Famous Quotes & Sayings

We just want to go out there and have fun, put some effort into it and have some fun with the guys and see what happens.

We just wanted to stick to our systems and keep a high level of effort in the game. I thought the system part was kind of okay, our effort was kind of okay, but I thought there were three or four players whose stock went up tonight.

We just wanted to show 12,000 people what we were all about. That's hard work and second effort and just a lot of energy out there.

We just started outworking them. We knew that the team that put out the most effort would win the game. We figured it might as well be us.

We just showed up and that was about it. This team isn't good enough to just throw their gloves on the field and win. It was our worst effort of the year.

We just had a great team effort all the way around. I'm really proud of the kids.

We just had a good team effort tonight. That's the number one seed, we're in the top five. It should be that kind of game.

Vince Carter

We weren't pleased with our first half last game. We felt if we played better in the first half we could win tonight. It was all about effort and energy.

Lloyd Carr

We lost a football game, but I think we found a defense. I liked the way we played, from a standpoint of effort and aggressiveness. I thought we were very physical. I thought we took the fight to Notre Dame. They're a very talented offensive football team. (But) there's nothing good about losing. Nothing.

We will spare no effort to reduce it-hopefully to the point of no or very few cases.

We went cold. I thought the effort was there. We didn't panic at half, we just had to keep at it and hope we could turn things around.

We showed an excellent effort to make a great comeback.

We do not intend to let up any, at all, in what we are doing in our efforts to move up to the next level, ... We are going to work hard to improve.

We felt as if we should have won it last year. This year, I don't think we were the favorite because we knew the kind of team CM had. They have some big guns in that lineup and I knew it would take a good effort from us and we got it from all 14 kids.

Brian Rolston

We didn't get our two points. 'A' for effort doesn't mean a whole lot if you don't get the win.

We had a big win yesterday, but we know it's going to take a lot of effort to secure that win next session.

Ben Shahn

I felt very strongly the whole social impact of that depression, you know, and I felt very strongly about the efforts that this Resettlement Administration was trying to accomplish; resettling people, helping them, and so on.

Yet they also promised to implement specific measures after sincerely making efforts on unresolved issues--such as the abduction issue.

Brenden Morrow

We've had a lot of pressure on us. We've not met expectations. But now we're getting some effort back. We weren't getting any breaks, but now we are.

We'll have to have better effort than we had tonight. I know we will.

We're putting every ounce of effort into getting these power lines back up and running. We're doing everything we can to help Sierra Pacific.

We all kind of put in that extra effort to make sure the job gets done. It's getting progressively harder.

Steve Francis

Tonight we were just able to finish things off late in the game. They made their run and I thought we responded well. Malik Rose did a great job stepping up and hitting big shots. I thought it was a total team effort that helped us win the game.

Tonight's win was an all-together great effort from our girls. We really had players step up and contribute.

Tonight's a tough one with all that anticipation. It's kind of hard to fall asleep, and you get a little jittery, but I guess we are all mature enough now and have been through this enough. Hopefully, we will be able to relax, get off our legs and take those last final steps to have 100 percent effort (today).

David Blunkett

There is always an effort to link the public and the private.

We gotta give a better effort than we did last time.

Hedo Turkoglu

We hit really big shots, I did, Pat did, everybody did. We have to take the winning streak further. It's really big for us to have a team effort like we did tonight.

We hustled well, got a lot of steals and a lot of opportunities at the basket. I was pleased with our effort. We had some mental lapses but overall, effort and execution, they did fine.

We are very appreciative of our bankers' efforts to get this waiver in place.

We are used to getting open without a whole lot of effort in our league (the Northern Lakes League). Those guys switch screens hard and they jump out on you. You've got to be that much better execution-wise.

We're going to be in a recovery effort for a good long time. But the state is not facing the same problems that the state of Louisiana and Mississippi are experiencing.

US efforts between now and March may have to be low profile, but Washington need not be dormant.