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Related I can't remember a better stretch than right now, these last three games. Any time you can beat a te... KYLE MCLAREN We, as a team, are really focused on getting back to the playoffs. As Rifle showed last year as a fo... AARON FINCH We've lost a lot of one-run games, and we might be starting to figure out how to win some of these c... BRENDA PENA This year, my goal is not to be 'just competitive.' My goal is to start beating some of these teams,... DWAYNE SHAFFER Our first eight games are all tough games. We've played some quality teams, beat them. Maybe we can ... JOE RIZZI We played a few non-conference games early against some teams that were better, and now we?re into o... MARK SOLL We played some tough teams and we played well. We were looking to find out where we were and what we... EILEEN SCHMIDT We did some good things, particularly offensively. We beat a good team, and we beat a good pitcher, ... CRAIG NICHOLSON We really figured out where we were as a team coming after the CM game. Our special teams were solid... BRUCE RICH I think we've done a lot better than expected against some of these teams, ... These are teams that ... BABE RUTH Against some teams, you just feel good. I think our team feels good against this team and when we se... MARIAN HOSSA We just want to put an emphasis on getting better, period. Obviously, teams that win in this league ... JON GRUDEN We know how big these kinds of games are. We have big win after big win after big win against qualit... JOSH SATIN If we somehow could win a couple, our last 10 would be a very good record against top 20 teams. We h... DAN MONSON As you saw against Edmonton, we can play against anybody when we're playing our system and everybody... MARIAN GABORIK I'm really proud of my team. We're better than our record, and we're going to get some wins. I get e... MACHELLE JOSEPH It shows we can beat a quality team. Our ability to play well against N.C. State, hopefully, will gi... SKIP PROSSER Because of our name a lot of teams don't want to play us. But we feel like this team can get a lot b... DONNIE WILLIAMS We had to get some things off our chest. We had to come together as a team. We had to get motivated ... CHRIS HUNTER We didn't get beat by some chopped-liver team. I mean, don't kid yourself: They're going to win a lo... TOM IZZO Going into this week, we felt it was important to win both of these games. We felt we were better th... FRANK ROSSI We had a very hard time last year against some of the league's better pitching. We're going up again... ED HOBSON The game was closer than what the score indicated. Both teams are young and inexperienced. We were a... DICK REED I still feel like our record doesn't describe our team. We still feel like we can beat anybody. DAVID HOSKINS We were still able to beat some of the bigger teams. We're coming along pretty good for a smaller te... JEFF MARCUS The team has looked pretty good. Thinking where this team was going to be, in terms of being a very ... MILES AVERY I worry about this game more than I do against some of the better teams. We have a tendency to play ... DUSTY AUXIER I think this weekend was a little disappointing because these were two teams we thought we could bea... KATIE GRANSON It always bothers me a little when you play a team like that. I am thinking with the talent we got w... HOWARD COPELAND The nature of our team is that we depend on our doubles a lot. We have a balanced team. For us to be... JEFF HOLMAN It's always nice to get a win against a top-team like Illinois. There were some good performances to... MILES AVERY 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 Florida boosted our confidence. It's going to be interesting to see how we respond against some of t... KYLIE MCCLURE I hit a couple in a row and I felt really good, once you hit a couple of shots everything else in yo... MIKE GANSEY We were coming back (in 2002) and not a lot of guys were heralded as big time players and we were fl... MIKE AYERS It feels good to beat a 5A team from the North. People question our record because we only play team... LUTHER SUGGS I was excited with our win over Illinois tonight. This is the first time we have beat a team ahead o... CAREY FAGAN We're back on the winning track. We lost four in a row there, and a couple of them were tight games ... DON SHAW Obviously, Sunday is our day. We picked up some hitting after a slow start and we had timely hitting... JAMIE PINKERTON This team can beat anybody. We've beaten some good teams. We just don't always play the way we can. SARAH SOUTHERN If our pitching and defense can keep us in ball games and we use our team speed and timely hitting, ... DICK MEADER Our goal was to make the playoffs. Even though we will be going into the playoffs as fourth team in ... JAWAAN ALSTON Everybody was overlooking us, I think. We came out and proved ourselves. The score may not show it a... ADAM PRICE We stumbled. We're a Division 2 team, and all three were Division 1 teams that are going to have goo... DALE BUVID We hit in spurts tonight and we were able to string together some hits to get the win. But our pitch... SID WHEATLEY It's just a small thing, bring some teams in and see if we can get some games in. I think the kids a... ARNOLD GONZALEZ That just tells us that, hey, we can win these close games. It just gives us a little bit of confide... CONRAD BROOKS He was kind of like our team against Vancouver. He got points, but I don't think he had some of his ... KEVIN CONSTANTINE We need to move the ball better than the last three years, use our quickness as an advantage. I expe... MARK MAZZON If we can play like this from here on out, we will win some games. We will beat some people that peo... BETH DUNKENBERGER That gives us some confidence that we can beat them, but both games were very close. It is extremely... AMY GOVERT This is our year. We're going to do something ... to put another positive in our side against them. ... COREY BOSARGE We got great pitching all weekend, and we feel like we can win a lot of games if we can do that. KAREN JOHNS We didn't go in to win as much as to develop our players, win some games and play some good softball... ROBERT DEVERE The last two games, we played some good teams - Fullerton and Pacific. The players and coaches know ... JENN DAVIS We had a couple of wins over some good teams in the tournament, and we played toe-to-toe with anothe... DAVE HOLT We were fortunate tonight with all the walks and the hit batter. We had to scrap to get through it, ... BUCK SHOWALTER We knew it was going to be a tough four games on the road because we played some of the top teams in... KADIE RIVERIN This team is going to be similar to those we had in the first few years of the program. We're relyin... JODY LONG We have good momentum going in to the meet against Michigan this weekend. The team has looked great ... CAREY FAGAN We always have the expectation that we will work as hard as we can to win as many games a possible. ... DAVE HUBERT We want to play really well against the big teams, but our most important games are against Switzerl... CHRISTOPH SCHUBERT I really hate that word, 'competition.' I don't see it that way. Me and Ryan, we can push each other... HUMBERTO COTA We're facing some great teams, and some great pitchers, and I keep telling the girls that. They have... HEIDI MARTIN Our team loves the pressure. Going against all these ranked teams is better than going against teams... ASHLEY KELLY We played one our better games of the year against a very tall and good shooting team. It really was... DEKE ROUTHEAUX The win-loss record doesn't show it, but we're a far tighter team than last season. We're not going ... DREW MITCHELL I thought we pitched two good games. We were able to swing the bats a little better and put some pre... TRACY ARCHULETA That was the first time we were outside and we were playing against teams that already played 14-15 ... KRISTEN MERLINO Our starting pitching was, to put it bluntly, lousy this weekend. We know we're having some defensiv... DAN CALLAHAN At least I thought we competed with them and I think that shows our guys we can compete with these t... BRIAN SATTERFIELD We have to give a better showing than that, ... I'm not worried about the offense. We know we can sc... ANTAWN JAMISON We definitely feel like this is a team we can beat. I have the highest expectations for our team. A ... ALEX KANDABAROW If we can do some of the things we've done the last few games, but maybe with more consistency, we c... BRAD RANDALL Our team can move the football. We've done it against some very good teams in our conference. We als... KARL DORRELL You've got to make the shots, and we had some breakdowns on defense. We can compete with good teams,... JAY CARLIN It was worthwhile. I felt we got a lot of out it because we played against teams we've never seen be... DOUG HAYNES More years than not we've played better than we were. Last year, I'd be the first one to admit, we h... FRANK BEAMER It's definitely disappointing. These games against teams lower in the standings, we need to beat the... IAN VOUYOUKAS Chelsea are not unbeatable. We have beaten them before and we can beat them again. They are a better... RAFAEL BENITEZ We made some big 3-pointers and we win games when we shoot the ball well on the perimeter. We did a ... BRIAN BAPTISTE When you're No. 1 like we are, you know the other team is going to be up for the game because a win ... LARS RICHTERS There were some encouraging things out of a loss like this from some individuals out there that a lo... DAVE NEWTON We always seem to play well against the good teams in the league so we're confident when we bring ou... DAVE BARR We know what can happen when you don't come ready to play these teams. We're just making sure when w... DANTON COLE I know that if we're going to beat McNeese State, we've got to be better than we were against Alabam... JEFF BOWER I think we are capable of defending that championship, but there are some very good teams to beat to... LUTE OLSON The games we have coming up are all going to be really important for us. We need to approach all of ... RAFAEL BENITEZ We're happy to get a win. The girls battled against a good team. These are the kind of games we need... DAVE MEADE You can tell we've played together a long time by how well we know each other. We don't care who has... ANDREA BRUNA We hope to use this tournament as something we can build on. We want to keep it going. We've played ... JEFF BAMBULE We've had some close games against some other district teams, so we wanted to come out here and make... AARON HOLMES We have bigger things on our mind than just Boston. We want to win some games. CARL CRAWFORD I think if we play our cards right, we have a chance. The three top teams, they all know they can be... BIKE MEDDER We want to work hard, have fun and sneak up on some teams and win some games. We look to improve fro... ERIC HENDERSON You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder.... SOURAV GANGULY Anytime a situation like that occurs, it's going to juggle things a little bit, We're fortunate this... JAY STONE Those games were used to challenge us. But this is our district to lose. We know we should be the te... HANK DESLAURIER The big difference tonight was we finally made some shots. I don't know if we outplayed them so much... CHAD LAVIN It gave me and the players a chance to see some of the other teams in the district and a lot of good... CHARLOTTE JONES
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PHILLIPS BROOKS Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla... MEL BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w... MEL BROOKS Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr... PHILLIPS BROOKS Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h... MEL BROOKS I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ... MEL BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. PHILLIPS BROOKS Poetry is life distilled. GWENDOLYN BROOKS God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work. BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also. GARTH BROOKS The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back. PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. PHILLIPS BROOKS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad... PHILLIPS BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes. MEL BROOKS No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl... PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which... PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today. GARTH BROOKS