are international. The level of tennis in Houma and the Louisiana isn't high enough, so you have to go internationally.

Sue Johnson

There is no doubt in my mind that Ray would be the top player in the conference if she were healthy. But she?s giving us great minutes when she?s out there.

We play New Orleans, it's always a battle. I told our guys we can't look at the records in conference play...New Orleans has had a tough situation all year long and I am impressed with how hard they play.

We play in a league when sometimes five of the teams in our division are nationally ranked. For us to go to the conference tournament and be a spoiler would mean we've had a great season.

We play 18 conference games and it's such a long season. We learned a lot from that last season.

We probably should have had a few more in the win column. If you look at the second half of conference play, we were as strong as anyone.

We pretty much knew these three guys would be going regardless of what happened at the conference tournament. All three of them have legitimate shots at top three or four finishes.

We're learning, and as we recognize things, we'll get better. Our goal is always to be better by the end of the season and come conference tournament time.

We're not getting the job done and hopefully we can turn it around now that we are in the second half of our conference schedule.

We still have a good shot at getting into the conference tournament and that's the most important thing.

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.

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.

We worked hard with ESPN and Conference USA to find alternative dates for the Houston game but the final decision was to play the game on Sunday, Nov. 13,

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.

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.

Today's match was a good start to our conference play. The entire team played well as a whole today.

We needed some positives and confidence heading back into conference play after the break, and we got it tonight. The girls played really hard and I'm proud of them.

We need your support on March 1. Help us pack the house when we take on SFA for one of the top seeds in the conference tournament.

We need to win out in conference games for a home playoff game.

Our goals are to keep getting better, and when we get to that conference tournament we want to be playing well.