Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our team has an interesting mix with five upper classmen, five freshmen and an eighth grader.

Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the first half. We?re just too young to play this kind of game at this point in the season. I wish it was the eighth game.

That doesn't mean that if the weather was nice, we would have had a good economy. We might have been eighth instead of ninth.

I think eighth grade is really the earliest. You can tell there's a special kid there at that young of an age.

I rushed into it and couldn't get things together. I wasn't settled down. I'm not happy (with eighth place). I wanted to get higher.

Pat Riley

I was confident. I haven't had to use my legs since the eighth grade. I just want to go to states and place.

E. B. White

Part of it is because our volunteers are awesome. They are very reliable. Everything went smoothly. Every volunteer who said they were going to come did. This is our eighth time and we have learned a lot.

Mark Shapiro

Our offense got going after he moved to third. We moved him from ninth to eighth to sixth to third, which is a rough responsibility for a player in his first year in the big leagues, and he hasn't blinked.

I think the guys knew it was sort of a fluke. We addressed it. I told them that in my career, I don't think we'd given up an eight-run lead in the eighth inning. They had a good, even keel today and played well.

I thought he could win but he finished eighth so I wasn't in a hurry to come back.

That's two in a row on the road after 16 straight losses. This season is not over until after game 82. That eighth spot is anybody's and is up for grabs now.

She's just tremendous the last eighth of a mile. She's got such a big kick.

somebody good enough to get the outs in the seventh and eighth innings. We had Gene Nelson and Rick Honeycutt.

Mariano Rivera

Most of the time, he saved the games. The job that he did in the eighth inning was a tough job. To me, he was solid.

Me and Luke have been rivals since the eighth grade.

Brad Richards

We've never been the eighth seed, obviously. It's going to be different. We're not going to worry about what happened two years ago. We're just going to worry about our team now.

Michael Bruce

I got out of Grade school. I was in the Eighth Grade and I started playing guitar. I was into folk singing - Peter, Paul & Mary - until I heard the Beatles.

We knew they were going to make a run at us. You hold a team that's ranked eighth in the state to 37 points in the game, that's a hell of a job defensively.

It's just one of those things. Maybe we need to just get out there and relax and not worry about whether it's the first inning or the eighth inning.

Christian Horner

After the penalty of having to go out to qualify first and second here, to finish the weekend in seventh and eighth is pretty good,

Allison Robertson

It's very collaborative. We like to get everybody's opinion, just like we did we were in eighth grade. It's more fun that way. There's no ego. We like to split everything up evenly in everything we do.

For her to ski eighth is really overachieving for her. What she did was phenomenal.

I'm real excited for next year. We have some eighth grade potential. They are going to push kids right away.

Steve Simmons

They'll be looking to make up for last year's game. We're ranked eighth in the Midwest and this weekend is a tremendous opportunity to make an impression regionally and nationally.

No, it's his feet. He's always had the skills, he hasn't always been as big. But when I first saw him as an eighth grader, his feet could move. A lot of times, eighth graders stumble around. But he moved.

Joe Girardi

The walks in the eighth killed us. Pierre gets on, but his run doesn't mean anything. We walked the next two guys. That puts us in a tough situation. J.J. gets the ground ball. I thought we tried to do too much instead of just getting the one out. We tried to get two outs -- get one out.

Ricky Davis

They are in the eighth spot right now so this was a tough loss and we missed an opportunity.

Mariano Rivera

They called me in the eighth to be ready, ... I said, 'I'm ready.'

Finishing eighth is remarkable for this team. We had a lot of ups and downs, but to pull it together and do as well as we did in the tournament was unexpected. When we hit adversity, we sometimes drifted. In Saturday's game with Whatcom, we surged through that and got a win to get to the last day, which was our goal.

Finishing eighth at the Open as a team is awesome.

This was a big win for us. When you look back at the schedule it will just look like our fifth win in a row, but it took us (until) the last week of the season last year to get that eighth win. It shows the strides we've made as a team.

Maurice Cheeks

We're out of the eighth spot, we're not out of the hunt. It's how you respond.

Maurice Cheeks

We're not out of the hunt, we're out of the eighth spot and that's a difference. I think we'll come out ready to play on Friday night.