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Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Frank Leahy

I am really proud of the job the girls did in the second half; we talked at halftime about.

Bill Duffy

The game was great. We were fine out of the beginning and never lost our lead. We didn't wait until halftime to push.

Lukas Sisco

We didn't think it was ours at halftime. We came back when we played them, and we knew they could do it to us.

Alison Lacey

I told them at halftime, we've got to run the football.

Lin Stadler

We talked at halftime about defensive intensity, and we got it. We did a good job of locking them up.

Roosevelt Barnes

They had the momentum coming out of halftime and we had to get our intensity back.

Brittany Campbell

We were horrible. If we make a few of those baskets, it would have been a different score at halftime.

Amy Froess

We were a little frustrated with the officiating but coach told us at halftime just to keep our composure and some calls will go our way.

Ally Jensen

That was one of the things we talked about at halftime. Down at the end every foul is a free throw basically.

Rachel Farwell

I was really impressed with the kids at halftime and how they were so calm and focused. They knew they were going to come back. They weren't going to let that game get away.

Kurt Faust

We were feeling real good at halftime. I thought we had the edge. Finally, we were actually doing some good things and we were up at the half. I thought we were going to finish it out.

Calvin Cannon

We told our kids that everyone on our schedule is capable of beating us from here on out, and I'm not sure if they believed us until halftime.

Rob Kirk

Bray scored a nice goal. She dribbled through a couple of defenders, got to the right side of the circle and cracked it in. We had a good feeling going into halftime.

Angela Tammaro

I think what kind of did us in was being ahead at halftime. We didn't come out (for the second half) with the same intensity. We came out kind of flat.

Ben Tonon

Having our top player out is not an excuse. We came to win and we didn't win. We had the lead at halftime and we didn't get it done as a team.

Mike Brookhart

In the Easter tradition, we laid an egg in the first half. We were lucky to get into halftime down only 2-1.

Harold West

At halftime, we felt we had a chance. We had our chances in the second half. We capitalized on the fumble recovery and scored, but we couldn't keep it going.

Chris Boden

We hoped to get it down to six by halftime, but I was very pleased with the way we came back especially for this team, which has very little playoff experience.

Scott Slayton

I'm proud of my guys. In every great game, like this one, you have to overcome adversity. These guys responded after halftime and did it with fundamentals. This was a big win for us.

Paul Pellicani

Our kids really played well in that game against Lane Tech. When were down (6-0) at halftime, but they didn't give up.

Jesse Chick

I thought we were right where we needed to be at halftime.

Joe Cravens

At halftime Mo did a good job. A lot of guys felt like we battled pretty good. At halftime we came in and Mo told us it wasn't good enough. He said we still had more in us.

Tony Meola

We challenged Timmy at halftime to really get in his face.

Dennis Dacus

At halftime I challenged them a little bit. We came out flat with a low energy level, but we were able to generate offense from our defense in the second half.

Sean Organ

That was our deal at halftime that we wanted to put pressure on the quarterback.

Chris Svarczkopf

At halftime, I said let's start going around them, creating shots, go inside-out and get stops.

Dave Macedo

Our only loss was in the last game at USC. We were up 17-0 at halftime but they came back and beat us, 20-17. And it cost us, too, because back then Notre Dame didn't go to bowl games.

John Huarte

It gave us momentum going into halftime. It gave us a positive edge coming back out.

Camille Little

I challenged them at halftime. And they did a great job responding.

Rudy Grandbois

One game plan was to see if we could make it 4-2 at halftime. We talked to the girls and they decided they wanted to play.

Reggie Lee

Man, I was in there squeezing some boards down. We talked a lot at halftime to keep pushing it and keep getting better.

Chris Quinn

Jordan had a great game. He had 15 points at halftime, and he got 15 more in the second half. He was a big key to the game.

Billy Tubbs

The first goal was huge. It gave us a huge confidence boost, and we headed into halftime with some real hope.

Martha Whiting

At halftime, they made adjustments.

Ronny Lemelle

Their coach made some adjustments at halftime that gave them more opportunities to score.

Randall Molsbee

We adjusted a little at halftime. We slowed down on our side of the court.

Danny Starkey

I thought 25-19 was the worst it could have been for us at halftime. I really thought we could have been up a lot more.

Kent Houser

Our challenge to the players at halftime was can we put this team away. But we couldn't do it.

Tom Lamb

We talked to Brady and Garrett (Jacobsen) about being senior leaders at halftime. Those two were big for us all game. Brady did everything for us.

Kory Nelson

Our guys decided at halftime we weren't going to let this game get away. That's what it amounted to.

Brian Armstrong

You're up 31-15, that sucker should be over, and then we give up a 10-0 run. That's all we talked about at halftime, was picking it up defensively.

Keith West

I challenged Roman at halftime. I reminded him that Armon and Darryl were his friends and that they were beating him again. Roman is the kind of kid who responds well to challenges.

Kyle Schellin

I think I need to give my halftime speech before the game.

Tim Beck

We were ahead by 15 at halftime and I wasn't sure if it was going to be enough with this bunch. But I felt good about the way we handled the second half.

Cal Mccombs

At halftime I said we've played three really good halves of basketball. We didn't get that fourth half.

Joel Fey

We dominated them from beginning to end. We ran the clock in the second half because it was 56-0 at halftime.

Brad Franchione

They had a chance to blow us out before halftime. But we closed the gap.

Jamall Edmondson

People forget I did highlights for four years at halftime on ABC.

Chris Berman

We made some adjustments at halftime and began stunting up the middle and that disrupted their option game.

Patrick White

Our halftime talk was all about defense. We didn't even write anything on the board.

Jeni Hopkins

We're a second-half team, definitely. For some reason in the first half we just can't get it done, but we get angry at halftime and then come out and do it in the second half.

Jon Chaloux

We fought for 80 minutes. The halftime kind of broke our momentum.

Craig Cusson

A goal at halftime was not to let Holliday get a 3. He didn't score in the second half.

John Grosey

McComb is big and strong up front. They made some mistakes and led us 14-0 at halftime.

Hunter S. Thompson

We told Doug at halftime that we really needed him, and he came out and gave us a gutsy performance.

Quinton Dale

We wanted to come out and win the second half. That is an old cliche, but sometimes you've got to resort to that. And that's where we were at halftime.

James Blankenship

I felt terrible for him. The only chance I got to see him was at halftime, and that was briefly. It almost brought me tears going in there and seeing him. I consider him my best friend. I felt terrible for him, to have to go down that way.

Jon Kitna

It was probably a miracle we were in the game at halftime.

Bill Fennelly

Probably her most complete game she's played in her four years. The only thing she didn't do tonight was sweep the floor at halftime.

Matt Thissen

We totally broke down. I didn't expect that ending at halftime when we were rolling ---- or going into the third period, either.

Whitney Spence

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Kurt Melton

At halftime we talked about how they had to set a personal goal of getting to ground balls with the mindset that every ground ball belongs to us.

Gary Sherman

In last year's championship game, it was 19-16 at halftime.

Matt Sgambati

We were sluggish during the second half. Fortunately, we had the big halftime lead. We will have to be ready for a good challenge against Andrew. It should be a good game.

Matt Major

It was so demoralizing. It's that way in any sport; you give up a goal right before halftime, and it demoralizes.

John Ellinger

We executed better in the second half, and that's what we spent halftime talking about.

Maura Mchugh

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime.

Jim Crawley

At halftime, you go and taunt one another.

Stephanie Young

We were focused on defense. Coach Gardner told us at halftime to make defense our main point.

Rochelle Vaughn

We were very proud of how we played at halftime and we told the kids so.

Mike Workman

She's allowed here at halftime. She comes for a bowl soup and good-naturedly goes elsewhere so as not to jinx the team.

Mike Shultz

I reminded him of what we said at halftime last week: 'We're going to ride you. Let's go.' .

Al Groh

Contractually, the halftime is under the domain of the Orange Bowl.

Mark Mandel

We came out of halftime running and pressing and I just got some opportunities.

Chris Meyer

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Bear Bryant

No one used to care about halftime. But the Super Bowl has gone from a game, to an experience, to an event, to a holiday.

Steve Sabol

(At halftime), we talked to the forwards about pressuring the defense. We wanted to make things hard on their defense.

Matt Pfau

We talked about stopping that at halftime. I think we just had a couple of guys blow assignments.

Anthony Montgomery

We knew this game wasn't gonna be a blowout, so we went in at halftime and we said let's pick up the defensive pressure.

Dennis Dacus

I think he's the most complete big kid in the state of New Jersey. He asked me at halftime if he could guard(Harris) in the second half.

Phil Colicchio

It was 29-22 at halftime, but we got in quite a bit of foul trouble, and they started dropping 3s on us.

Josh Mcpherson

I wasn't pleased with our defense in the first half and I challenged them at halftime to come out and play Skowhegan basketball.

Heath Cowan

She went in at halftime, her head was down, there were tears in her eyes.

Sue Adams

He really played well. He did everything except sell popcorn during halftime.

Brock Berryhill

The thing I liked at halftime was that we had about 15 or 20 assists. Our kids are very unselfish right now.

Bob Berggren

In the games that they have won, it have pretty much been over at halftime.

Marty Jaggers

They were one of those kind of teams you can't let hang around. That's what we talked about at halftime.

Dajuan Harris

We felt fortunate at halftime. We played about as poorly as we can and we were only down six.

Jeff Guiot

We have to be able to play the full game. We have to get over being a one-half team. I was really disappointed with our effort at halftime.

Don Flanagan

At halftime, we had to do something to put the clamps on them, and we did a much better job after that. Both teams came out really ready to play.

Don Davidson

It was a sudden thing right before half, but at halftime coach asked me if I was ready to go back in. I said we could give it a go.

Richie Williams

At halftime, we just talked about getting after it on defense, so that we could widen the margin.

Kyle Loomis

We changed the press at halftime, and we got several easy steals out of it.

Jim Wiscombe

At halftime, we challenged the kids. We weren't executing on offense. After our first drive, we didn't score, and the fumble hurt us.

Al Way

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Cristy Mckinney

I felt really good being tied at halftime. We weren't shooting the ball well, but I thought that would get better, and I thought they were getting tired.

Jeff Reis

I actually thought we'd come back after halftime with a little bit more fire because we had a pretty good talk.

Luis Carmona

With as flat as we played, we were very fortunate to be up 1-0 at halftime.

Chad Scaling

You can't write your memoirs at halftime.

James Mckean

We told (the players) that was the key to the game and they did it. When they saw the halftime stat and we were actually out-rebounding them, it gave (us) a lot of confidence.

Becky Francis

If we could have gone without a halftime and right to the second half, we may have had a different start. When halftime was over, we came out flat.

Marc Brewe

We fixed our mistakes at halftime. We never point fingers because we're going through it together.

Donnie Mccleskey

Danville had a five point lead at halftime. Our defense came alive in the fourth and it made the difference.

Tim Whitney

We came out real lazy. Coach didn't like that. He came in at halftime, and just blasted us.

Antonio Anderson

Everybody was frustrated at halftime. It seemed everybody had lost confidence. . . . There's fight in us. It shows that we can fight and we can come back but we have to do that in the first half.

Stephanie Bennett

We tried to pinpoint what we do best. We said at halftime we wanted to win the second half.

Al Lavan

I told the kids at halftime that it's get after it on defense or our season is ending.

Mark Mohl

We turned it around and deflated their momentum late in the first half. And then we finished it off after halftime.

Brad Gomez

We came out without a lot of energy and it was fairly close to halftime. But we were able to pull away in the fourth quarter.

Jeff Bickmore

We came out at halftime trying to pressure them as they only had eight guys. That would make them tired and cause some turnovers.

Shane James

At halftime I told the kids that nobody beats us on our court.

Sam Fitzgerald

When you build yourself a 16-point halftime deficit, you almost have to play perfect at both ends to win.

Joe Cassidy

We had a comfortable lead at halftime and that was a big help. We're glad we won but we're looking to be much better.

Ryan Hennessy

Our defense wasn't as good as it could have been. They made some adjustments at halftime and it really worked for them.

Bradley Starks

Part of it is our depth. At halftime they're tired and the competitive edge isn't there.

Andy Wagner

The halftime score is going to be important.

Steve Mariucci

We knew they were going to make a run at us when we were talking at halftime. But we weathered the storm, buckled down and got our game back.

Larry Moore

I thought it would take us a while to get going. I saw the confidence early. I wasn't worried. I didn't get on them at halftime.

Deb Henderson

We are in the same range we've been in since the beginning of December, ... Halftime Report.

David Swanson

We talked about rebounding and turnovers at halftime.

Tad Secrest

That's how we got outnumbered. We made that adjustment at halftime.

Randy Zavada

We called it to Britney. She catches it and boom, 3-pointer. That's huge because it not only gives us confidence going into halftime but it builds her confidence for down the road.

Alan Barton

We said that at halftime ... we didn't see a bad shot. We were happy about that.

Kurt Melton

At halftime, we made a few adjustments, but more than that, the kids were saying they were capable of being better than this, and showed it.

Jeff Urban

We were rightly booed off at halftime. But we did the same at their place as they did to us tonight, and we lost 1-0. It's funny how football works.

Chris Coleman

At halftime, we decided that we were going to come out and battle. You can't always control the shots going in, but you can control your effort.

James Slaton

We got a bit of a telling off at halftime. We came out and we were much, much better in the second half.

John Terry

We made good adjustments at halftime. We committed more to denying them the ball.

Mike Giuliano

We could have been 3-0 down at halftime and in the second half as well.

Augustine Eguavoen

I didn't think about it being broken. I wiped the blood off and kept playing. It wasn't until halftime that I saw how crooked it was.

Michael Graff

It was a great game. Dave Dickenson came in [at quarterback] after halftime. One more possession and it could have been a different outcome.

Bill Moos

I saw the fire in his eyes at halftime. He took the team on his shoulders.

Rob Pavinelli

We challenged the girls at halftime to step up.

John Chernick

We missed 10 free throws in the first half alone and the first half of four 1-and-1s. We make those and we would have led at halftime.

Matt Davidson

I thought our defensive effort was great. At halftime we had only given up four field goals, and those came from outside. We set the tone defensively that we were not going to let them get to the basket.

Lexa Larsen

At halftime it was anybody's game. But they hit a couple threes early in the second half and it was catch-up after that.

Paul Maljan

Kyle's been unstoppable. We made some adjustments at halftime to get him the ball more.

Jeff Santarsiero

Jen Jones' 3 out of the (left) corner is off of a play that we put in at halftime. That was nice to see that we put something in that they actually ran it, and we got something out of it.

Tim Parrinello

We changed a little bit at halftime and came from the perimeter and that probably had as big an effect as anything we did in the game.

Bob Hill

We knew Prairie was probably not going to go away and that their coaches would challenge them at halftime and they'd come out and respond.

Dan Sabers

Defensively, we were really disappointed at halftime. In the second half we picked it up defensively and I think that was the difference.

Hugh Godsey

In the first half, we came out with a lack of focus, lack of intensity and the wrong attitude. That's what the halftime talk was about. It was getting them focused.

Scott Reynolds

I guess I need to figure out what I am saying at halftime and stop saying it.

Chris Grinde

We came in at halftime and we thought we were going to win the game.

Mark Dantonio

He came to me at halftime and told me that he'd take care of it.

Craig Drury

We talked about that at halftime. We felt him with us there in the second half.

Marcus Hunt

I gave a hard-nosed speech at halftime, that's for sure.

Marty Roos

We were up by one at halftime; we were so close. I still have a lot of confidence that we are a good team.

Coleman Collins

We are considering this halftime. He's won the first half.

Tim Williams

They hit that shot at the buzzer, and it really gave them some momentum going in. Then they jumped on us after halftime.

Phil Loy

Halftime Highlights. It was a milestone in TV sports coverage.

Jim Mckay

I told my assistant at halftime that we couldn't keep up with this pace. But we actually exceeded it.

Jim Dolan

If the other team has three baskets at halftime, you should be in good shape.

Carl Williams

At halftime we tried to get that fear out of them and we responded.

Robby Robinson

After the first half, you can't explain what happened. Sometimes you wish halftime never comes because things are going too good.

Bill Berger

We really got after it after halftime and took the edge back in rebounding and on defense.

Joe Rapczynski

We joked about breaking the record at halftime. We wanted it.

Trevor Booker

We really should have been up 10 at halftime. We made a few too many mistakes and didn't execute as well as we would have liked.

Dennis Greco

I was concerned that we had used a lot of effort to come back. We need to get stronger as a team. I was very calm at halftime, but I was very concerned.

Mike Strong

We had a pretty good pep talk at halftime and it got us going.

Samantha Gray

We told them at halftime we had to run to the ball and not think so much and hopefully we could create some big plays defensively, which we did.

Ronn Lee

I lit into them at halftime about that, and that did a lot of good. We make them, and it's not even close.

C.j. Woollum

It was a hard earned win. We knew it wouldn't be easy, even at halftime when we were up by 12 (26-14).

Doug Lowe

At halftime Jeff was chewing him out in the hallway. So he's been coaching him for a long time.

Bobby Petrino

We said at halftime that this game wasn't over, that they had a quarterback who could pass them back into it. After the runback, it was our game.

John Hawblitz

After halftime we played our game.

Erin Olson

It came down to hustle and heart for us. At halftime, I knew I had to come out and be a leader for us.

Emery Wallace

Our kids were talking about defense at halftime. They really wanted to step it up.

Eldon Hoy