It'd be better to have the win.

We played as a team. We gave up (20) points in the first quarter -- that was too many.

He played an excellent game. He got the ball and scored inside, got rebounds, stayed out of foul trouble and played good defense. We need him to stay out of foul trouble.

(Diels) wanted me to take it to the hole. I haven't been shooting well from the outside so I tried to get to the foul line and take it from there.

It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, a similar percentage of Russians would almost certainly support Putin's quest for a strong Russia. We would mistake this mood at our peril.