Whether or not we lost 4-1, we went out with class and had a good stretch.

Bryan Larrison

I had plenty of horse all the way in the race, a lot of confidence. I know what kind of horse he is. I don't want to use him early. I want to wait for the top of the stretch.

Javier Castellano

They are focused. There's no question about it. This is their stretch run, and they've got to make the best of it. They're going to be awfully tough.

Lou Piniella

I think it was just two good teams that both had our stretches. We just had a better stretch.

Thaddeus Young

He's going to be missed. He's a reliable defender for us. But Nicky Wallin is back [after sitting out a long stretch following wrist surgery]. It's a chance to expand his role, and he's starting to feel more confident.

Peter Laviolette

These coordinated efforts will help families in need stretch their heating dollars.

Billy Mills

North Branford was coming off a two-overtime win, so we knew they were going to play well down the stretch. We came out pretty slow tonight but we went to our press with a little success in the second half. Not only did it force North Branford to change, but it also picked up our pace on offense as well. It got us into the game.

Mark Mccray

They did what we asked them to do. We had to get off to a good start and control the tempo. And we were able to hit those key free throws down the stretch.

Alonzo Sledge

It's great. Down the stretch it's going to be huge for other guys to step up. The end of the season is when you're supposed to play your best basketball.

Mark Walters

Give SPASH credit, they executed well tonight. I felt like we had the kind of looks at the basket that we were looking for down the stretch, but we didn't hit them.

Heidi Michaelis

I was just praying that we'd get to overtime. We did, and the kids made big plays down the stretch.

Dave Benter

That's what you expect from seniors down the stretch, to play with that sense of urgency. These guys have really kicked it in gear. We had great performance out of all of them.

Dick Diener

The main thing is, nobody is losing. They're not making any mistakes down the stretch. If any were to lose and we stayed on a positive course, that may change.

Karl Smesko

We just came back and started playing well. They had to foul us down the stretch and we finished up strong in the fourth quarter.

Jim Miranda

Four errors looks like we didn't play good defense but we did. We executed defensively in key situations. The key to the game was the stretch with key defensive plays. The kids kept their heads. That's a sign of maturity.

Tracy Bodi

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Sir Winston Churchill

Peter was immense on the boards and he played very well down the stretch. We do not get to be the bigger team all that much. We used our size well tonight.

Bill Hurley

I thought Brooke was the difference. She had a little stretch in about 30 seconds that was huge for our team.

Robin Pingeton

I'm looking for some consistency from some of those guys coming out of that bullpen. Daryl has given up the [home run ] ball a little bit lately, but we need to give him the ball. He's been here three years, and we need to find out whether he's going to be able to help us down the stretch.

Dave Jorn

I think we did a good job of playing with intensity despite the small crowd. We executed when we needed to down the stretch. We also played well in spurts defensively. That's how we built that lead in the second half.

Tom Massolio

It's definitely important to win early. Especially, Coach James tells us, we need to win at home. If you win at home, it really helps you to take care of your business down the stretch.

Wilky Bazile

She showed a lot of heart today when they challenged her in the stretch.

John Mckee

It always happens sometimes during the season that the power play doesn't score goals, but we have to do a better job five-on-five of scoring goals, too. It's not always on the power play and penalty kill. We play a lot of five-on-five hockey out there, too. Hopefully, the power play gets confident and gets going again. That's what we need in this last stretch.

Antti Laaksonen

For us it has been a really good stretch. The last game was important to win before the (Olympic) break.

Vaclav Prospal

I sat down after that with my coach to work on some things. There were a few shots I couldn't hit down the stretch. I had trouble in the wind and that led to bogeys.

Tripp Isenhour

We had about a three-week stretch where we weren't playing very well at all. We thought we played well enough to beat Crook County, and it didn't work out, but we're playing better. We just need to bottle the passion we play with against Pendleton and use it in the rest of our games.

Larry Usher

Scoot that back leg in, get in that stretch.

Katie Mast

They killed us on the boards with to many second opportunities. That hurt us down the stretch.

Holly Treat

We know that Andrew is a competitor and deserves to be playing somewhere, and frankly it just didn't appear he would get into many games for us down the stretch. Minnesota was looking to add a player like Andrew to their roster so the deal made sense for both the clubs and the individual.

Kurt Silcott

They played hard down the stretch to make it a two point game and gave ourselves a chance to win. We missed shots and then Nash came back in and controlled the last couple minutes. Those other guys were getting rattled and he came back in and controlled the offensive end.

Rick Adelman

He has really matured. We call him Kenny Rogers. He knows when to fold them and hold them. He has done a nice job down the stretch.

Tim Mcconnell

It's great to get that first win. We had a couple losses down the stretch in the preseason, so it's good to get your confidence going.

Charles Burks

As citizens of this country, we need to unite to help our brothers and sisters in their time of need. We must all stretch the boundaries of the giving as far as we are able to, knowing we will enrich the lives of others.

Deion Sanders

The thing I like about Martin's play was his defense. I thought with his four steals and his very good defense, particularly in that stretch where we went on that late run, was very important. Martin is a pleasing guy and he wants to please everybody. He had people here and he's from here and my guess is he pleased them all.

Dan Dakich

He does that a lot. He can pitch from a stretch; he can have a high leg kick; he has another delivery, too.

Carlos Cepero

Give credit to them. They got better, they played a lot harder, and they caught us at a good time. We had a little residual from the last game, but we were able to gut it out down the stretch.

Spencer Mayfield

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Jeff Dockter

I've been playing well the last little stretch. When the putter is on, I'm going to shoot some low scores.

Jon Mills

I thought Curry was fabulous down the stretch. They were really stepping up on us and we weren't getting much time down on the other end, so he had to really stand tall.

Jack Parker

I thought a win last week was pretty important and we didn't get it. Any win for us right now is important. Every team we play here down the stretch, if we're going to have any kind of season at all, is important. Our players understand that.

Jim Grobe

We felt we needed pitchers who could throw strikes. The two players we sent out were not throwing strikes. Carter admitted he's never had a stretch like this where he couldn't throw strikes.

Ned Colletti

We went on the road and won four games, which is tremendous. Now we start the next segment of the season, a stretch of home games that start Wednesday where we need to play our best basketball, and that's what we are going to try to do.

Al Walker

We're starting to get smarter as the season goes on. We handled things down the stretch. I'm pleased with that.

Matt Choman

We had our chances tonight but didn't play very smart down the stretch.

Phil Ralston

Free throws down the stretch up us over the edge.

Chris Valdez

It was about a 3-mile stretch.

Dawn Hudson

I've gotten really into stretching the last couple seasons. It helps my flexibility and tends to alleviate certain problems.

Matt Fannin

If a commission comes in for tuba and gorilla, she'll write a piece for tuba and gorilla, and it'll come out sounding like her. I think the humor in her music is ... like her thumbprint. And I would have to say that extends into her life away from music as well. I think it would be impossible for her to remain somber for more than a few minutes at a stretch.

Steve Swallow

We played real well this morning and the game could have gone either way. We had a couple tough breaks down the stretch.

Shawn Almond

His best distance is probably a mile-and?an-eighth to a mile-and-a-quarter. It's good to see that we can stretch him out from here.

Todd Pletcher

I think that was the turning point, because that was a real critical stretch. It was a three-point game. You just can't have those kinds of mental breakdowns and the theme of the game for us was mental mistakes.

Shaun Busick

You have to give our guys credit coming back like that. We need a stretch like this to get us back in the running.

Derek Lowe

They kept the ballgame close, making free throws. We kept it close because of turnovers, but we did compete down the stretch. I thought our girls played extremely hard. It was a good victory for us.

Johnny Jones

Some people really need to stretch. My husband's a stretcher, I'm not.

Meg Barrett

She likes to compete. She's a hard worker and she just hates to lose. You can see it in her eyes when she's coming down the stretch. That's just her way.

Ben Boyd

We're trying to stretch them to stay in touch with the community.

Lisa Lewis

It's no big stretch to do it for a medicine, particularly in a case like this, where a patent owner cannot supply the stockpiles of medicines that the WHO says are necessary.

James Love

If there had been a guardrail, one of us would have been killed, ... It's a short stretch with four lanes fed by two-lane streets.

Charles Hall

At the end of the day, we had a stretch of 12 minutes from the end of the first quarter to the beginning of the second quarter where we didn't execute. We dug ourselves a hole, and we couldn't get out.

Jim Stagnitta

She had a nice stretch there. Brittany played a very unselfish game and she and her teammates came away with the win. It was nice to be able to coach her one last time.

Ceo Mike Bowen

He ran a great race that day. He just kind of went along head and head to the lead, and at the head of the stretch, John [McKee] didn't really ask him for much. John crossed his reins on him, and he just drew off. It was a pretty impressive race.

Bob Holthus

We had a stretch in the second half where we continually let them have open looks.

Dave Ketterman

We didn't really change much but we did put a little more emphasis on defense at that point. We've really focused on our zone defense down the stretch and I think that's what pushed us across the line from being a good team to a very good team.

Roy Backus

We've got to do things differently if we're going to reform our schools. You've got to stretch kids. State tests were never designed to be the end line. They've got to keep being reformed. In the quest to raise standards, you may have lowered them for other students.

Willard Daggett

We struggled at that [free throw shooting]. We've normally been a very good free throw shooting team. I was getting concerned, but we hit some down the stretch.

Gregg Holifield

We started to get cold down the stretch.

Steve Sweat

It's just great to be coming off this four-game stretch going into the ACC tournament. We played Boston College at Boston College and now we get a chance to play them at a neutral site. This is a payback game for us and hopefully our momentum will continue into the tournament.

Tiffany Sardin

Anything that happens out there, you don't see anyone panicking. We're keeping it together and those are the things you have to do down the stretch.

Ryan Getzlaf

We made some free throws down the stretch for a change. It's nice to see us come through. We lost a few games this year with poor free throw shooting.

Chuck Hillery

Exiling a rally to a remote stretch of sun-baked highway makes a mockery of the right to assemble.

Leslie Cagan

We haven't seen the worst case scenario by any stretch of the imagination.

Roger Pielke

I'm going to try to empower my guys to help teach, to help motivate, to help encourage them, to help these guys when they have a bad stretch to keep their confidence up.

Sam Mitchell

We normally have to stretch the field with our passing game rather than our rushing game.

Mike Godan

Our outside game was really clicking, so they had to stretch the defense out and respect our 3-point shooting, and it opened it up in the middle for me.

Jessica Davenport

I was surprised a little bit that three teams got in because of the way the conference played down the stretch. That just shows the national respect people have for our conference.

Chris Kielsmeier

This starts a tough stretch for us and we can't afford a loss at home. If we want to win (the region) again, we have to win the big games, especially at home. But it won't be easy. Gainesville is really playing well and starting to do some things on offense that will definitely be a challenge for us.

Bob Christmas

We just didn't finish. I felt Bassett played hard. We played hard, too, but we didn't convert some turnovers down the stretch. We just got to finish at the basket and be a little tougher when the game's on the line.

Troy Wells

The judge goes to the cage and will stretch the cat out, look at their head and test their muscle tone.

Donna Hinton

We're just going to keep looking forward. We have a tough stretch in front of us. We're playing all the top teams, except for Toll Gate (Feb. 10), over the next two weeks.

Mike Boyajian

The kids played tremendously hard. This was a tough one, but we are proud of the kids' effort Coal City played well down the stretch. They earned it.

Mark Porter

What a great race that was. We were head and head coming down the stretch, and He Wants It All started to move ahead and my horse got mad and he came back and dug in to win.

Wally Hennessey

We should start getting a good barometer on the guys as far as endurance is concerned. So much of golf of battling through and being mentally tough when you're tired, and I think coming down the stretch, we're going to be tested on that.

Delnor Poss

We're going to be as balanced as we can but I think this team will have very good quick-strike ability. We'll try to stretch the defense withe the passing game but you have to be able to run the ball and think we have a solid backfield to so that.

Bruce Miller

I was really pleased with the effort we put forth. It was our execution down the stretch that lost the game for us.

Sharon Dawley

I tried something different ? I didn't look at the last two there at the end. There are a lot of worries, because sometimes it just doesn't happen and you're doing things you rely on. You know, we just always make free throws, and typically in a game like that, we're gonna win by 10 or 12 points because we're gonna make the one-on-one's down the stretch.

Frank Allocco

For the past few months, core C.P.I. has been surprisingly well behaved. You would be very hard-pressed to find such a long stretch of benign numbers.

Anthony Karydakis

The jazz always seems to automatically come out, because it was from my jazz days that I learned that spark. And the nice thing with my band and this repertoire, which is a complete joy, is that we go beyond just playing chords and melody. It is music that can stretch out.

George Benson

He exploded down the stretch for a very convincing win.

Jeff Trosclair

The question is whether management's skills are transferable from one arena to the next, and that's hard to tell. You have to decide if this is a good extension or a reach; the bigger the stretch — like Wasatch going into fixed income — the longer you wait.

Jerry Tweddell

They just simply wanted it more than we did. Down the stretch, they made the free throws and fought harder for the loose basketballs. We just didn't put forth the effort needed to win this type of game.

Marty Rowe

I see that as a stretch.

David Ledford

The guys are anxious to play; I think they're hungry. But when you're on a stretch when you're not getting to go after an opponent, I think you can get a little sloppy.

Bill Potoczny

I think we?re coming along. We feel like we need all of our games down the stretch.

Yvette Harris

I think it was just intensity. (In the other games versus Central) we just did not have the same type of intensity. And down the stretch we kept our composure.

Amanda Tewksbury

We had the ball in the hands of the guy we wanted to take the last shot. We had a couple of chances at the end. All you can ask for is to have a shot to win down the stretch.

Joe Lafko

We're anticipating that the procession will probably take anywhere from about an hour to an hour and a half before completion. It's a 12-mile stretch, so we're anticipating that there will be traffic disruption, mainly through the downtown area.

Lt. Rafael Cintron

We hold all of our matches as important. We treat every match the same way, but it's nice to end this home stretch on a victory.

Katie Granson

Stretching his hand out to catch the stars, he forgets the flowers at his feet.

Jeremy Bentham

We know one game does not make a season and we will come back and be a better team down the stretch.

Sid Wheatley

They were isolating (Banks) one-on-one, and he was getting into the lane, drawing fouls, and made a lot of free throws down the stretch.

Tom Keane

I think it's going to help us. Especially now that we're entering that last stretch of semester, they have to deal with exams as well. Not having to travel as much is going to be nice for us all around.

Laura Brand

Use every weapon within the rules and stretch the rules to breaking point, I say.

Fred Trueman

I was impressed with how we just kept coming at them. That stretch was the best I've seen Meghan (Hurley) play all year and it really put them away.

Frank Cawley

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Ashley Key

There are a lot of people who do things that stretch their abilities, and people don't understand. It's just so personal, it's all in your reality.

Loreen Hewitt

There are a lot of things to consider when we engineer a sidewalk. Some of them are quite expensive. The larger ones, such as SW 8th Avenue, stretch our dollar a bit too far.

Dave Cerlanek

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Darrin Zeer

We gave it our best. Both teams were evenly matched. They made a couple shots down the stretch and we didn't.

Joseph Smith (coach)

If we were just song in and song out, we'd go bananas, ... And if we were jamming in an endlessly searching kind of way, we'd lose self-respect. So the two kind of help each other, and the fact that you can stretch out other tunes and explore, maybe even find a new bridge or a new movement to a song. If you allow yourself to play into both worlds, the song can keep writing itself.

John Bell

It's a huge week. We talked about this stretch going into the Olympic break as a crucial time for us. We want to put ourselves in a good position to make the playoffs.

Keith Carney

He did a nice job down the stretch. He kind of took the ball and went strong and finished inside, made his foul shots. When you've got a player like that, there's not much you can do. You tap him on the back. He did a nice job.

Chris Gallerani

That was the first time she was really able to stretch her legs. This race will be much, much tougher but, at this point, she's on top of her game and I expect her to run a big race.

Jim Cassidy

We didn't knock down our free throws like we'd like to. You shoot 100 free throws on game day but you can't hit the ones that count down the stretch. We still got it done down the stretch and got the win.

Brian Thornton

We feel really good about how we played down the stretch.

Jean Roise

There was some luck involved in keeping them out of the end zone with the delay of game, but we hung in there and made the plays down the stretch.

Mike Clemons

I don't think we want to go into Binghamton to the (awards) banquet and share (the title) in their building. It would be kind of tough considering what we've done so far, and to lose it here down the stretch.

Brent Wilson

It's a little troubling. I think when you start scoring five or six goals a night, you get lulled into a false sense of belief. As a team, we let things slide. Maybe this stretch will help us get our heads screwed back on.

Mike Grier

We were going to (Garnett) down the stretch. Then Ricky Davis got it going down the stretch for a couple of buckets and it wasn't like we were going away from him.

Dwayne Casey

The jurors can determine that this is a 43-year-old man with three young daughters looking at a very long stretch in jail.

Robert Mintz

He's earned the award. The company has done well, the stock has done well. They've delivered clean quarters since he's come aboard. He's had an opportunity to stretch a bit, and make his mark.

Joanne K. Wuensch

We didn't execute at the end. We had a play called and we just didn't execute the play. That was the gist of it. They executed and we didn't down the stretch. We've been struggling from the free throw line all year. We shoot lots of free throws in practice and I hope one day they will start falling for us.

Jason Niblett

We have a tough stretch of games coming up, and hopefully we can build on the effort we put in on Saturday and move forward and finish the year strong.

Larry Kupczyk

We didn't handle their pressure on the defensive end like I thought we would after working on it all week. They did a good job of stretching us out on the offensive end, too, to get our big guys on the perimeter.

Joey Martin

The first four games are going to be tough. That?s a tough stretch to start with. (A 2-2 record) after that would be great.

Phil Crystal

After getting off the ferry, we had a tough time getting our land legs back. We suffered the Friday Harbor funk. By the time the second half started, we were playing well for a pretty long stretch there, but then we fell back.

Brian Adams

The only down side is it seems like you've been practicing forever, when it really hasn't been. It just feels that way. This week, they're paying attention to what you're talking about. Everything picks up a notch because you're going into the home stretch and finally playing a game.

Bob Noble

Nate senses when we're in danger. He had some big drives and foul shots down the stretch and really takes it over.

Gene Ammirante

This is a tough stretch for us. I think at this point in the season, we're getting a little fatigued, and we got a tough stretch coming up. It's definitely gut-check time.

Paul Connolly

We just kept trying to search and find a stretch of time ? whether it be man or zone ? that we could protect the paint and keep those guys farther away from the basket. I was displeased with execution more than the effort.

Jimmy Elgas

I thought it was an extremely gutsy performance by us. That's what I'm most proud of: how hard we played down the stretch.

Kevin Mcguff

We played eight games in about a 10-day stretch and didn't have a lot of practice time. I think it wound up hurting us some.

Keith Taylor

Allyson works very hard. She has the ball 75 percent of the time in our offensive sets, and she's done a very good job of handling that. I call her 5-foot-nothing, but down the stretch she was pretty big.

Dave Kerschbaumer

It is not a stretch to say the balance of Congress is riding on this case.

Rolando Rios

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally).

Brian White

I think the girls now know, even if we get a little bit behind, that we can come back and stretch the lead again. The thing they did a good job of was playing defense. We stopped their fast break a little bit. They know when it gets tight like that, it's just as much our opportunity as it is (for the other team).

Gerry Foos

We just have to battle through this stretch. We went through the same thing at the start of the year with guys out and a seven-game streak and were able to come back. Hopefully we can do that again starting this weekend.

Aaron Gagnon

It would be a bit of a stretch that someone would want to adopt him.

Roberta Synal

That's a little bit of a stretch for me.

Carl Wong

I was just looking for something up early in the count and I got a little slider up in the zone, ... I was thinking of trying to drive it to the outfield and it got a tad in on me, but I got the job done. I was stretching six different times during the game, but you never know when an opportunity like that is going to come.

Robb Quinlan

You worry about distorting it, you put so much detail into something big and you're afraid it'll get lost (when you stretch it out).

Lissa Juedemann

Shan is human. You play 45 minutes with an overtime, and it wears out anybody. I would have to put some other people in there to give her a break. Down the stretch, we're going to need her. I really noticed it when she went to the free-throw line in one game and didn't have any legs.

Shirley Walker

I felt like our defense did it again for us. We played amazing defense down the stretch.

Stephanie Gamble

George Benson is just perfect for the gala. He's classy, entertaining, and his music and style stretch across generations.

Jim Coyne

Tony Allen was the key guy in that group. He was aggressive, he was attacking and played great defense down the stretch.

Tony Brown

We're hoping to get a little better pace scenario for us, and that Robby maybe won't have to move as soon with a little longer stretch. Maybe somebody will kind of go with Lawyer Ron the first part. We hope it works out.

Dan Peitz

I was pleased with the way we responded tonight. That's a real fine team. Our defense down the stretch was a significant factor in the game.

Frank Allocco

All sports have exercise and stretching prior to the activity, and skiing should be no exception.

Carly Carmichael

We had the lead, and we just didn't make plays down the stretch. We wanted to continue this ride, continue this great season that we had. We were right there. They executed more than we did down the stretch.

Stanley Asumnu

We have a tough stretch of games coming up, but we're going to do our best to mix up the playoff race a bit and finish off on a good note.

Doug Piquette

We didn't play well early, but the girls hung in there and made their shots down the stretch. We stress to the girls to look for good offensive opportunities.

Will Jones

In this you always have to do a lot of things where you are moving in two different directions and trying to balance. That's what we do a lot on the court because you are often reaching over your legs for a ball or stretching in positions that aren't natural.

Ashlee Roth

I think those two turnovers which they converted into points down the stretch made the difference.

John James

That's how baseball is. You could be throwing 20 innings in a row without anybody scoring. You could strike everybody out. But there's going to be a stretch of the season where you have your bad time. Right now I feel like I've been going through that.

Francisco Rodriguez

For about a 13 or 14 minute stretch in the first half, we played as well as we have played all season. Shorter is a very good basketball team and I was pleased with our overall performance against them this evening.

Marty Rowe

I'm not sure how it started, but the group that started the second half just exploded on the defensive end of the court. There was a stretch of over a minute where Aledo didn't get the ball across half court. It set the pace for the rest of the game.

Todd Wetterling

Kim was kind of limited with fouls. She hit some big free throws down the stretch.

Chuck Hillery

She (Mesick) was open down the stretch and didn't miss many shots. They knew as a team what they had to do and just executed down the stretch.

Matt Helgemoe

In this business, you always have to do something to stand out. So we got a stretch limo that we use to not only show people houses, but also to drive them to and from closing when they buy.

Gerry Davidson

I think it is a real stretch to say the decline of department store advertising has forced layoffs at any one newspaper.

John Kimball

I'm looking forward to this phase in the case. I'm on the home stretch.

Cindi Measles

I was really pleased with the hustle and effort. That's the kind of intensity we need to play with. The only bad thing was that we lost our focus for a stretch there in the second half and let them get back in it, but I was encouraged that we were able to overcome that.

Chuck Schnoor

You can't have a lot of critical injuries or sicknesses coming down the stretch.

Jeremy Cox

We didn't execute down the stretch when we needed to get hoops. We didn't have enough offensive potency.

Jill Devries

Bruce Chen went 72/3 innings, gave up four hits (actually five) and they were all home runs, but he kept his team in the game. He almost went a complete game without even pitching once from the stretch.

Travis Lee

We were going to lay off (Snell), and (Gonzalez) hadn't played much, but once they hit a shot or two, we had to guard them. When you play at home and you hit a couple of those, you get momentum and the crowd gets excited. If they don't have that stretch when they hit those, we would have been right there.

Nathan Daume

He really emphasized that the stretch run was the most important part of the season. The start and middle half of the season were to find out who could play with who and letting the new guys learn the systems.

Derek Damon

Ms. Garcia is stretching the truth for her own personal gain.

Terry Fox

It has been a problem for me the whole year. Right now is an important stretch for us. If I feel I'm hurting the team I have no problem sitting out.

Donald Copeland

Parfait sprained his ankle, and he was out. We needed another ball handler, another guy to help in the backcourt. I thought he did a very fine job. We really missed Parfait from a defensive standpoint, because he's so aggressive. Down the stretch, it's important we do a better job of that.

Jim Baron

He?s been tough to beat down the stretch. He played great. He?s definitely the backbone of that team. He really impressed me.

Brian Yandle

I think we just got frustrated. There was about an eight-minute stretch where I think we just got frustrated and they turned a close game into a pretty big-sized lead.

Mark Winter

Our health will have a lot to do with our success down the stretch. If we continue to work hard and get healthy, we will be just fine.

Brian Adkins

I thought we took them out of their offense. We got our energy from defense, which isn't always the case. For a long stretch in the first half we rebounded well and ran well and we got a pretty good flow going.

Stan Joplin

I thought (Bethune) got a lot of good looks down the stretch that they usually knock down, that I've seen them knock down over and over again. I thought that the difference was the fact that they didn't get any second looks.

Fred Batchelor

His shoulder is perfect. The muscles are very tight. That's why he's taking Jacuzzi the whole afternoon, a lot of stretching, relaxing, massage. He's going to be 100 percent (today), maybe 110 percent.

Hans Gildemeister

We have found no corruption by the secretary general, ... his behavior has not been exonerated by any stretch of the imagination.

Paul A. Volcker

I don't look at it and say, 'Boy, this is going to be a tough, four-game stretch' or 'Ooh, we've got three of the next four at home,' ... But once you're into it, like we are now, boy, we've got a tough three-game stretch, and we've got two of three at home. Now, when I'm in the meat of it, I notice stuff like that.

La'roi Glover

Everybody was up and down all day. Those finishing few holes can really get you if you're not on top of your game. The greens dried out a lot throughout the day and were really fast coming down the stretch.

Michael Sim

We are in the final stretch and heading toward a resolution overall, but there is still distance between us on the Marines' relocation cost.

Fukushiro Nukaga

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.

Ron Sicard

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

Barbara Lazear Ascher

We keep doing stretch records each year, but for our size community, we'd probably be compared to communities with populations of three to four hundred thousand.

Nancy Perry

On a night that we didn't shoot it well, that we had to rely on our defense, it was nice to know that we could get some stops down the stretch and spread our lead out.

Brad Barton

Our kids did a tremendous job in coming through down the stretch. Both teams could have won the game. It was an excellent high school basketball game.

Mark Mohl

How much it affected us, I really can't say, because we did not play many home games in that stretch, anyway.

Rob Spivery

We're just too passive. We don't attack. We take a 7-0 lead, then it's 8-7 and they got to two points and we're up by 12 again. We play to the level of the other team. We can't stretch the lead and stay there. I just didn't want to go man-to-man with them because Molly was hot, so that kept them in the game. For every 3, we needed two baskets.

Paul Mendoza

They have veteran experience and they've been able to pitch consistently. Yeah, they've had their ups and downs, but I think our rotation has been more stable than any other team in our division, which is a benefit -- especially down the stretch.

Jeff Kent

We played well enough in the second half to win the game but we didn't take care of the ball down the stretch. Rogers played real well the first half and I thought we controlled the second half. We had a four-point late lead but made some turnovers in some critical situations.

Johnny Mason

Jordan was masterful down the stretch at handling the ball and really doing a good job for us.

Ben Howland

I'm on the sidelines going through my normal routine, stretching, staying loose. I didn't notice the noise or the excitement. My focus was like tunnel vision.

Harry Oliver

We have a tough stretch ahead of us. I have no reason to believe they'll approach it any other way than they have the first half of the season. I am surprised they've done this well so soon.

Gary Anders

I expected us to come out and play hard, but it was a blur. They go up nine-zip and then they stretch it to 18-4.

Mark Woodhead

I think fatigue caught up with us. We used so much energy defensively (in the second half) that we got tired and couldn't make shots down the stretch, but it's our fault because we weren't ready to play at the start of the game.

Tube Davis

I just think we didn't get some calls we could have gotten down the stretch. But I am proud of the progress this program has made.

Nancy Boone

Down the stretch, I was pleased with our poise.

Ryan Tompkins

Fitch is as improved as you want to see and a very good team. They had won four in a row. It was a close game and we played okay. We had to be perfect down the stretch and we're not good enough to be perfect.

Ted Kaczynski

We didn't match up well underneath. Our perimeter shooting is non-existent. We missed some key free throws down the stretch.

Brian Collins

As long as he can carry us, I'll jump on for the ride. We don't have a superstar on the team right now, but he's definitely stepped up and making it hard for defenses. He's a big-time player. He wants the ball down the stretch.

Marcel Jones

They sacrificed a lot for us down the stretch. There was a lot of selflessness on this team.

Milt Travis

We didn't give up a lot of shots, but it seemed like when we did it was a breakdown _ an odd-man rush or a fluky play around the net. It seemed like I couldn't do anything right for a stretch.

Scott Clemmensen