We were lucky to pull it off. We haven't played like that all season, and it goes to show why so many teams get knocked out of the NCAA Tournament. All it takes is one bad game at the wrong time. I was sitting there and it was like a team I had never seen before.
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Related We wanted to get to state so bad, and that's why the game was like [that]. It was tense out there. COREY CLAITT The year before I got there, KU was in the final four. At that time there were only 32 teams in the ... CLINT JOHNSON Her hormones slipped into their sexy underwear with a grin. JENNIFER SCHMIDT I thought we came out with great focus in both halves. In front of all different types of people in ... WADE GRINDE It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. You like to see two teams compete like that, but you like ... BRIAN KEITH I remember telling the guys on the sideline, 'Hey, guess what? We only have to get a field goal,' ..... PEYTON MANNING To stand on the brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli... ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Just the way we gave up the goals, mistakes that we couldn't clear. It was like there were three dif... LUIS CARMONA It was such an exciting game and I wanted to win so bad. Everybody worked so hard. Everybody wanted ... CLAUDE GIROUX I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what... HARRY STYLES It was like a championship game, it was that kind of atmosphere today. Either team could've won. All... GREG CHANDLER We do think about the NCAA Tournament and where we need to be. But right now, we're trying to take o... ARMINTIE PRICE Don't ever reject a small when you can't take it all. TOBA BETA In the end, the truth will prevail. Good and evil keep at war. Whichever wins, future will beli... TOBA BETA It was worthwhile. I felt we got a lot of out it because we played against teams we've never seen be... DOUG HAYNES Both teams were well matched and played pretty well. One of the things we wanted to do this season w... BOB ERICKSON Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... This was a great team win for us. We played well throughout the tournament so to pull it out today w... ERNEST ROSS I think throughout the season we all learned to focus in and that the team was a big part of it. Sti... JAMI LANZ This game almost had a tournament atmosphere, the way it was played. The last time we were up there ... BARRY BORCHERS It was good to get out there and start the game, ... Things started all right and then tapered off. ... KOY DETMER The way President Abraham Lincoln is said to have handled a person who had a know-it-all attitude. L... JOHN C. MAXWELL The man or woman that believes their success soley rests on their actions is sorely mistaken. JOHN LEACH That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ... LAILAH GIFTYAKITA It was almost exactly like the last game we played (against Scotland earlier this season). Both team... RANDY VAN SCYOC That was tough losing, but we know that the (NCAA) tournament is the start of a brand new season and... AYA TRAORE It was a good start to the tournament. We played sloppy defensively at different times of the game, ... JEFF SNYDER It was a fast, fun, up-and-down game. Both teams shot very well. We were lucky to get out of there w... GEOFF BROYLES We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi... CHRISTINA ENGELA Something happened night after night, almost to the point where you were sitting there in a close ga... DAVE SCHMIDT if you cannot get it all right, don't get it all wrong ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We had more heart in this game than we had all year. I give (Richmond) a little respect. This was de... ANNIE HOWLEY He knocked it out of midair. It was a rebound off my shoulder. It was just an unfortunate thing. We ... GREGG NAUMENKO I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is ... STEFAN LEFORS We were lucky to get this win. The thing is, the umpire said (before the game) if the ball hits the ... DAVE NIRO We were expecting it to be a closer game than what it was. But when you get in passing lanes like we... DUSTIN BAINTER We'll be fine. We've just got to get ready for the tournament now. This is what we played all season... BRANDON ROY The worst was probably the one here at home. It was a great environment, and I just felt like if we ... DAWN CHRISS I like the way we played. It was the most complete offensive performance we've had all season. GEORGE KARL It was a tough game against a real good team. It always seemed like they were one step ahead of us, ... BILL CAHILL We've played in close games like this all year, and we're glad we were able to finally pull one out.... DAVE WITZIG This team played lights out for three quarters, but there was always one quarter of almost every gam... KYLE GORDON It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left... MAGGIE STIEFVATER There were so many emotional highs and lows in this game. It was like a roller coaster, a season in ... ANDY SCHULZ It was a tough loss and a hard fought game. It was a very competitive game. I thought it was very fi... BILLY GILLISPIE It was exciting, ... There was a sense of leadership coming onto the field and leading the team off ... BRANDON KIRSCH At first glance I thought it wasn't fair that we were the second-place team and we only had one on t... JACK MCCRORY I think we were all kind of frustrated with the referees. We felt like they called a (expletive) gam... KEVIN GARNETT It was a bad first game, I got off to a bad start. We were behind the eight-ball all set, it was uph... BOB BRYAN And I think that at a certain point, after all the time and all the conjecture and everything that h... WILL ARNETT You're going to have games like this. All that matters to me is that we were able to pull it out. It... JARRIUS JACKSON We are two All-Stars. We don't want our teams to lose the game. It was unfortunate that one team had... LEBRON JAMES Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD It was an awesome game. It's no question we lost to a team that deserves to be in the NCAA Tournamen... AMANDA BUTLER I thought that [Pittsburgh] was a game we gave away. We beat ourselves. Hopefully it's not one of th... JOSE FERNANDEZ I'm very much aware that it's not something that's well known. But there has to be a beginning for e... ED RAYMOND He wiped it completely off and put the next game up there, and that was it. We came in one day, and ... ALAN FANECA Not many teams as young as we are against a team as good as Stout is going to get back in the game l... BOB SEMLING It was scattered. They weren't playing well and then all of a sudden we fell apart. We were kind of ... TOM SAWYER We had a couple of wins over some good teams in the tournament, and we played toe-to-toe with anothe... DAVE HOLT There's no excuse for it. We did get complacent. We had a game in total control, it was there to win... CHRIS CHELIOS I think teams are starting to realize, if you guys are going to face Tampa Bay it's not that rollove... JOE BOROWSKI There was an opportunity to change things up a bit and get some new chemistry going. It was really g... DAVE BORELLI It was a really big win and we needed a big confidence booster going into the next couple of matches... KATIE POTTS We are a veteran team that knows what it takes to go out there and execute. We know that sometimes i... BEN WALLACE I'm just embarrassed and disappointed by the way we played. I felt like we were getting looks, we ju... KIRK HINRICH It seemed like every time we'd get it to one or two and get a shot at the rim, it seemed like it had... MIKE WOOD I can't describe the feeling I had during the Parade of Champions. There were so many people. I've n... CHRIS DEMPSEY I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for B... PELE It is what it is, it is what you make it. JAMES DURBIN Ah,” Sean said, smothering a laugh. “The brilliant plan falling apart? Wow. Wish I’d seen that... MAUREEN CHILD What Ohio was doing to bother us was nothing we haven't seen before. They had a nice timed blitz wit... WILL MONTGOMERY Everyone played together as a team-and that's what we really want to be focusing on. We knew it was ... JASON DITTERT We felt that we were definitely the better team, we just had to show it. We knew if we played our ga... ADAM CAMPBELL Our first goal was obviously to win the game. She needed 22 and we held her to 15 last time we playe... DIANE CASEY I've never seen a team like that before a game. Usually, everyone's real quiet. We were alive, ready... BRYAN THOMAS That team played as hard as anyone we've seen so far this season. It was tough, and we never got the... BOB HOFMAN I missed the entire tournament season. It was very painful sitting there watching the games when I k... ADAM MORRIS We are disappointed because there are some teams that are 14-16 (that got into the NCAA Tournament),... CLAIRE COGGINS We did not play well at all. It was windy, but we had way too many high numbers. It's early in the s... DAN WUCHERER It?s going to be like that all season and we need to get used to it. Something that was natural to d... SIMON GAGNE Their best player's sitting on the bench for 10 minutes. I mean, that was the game right there. We h... CHARLIE DACEY I'm very stunned. All we talk about is going to the NCAA Tournament. I don't know what happened toda... DREW HALL People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there ... REBECCA MCNUTT It was the best game we've played all year. I was extremely proud of our effort and I was almost sat... LARRY VIEIRA At the end of the season here, we know we played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly host... BO RYAN The PK decided the game. I've watched a lot of soccer and I have never seen a PK called like that on... BOB TASSIE It's been nice to coach an experienced team. We're so far ahead of where we were last year at this t... ROB KITTRELL Even with the opportunities Franklin had, we still had the opportunity to win the game. We were righ... WILLIE MARYLAND It feels bad that we lost this game, but that doesn't take away from the great season that we had. W... KEAUNA VINSON My mom lived off the canal of a river, ... It looked like a bomb went off. I never thought it was go... CRYSTAL DAVIS We played some tough teams and we played well. We were looking to find out where we were and what we... EILEEN SCHMIDT I think we played like it was our first playoff game. Most of the team have never been in the playof... CHARLES HENKE This is awesome. Our team played great. We wouldn't quit. This was all heart, that's all it was. We ... JUSTIN FAVIER I knew it would be a close game right down to the wire. I knew one team would pull it off, and I'm j... KORY SHILES The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th... JUSTIN HARE I'm just extremely proud of our toughness and composure all night long. I can't say enough about Nil... GREGG SCHAFFER I think we had a solid effort. We were down there, we came back and scored . . . and we held them to... DENNIS WIDEMAN
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