Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tuesday's game is huge. Not only did we lose the first time, we're also at home this time. We need to win our home games.

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.

Tamika Catchings

Yes, we've had a great season, and some nights we pack them in and some we don't, but people are still getting a feel for us. We've only had that one home playoff game (before this season, in 2002). The more we win, the more people will come.

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

Todd miraculously played rather well considering he hadn't practiced all week. We didn't know until game time if he was going to play.

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

Dave Allison

We were in good shape. There was still a lot of game left.

Mike Woodson

We were in games like this all year. We never quit.

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 had a shot at the buzzer and that's just the kind of game it was.

We wanted to come in and prove something. We're taking it a game at a time. Now we're going to get ready for Syracuse.

We wanted to come down here and do better than we did last year. This was not the kind of game that we wanted, but we're still playing.

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 wanted to play people and look at some different combinations. Out-of-the-conference games you get some opportunities to do some things that you might not normally have.

We wanted to play in an NFL stadium with a turnkey NFL operation. Giants Stadium puts on NFL games all the time.

Jaromir Jagr

We've had such a great year and we don't want to give it away. Why? It just happened. We're not happy with the way we played. We have to play better in the playoffs and we have two games to go to get us there.

We've had a lot of games like this. We've knocked some good teams off this year. But this was the most important to date.

We've got two weeks left, we've got six games and a three-point lead (on the Raiders), so the games are very important to us." ()

Jaromir Jagr

We've got two games to go. We know what we have to do. We've had such a good year. We just don't want to give it away.

We've had some good games over the years and it usually comes down to who wants to win the most,

Joe Thornton

We've had our chances. Obviously it's early. We've got 80 games to go. Our offense will get clicking. I think offense will be the least of our worries.

We've had opportunities to score and we've been in every game through the seventh inning. We haven't been able to get the timely hits. When you're not scoring runs, everything is magnified.

Herman Edwards

We've had opportunities late in games this season, but we haven't been able to quite get it done. We have to get better on the road. We have two home games left. We can win those and give us some momentum.

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.

We've got a big game on our hands.

John Ferguson

We've got 21 games left, and a lot of teams can still grab that last spot, including us.

Marcus Camby

We've got 10 games left where I feel we're better than those 10 teams we're going to be playing. We just have to go out there and prove it.