We're not even thinking about it right now. We won one game, now we've won two games and we have a winning streak. Our focus is on the next game.
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BOB STULL Obviously we've won a lot of games over the years. But those things don't matter, what matters is no...
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HILTON ARMSTRONG Now it's our job to put this game behind us and get ready for next week. It was a tough game for us....
EMILY MARTIN As a team, We're not really thinking about the streak. We aren't focused right now on the big pictur...
CLARK HAGGANS We couldn't pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt...
KEELAN AMELIANOVICH I thought our kids played as hard as they could play. We had the game won several times; Eureka had ...
CAL HUBBARD We felt we actually got things going in the right direction last week. We won the football game last...
DICK VERMEIL That's the way the game is played now, games are won on the power play and today was no different.
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BOB KIRBY All we want to do is win one game. That's all we're thinking about now. We're not worried about hist...
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JUMAINE JONES We were 1-3 last year and won six of our last seven. If we play our game, we're capable of winning t...
PAUL COHEN I don't believe in feeling good about being close. Close ain't winning. We felt like we should have ...
CHARLES WOODSON It was not our day, not our match and somehow we were due for a loss. Now the weight of the winning ...
OLIVER KAHN If we started thinking like that, we wouldn't have won the game.
STEVE HOWARD But that's the kind of team we were that year. We were seven games out at the All-Star break. Califo...
GEORGE BRETT I might have been thinking about that now if my back didn't give out for a little bit. Right now, al...
JARET WRIGHT We haven't even been thinking about Penn State yet. The good thing about having one game this weeken...
JANET RAYFIELD We would prefer to have won our first game at the beginning of the season. But we'll take it. What w...
DEREK ERGLE I'm just glad we won the game. If we didn't, I'd be sick right now. I'm still kind of sick.
LANCE BENNETT It's been hard not talking and not thinking about (finishing 20-0), but I don't think there's really...
EMMA GUINSLER Every time this happens, you get these questions. We don't really talk about the streak. I couldn't ...
KATASHA BROWN The nine-game winning streak is tremendous. But we're concerned about taking it day-by-day, and just...
CAM WARD We definitely see that it's attainable now, but we focus on opponents as they come. We're winning, b...
DUKE CREWS This is a game you circle on your schedule. Now that we've won this, it shows we are something in th...
DERICK LESSARD During the preliminary round we met Yellow Stars three times; we won two and drew one of those games...
CARL HENRY One guy shot, and another guy tipped it out to another dude who missed it at the buzzer. I was not t...
AARON MILES We definitely have a tough stretch coming up. Right now, we're just going to focus on St. Joseph and...
DREW CARSTENS I thought that [Pittsburgh] was a game we gave away. We beat ourselves. Hopefully it's not one of th...
JOSE FERNANDEZ We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won...
JOE BRYANT We really stress taking one game at a time and I think to have a streak like that, you have to focus...
WES MOORE This was like a playoff game for us. I thought if we could get this one and even with Hillhouse comi...
JAY KARLINS We've been thinking about it ever since the final buzzer went off. We lost to Brentwood when we shou...
LANCE FEURTADO We could've won the game today. We've come so far this season, it's really hard to be disappointed r...
CANDY WILSON We have won five or six games in a row now. This is what we needed going into our regional tournamen...
GEORGE NESSMITH It was huge to finally get that first one. Now we have to beat North Florida and Jacksonville on the...
DEE ROMINE We played terrific defensively. They were coming off a two-game winning streak and were coming off a...
DAVE POWELL You know as well as I do that they're thinking about an undefeated season. [But] we have to take one...
CURT MILLER This is a special group. Every big game we won we were so happy for them. Right now, I don't feel ba...
DALE CORBETT It was nice to get a win. We had played well in our last two games and not won. So it was nice to pl...
DON MORELAND I think it's a sense of urgency. When we have our backs to the wall and we need to win a game, I thi...
JASON RICHARDSON We won an important game but not a decisive one.
RONALD KOEMAN We're playing pretty well right now. We put together two good weeks. We won two district games and f...
DAVE MANZO We were brilliant on defense, and that's what won us the game.
DOM WREN Everyone wants to talk about that series two years ago. There are not many similarities, but they ca...
GLEN GULUTZAN We need to keep our focus for 40 minutes and we're not doing that right now. A basketball game is al...
CAROL SIMON We knew we should have won the first game. You want to win the conference title, but the goal for bo...
LONNIE LUCAS After the game I told the kids not to focus too much on the loss and try to focus more on the huge s...
AIMEE BATES We won (a segment of the game) and they won, and we won and they won. And we won a little bit more.
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI That was a big game for us last year and we lost it and we were upset about it. Even thought we went...
JASON MURPHY We've proven we can compete, now it's a matter of taking the next step and winning a game or two. I ...
DOUGLAS SCOTT We tell our kids that from now on, whether it's one game or three games, you have to play each game ...
CODY ROBBINS We have to work on defense next season, make it a focus from Day 1. Making routine plays has been ou...
SCOT MEEKER We wanted to come out and get this first game. That was our main focus coming in to the game. Now we...
FLIP MURRAY These guys played a hard football game against a very good football team, and who knows what's going...
DENIS PICHE Everyone was cheering after we won the OIA, but later on I told our team that's only half the battle...
BEAU ALBRECHTSON We came out nonchalant. Everybody was down. There's no reason for it. We came off a four-game winnin...
CHERLANDA FRANKLIN Now everyone's on board with Gopher football after we won a big game, but I remember just two weeks ...
BRYAN CUPITO We're not thinking about being PSAC champs or winning the national championship right now or going u...
BERTIE LANDES It was a rough game. They have good athletes, they are physical. We had our hands full, no question ...
BOB SNELL It was a game we should have won. They scored off our mistakes ... it was a great game for the crowd...
CARL WITHEY I wasn't really thinking about it until it was time. During the game, it was frustrating, because it...
BRETT BRACKETT The kids just played an exceptional game. Defense right now is playing very strong with five shutout...
CURT GROTTENTHALER This is a big game for us for a lot of reasons. We've won a few games. It's not a fix, but it's a st...
DAVID HOBBS He's being a little modest right now. He was the backbone of the team tonight. Without him, we would...
PETER HARROLD Right now our season's about one game and that's Minnesota,
CARRIE GRAF I would say now it's next to impossible for us to make the playoffs. Even if we won the rest of our ...
GENE LAMONT We've got to forget about tonight. We didn't win it tonight, we just won one game.
CHRIS CARPENTER We finally won a close game. I figured it would be a one-goal game.
DARRIN KARUZAS We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the se...
AL WALKER I really don't want to get into it, ... I just know I didn't catch a ball out there. We won, and tha...
AMANI TOOMER Since we won the state, nobody was even thinking about Federation. States was our main goal, and whe...
ANDRE JACOBS We just didn't finish the game and attack the rim. We could have won, and we should have won.
JOE VOELKER I'd like to make it four in a row and then we have three tough games we have to mentally be ready fo...
DAVE IRWIN Our work's cut out for us this series. We've got Fergie going tomorrow. They haven't seen him yet. E...
JAMES FRISBEE In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time. We won last year's g...
BILL BALLARD In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time, ... We won last year...
BILL BALLARD I don't want to talk about state right now. We need to focus on Wednesday's game against Santa Fe In...
BOB CHAVEZ When the Taylor girls won it, it was great because it was a senior and a freshman winning. Madison's...
JANET DISBENNETT We played our game at our pace. And I think that's why we won this game.
KATIE GEARLDS This was a game we had to win. They were struggling. We were struggling. We hadn't won on the road y...
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 10...
AL ATTLES The whole game, even before, we were just relaxed. Nobody was tense (or) nervous. We just felt that ...
VANESSA IAPALA We're not going to win all 82 games straight. Guys get tired, sometimes we lose our focus. We lose g...
CARLOS ARROYO Right now, we're completely focused on our next game. But if we win out, I think we'll have a good c...
KATE MCHARG Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it...
JULIE ROBERTS It's very slim. It can come down to one or two possessions or maybe even a couple of seconds. You ju...
ZABIAN DOWDELL I told the guys we'd feel a lot better after the game if we won. ... Right now we're beat up and sic...
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AMBROSE BIERCE Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
AMBROSE BIERCE There are 4 kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
AMBROSE BIERCE FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
AMBROSE BIERCE ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Mus...
AMBROSE BIERCE HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was a com...
AMBROSE BIERCE ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A m...
AMBROSE BIERCE YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the So...
AMBROSE BIERCE Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo
AMBROSE BIERCE Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscie...
AMBROSE BIERCE One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
AMBROSE BIERCE OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics. Obsession was onc...
AMBROSE BIERCE Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
AMBROSE BIERCE Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.
AMBROSE BIERCE Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
AMBROSE BIERCE QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled wh...
AMBROSE BIERCE When you are ill make haste to forgive your enemies, for you may recover.
AMBROSE BIERCE Electricity seems destined to play a most important part in the arts and industries. The question of...
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