Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Rivers

It's been the story of our season that we're close enough but we just can't close games out. I told the guys they are playing hard and they just have to live with it.

Jamal Crawford

It's been there. At times we've had it and at times we haven't. But now we're learning how to finish close games. I think that's going to make us better in the long run.

Chris Duhon

It's been frustrating. We've lost so many close games we should have won, games that we had control of and let slip away. So we have 14 games to kind of redeem ourselves and get into the playoffs.

It's been difficult this year because we wanted to get back (to Hammond) and win. We got real close last year with Fairview -- we were tied with about three minutes to go and ended up losing. It feels good to get it done.

It never even crossed my mind to turn pro at 17 years old. I wasn't ready. Emotionally, I wasn't even close to being ready. My game, physically, I wasn't ready to be out here day in and day out. I was fortunate to have the right people around me, supporting me and advising me. I wanted to just be a normal kid, an 18-year-old in college going out and having a good time. I would not trade those two years for anything in the world.

David Healy

It must have been a really strong close to the month. December wasn't a big blowout for incentives, so there wasn't a lot of payback in January and consumer confidence really took a jump.

Maurice Ager

I told coach I had to make up for the time I missed. I sat out for seven or eight minutes. The game was on the line. ... I just felt I had to take some shots for us to close the game out.

It now seems to me that she told everyone everything -- from her closest friends to a woman who babysat for her once or twice. If this is someone she had met once or twice though, she wouldn't necessarily have called everyone the next morning.

It's a new season for everybody. If somebody gets knocked off, it's going to get really interesting. Even that year we got beat, I think it really shows that there's not a whole lot of difference between the teams (in the tournament). It really comes down to the teams that can win the close ones.

It's always tough to come close and lose, ... We knew we could play with them all along, but we just made some key mistakes.

It lets them know we can be in there and we can win close games. Don't be scared, just get in there with confidence.

It'll depend on how the market interprets the statement and whether or not they can tell if the Fed closed the door to further hikes. If they haven't, they'll want to know how wide that crack is.

It kind of hits close to home. They're in the same type of scenario as us. We know what it's like to be embarrassed.

Chris Kaman

It just seems like we couldn't close it. We were up by 15, 17, 18 and we just kept letting them back in it. It's kind of disappointing, but we got the win.

Rafael Yglesias

It's hard to conceive of someone who could work for at least a few hours each day for months and years on the same story without it being close enough to their life experience to fuel their commitment.

It's great that we're being competitive, but at some point we have to start winning these games. In two years we've closed the gap, but a loss is a loss. There are no moral victories anymore.

It's disappointing that something they hoped would provide a greater kicker couldn't be there and that they delayed the launch for nine months to close to a year.

Cartier Martin

It?s depressing. We just can't seem to get over the hump. It hurts to lose a close one like that, having an opportunity in the lane on the road. You get frustrated.

It seemed to me to be a lot more pressure for us. We played so many close games last year. It was always like 'if we lose, we had a great season.' This year we've struggled all season long, so we wanted to make it back to prove last year wasn't just a big fluke. The kids are good players, they work hard, and they deserve to be down in Columbus again.

It was a heck of a dual meet. It was an incredibly close meet, but that doesn't give justice to how close it really was.

It was a big win for Michelle, who lost three close matches last week.

It was a nine-point game, but it sure felt a lot closer than nine points.

It was a pretty close game throughout. We needed this game to give ourselves a boost.

It was nice to get out to a lead like that. We've had a couple tough, close games, and we expected Edgewood to be tough. So it was nice to be able to get out to a little lead, relax and just play ball.

It was nice to end our stretch of eight games in 12 days with a win. It was a good close game to the end.

It was nice to compete close to home because we have some kids on the team from Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska - and we had a lot of parents there.

It was kind of hard for us to have Collins in the first game because they have pretty much the same team back from last year so it was easier for them to mesh together. I think we have gotten a lot closer over the last few games, so it will be interesting the next time we play them.

It was nice to win one going way. If you look at my fingernails, there are no more left, and it's from all those close games we've been losing.

It was low, but it was too close to take, so Jerry had to swing at it. Their guy made a perfect pitch.

It wasn't a balk. It wasn't even close ... We watched the tape five times. It was a horrible call.

It was not much of a team game once we got close to the goal, and our shot selection wasn't the best.

It was nice because it got us closer to tying the game,

It makes you look closely at what you're doing, identifying your strengths and weaknesses and what to do about them.