They quit on themselves. Slowly but surely, they gave up. That first quarter, they had a lot of fight, and they were talking. But slowly their talk diminished, and their heads went down. That's what you have to do: make them quit.

I don't think the ACC has seen a passing attack like the ones in the Mountain West. We came out with a chip on our shoulders.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

He didn't put in the summer miles he wanted to put in, but he's slowly but surely coming back,

One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs,

I still see lots of things we can fine-tune. I think we're slowly but surely getting a little bit tighter and executing better. It sounds funny, when you're 11-and-0, but we've played some bad stretches of basketball and still been able to overcome that. Our goal is to eliminate that and become more consistent.