My favorite player growing up was Cal Ripken Jr.. To play that many consecutive games, he played hurt a lot. I loved that about him. That’s the kind of guy I want on my team....

We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without him.

One of the best games we’ve played so far this year.

And we haven’t lost any of those games.

We couldn’t pull a few out but they were all close games and during each one of those losses we felt that we could have won the game. Knowing that is a great sign because...

I think I’ve played well the last two games. I didn’t have the start I wanted with Montreal, but sometimes that happens and you have to concentrate on what’s in front rather than looking back.

This year, the games we’ve played well in, we’ve scored early. That’s a credit to the top of our lineup. Those guys have consistently gotten on base and made things happen.

You don’t know until you’ve played a few games who is going to step up and do things, but I think we have a lot of offensive talent out there that we’re going to utilize...

We played a tough schedule this season in preparation for these type of games. It’s paid off for us at the district and regional level and it did again tonight.

All of these games are important. We have to take each one individually and go out and give our best effort.

We’ve been swinging the bats well for five or six games. But a good pitcher sometimes can stop that. Crawford was able to get ahead of the hitters and make the clutch pitch.

Those kind of games come down to one big hit. Helling and Oswalt both pitched outstanding, and then Lidge came in and did an awesome job. Dana battled to get two outs and then got...

We can do some damage. Nobody knows you here. They might see a couple of your games on tape, but they don’t know you like the Big Ten knows you. That’s why we’ve got a...

I told everyone to step up their games at halftime. We tend to get down on ourselves, but we didn’t let that happen this time.

I’m just ready for those first three games, put it behind us and deal with it as a team. I have confidence in my teammates to go out and win.

I picked up a lot of games in the standings. To go to a team that’s only a couple of games out in the division and leading the wild card, that’s great.

It’s hard to win games when a team shoots 62 percent from three and you shoot 37 percent overall.

Any suggestions Kylie is to appear in any part of the Commonwealth Games are erroneous and misleading,

He’s intense the whole time. He competes hard in practice and he competes hard in games.

They’re a great defensive team and we struggled in the second quarter. They didn’t win 26 games by mistake.

I was able to go to unbelievable games.

I think with the four games this week we know we’re going to stay sharp.

That was exciting. We’ve lost our last two close games, so to pull that one out is huge.

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.

We played three consecutive games where we dug ourselves a nine-point deficit we couldn’t get out of.

You grow up playing five games in three days in tournaments. It’s like going back to peewee hockey again.

In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue – 20,500 – and in Tamil Nadu, I have been emphasizing on the positives of chess to the...

He is a handful. Chris has played very well in most of their big games. I feel in some ways that I’ve got one of the best defensive centers in the country in my team...

Things are going to turn around, two heartbreaking games we had. Hopefully we can just learn from these types of games as the season goes along.

Shannon Brown does have a knack for rising to the occasion in big games. He kind of thrives on the pressure. When I told him he had to take over a little bit, he did...

Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

The gods play games with men as balls

We knew that we didn’t have Walter. But I didn’t think that was something that was detrimental to us because I thought it might be one of those games where maybe somebody might play inspired...

I’m always excited, … Pitching in the eighth inning, in games like this, it can’t get any better than this. I like to show emotion; that’s my natural style.

We just have to keep playing good basketball and winning games. Anything can happen. Momentum can switch and we could start losing. We can’t let it get to us, being in first place.

In all the games, we worked really hard. This was a tough grind here. The schedule was backwards. It made it that much more challenging for us. I’m happy with the way we played throughout...

We just couldn’t carry over the quality play we had from the weekend games.

With our guys, it’s different this year. We have found ways to keep winning games, and we’re playing really charged and energetic.

When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I’d try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner...

As I told them, if we win our last three games, we’re in the tournament, if we lose any of those three, we’re probably out. It’s still in our hands, I believe, though you never...

I think the guys are getting the sense of what it’s going to take to win games, and limiting our turnovers and getting some better chances, … I think we’re learning a little bit from...

He cared less, so they cared more. He said it was beautiful. I knew he was broken.This was his game.

The games that we’ve won have been close. We’ve had to go to our closer every time, so it was good to spread out and not have to use him early in the series.

Anytime you can win two of three games when your on the road is good.

Football Coaches do play football matches; their attitudes toward the game in times of tendencies of losing can cause a change in the scores of the games they monitor and mentor!

That’s one measuring stick, certainly, for quarterbacks. But of all those games, how many ended up as victories for that guy’s team?

Both games are big, but for us to win this one was huge, especially going in playing at home (today).

nice knowing ya…

That’s something we talked about. We noticed that we were coming out flat at the start of games. We decided we’d set the tone and let our teammates follow us.

It’s kind of sad because we won’t have those rivalry games with Bangor and Lawrence, but we appropriately are moving to B where we belong, enrollment-wise.