Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Warner

When you lose this game you feel like you've lost an opportunity. So you put pressure on yourself to try to do more to get back the next season. I think we tried to do too much the next season.

Geno Auriemma

When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.

When you lose seven out of eight, many people are upset with many things. One game or victory like this doesn't make up for the way we have been playing in the past. This is a step in the right direction.

Marcus Giles

When you lose a game it just spoils everything. The loss overshadows anything personal.

We're taking our lumps. A lot of it is just playing together and being outside. Softball is a game of timing and you can't get that from the Barnett Center.

We're taking one game at a time. I was really worried about tonight - they were 11-2 and leading the (Wisconsin) Little 10 (at 6-0).

We're taking it one game at a time, and that's all that matters to us.

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking every game like it's October, because it is for us.

This season's been everything I thought it wouldn't be. It's just so frustrating to come out every day and pour everything you have into the game and come up short.

Xabi Alonso

We all know what this game means. It's always a big occasion but I think this one is even more important than normal.

Vince Carter

We all kind of look at this as the game to punish someone. It's not a league game. So if you want to send a message, it's the game to do it.

Tim Duncan

Tonight was a good game for us because we were able to grind it out and find a way to get a win down the stretch. I was able to get some shots to go, and when they doubled me, I was able to find my teammates.

Tonight's game was very frustrating. We just didn't play our game and we couldn't get focused.

John Beilein

Tonight's game wasn't about who had better players or better coaches. That shot was all about luck. We had some good luck and they had some bad.

(Tonight), Game 2 of the series, we need it. We need to win that game, and we need to perform better. And I'm very positive that we will.

Brandon Roy

To me, I'm just really happy we played a great game and picked up a big sweep down here on the road. Right now we're just playing really good basketball.

Ken Whisenhunt

To me, his history has been that he shows up on game day and he plays very well. That's all I can judge it by. He made some good throws, he made some plays and moved in the pocket.

Urgency is the next game, and the next game was Ole Miss. If it had been somebody else, would we have played that hard? I don't know. But tonight, there was a special effort, and we had to have a special effort.

Up until that first game today, we were struggling.

We've held up this long, ... I think we could hold up for another game or two.

Two and a half hours before the game -- helping out.

We had a great run. We had to be on our game to be able to win. We weren't quite there.

We had a great game, I had some good perimeter players around me.

Landon Donovan

We had a good team game plan. I wanted to put on a show, though, and I did.

We had a good shot at them and lead most of the game at their place. It was a good game, but (Parker) is just a tough kid to guard.

George Ade

We had a good sale (on Monday) and with (today's) sales up until game time, we should be able to sellout.

We had a good game with them down there earlier. We were lucky to win last time and they are a much improved team now.

We had a good game plan in place. They like to play it slow, so we wanted to run on them. Once we got them down, we didn't let up, either, That was big.

Mike Holmgren

We had a good game plan, and we wanted to come out passing the ball. Matt's not unlike a lot of quarterbacks who hit their first two or three passes and then are off and running.

We've never played in a game that's this big.

Ned Yost

We've never played as well as we're playing right now, since I've been here. We're playing the game so mistake-free.

We've never hosted a game of this magnitude.

We've got a lot of players and everyone got in. We needed a game like this.