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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.

Seneca

But we were tired. We have just gone through a stretch of seven games in a 12-day span, so we're ready to take some time off.

Jim Drew

We played hard tonight and had some opportunities down the stretch.

Mick Stefanek

It was a big breakout night for him. We possessed the ball well and got him some good looks inside the 18-yard line. It was good to see him get his foot on the ball in scoring position. We were pretty efficient. At one stretch, we had five goals on six shots.

Tim Becker

Don't Keep reaching for the stars because you'll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.

Jimmy Fallon

We try to be the best defensive team that we can be. Our goal is to be the best defensive team in the league. We're not an offensive juggernaut by any stretch of the imagination. But, if we defend and rebound, we know we can be in every game. That's where we earn our money, on the defensive end.

Milan Brown

He's a perfect fit. He's going to stretch the court for us. He has speed and over the top scoring ability. There are a lot of things that you can talk about a long time with him concerning his ability, talent and athleticism.

Carroll Dawson

Our depth at running back is valued because of the varying styles that each guy brings to the Purple Stretch offense. We have several options to go to and each provides a unique facet to the offense.

Scott Squires

It was a titanic struggle, no doubt about it. We knew it was going to be tough and it's going to be tough again on Tuesday. Down the stretch our will to win and the crowd was the difference.

Al Westover

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

Courteney Cox

He broke well and we sent him because we didn't want to get into any trouble. I let him run a little down the stretch because I wanted him to get something out of it. People were hooting and hollering in the paddock before the race but it didn't faze him. All he does is keep making me look good.

Russell Baze

I was able to hit some free throws down the stretch and our inside play was good. Andrew was the difference tonight. We really were determined to win tonight.

Jamaal Magloire

We've been able to win at home, and that's been a key for us. Now we go on a tough three-game road stretch that will really test our basketball team. We still have a long way to go. There's really small room for error on this basketball team.

Travis Ford

We just didn't finish down the stretch. We didn't come up with the key stops.

Josh Childress

I've been working on my swing a lot and coming down the stretch I made some good shots. It's definitely encouraging. I made some good putts and I played very well this week.

Nick Watney

I thought Hughes played some great minutes down the stretch for us. He is not normally playing during crunch time, but I thought he hit some big shots and kept his composure for us.

Jeff Price

I didn't feel like myself anymore, and after having just no stretch marks whatsoever and going from that to going to a lot of stretch marks and having them pretty much everywhere on my abdomen, it was a big change.

Kristen Cruz

It's a one-game season and we've been waiting for this opportunity to get some momentum going at the right time. We had a good January and February, and down the stretch we won big games on the road.

Mike Dunlap

It could be three or five stations on one stretch running out - that's a fairly real situation that is happening.

Justin Mcnaull

They made some tough shots and we got a little frustrated. We weren't getting calls on one end, I think there was a nine-and-a-half minute stretch where they didn't have a defensive foul. You don't see that too often.

Josh Nauman

When the gap opened at the head of the stretch, he just exploded. A horse like this just makes our job easy.

Jeff Trosclair

It's an effort to stretch those federal dollars as far as we can.

Kathy Mitchell

Beating Penn State is not going to be an easy task no matter how you stretch it, whether it's at their place or at our place. I think being at home gives us that bit of an advantage. It's always tough to play here and it's always tough to play at their place. We certainly prefer to be going into this game being at the Jesse.

Lori Walker

The seniors have done an awesome job of keeping it together. There was never a doubt in their mind, even when we went on that one stretch . They never thought that the next game they weren't going to win.

Joe Hillock

It was a solid game throughout. We were up one at the half (24-23), then down one after three (40-41). Bozeman made a few plays down the stretch, and we had some good looks but just couldn't convert.

Chad Olson

We need to find a way to win them coming down the stretch the last few holes. We need to get some momentum in the matches.

Meg Mallon

I was very happy with how we played. We made a lot of plays down the stretch.

Tom Wiley

We got it up to 18 in the second half, but they were able to cut it to four late. Maria Viola hit four or five free throws down the stretch and we were able to hold on.

Duwaine Ganskie

We wanted to stretch them out a little bit because we knew they were so big, they were going to be hard to pound with inside. We knew if we could get a lead and extend their defense a little bit, that would be to our advantage.

John Gaier

We just wanted to give him something easy, a chance to stretch his legs before he gets on the plane tomorrow night. He's not much of a work horse anyway. I'll stay to watch him get on the plane, and then I'll fly back to Lexington and leave for Dubai Saturday night.

Buff Bradley

He got frustrated early. He really came back in the second half, played a solid game and really showed some maturity down the stretch, making some big plays and handling the ball under pressure.

Shawn Almond

I think the fun part of the show is, every hour is completely different. There's no formula by any stretch of imagination.

Bertram Van Munster

We made our free throws down the stretch and that was huge. We came out of the gate pretty good to start the first and second halves, and A.J. gave us a nice spark off the bench.

Brian Baptiste

They were a difference-maker. Down the stretch when we're trying to come back from behind, I think it gives us energy. I don't think it affects La Salle, I think it is just positive energy for us.

Bonnie Henrickson

It's pretty frustrating because you get an off week and you're trying to get ready for this SEC stretch and have a setback.

Stephen Ross

I would say right now it would be a stretch to say we could have five teams in bowls.

Craig Thompson

It's a good feeling to come in here and play the first two games well. This team has played us very well and given us a battle each and every night. Right now, it's the stretch run, so we need to play every game as hard as we can, leave it all out on the field and have fun out there.

Tom Gordon

We had a great road trip last time. It's going to be a lot tougher this time. They're going to be ready for us. They're going into the playoff run, the stretch run, so they're going to come hard and it's going to be tough on us.

Dennis Wideman

We believe that since Intel's pre-announcement in early December that consumer and commercial demand has continued to get worse with commercial showing the most disturbing trends. In addition, we believe that servers, which had actually been on track for part of the quarter, saw some softening that we believe is related to corporate IT budget stretch outs.

Daniel Niles

All three boats were pretty close in speed, and it was going to come down to who could make the fewest mistakes down the stretch. It was nice to start the year off with a win, even though we weren't able to operate at full speed.

Mike Irwin

We just didn't execute down the stretch. I thought we got the shots we wanted. I liked our effort.

Paul Pierce

Hopefully (there will be) students willing to stretch themselves a little bit more because Tech has all the components they are looking for.

Brendan Morrison

It was a gutsy effort. We've got a pretty good stretch going here and this whole month has been our playoff run.

Danton Cole

I think we've played extremely well down the stretch. We've had some games where we've really clicked defensively, and we've really been very consistent on the boards.

David Mccollough

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

Louisa May Alcott

We're essentially at the home stretch.

Mark Lee

What a great defensive stand. We knew they were going to spread us out there, but we executed down the stretch today.

Marty Bell

I knew it would come down to who made their shots. They made theirs down the stretch and we didn't make ours.

Dominic Crayton

We had opportunities, ... We just made a couple mental mistakes down the stretch? That?s what bothers us the most.

Bruce Bowen

Looking at how we can interchange runners in the relays, and with Dante in the long jump and hurdles, I can see us qualifying six or seven for state. Ten or 12 might be a stretch, but you want to set your goals high.

Jason Goings

The key for us down the stretch is going to be our balance. We have a lot of talent, but we need to step up and play as a team.

Fred Thacher

In the stretch he really kicked it in and gave me a big move.

John Mckee

It's definitely a tough stretch for us. All we can do is play it. We just want to do the best we can. We want to focus on taking things away from teams and excelling at that.

A.j. Massengale

The referee, for an outlet stretch pass, will now have to get from one end to the other in order to cover the net in a time frame that is not realistic, so there will be an added responsibility on the front linesman to cover for the referee as he's high-tailing it down the ice to cover at the net, ... In our games you're going to see more linesmen covering the net than you've ever seen before.

Ted Baker

That was a game of two completely different halves. I was thrilled with the way we played in the first half. I was very disappointed by the second half. Give Auburn credit - they have not packed it in. They are well coached, and they will be good down the stretch.

Bruce Pearl

There has never been a three-week stretch of season ticket sales like this. Ever.

Tom Mcmillan

Once again, we shot a lot free throws in this game. Over half of them were in the fourth quarter. We shot free throws pretty well today, 19 of 30 is not bad. It's not great. Definitely it was not like what we had the night before, but we made them down the stretch. That's what counts.

Ron Hop

All of the possessions were big. It wasn't one possession that won or lost the game. Down the stretch we needed to make plays in order to win.

Shantia Grace

It's been a difficult stretch for us. We're young, we've been beaten around, and we've played 10 of our first 12 games on the road.

Bill Herrion

That was pretty big, we built our confidence out of that. We knew going down the stretch that we were going to win at that point.

Mike Chere

We got off to a great start, leading 15-1 at one point. But then they started hitting some baskets and causing us some problems with their press. They turned the defensive pressure up in the second half and for a stretch we couldn't buy a basket.

John Grady

(Washington is) going to be a great player in this league. She's strong. She can go right strong, and she can finish. She did give us a problem. But I was proud of our defense at times rotating, especially down the stretch.

Jeff Parham

She takes it very well. She has so much experience over it now that she does it like clockwork. You don't want to use her early over it. You want to settle her to some degree. She's quick, but she can carry her speed. It's just a matter of guiding her down there and saving something for the stretch.

Jon Court

We had a stretch early in the fourth quarter where we had three straight turnovers. We have to cut down on the turnovers.

Mike Stebila

We played 12 kids and 10 of them scored. We just didn't have anybody down the stretch who could make a hoop when we needed it.

Paul Lancaster

It is not a stretch to say, from my experience, Rutgers is one of the most accommodating places in this country.

David Fricke

It's been the source of some very innovative ideas. It gives designers a chance to stretch the limits in a context that's even potentially meaningful. Given the economics of the industry, it can be difficult to create meaningful, new ideas about games. The workshop serves to remind the industry of the foundation of games--creative new ways to play.

Ron Meiners

This was a huge win for us. We are right now in sole possession of second place in the region coming down the home stretch. We still have a lot of improving to do but this was a great performance (Friday).

Andy Gentry

It was a great game -- we did a lot of things really well and I was pleased with the effort. Unfortunately they have a few more basketball players than we do. We have more athletes, but their players did some things for them down the stretch to help the get the win.

Tj Bailey

It comes probably at the right time, even though you're rolling and you want to keep playing. Some of the guys are injured and we need to play good basketball going down this stretch.

Darryl Mcdonald

You could see it going down the stretch. They were pretty winded. Of course, that's why the bench is important. Depth is an important part of this game.

Mike Anderson

What that tells you I think is that people in Riverside County are having to make a bigger stretch.

John Husing

Austin Meier has to be one of the smartest, toughest fourth-quarter players in the state. He just makes play after play down the stretch. His decision-making and timeliness on big plays on both ends have been lifesaving for us.

Lance Randall

I was proud of our kids; I thought we did a really good job. There were some things we did late that I didn't like. I think if you take away that stretch we played extremely well.

Keith Freeman

I was happy with our decision-making down the stretch. That's probably the best we've done with that this year. We had seen Central come back before, but we managed the game well in the second half.

Gene Ammirante

From the beginning we thought we had a chance to win the game. We all kind of looked at each other and in unspoken words said 'we can do this.' What we said all along is you just have to hang around, which we did. We just didn't make the plays down the stretch to get the win.

Tyler Azzarelli

Needless to say, this was a disappointing loss. We have to give Lincoln Christian credit for making great improvement since our first meeting. It was an exciting game, and we unfortunately must take our first conference loss. I hope we can learn from the experience and make improvements that will benefit us down the stretch.

Cheryl Benton

We missed a lot of chip shots in the first half. We had a lot of good looks but they weren't falling. We missed a lot down the stretch.

Dan Mccabe

You saw us playing the way we have to play down the stretch. The way we must play the rest of the way.

Carmelo Anthony

In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.

Suze Orman

I feel badly that I didn't help our team enough down the stretch. I put Chucky in the corner, and he was set up to be trapped. It was my fault. I felt badly that I didn't help them out as well as I could.

Mike Fratello

We played very well down the stretch. Wicks and (Bryan) Mathews both knocked down key free throws. Each of them was 2-for-2.

Steve Monks

Were just now coming around to play together with everyone coming off the injured list. Thats going to help us down the stretch as we look to make the playoff run.

Henry Bibby

Music is so hot right now. It appeals to both boys and girls of all ages. This holiday season people will have less money in their pockets. They want a toy that will stretch further.

John Barbour

I guess all things have to end, and they ended (the scoreless stretch) with authority.

Bryan Henry

I think it will stretch out (into the summer and fall). We've got three quarterbacks competing for the starting job. No one is going to give up, and nobody is going to let anyone step in front of them either, so I think it's going to be a battle to the end.

Ike Whitaker

We talked about how there's probably going to be a stretch in the game where things don't go like we'd like them to go. We've just got to battle through those times and keep playing defense and good things will happen.

Tim Jermain

For consumers, it may be waiting to see how the market shakes out a bit before deciding to buy at a price that's at the top of the market, particularly if they have to stretch to do that.

Allen Fishbein

It's not a trunk song by any stretch of the imagination.

Martin Charnin

This is a very tall, big order for us. It's a stretch for us.

Russell Rasco

You can waste time and make bad consumer judgments just like you can buy a bad CD player or DVD player, ... No site has, by any stretch of the imagination, a corner on the market.

Peter Weddle

A lot of people are tired around here, but I'm not sure they're ready to lie down, stretch out and fall asleep.

Jim Jones

We've seen some good things from him from Day One. His route-running is good. He's getting better, but he's not where we think he can be yet. He hasn't taken it to the end zone yet. He's going to get better as we go down the stretch, but I'm happy with what he's done so far.

Aaron Lee

I think she came out very determined. She's just a sophomore, and she hit her free throws down the stretch.

Deb Bennett

I'm almost 60, so the music will be a little bit of a stretch for me at Revolve , ... We're doing it for them — designing it for teen girls.

Mary Graham

This complaint is really stretching it.

Pamela Karlan

This is the tough part of our schedule, and we need to stay focused. We are in a difficult stretch. Our players have a great attitude with a nice mix of talent and experience.

Michael Toups

He's had a hell of a year, and now he's having a little tough stretch. We're in a good situation because (Boucher) has come in here and played some pretty solid hockey . . . It's a good situation with those two guys. Hopefully, they feed off each other.

Rick Tocchet

The lender will take the commitment to pay interest to the developer into account, even if you don't have to pay that interest immediately. They might not allow you to have a loan that would cause you to stretch your income too far, as you will still have to pay the full amount on the property in the future.

James Cotton

Last year was so good we thought it might be a stretch to better that.

John Packer

The Rolling Stones' recorded legacy is unfortunately similar to that of many other rock stars of the 1960s -- a great burst of creativity that tapers off into a stretch (eventually decades long) of unremarkable (and sometimes downright awful) recorded work.

Bill Wyman

I think 1,000 dollars is a number that's approachable and reachable. That's a goal we should definitely reach. It's not like it's a stretch. It's very attainable.

Deion Sanders

The notion that we would spend nearly four years trying to get a deal without success and then do one within four days is stretching it.

Carl Grenier

There is certainly a tendency to make news out of every potential exploit on the Mac simply because it is more unusual than on some other platforms. A lot of times when you look behind the news, it is a little bit of a stretch.

Bud Tribble

To stop this, you search every single truck. And when you do, it will form a line that will stretch from here to Monterrey. You would put pressure on the Mexican government, and it would cut into exports.

Jack Suneson

I was never upset that we had lost four in a row because we played some good teams during that stretch. We played well against Bellaire, and The Mount (de Chantal), and Park, and we were getting better each game.

Dave Reasbeck

Every January, Chris steps away from Nickel Creek to stretch his musical legs.

Jack Walker

We played very well. It was close early, but we pulled away down the stretch. We had very good balance and I thought it was a very good game.

Gary Sharpe

Clearly, we're on the offense. I think we've acknowledged that in our opinion the brand has been underleveraged. By solidifying that foundation, we think that gives us the right to stretch in the direction like Compass.

John Plecha

Charlie was terrific and had an awful lot of rebounds and Adam had some huge baskets down the stretch. This game tells us we can come back, but I like playing with a lead, myself.

Jason Harlow

Guys have got to realize we can't let these points slip away. You never want to be relying on other teams, especially down the stretch.

Scott Hannan

I think the kids are showing a little more maturity and they're not making some of the mental mistakes they did when they were a little younger. I thought everyone on the perimeter did a nice job down the stretch.

Tom Tennett

It's something that consumers expect. You can easily compare prices and find the best prices online and make the holiday budget stretch a little bit further.

Heather Dougherty

It's clear that the economic impacts from the hurricanes will stretch well beyond the Gulf Coast region to all corners of the nation and beyond. Of great concern for the economy is the mood of the U.S. consumer.

Scott Anderson

We got out of the hole tonight and started playing better. We executed down the stretch better. We had more energy, more intensity. So overall, it was a very good team performance.

Steve Weemer

I think we have a chance after this tournament, I hope, that we'll continue to make some progression and get better for the stretch here at the end of the season. I think these kids can do that.

Scott Oltmann

I can't remember a better stretch than right now, these last three games. Any time you can beat a team like Detroit, it boosts your confidence. It shows you can compete against the top teams and you deserve to be there.

Kyle Mclaren

[While the film does have its share of gags, it's the closest Knoxville has ever come to a full-on dramatic leading role.] I don't think it's a stretch, ... I always knew Johnny was a good actor. But also, when you're looking for the ultimate, charming, redneck-scoundrel rascal, I think Johnny's the go-to guy.

Quentin Tarantino

It kind of exemplifies what we hadn't been getting in this stretch. You just want to take some positive momentum into San Diego. We could've hung our heads after the first loss the first night, but we didn't, won a close ballgame last night, got some big hits tonight. All those things translate into some momentum heading into San Diego.

Royce Clayton

Losing is tough. I thought we played well enough to win. We didn't quite execute the way we wanted to down the stretch. We got a shot, which is what we wanted.

Roy Green

We can't say we haven't gotten any respect. They've given us a lot of respect. We haven't really played well going down the stretch, and to get a No. 2 seed going into the NCAA Tournament, what a feeling.

Stanley Asumnu

We just have to basically hope that we don't have a hurricane come back into the Gulf of Mexico this summer. We haven't fixed yet, by any stretch of the imagination, everything that got broken.

Matt Simmons

We went through a rough stretch and stayed composed. That?s a good sign.

Lisa Mandeville

We did a great job down the stretch shooting free throws. What can you say about Trey Wright. He is a junior who weighs only about 110 pounds, but we put him in to shoot free throws and he made two great free throws. Austin Fox and Dannon hit two big ones as well.

Cameron Watson

We didn't get too many calls in the fourth quarter. They were pushing us and I'm not going to say the officials cost us, but there was a stretch when we didn't get a call at all. We went cold and got stuck on 42 for a long time.

Major Corley

He was fussy and very childlike. He'd be a handful, ... He'd have you so angry, but then he'd come up and hug you. He was just aggravated and somewhat fearful about the key. But we knew if we made him stretch, he'd have to invent something for the performance, slide off into a little falsetto, and it just worked.

Lamont Dozier

He came on strong down the stretch. It's good to have that presence down there and it kind of opens up the rest of the game for us.

Rudy Gay

We needed more people to step up and score. I was displeased with the defense down the stretch, but we know we're going to have to turn things around to make a run at state.

Glory Slater

The wind affected me down the stretch, ... After seeing where the pins have been the past three days...you've got to control your irons pretty well.

David Branshaw

She played well down the stretch. We just weren't finding her and she was finding the ball.

Tracy Palmer

The last two to three minutes of both halves we showed our poise and looked like a veteran team. We made better decisions down the stretch, and I think that was important, too.

Todd Hardesty

Probably the biggest difference was we attacked the basket better. The kids were a little more confident down the stretch. And we played very well defensively. For our game plan with what we wanted to do defensively, the kids got an A plus tonight.

Brad Fuhrer

Last year we had a good stretch. And I'm pretty sure we'll have another one this year.

Derek Puerta

During that stretch we had some communications breakdowns. We just weren't finding their shooters, and they have a lot of people who can score.

Megan Duffy

We have a favorable stretch of games coming up in our schedule and will it help getting us towards the championship.

Jim Yeamans

He was real consistent down the stretch last year, and he's carried it over to this year. He was fighting himself. He didn't have a lot of sink all night, but he got through it. He battled without his best stuff. You look at the games where he's pitched well and come up empty, it's good to see him get a win.

Blaise Ilsley

It's not that much of a stretch to be advertising on the PGA.

Gary Bongiovanni

Some people think a shoe has to be skin tight to fit, which is not the case. Some people want me to stretch their shoe up another shoe size, but that's something I can't do.

Michael Montalto

Cerberus has been in the lead in other supermarket sector bidding and has sometimes faded fast in the home stretch.

Burt Flickinger Iii

I think we're playing our best ball down the stretch here. I think we're getting good guard play. We're taking good care of the basketball. We're playing stingy defense. I think if we continue this way, we have a shot for a home game. But I think that we'll be fine, no matter where we go if we finish well.

Derek Wright

We're good but we're young. We're still struggling to execute down the stretch. Hey, I'm very proud of my team. Any time you win 25 games and make the finals of this league, it's huge.

Josh Pratt

We were a little nervous at the end there. But they stepped up at the end, and Ryan Goodwin was great down the stretch.

Dan Rucker

They're focused and they have some goals they want to achieve. I've got a lot of confidence in them. I think we'll be in good shape to accomplish some things down the stretch.

Matt Chapman

Juice is a competitor. He's played some great games for us in this stretch, ... I know he wants those goals back, but that's the time we have to bail him out at the other end of the rink. The one off the crossbar could have made a difference. We have to have the ability to have a big game offensively for him.

Steve Staios

We definitely have a tough stretch coming up. Right now, we're just going to focus on St. Joseph and take it one game at a time.

Drew Carstens

The benefit to families struggling to make ends meet is two-fold - children receive a nutritious meal, and the family budget is able to stretch a little further.

Nancy Smith

It's a challenging time for the kids. We really need a win to keep our heads above water. It's not that we're playing to lose. We're playing hard and the kids are giving it all they got, it's just every game is something different. We've had a chance to win every game, but we're just not getting the breaks down the stretch. A mistake here, turnover there has been the difference.

Kraig Clifton

I was surprised that it still existed, ... that it hadn't, in fact ... been swallowed up by developers. And I went down, and there it still was, with two condo outfits on either side of this beautiful stretch of beach, but it was like they were moving one foot forward every day, and they were about to get it.

John Sayles

Nothing comes easy for the Saints and right now we're earning everything that we get. The kids are scrapping hard on the line of scrimmage and we're trying to make things happen. We are making some things happen. It just seems like it stays tough ... never completely easy as you're going down the stretch. That's the way it's supposed to be, I guess.

Bob Warren

They're a tough team. I thought they played well and took care of the ball down the stretch.

Joe Brennan

We're not going to make any excuses. We outplayed them for two periods and held them to nine shots (in that stretch). Then for whatever reason, we let them back in the game in the third.

Joe Mullen

She looked so awful in the Florida race but her last race wasn't bad. I think 6 1/2 furlongs might be stretching it a little bit.

Vladimir Cerin

Kyle played big for us down the stretch, not just with the foul shots, but a couple of big rebounds. He had the kind of game you'd expect out of your second-leading scorer. He's been pretty solid for us this season.

George Braun

[So it's not a stretch for Flowers and his band mates to wear makeup and pressed suits.] It's part of the show, ... Vegas is about the show.

Brandon Flowers

We turned the ball over too much, especially down the stretch.

Chuck Hardt

Alan had a bumpy stretch when he was sick, but he had a really good game last week.

Graham Whitehouse

I think the biggest thing is we tied the game, but we never took the lead. Some of the freshmen off the bench did a good job of getting us back in the game, but there were a couple calls down the stretch that help them put some distance in between us.

Tracey Stellato

Those late runs are always huge. We only had a 2-1 lead at the time, and we were able to stretch it out to 6-2. That's huge, and it takes a lot of pressure off our bullpen. We haven't been able to do a lot of that lately for our pitchers.

Reed Johnson

This was one of the better snow years for sure. There were no huge dumps of snow, but we had a long stretch where it snowed four to six inches each day.

Steve Spencer

This was a total team effort tonight. We won the battle on the boards (48-32) and I thought we really executed our offense well down the stretch.

Steve Rives

We have cut down the travel time below two hours for the Delhi-Agra stretch. This will greatly benefit tourists.

Rajiv Saxena

We're going through a tough stretch right now, but our heads are still up. We're missing Steve and Grant (Hill), but there are no excuses. We just have to go and play.

Deshawn Stevenson

We've been staying up-tempo, pushing the ball up the floor. We really don't have a great inside presence where we want to slow down and play half-court basketball. We want to play an 84-foot ball game and stretch it out. I really feel that was a big part of the game. (Enterprise) got tired.

Peter Arnold

This is probably the strongest schedule we ever played. We had that stretch with Carolina, DePaul and Michigan State, then played LSU and opened on the road at Pitt. So we've played some quality teams.

Jose Fernandez

I thought we had a chance. You hold a team to 36 percent shooting, you rebound with them, you get more free throws ... the difference in the game might be the stretch where we turned the ball over.

Bud Childers

We've been on a good stretch. We're playing very confident right now. It's a group of seniors that really wants to be playing baseball.

Bob Myerhoff

It stayed pretty much between eight and 10 points. We did have some opportunities, but we ended up turning the ball over and missing some shots down the stretch.

Dave Pettit

For most of the game, we handled (the pressure) pretty well. But there was a stretch there where we threw a couple of errant passes and a couple bad decisions. When you play a good team like George Washington, they're going to convert on those.

John Goldsberry

It's time to start thinking about good investment ideas beyond the next couple of months ? don't be too defensive and stretch out your time horizon. It's time to look into early next year and the market starts discounting out six-to-nine months when it has reason not to fear too much and we're moving into that mode right now.

Henry Cavanna

The momentum really shifted when he made that long putt and I think my nerves got the best of me, ... But he played extremely well down the stretch. He deserved to win.

Jimmy White

Overall, I thought this was probably our best stretch of man-to-man defense that we've played all season. Now, we just have to keep working at that. We've been playing better. The last four games, I think we probably are playing our best basketball. It's coming together.

Larry Harrison

It?s going to come down to how well we play. We?re pretty close (to securing a playoff berth) but we still have to win a couple of games down the stretch.

Jim Migneault

It was one of those games that even though you lose you're happy with the way your team played. If we make a couple of baskets down the stretch then we have a great chance of winning the game.

Chris Kitchen

Padgett did a great job on both ends. And Jenkins did some good things down the stretch.

Mike Brey

We just collapsed over those last six holes. We started out poorly, played really well for a long stretch, then finished poorly. We seem to go through peaks and valleys as a team rather than just as individuals.

Jim Ott

We were able to turn up the defensive pressure and we hit some key free throws down the stretch. This was one of those games we really needed.

Mike Wilkinson

They did a really good job on defense. We missed some open shots and I made a key turnover late in the game. It's a situation where we didn't make key plays down the stretch.

Jared Jeffries

We had a couple of good offensive opportunities down the stretch there and we just couldn't capitalize. We started to panic a little bit for some reason. That and our free-throw shooting killed us.

Steve Jaskulske

I was a little nervous coming down the stretch. I wanted to make it.

Larry Mize

We knew we needed to get some stops and make a couple of shots down the stretch. We didn't make the stops, but we made the shots.

Robert Hite

The Chinese are going to want to stretch it out, and we're going to want to accelerate it. In 2006, China is the big enchilada and this is the most important bilateral relationship in the world.

James Lilley

For me to just go back in that environment where it's being encouraged was great, ... Just to keep working on your game, keep stretching your game and keep learning.

Adonal Foyle

I am very pleased with how we ended. We ended very strong. Our goal is to get better. For a stretch there (in the season) we were kind of stagnate. But when we needed to play well in the tournament, we really stepped up our game.

Mark Nore

That was really the key stretch for us. We had established a lead coming into the locker room and then we just kept the intensity in the second half.

Keisha Brown

With Rex coming back in, they opened the offense up a lot more. That helped me out because that's what I do -- I stretch the field. I'm real happy with what has been going on.

Bernard Berrian

Certainly, Syracuse is in the middle of a very difficult five-game stretch, no question about that. There are certainly scheduling challenges with 16 teams. We're the largest league in the country, and that makes scheduling difficult.

John Paquette

If a team wasn't taller than us it would scare us to death. Our tallest kid is 6 foot -- if we stretch it.

Tommy Bleeker

I'm very excited about the way our kids played. We didn't do some smart things down the stretch, but we did enough to pull the game out.

Dusty Perdue

I wanted us to play hard for 32 minutes. I thought except for that little three-minute stretch in the fourth quarter where we had three or four turnovers in a row that we played real hard.

Denny Parks

We just didn't want to see the same thing happen as we did last week. This was an important win for us and this is a very important home stretch for us.

Alex Tanguay

We made our foul shots - 9-for-13 - down the stretch when we needed to.

Layne Higgs

The biggest obstacle is creating a program and putting together a quality documentary and doing it in a very inexpensive way. We have to make every dollar stretch as much as we possibly can.

Jeff Chirico

You know, that's a hard question. You can't say the sport expanded too quickly, because it didn't expand at all for 45 years. Was Japan a stretch for us, running an exhibition race there? Yeah, I think it was. Was Mexico a stretch? Hmmm ...

Kyle Petty

If it meant I was just gone from their lives for 10 hours at a stretch, I wasn't interested. I wouldn't take a job like that.

Amy Deluca

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch.

August Hare

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

Charles Potter

Very probably this was an idealistic youth who took things too far. I think the government has been over-enthusiastic about stretching a little evidence as far as they can.

Steve James

The first time we played them, he stayed outside. Tonight he went inside. My biggest kid is 6-2 and a half and we're stretching for the half inch. We just couldn't stop him. The first time he fell into what we wanted him to do. Tonight, he started going inside on us.

Patrick Fox

Clearly, Tulsa is the second-best team we have faced after (No. 2) Duke, and I felt like we competed really well with them. This was one of our most complete games. We just had a couple of lapses down the stretch that cost us.

Jen Warden

Everyone was real disappointed about the way we lost [last] Thursday night. We gave it our all and just didn't execute down the stretch like we should have.

Steve Ryan