Bench Quotations | Page 2

On the bench it looked like the net moved. But you can't really see from the bench.

One of the guys on the bench said he was saying a prayer for me right then.

I was talking to Ann (Strother) on the bench in the second half, and we were just really happy with her finally being able to come out and just play the way we know Nicole can play. She was real poised, knocking in shots, making the right passes, and defensively she was solid.

I wouldn't trade by top six in for anybody. I love this team and, even the freshmen that come off the bench are doing tremendous things and are beyond my expectations.

I was pleased with out effort tonight. I was able to clear the bench and allow some players quality play time.

If we do make a breakdown, everybody on the bench believes 100 percent that Kyle Jones is going to make that save, and if he doesn't make that save, I can promise you that all believe that he will next time.

If we do change it, Ahmet can give us a lot of energy off the bench. There have been some games where our bench has struggled to give us points, and I know Ahmet can help there.

I don't know exactly what happened, but somebody made a mistake at the school. He's back on the team now. Height-wise, he provides a physical presence, so helpfully with him back we'll be tougher. It makes the bench a little deeper, so that's great.

I'd like to see Charlton bench 320 and lift 260 in the clean and jerk. If he can do that, I think it could put him in the top 10, maybe even the top five. As a junior that would be fantastic.

I don't know that it has to be a judge. I don't think we should abandon the principle that we could put somebody on the bench from off a lower court.

I don't know what I am going to have to do to get this team charged up, but I am willing to do anything. ... I'll run around a track, bench press, whatever you want me to do. I am open for any ideas.

I don't know what he was doing. I was just trying to get back to my bench when I bumped him. He stepped out in front of me.

I don't know when the last game was that we won on a Saturday. Monday night everybody came off the bench and gave us a spark. I don't know. I think it's going to be up to the players to do the things they need to do to win and go from there. I'm looking at it, and it's really tough. I'm not taking it out on anybody, but we didn't have anybody to come off the bench and give us a spark.

I'd contribute that to our bench. Our bench did a good job, as it had all season. That helped us be fresher at the end.

I covered my face, jumped down off the bench right when something hit me in chest, like when someone pushes a brick real hard in your chest, pushed me back to fence and I fell down and passed out.

I am glad that I am going to state, but I should've done better tonight. I have done better in both the bench and clean and jerk in practice.

I am fortunate to have such a deep bench and we are getting good contributions from all those guys.

Bubba's father and Bubba went down to the marina and went through the process of having a bench or table at the marina. They said it was okay. I knew nothing of this until the day after Bubba died.

I looked up at halftime and saw (on the scoreboard) that our bench had scored nine points, and Winter Haven's bench had zero. That was big. We were able to rest our people a little bit through the first three quarters and they weren't.

I looked over at their bench and they were acting like they had it. And I was like, they don't have it, let's go.

I lost a lot of court sense in that time, so it has been a struggle trying to come back. I've been frustrated a lot. It's different because I haven't played for a while and I'm trying to adjust to a new level. I'm trying to find my spot on the team, what I can do for them, and I'd rather sit on the bench and cheer if that turns into a win.

I have spent the last month talking with Bryan and I feel we will make a great coaching partnership. Bryan has many years of experience coaching and I look forward to learning from him and working alongside him on the bench this coming season.

I have a 100 individual memories of the beauty of John's play. One stands out for the sheer perfection of his skill. It was a charity match which, but for that one second, has faded completely from my memory. The ball came to him at speed on a wet, slippery surface but with the slightest of adjustments, one that was almost imperceptible, he played it inside a full-back and into the path of an on-running winger. I looked at our coach Dave Sexton on the bench and he caught my glance and shook his head as if to say 'fantastic'. Haynes could give you goose bumps on a wet night in a match that didn't matter.

I hate being on the bench in a close game.

I felt like our bench was better and we wanted to play up-tempo as much as we could. I felt like we wore them down.

I feel very good about our bench strength.

I feel like we had a deep bench this season, but if you take Matt away from that team and you take away the connection he had with teammate Alex Powell, I don't think we would've gotten where we did.

I can't say enough about what Joe and Travis did off the bench against Northern. In a game like that, it would have been easy for them to put some pressure on themselves. But they elevated their game and responded so very, very well.

I can't say enough about the job our bench did. They really push the other girls.

I can't really say if I can get it back, ... I just want to utilize the opportunities given to me. If my role is coming off the bench to help the team win, that's what I'll do.

I can't speak for other teams, but for us, we're definitely trying to voice our objection. I don't have a problem with that dress code if a man is injured and has to be on the bench during games. But it's kind of crazy to sit up there and try to tell us how to dress on the way to work. We're not in that head office in New York. To me, that's crazy.

If only the net was just a little wider. We should have won that game. Our kids fought hard, and we overcame a short bench to put a scare into them.

Getting people on the bench that are not morally confused or afraid to make judgments based in decency is the solution.

Fred's there on the bench and ready to play. But in fairness to Gerald, who had a good game when he came off the bench on Sunday, it's logical to give him a run out at flyhalf.

From a size standpoint, they're probably a little bit bigger. I don't think they have the depth, or experience at guard that T-Town was able to put up against us. The big thing is difference in style of play. They like to play slow, and they don't like to go to their bench at all. It comes down to whoever can control the tempo.

From beginning to end, they had a lot of energy. They were a lot more hungry than we were. Tonight we needed everybody from our starters to our bench players to give us a lift. I struggled on down to the last person off the bench.

I don't usually get nervous for games, but I was nervous. I was sitting on the bench with two fouls and couldn't get calmed down.

I don't think I've ever prayed so much in my life. But, hey, it worked. . . . It was fun and not fun. I trust my teammates, but being on the bench with the game on the line is one of the worst feelings in the world. I'm just so proud of my teammates.

Give the kid credit for coming off the bench and hitting a ball like that.

If we look at our stats, it really was a team effort, you know. We had girls coming off the bench and serving aces.

If the German national coach can leave a goalkeeper like him on the substitutes' bench then German football can not be that bad.

He's had a lot of success pitching in international competition, and that gives him an edge. I met him in Baltimore during their first series, and sitting on the bench with him before the game, I was impressed with his composure.

He had a tough night. It happens. You hate (to bench him), it's hard to do it.

He has handled the situation very professionally and he's made a big fan out of me because of that. It's great to have a player like him on the bench that you can put into the lineup and the other team knows he's a significant factor to contend with.

He has been very good. We were a little concerned putting him back on the bench. The first couple of games off the bench he did not play very well and we were concerned. Since then, he has been fantastic.

He hit two 3-point shots off the bench and he is a hero. He is a special kid and his mom passed away this summer. He's special because I think she is looking down and smiling. He isn't playing as much, but he is a big part of this team.

He is not trembling and his bench isn't shaking either,

He got off the bench and was sick after handing down that sentence. He always said it was the most difficult thing he did while on the bench.

He gives us the ability to come off the bench and score in different ways, ... Post-ups, slashing to the basket and he brings a toughness to our defense. And he wants to win.

He made some real big saves. There were two or three plays, I stood up on the bench thinking they were in and he made the saves. If your goalie plays well in a tournament like this, you're going to have a chance, and tonight he definitely played well.

He may not put the numbers up that he used to, but he brings a lot more to the table, in the dressing room and the bench and even the composure he has on the ice.

He might sometimes come off the bench and he might sometimes be a starter. I was impressed with his attitude and character, and once some things resolved themselves we made the decision (to sign him).

He meant everything to us. He was one of our biggest contributors here for 3 1/2 years, I can honestly say that. Still can play defense, come off the bench and hit the best pitcher in baseball. Makes no difference to him.

He came off the bench and gave us a double-double. That's great. You don't see that off the bench very often.

He came off the bench and did a good job.

We can go 10 deep very easily. Speedy is a guy that can play extended minutes for us off the bench and give us a boost. I loved the way he came out and got after it on defense and played hard.

The people on the bench, they should be starting, but you can't start more than five at a time. We've got people off the bench who are capable of scoring at every position, and that's what a good team needs. They've got to come together.

We've been trying to keep our rotation extended throughout the tournament. You tend to tighten up at this time of year. This year, I've worked hard on that part of coaching, to trust some of my bench guys.

We traded Mike partly because we felt we might well lose him anyway and partly because if we kept them both, one of our key assets would have been on the bench for half our games.

What we are trying to do is to ... try and improve our bench strength.

We are fortunate to come out of here with a win tonight. Billie McDowell had a great game for us and all of our players that came off the bench played a key role in our win.

To get 67 points from your bench ... there are nights when we don't get 67 as a team.

Hayden came off the bench and really gave us a nice lift.

Having another set of eyes on the bench with me is unbelievable. She's picking out things for me, and we truly coach as a team. I sit on her bench, she sits on mine and we listen to each other.

Having him stand behind the bench is a great thing for the game of hockey, and we need that coming out of the lockout. He has so much pizzazz, and he brings so much leverage to the game that it's a perfect thing for the National Hockey League to have Wayne more involved.

Going into this game we needed the bench to give us both good minutes and good production, which they did. Chicago plays physical, they play hard. But to our credit, we can play that way.

He said he was going to quit. He wasn't going to play baseball anymore. The organization was going crazy, because you don't want a guy like that on the bench sitting. What they did, they kept (Fermin) up there. This is to one of the best players ever to play the game.

He's been sitting on the bench all night, catching pitchers, a junior starts in front of him, and he didn't mope. I was very confident he would put it into play. ... He's the heart and soul of our team.

He's a very dedicated kid. Most impressive is, whether Donnie wins or loses, he's cheering on the other kids from the bench and that takes class.

His record, both on the bench and as an official in the Reagan and Bush administrations, showed that he is an ideologue who would put our fundamental rights at risk.

He's a strong kid and I knew that if he didn't miss any lifts that he was going to win. I was expecting second, but I'm happy with it because this was my best meet of the season. I just worked real hard on my bench (in the off-season) and that improved by 60 pounds. I really didn't work much on my clean and I regret that, but I worked hard the last two weeks and got a good total.

He's awesome. He's a big part of the team and when he's playing, he's playing well. He's a leader and a great guy in the locker room, helping the other guys. He's funny on the bench during games. I like to sit next to him.

He's a veteran presence, a quality bench player. He can play four spots -- first, third and both corners. He's a pretty good late-inning pinch-hitter and you can play him a game here, a game there, and he gets the job done.

He's going to be bench pressing a lot of weight come Wednesday.

He's going home with his medication and I'm sure he'll be on the bench at Everton.

He's been on the bench quite a bit this season, but I decided this was the time to throw him in. He played in central midfield and did well.

He's done extremely well since we brought him in. Whether he comes off the bench or starts, he scores goals.

When he does play for us he'll be coming off the bench for 20 minutes and that's a big step up to playing 80 minutes in a Test match.

We have three-to-four girls that can bench over 100 pounds, so we can hit the ball far. All we need is fence to hit over.

We lost Norton several times. He killed us from the corner, right where we knew he would be. It was poor communication and poor recognition on our part. With all three big guys on the bench with four fouls, we didn't have all our parts. Not having an inside presence really hurts.

We made some big defensive stops there and were able to capitalize. Our defense played really well. They didn't shoot particularly well; we'd like to take a little credit for that. And we got some big play off our bench from Steve Cavanaugh (10 points) and Mike Meade (six points).

He was our first big guy off the bench and he played consistently. He gave us good size and strength, and we look for more of that from him down the line.

He could have got (the triple double), but Baron's all about winning. He's not worried about individual stats. I think he knew he only needed one rebound, but he just came to the bench because we won the game.

He could have got it, but Baron's all about winning; he's not worried about individual stats. I think he knew he only needed one rebound, but he just came to the bench because we won the game.

He could have been an engineer and he would have been a great one, but he decided to be a catcher and he was a good one. Then he decided to be a bench coach and he was a good one. Now he is going to be a manager and he is going to be a good one.

He can still go in the weight room and bench press 300 pounds. He's a man's man.

He claims it was precedent, but as an experienced judge, he knows better. Clearly, this is a ruling by a judge who is obviously an activist who legislates from the bench to enact his own agenda.

He could be a valuable player coming off the bench for us.

He just loved being on the bandstand. He'd kick the piano bench over and drop to his knees and play ... he was a one-man blues party.

He kept us in the game with his shooting. If we didn't have him coming off the bench scoring all those points, who knows what happens.

He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.

He jumped onto one of the benches and was about to bound onto the stage, when the bench toppled over under the sudden shift of his weight,

(Hand) comes off the bench and brings us a lot of energy. He was the difference-maker tonight.

Harts (Hartigan) mentioned to me on the bench that his blocker was open. A lot of the guys were trying to deke and he was really staying with the deke. My mind-set was shot. I didn't know exactly where I was going to go. But it was there when I got in on him.

We are going to need people on the bench to step up. We've had some surprise starters recently. Those guys and the bench players have to rise to the occasion.

Kenyon Martin is sitting on the bench when a fan begins to heckle him. Martin stands up, turns around and addresses the fan. Then he sits back down.

Kevin really gave us a lift. He came in a did a great job for us and Stefan McGhee came off the bench and did a real good job.

Kim is a real force coming into the game as a change of pace player. We've got a lot of players who can come off the bench with energy.

Jackson played a great game. Our bench stepped up and did a nice job of rebounding and screening.

Jackie Zender came off the bench in the second half and really sparked us.