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With 5 seconds it's just very hard to match their quickness.

With 30 seconds (left in the game), we were trying to get up a quick shot to keep it close and possibly take the lead. With Thornton out, he's one of our best players. Anytime your best player is out, it hurts.

With 1.6 seconds left, unless you throw it to Christian Laettner, you're not going to get that good of a look.

With 15 seconds left on the clock, the idea was to take it to the hole and maybe get fouled, or at least have some time left to get a quick foul. I never expected it to take 14 seconds.

With 15 seconds left I tried to get a jump on him. Luckily I got it.

With 11 seconds left, if the three isn't there then you take it to the basket. It was the same thing we did to East to take it to overtime.

With 10 seconds to go (after the restart) I didn't know if I had time for a cradle, but I just went for it.

With 10 seconds left on the clock, I knew I had to make a big play, so I was telling coach to put the ball in my hands. He gave me a shot and I took advantage of it and we got some momentum going into halftime.

We were winning by one point with 40 or 50 seconds to go. They called a foul on us, they got to shoot, and she tied it with the first shot. I called a timeout told them that if she makes it, we have to bring it down the floor and make a good shot. She made it, but we turned the ball over.

We were waiting to see who was going to pit. We wanted to know who didn't pit and who was going to go for it. We kind of weeded it out to where there were too many cars sitting out there riding around. We kind of played it safe. We didn't really think we could make it on fuel. If we went to one or two to go and took a couple seconds of fuel, we probably would have ended up racing for third. Instead, we put tires on and got a top-five out of it. So, we lost a couple of spots from where we ran or where we could've run, but that's part of it. Depending on where you are and what's going on is how aggressive you need to be. We just kind of played it on the safe side.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.

We kept it close. I told my kids with nine seconds on the clock, do not leave this game with your head down. Y'all have exceeded everyone's expectations. I told my kinds very little about Franklin. My kids didn't know how good Franklin was or how good their history really was.

Why foul with 0.5 seconds left? It was dumb. We should have beat them. We had enough confidence to beat them.

You have continual suspense, unfolding letter by letter. You have all these ups and downs in your characters' fortunes. Success or failure is only seconds away, and it's in their own hands. You have character and action built right in.

Those 10 to 15 seconds made the whole experience worth it.

Thomas was just hundredths of seconds away. Thomas is new to track, but he's making strides.

This tournament has been a blessing for me. I want coach to see that I'm going to go in there and get something done. If he puts me in there for 15 seconds or whether it's a lot of minutes, I just want to go out there and do something positive. Hilton and Josh got in foul trouble. I knew I had to step in there and bring a big lift, because I don't want to go home early.

Toronto. I do (remember). I hit the post with 20 seconds left.

We didn't execute well at the end of quarters. That gave them some extra chances. Then we foul a guy with 1.9 seconds left. We didn't play very smart.

We had a decent shot to win the game with 18 seconds to go.

We had a chance to win Game Two with about six or seven seconds to go and we were under the Celtics' basket,

We had a big lead in the fourth and they stormed back. We were down by three with five seconds left and we made a 3 to send it to overtime.

We had a turnover, missed shots and Wally hits a 3. I don't know exactly how it went, but we were right there and then 60 seconds later we weren't.

We got it tight there a couple times, kind of left our feet, got a little out of control. But having said that, we got a decent look at a 3-point shot to tie the game with 18 seconds to go. We had our chances.

We got him across the street and it wasn't two seconds before parts of the roof were falling in.

To tell you the truth, that fight should have been stopped 30 seconds before it was.

True to his word he did resist. ... It took about 30 seconds to remove him from the cell and maybe an additional 60 seconds to strap him to the gurney.

This was a night of champions. Two teams went out and battled to the final seconds and Texas did a great job.

There are an awful lot of floating voters who make up their minds three seconds after they enter the polling booths.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

The prevailing thought was that it was going to be tough for our boys to come back from that. You're sitting in the stands with a four-point lead and 25 seconds left, and you're high as a kite. A few moments later, you feel like you've been punched in the stomach.

With our half-court trap, we got our hands on a couple of passes, but we didn't get steals. And then they would go down and score. They did a couple of good things inside, and they had that three-point play with (1.6) seconds left.

With only one or two seconds to drop per swimmer, it's very attainable.

When we left the court, we heard that Northwestern was up one point with 30 seconds left, but just after we got to the locker room we found out that Ohio State scored late and won. The celebration came to a pretty quick end.

When we touched the ground, people were clapping and cheering because we thought it was going to be a fine landing. Seconds later, we skidded off the runway and it was chaos.

We had somewhat of a tough race. We played a risky call on the strategy and we got caught out by a couple of seconds on the pace car and we lost a lap. Max did a great job and got the lap back. Unfortunately, we needed a yellow and it came two laps too late. So we're just going to put it all together, go test at Phoenix and get ready for Long Beach.

Two seconds in two weeks, they are good weeks, ... Second doesn't feel as good as first, that's for sure.

Finishing second is not going to do her any good. If she had 10 seconds it's not going to do her any good in the long run. You break records by winning tournaments.

Firefighters are frustrated. In a fire, seconds count to make a rescue.

We were down two to start the overtime, but Kevin hit some free throws and we went up five. They hit a shot with three seconds left to cut it to three.

We were down three with eight seconds left and I come down the court and I was doubled. Flip (Murray) was wide open and I got him the ball.

We were down one with 29 seconds left and missed the front end of a one-and-one. They pulled away from there.

We were down by two with eight seconds left to go, but they made some foul shots and we couldn't convert.

We were down by six with 50 seconds to go and won. It doesn't always turn out that way, but the girls showed some guts and courage. And we've been in so many close games this year that I think that played in our favor.

We were down by 13 in the third quarter. But we came back and with 30 seconds to go, we were down by just two. This was a game we had a chance to win, but it's very hard to come from 13 down against a very athletic team like Hamden.

You can land a helicopter at the North Pole, and within 10 seconds you're off position.

We wanted to come out and get on them early. Scoring a goal just 38 seconds into the game was a big boost for us.

We wanted to chop up those last 16 seconds with some fouls. We felt Gabe (Landau) got one at the time line, but it wasn't called. So (Henderson) penetrated and got right down the lane.

We wanted to bring the ball to the basket in some way. We had 15 seconds and that is plenty of time. But we muffed a pass and then we were in kind of a scramble mode. We had to take a not in rhythm shot.

We've had some examples (where) we've had ten seconds of video, 300 images we can add together. With 300 images you can quite literally turn night into day.

Well, he got ready in about two seconds on the sidelines. I think with about a week's preparation, he will be as ready as we can get a freshman ready. He is physically talented, and he has been studying our defense. We may not be able to do as many things as we could with Patrick, but I think we can run our defense with (Russell) in there.

We all saw the board, but it took a few seconds to register. You get down that far and you don't believe at that point that it's going to happen. I don't think the kids knew what to do. It was out of control.

We all saw it seconds after it happened. He was, like, right in the middle of the road.

To see McCabe back on the ice after 30 seconds speaks for itself ... case closed.

The race was a little bit crazy, I didn't understand. I was 20 seconds ahead and the gap disappeared. But there was no risk to lose the victory anytime.

The race was a bit crazy. Some moments I didn't understand. I was 20 seconds ahead and the gap disappeared after three or four safety cars in 10 laps.

The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

We had a good feeling, especially after we tied the game. They just made a great diagonal pass with two seconds to go and we just ran out of time.

We've got a list, and it's becoming shorter. We've probably talked about 20 or 30 people, some for five seconds and some we're still talking about. It's becoming obvious that the list is narrowing down fairly quickly.

We had to get on it every time we turned it over. There was a point we had to run a sprint for 80 seconds on the highest level of speed. That's a killer. My hamstring is still tight from that.

We had three girls foul out, and we got out of sync on offense. Still, if we just play defense in the last few minutes, we win in regulation. We gave up a wide-open 3-pointer with 12 seconds left.

Those points we let slip away in the last 40 seconds of the fourth quarter, I'd like to have those points back.

This was a really big win because it answered questions in terms of are we for real. I could see the intensity of our players in the first 30 seconds of the game and I knew that we were going to play well.

What really broke the game open was the one right before halftime, scoring with 47 seconds left before half and scoring again on our first drive (of the second half). Up until then it was a close ballgame. Those two drives were big to give us some breathing room.

We cannot continue to give up goals with seconds remaining in games. Football is played for 90 minutes and our players must concentrate more.

We had a foul to give and we were trying to knock the ball away and get under two seconds to make them take a wild shot. I thought if the lob to Reed wasn't there, their guard would step out on a backside screen and catch it and shoot it. Hopefully, we can learn from that when the situation arises again. But guys stepped it up when we needed to, and I'm very proud of them.

We kind of went brain dead for 10 seconds in a 2-2 game.

We just knocked off one of the best teams on our schedule, and I don't even think we played our best game. We didn't give up. We could have given up. We had plenty of chances to give up. We led for (the last) nine seconds of the game, and that's all that matters.

Twice (late in the fourth quarter), we had one-and-ones, and we got the rebounds. That's big. We get that rebound, there goes another 10 seconds off the clock.

You have two or three seconds to get someone's attention. What we look for is those kind of attention-getting devices.

To his credit, he's very good at giving everybody a few seconds and enough attention to make them feel comfortable.

To have three boats finish within 1.1 seconds is really exciting, but it's tough to lose by such a close margin. Although we were obviously sad to leave Yale without the win, I think that we raced well and got good experience in an extremely tight contest.

To have the frame of mind to realize he missed, that changes the complexion of (the end of the game). Not only was that (rebound) huge, but it took two seconds off the clock. Give (Baptiste) eight seconds, and he might get a better look.

You have to pay attention. I'm not quite sure it's a good thing for the business as we know it, but the business changes every 20 seconds now.

You have to make adjustments on speed and awareness. It's like five seconds quicker; everything's quicker.

Within seconds of Jennifer Parks being brought to the police station reporters were there.

Within 1.5 seconds you have to be up and going with your elbows locked and your arms pumping.

When you play against a team like McKeesport, you can't play scared or they'll eat you alive. We battled them. Sure we're disappointed that we lost after having the game tied with 5 seconds left in the third quarter. But we committed too many turnovers.

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What a turnaround there in fifteen seconds or so. It was amazing ... We were extremely lucky.

We tried to use 30 to 40 seconds per possession.

We talked about how good they were and then gave them a goal in the first 15 seconds of the game. It's very hard to keep the offense going when there's a long break and we were very fortunate that we caught them in a rusty mode.

We just said, 'Let's stack it up, get it in, go 1-4 low and with about 10 seconds left, let's go hard to the hole. And we did. We got what we wanted out of it. The roll I thought was going to go in. She used the board well, but it just rolled out.

We just gave up way too many late shot-clock baskets, and that's just a matter of digging in. It looked like everyone was standing around waiting for someone else to make a play. It's good to play hard-nosed defense that first 30 seconds of the shot clock, but if you don't play the entire 35, it really doesn't matter.

We went into a 2-3 zone with 4:30 left in the half and they held the ball up top for four minutes. We didn't come out and they stood there and the clock just ticked away. They started working for a shot with 30 seconds left. We got the steal, but again rushed a shot and came up empty.

We had the game in our hands with seven seconds left. If we don't make mistakes, we win.

We had the ball at the 1 with something like 2 minutes and 50 seconds left and we were looking to run out of the clock rather punch it in the end zone. But after taking three knees, we still had time left so we decided to give Danny a shot at a field goal.

We got the ball back on a fumble with about 14 second left. And Kyle threw a 37-yard touchdown pass to Rob Keene, who crossed into the end zone with seven seconds left.

We changed it up in the second half and did a great job. They were trying to wind down the clock and shoot with about four seconds left, so we changed to man.

We controlled the whole game and just gave it away at the end. I think the score was 51-50, and we missed the front end of a one-and one with five seconds to go that could have probably put it away.

You gotta bleed 'em in 60 seconds or less.

You get kids' attention for maybe 10 seconds or so before they're looking somewhere else, ... You need props.

You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.

We went in yelling, 'Where are you? Where are you?' A couple of seconds later, we heard a voice say, 'I'm upstairs.' We were about to head up when we saw her leg on the stairway, so we went up the few steps and helped her downstairs. The top of her body was in the dense smoke. We grabbed under her arms and got her out quickly.

Either Murray or Daly gets the shot. With 9 seconds to play there's not much you can do.

Besides inquiries as to our general well-being, the first thing asked about us, in our first seconds of being alive, is whether we're a boy or girl. Our first passport through this world is our genitals.

Being around the league for a long time, who's to say whether it's a charge or not. The reality of it is, 14 seconds to go, the seven-foot guy falling like he got shot with a gun. Normally that doesn't warrant a call.

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

At some point this will become so annoying that someone will want to change it. I'm quite confident that people are not going to be happy with multiple leap seconds per year.

At this point, it's still very wide open. Our district is always changing -- some events could be 10 seconds faster this year -- you just never know.