Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Brantley did a great job keeping his composure. He read the defenses well and made some nice passes. As the game progressed, I thought we did a better job up the middle with our fullback trap and isolation plays.

(Bettis) is the kind of player that the game needs, the game thrives on, and the game grows around.

Everything leading up to this (start), it matters, ... But it doesn't when you're in the playoffs and it's win or go home. Nothing else matters. You don't want the last thing people remember you by (is) you lost the playoff game and your team got sent home.

Lofa Tatupu

Everything is structured. He gives you a number of things to prepare for the week. You go to the game knowing what to expect.

Even though we lost, we're confident. That game made us a better team.

Even though we lost the game big, it was good for us to upgrade the schedule.

Brian Urlacher

Even though you're not in the game, you still like to win and see your teammates do well, so it was a little frustrating. But at the same time, we got out of this game healthy with the people we need to get to the Super Bowl, and that's the number one goal we wanted to take into the playoffs.

Byron Scott

Even though we won the game we have a lot of things to learn from. Our athleticism and our quickness are the keys to our team and we need to use them to our advantage.

Even though we returned a lot of experience, it was still the first game of the year. The first game, you take a win however you can get it.

Even though Romeo might not say it, I'm sure Sunday is going to be different than any other game he's ever coached,

Andy Williams

Even the practice game you could see the level of the game was pretty intense.

Tom Izzo

Even the officials looked at me before the game and said this is special. It was a big win.

Even more importantly, the way we're playing as a team and winning these Big Ten games. Penn State was a huge game for us. Now we're going on the road. Looking back to Penn State, that was just a huge team win.

(Elder) has great chemistry. They play the game with great intelligence. We very much understand how well we have to play to win.

(Beverly) was looking for fastballs and Dillon had them guessing. He pitched a great game and you can't take anything away from him.

(Between quarters), we talked about how the game wasn't over. We needed to play every possession until the end.

Being the last game of the night, the guys will be really anxious. Hopefully for us, everyone will come out and play hard and with a lot of energy, and we'll get settled in early.

Bluefield made adjustments, and really took the game over in the second half.

Blow-outs are nothing. They just mean you?re better than the other team. Winning a game like shows how tough you are.

Everything worked out. This was a game we had to win if we want to go to the playoffs. We don?t want to be sitting at home.

Tucker took the game over. No matter who guarded him, he was tough for us to handle.

Ben Olsen

Yes, yes a lot. I was probably more nervous for this game than I have been in a long time. Nerves help sometimes, though.

You are not really supposed to do that, but after a game like that you want to.

Todd and I have already talked about this. This will be the game we play here every year.

You can't come into a game unemotional and I think we did that. That shows some growth because some of these experiences we're going through are going to help us come district.

You can just see it in their faces. It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all.

Eric Schmidt

We had a solid season. Obviously, we were one game short of where you want to end up. You always want more until you can be the champion.

We wanted to be .500 at worst at this point (of the season), and now we're three and five. That makes it an uphill battle. You make it tough on yourself when you score 10 runs in a game and don't win.

We wanted to tempo the game defensively to get some run outs. We wanted them to play fast.

Gillian Apps

We wanted to take this whole tournament one game at a time. We knew, going into this game, that we couldn't take Sweden lightly.

We wanted to shake off (the Nogales) game as soon as we could and show everyone else that we are going to be right there.

We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't have a week or two weeks off to plan like the Super Bowl. We're just going to try to win with our original game plan.