Real college basketball begins. Now it's 'get after it.' The teams we played were great, but now the teams we're playing are much tougher. We have to be ready.

Taquan Dean

It's a lot tougher, right from the get-go. It's all uphill on Genesee Street and to Oneida Square and up Oneida Street. Then you have a gradual incline (along the Parkway). That's the flattest part of the course, but it isn't long.

Paul Humphrey

The schedule was more difficult this year including duals with schools much larger than Logan-Magnolia. Going against tougher competition raised our level (of wrestling) to survive and prepared us better for the state tournament.

Kent Kersten

It was tougher for us. Fewer bouts, and less opportunities as a freshman.

Nick Parisi

Bradshaw is a much tougher opponent. They have a couple of players going to the State individual tournament, so you know that they have quality kids. Their No. 1 and No. 2 are especially good.

Tim Kessel

But once the ball starts getting rolling, it grows exponentially. You know, it was a lot tougher to grow from five to 20 readers than it was to go from 500 to 1,000 readers. It just sort of spreads by word of mouth and that type of thing.

Aaron Gleeman

The war on terror is going to get tougher and tougher the longer this kind of thing goes on. We're going to pay a big price for allowing these unwanted side effects and stories in the war on terror to pile up.

Daniel Benjamin

We don't have any limitations on us. We have some high expectations for our team, and I think it will be easier and tougher for us because of that. We're just starting out, so it's good to have that one under our belts.

Todd Underwood

Switzerland away is certainly one of the tougher draws we could have got, but were looking forward to the challenge.

John Fitzgerald

Decreasing the purse money for those kinds of horses just makes it tougher for a lot of owners here to make money.

Art Sherman

We have the same team that we did before. But the race is getting tougher and tougher. It's only January, but we're already looking at scores after the game to see who's losing and who's winning.

Bob Hartley

I think it's harder at the lower levels, playing a game at 4 o'clock when you haven't even been out of school for an hour yet. It's not so bad on a Friday, but it is much tougher on a Tuesday because you never know if you'll keep that time schedule.

Scott Lasswell

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

Tom Brokaw

Brandywine probably plays us tougher than any other team in the conference. I never will underestimate Brandywine.

Kevin Bartz

They were passing it through us and there's nothing you can do. It's tough to kill penalties and it's tougher when you don't have a stick. Everyone worked their butts off and it's frustrating to lose a game like that when you don't have a stick.

Radek Bonk

It's tougher when you're established. Before, I'd see 13, 14, 15 pitches that I could drive in a game. Now, I see one, two or three, so I have to be better.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it???s clear that there is an obvious difference between colleges football and inter-county football, and Cork will certainly be a far tougher test than what we have met so far, even a good deal tougher than Waterford.

Jack O'connor

We don't sit back and read the offense. The vast majority of the time we're attacking. It's tougher on the option attack when you're attacking them. The quarterback has to make some decisions.

Barry Lunney

Making it easier to vote but tougher to cheat.

Christopher Bond

We thought our schedule might have been tougher than theirs. They came out and hit three 3-pointers to start the second half and they had three girls just kill us. They were a pretty good team and they executed better than we did. We went 9-11 this year, and I would consider 9-11 a successful season for us.

Dean Washington

It's going to be tough on me to have her in Michigan, but it will probably be tougher on Bella. But in the season, I'm at the park for a long time every day and on road trips, she'd have to go in a kennel, which wouldn't be very enjoyable.

Matt Thornton

[Hersh told CNN the operation resulted in] a lot of information, ... cut an order sending this secret group into Baghdad. The instructions were, 'Let's get tougher.'

Stephen Cambone

If he wants to do that, good for him. Maybe he should fight some tougher guy next time. I was just trying to hold my guy. We were one goal down. I didn't want to fight.

Radim Vrbata

He struggled, but he kept on playing. He's a tough guy; they don't come any tougher than Kendall Simmons.

Russ Grimm

With the injuries we have, the game was always going to be tougher than usual. But it's still early in the season and if we can suck it up and get past this difficult period, we should be OK at the end of the season.

Takeshi Okada

One of the reasons we wanted to get the Lamoille done was to be further up the learning curve going into a tougher project. Hopefully the Lamoille Bridge will act as a concrete example of what we can do.

Ben Rose

We didn't jell right away, and in a lot of ways I was tougher on her than some of the kids that did leave the program. She was called on the carpet in a lot of areas, but she met those challenges head-on.

Amy Stephens

That's asking a lot. It certainly will make it tougher to get to state.

Jim Myers

I think it will get tougher [to grow]. Of course, everyone has been saying that for about three years. I don't see any reason why we don't have a few years of good growth ahead of us.

Peter Ritcher

This is one the Cougars should have won. I know next time we play this team they will be much tougher than they were today.

Bill Torni

The top three. I want to be in the top three of the state - that's my main goal. I just think it's going to be who wants it more and who works harder. There's not much separating everybody at the state level. You have to win the close ones and be tougher.

Adam Vaccari

The longer the game went, the tougher it was for us.

Mathieu Dandenault

Brian is a fabulous player, a tough kid and a very good passer. I've seen him grow stronger and tougher to play.

Kevin Boyle

There is no tougher rule than this. There is no greater sanction than being expelled from school.

John Serino

There are some real good eighth-graders coming up. We return almost a full squad with state championship experience, and when they graduate, the ones replacing them will be tougher than your average sophomore.

Curt Berger

We weren't helping, weren't contesting and weren't moving our feet. Too many defensive breakdowns. We have to be able to go toe-to-toe and be tougher than the other team.

Larry Strawoet

Raising the window and letting him face the consequences of his action and letting him hear those birds that were hungry was a lot tougher than getting a whipping.

Marian Albright

One thing that will hurt international tech companies is that we don't expect the dollar to weaken much more so year-over-year revenue gains are going to be a lot tougher to come by.

Alan Loewenstein

He had a banged-up senior year and never got recovered. He's the most talented player on the team. He needs to get a little tougher. If he does, he'll be a good football player.

John Perry

The questioning [about compensation] on conference calls hasn't gotten any tougher than it was four years ago.

Joseph Beaulieu

We talk about coming out stronger, but we just have to go out there and do it. We have to come out tougher and mentally prepared. That's our usual style, but we can't play scared anymore.

Jana Francis

Some even tougher safety regulations are coming in 2006. We haven't decided if we can make it (GT40) past that. We don't know the answer yet. We'll wait until the first GT40 is built, see if it is a success, and then see if we can work on it to meet those regulations.

Neil Ressler

Then, when you notice you can actually play pretty bad golf, then it's tougher to come back to that level where you feel confident over every shot, every week.

Jesper Parnevik

We did a lot better at Davis, but Stanford has a tougher start, plus a bigger field.

Tony Sandoval

They could, I suppose, put in some mandatory penalties that would up the ante. But increasing penalties does not necessarily increase prosecutions. It may make them harder -- tougher penalties could make judges more cautious and raise more grounds for appeal.

John Olson

Katherine is definitely leading us, but we've got great balance, which is making us a tougher team to stop. We definitely have the ability to score points.

Chuck Gleich

It was recognition for our volunteers. There are so many (volunteer) hours that go into an organization like this and ... this year was even tougher and more challenging than other years because we had so many additional people in the community.

Mary Wormington

It was kind of a frustrating time, not knowing if [we] were going to be left out or not. I wanted to move. If Miami was going to move to the ACC, I knew it was going to be tougher conference and I wanted a chance to be a part of it my final year.

Bryan Randall

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a way to win a game.

Al Harris

Without her, it will be tougher. All the players will have to find more ways to contribute to compensate for our loss of her for the season.

Kevin Estes

The pro-82 campaign is having a tougher time now that the 'no' side has gotten under way and is raising a lot of legitimate questions. This is not about our commitment to children. It's about whether this measure is the right way to go about it, and we've made the case that it's not.

Bill Hauck

It does make the job tougher playing a big pack like Brisbane but it gives a number of young blokes the opportunity now.

Ricky Stuart

I actually think it'll be tougher on travel for the 1A schools.

Larry Mosely

Better sooner than later because sometimes milestones, they seem tougher and tougher to get once you start talking about them. I'm happy that we came out and played arguably our best game of the year and a lot of credit to these guys.

Curtis Joseph

We always try to make February tougher than the month of January. We have a couple of kids who are undefeated, and my job is to make sure they're not undefeated by the time they go into the State tournament. They have to be challenged. They have to know what it's like to be down 3-2 and have to come back late.

Nick Didomenico

It's tougher, sure. But we haven't seen anything at this point that suggests it's coming out of our hides. Good network programming just leads to more viewers.

Kelly Kahl

Next year we'll be a tougher team to prepare for. Everybody knew they had to stop Susan Lester this year. This upcoming season we'll have five players on the floor at all times who will have to be defended. It'll be different for other teams. They won't know who our go-to player is.

Shari Doud

It's tough to get up in your twenties, tougher in the thirties, your reflexes aren't as good in your forties, in the fifties you're really worried, in your sixties your legs hurt too much and I hit seventy.

Robert Evans

When I saw the bracket, I thought the top half looked a lot tougher than the bottom. But you have to beat the best to be the best.

Chris Bolt

They're going to be very, very good no matter when we face them again. The north tends to be a bit stronger and they've been playing against some tougher competition all year. If we play good defense and can have balanced scoring like we have been lately, I think we'll be fine.

Doug Nofziger

I was happy with my performance. But I was mad that I gave up that takedown. I hate to give up points. Everybody down here is good. No one's a joke and it will get tougher and tougher as we go.

Donny Clark

We are also taking steps to drive down our cost through our parts sourcing and our manufacturing footprint. As the competitive business environment gets tougher, both here and in Europe, we will be working harder than ever before on the fundamental elements of our business.

Lewis Booth

We're different than we were earlier in the year. We relied on Lauren and Julie for practically all of our scoring. The other kids are starting to help us in the scoring column. With the other kids producing, it makes us tougher to defend as a group.

Brad Blew

You start to think completely differently with kids. It's tougher, for sure, when they are babies to play tennis, but it's easier when they get older.

Albert Costa

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Brett Myroff

We were a little banged up. We had a much tougher semifinal match than [Zephyrhills] did, but at the same time I give them all the credit in the world.

Shari Schau

No one expects interest rates to jump higher all of a sudden. They are more likely to rise slowly ... but once they do begin to creep up, it is true that will make things tougher for property firms, which borrow large amounts of money.

Tsutomu Yamada

I?d rather play someone like that and lose then play somebody else when you know you?re going to win. We think that we can be a pretty good team this year and our out of district schedule is probably tougher than anybody?s.

John Woodrum

We knew this was going to be a lot tougher game than the first time we played them, because were playing them at their place and they're going to shoot a lot better. We definitely didn't want to go out in the first game and me and George got hot and then we finished it off.

Bryan Erce

He had a couple of long carries where he broke loose. He's beginning to come into his own. He runs hard and he'll run around guys or into guys or whatever he has to do. He's getting tougher every game.

John Mushtare

North Allegheny knows how to win. They have this aura about themselves that has been created by their past success. We haven't reached that stage yet. We don't have that mental edge yet. We've got to get mentally tougher.

Jeff Beavers

The results were what we hoped they'd been. All of the players did well. This was part of the learning process. Our goal was to continue to improve every match with the intention of getting better as the competition got tougher.

Mark Medow

We're playing a lot tougher, and we're kind of getting into a little routine. We want to try to attack the post, we want to be timely with the shooting from the perimeter, and defensively we've picked up things a little bit. But by the same token, our schedule has not weakened a bit.

Kent Adams

If you're referring to how competitive it's becoming compared to 1988 and 1989 ... it is tougher.

Randy Ferbey

I go into every tournament expecting to win. It was a little tougher here with the cross country travel, but I try to block all that out and just keep my mind and body at an even keel.

Bryon Smith

They played tougher, period. When you show up and play soft, you get beat by 20.

Mike Szabo

It's going to be a huge challenge facing Australia with the home support behind them. These Games will be tougher than ever before with that in mind and taking into account the strong teams that South Africa, Canada and New Zealand will have in Melbourne.

James Gibson

This announcement is certainly consistent with China's tougher (more disciplined) stance in the iron ore contract negotiations.

Malcolm Southwood

Whenever you're playing together, it's tougher to beat you.

Warren Sapp

We have to take every opponent seriously, but we were kind of focused on playing Connecticut. You have to take every opponent seriously. These are really tougher games to get up for, because we're supposed to win these games.

Tyrus Thomas

We improved our fore-check and played tougher in the defensive zone, holding them to just one more goal in the next 27 minutes of play.

Mike Donahue

Our kids are disappointed in the fact they did not win the match. They did enjoy getting to play at one of the nicer, yet tougher courses in the area.

Matt Rodgers

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter.

Brian W. Aldiss

This weight class is stacked all the way through. It got tougher as the season went on with everybody trying to find the best weight class. I considered dropping to 112, but had to cut too much weight. I made it down for our first match and had no energy.

Chris Sheetz

Generally speaking, these terms (with foreign governments) have gotten much tougher in the last 20 years. In 1986, the price of oil was $10 to $20 a barrel.

James Carroll

They'll be tough. They've got a lot of guys back from last year. I hope we're a little tougher competition than they've faced.

Patrick Brown

We try to look at games each week and not look at the big picture, but this is one of the tougher teams we're going to play.

Frank Knight

The games are only going to get tougher as we make the stretch drive of our conference schedule. There's more on the line, and teams with better records than those we've faced thus far are also going after the same goal we are.

Mike Ferda

We thought we've had it difficult until this time. We think it's going to get a little tougher.

Dave Carlson

It is going to get tougher to fill [races ] here. We know that. But it's nothing that my crew can't do. They can do it.

Pat Pope

The football players brought a toughness to our team, especially to our drills in practice. We used to think that our drills were pretty tough but with these guys, we found that we could make them even tougher.

Brian Voyles

Everyone wants to give you well wishes, and you do your best to accommodate everybody. I think people understand that your job is to drive a race car, and it's a little tougher doing double-duty on the weekend.

Byron Fellows

Economists are expecting things to gradually improve but realize that we are in a tougher environment now. I expect that 3 to 5 years from now we'll have some respectable gains of 5 percent to 10 percent annualized returns, but don't build a plan for anything better than that.

Russell Kinnel

I find it extremely unlikely that we don't finish No. 1. We didn't play well in our conference, but our conference is a lot tougher than our district.

Anthony Miziko

It's definitely going to get tougher. [The players] know it. But sometimes it's like when you know it's going to snow, but it doesn't hit you until you're actually out there in the snow. You can prepare and the players can be ready, but until it happens, and see how you react to a good team, you don't ever know.

Claude Tyler

Prior to this latest event, we had been cautious in our outlook for the company due to a number of potential issues such as product transition risk and tougher year-ago comparisons.

Andrew Roskill

Roselle Park did a great job of taking some of our shooters away with some real solid defense. Then with Travis getting hurt, that made it even tougher for us.

Bernie Buniak

I'm not going to lie to you. There's nothing fun about going out there and practicing twice a day in this kind of heat. But it makes us better. It makes us mentally and physically tougher. It's just one of those things you have to fight through to get to the real season.

Brad Hoover

It was an awful loss for us. He was so good. If this group he's coaching now had a point guard like him, they'd be a lot tougher. They'd be a hard team to beat.

David Marsh

He was a consistent 20 points for us every night. Last year he had 45 in a game. This year was more consistent. He was more complete and made himself a tougher player to guard. He was there every night this year.

Shane Tucker

Marshall is a tougher player than last year. I love playing with him because he's not afraid to try to win the game.

Robert Vaden

We wanted to add length to make it tougher for better players, speed up play for higher-handicap players, and get some of the best greens in area, and we'll accomplish all three.

Billy Bernier

When the economy is slow or in recession, more people finally decide to start their own businesses only after exhausting all other options, since available jobs are tougher to get. In an expanding job market, such as in 2005 and 2004, more people who choose to become entrepreneurs really want to have their own businesses, and they start these more quickly.

Thomas Shea

Chris is ranked No. 1 in the WPIAL and the PIAA, so I'm expecting him to make it to Hershey. It will be a little tougher for Rick to make it to states.

Rich Catalano

We have a big tournament at Pueblo Centennial this weekend and it's getting tougher and tougher every year. We're going to have to screw our heads on straight for it and get ready to wrestle.

John Haberman

We're the underdog in a lot of matches, which makes us tougher.

Adrian Gonzalez

Obviously, with Helena winning and with us winning, that puts Missoula in a tougher position. But now, for us it's about going out and performing again. This game is over and we did our job. Now we have to come out and do it again (tonight).

Rick Burleson

It's a matter of perspective. Those are two very good guys who will hopefully meet again in next week's finals. Every time they meet it gets tougher to win.

Todd Fox

He is a good player and it would have been much tougher. But I still would have won.

David Nalbandian

Normally, it's a lot tougher.

Mike Price

I love teaching. But it's getting tougher and tougher and the social issues are overpowering. So when they tell about a 5 percent bonus — two thousand bucks? — do they really think that's going to keep me in teaching?

Steve Barrish

The tougher team won. Right now, the defensive part of the game is not important to our kids.

Rodney Tention

We came out and played well and took care of business like we needed to. We have to keep doing that because the road will be that much tougher as we move on.

Steve Middleton

We know that we're getting into the tougher part of our schedule and are starting to bear down. We know those last four games are going to be tough and no one's going to give us anything. It's going to be kind of shocking when we get there because we haven't had a lot of competitive games, but we're looking forward to it.

Andrew Frank

I take pride in being one of the tougher guys helping the team pressure and there were so many times when I was watching the games that it just killed me inside. Sometimes I couldn't watch and would just walk around the top level of the stadium.

Alecko Eskandarian

We make ourselves tougher to defend when we move the ball inside out and get more balance like this. This team keeps practicing hard every day, so we hope to play our best here at the end of the season.

Mike Warrington

We competed exceptionally hard the first half and so did Pontiac. At halftime we talked about being the aggressor and being tougher physically.

Jeff Wulbrun

This is a tough loss, but it's definitely not the end of our season. We have to get back to playing our basketball. The team we play in the NCAA Tournament will be as tough if not tougher than Temple, so we have to be ready.

Omar Williams

Our defense stepped up tonight, ... We are fighting some (illnesses), but we really pulled together in the back and covered each other. This was one of our tougher games. It was a close match and I was really pleased that we came away with the win.

George Rogers Clark

They were always on Ryan to get meaner, to get tougher. I think it worked.

Ryan Pickett

It was not our best effort but it was good enough. Andrews will be much tougher (today).

Dale Redman

I did my best, so if I had to run over again, I would do the same tactics. The only thing would be I would train harder to be tougher in the last five kilometers.

Reiko Tosa

It's even tougher when you watch the tape. We had our chances. We made some plays.

Rocky Hager

Most teams want to throw short passes against us. It's tougher on us because we don't get the (pass) rush we'd like. But it makes the other team one-dimensional, and that's what we like.

Ross Brennan

The conference championship aside - that's great for the community, the school and everything else - but the kids realize how much tougher they're getting because we're starting to train. We have fun all year long. We wrestle and enjoy it and then we just start to pick it up.

Mark Deaugustino

We really hit a turning point in our win over Iowa Western. That win answered a lot of questions people had of our team. It's a matter right now of staying focused heading into a tougher stretch of matches.

Tori Fowler

It's going to make it tougher for us to get something on the June ballot when things keep changing like this.

Richard Stapler

I think this weekend was a little disappointing because these were two teams we thought we could beat. We wanted to see where we stand against tougher competition, which we did. We know we are as good as those teams; there are just a few things we need to work on as players and as competitors.

Katie Granson

Losing 40-14 to Duke [last week], that's a tough loss. When you lose 28-26, that's even tougher because you knew you had a shot to win it.

Cal Mccombs

They're kicking it away from me, so that makes it that much tougher. I'm not really worried about it too much. Last year is last year. I'm just trying to get better and do what I can do to help this team win.

Cletis Gordon

We did a lot defensively. We made them take some tougher shots.

Brent Norberg

They were just tougher than us physically. I thought we did a good job of getting ourselves back in the game. But we just weren't as tough as we needed to be.

Jeff Morgan

We play a tougher schedule, but we can be very good. We have a lot of returning people, and we're familiar with the system. There is no excuse, no reason why we shouldn't be very good and playing in the Big 12 title game.

Adam Carriker

We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.

Bud Childers

I think the competition is a little tougher.

Kyle Jinks

We've just been working hard and it was pretty tough sledding today. We just kept scoring points in event after event and when we looked up we'd scored a whole pile of points. It was a good first meet but we know tougher meets lie ahead.

Corby Maurer

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Ryan Herrs

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Brad Todd

I think the depth of our team was a factor. We've got six kids that can count, at any time, and we have a lot of consistent players. I thought the conditions were tougher today, and our kids competed real well.

Cal Hubbard

There are many resources out there if people choose to reach for them. Some families will struggle and struggle until there's more of a crisis, and then it's a little tougher.

Julie Feil

He's a great teacher and coach. His players are very well-skilled in fundamentals, and that made them tougher than most of us. Plus, he had talent. Combine that with his coaching, and you have an undefeated (regular) season. He did a remarkable job.

Carl Bailey

I think it's good. I love that kind of adversity, you know? Adversity and distractions only make us tougher.

Richard Corso

It was much tougher this time.

Colin Johnston

The real focus with this deal is that airline travel is going to be a tougher business for the online guys. The focus is on hotels and cars and Cendant has those properties.

Brian Bolan

We were prepared for it and they were just tougher than we were. When we handled the pressure, they actually took the ball out of our hands and started the break. You can't defend turnovers.

Bobby Collins

It's just that you're never going to hear me say that somebody is tougher than me, ... Because I don't believe somebody else could be tougher than me.

James Harrison

It's good to get that first win, but we know it gets tougher next week.

Rusty Webb

It was a little tougher getting there because I didn't feel as sharp command wise. But I felt that I did a good job in big situations and made a quality pitch and the defense was there behind me. It was one of those that just seemed to happen.

Brandon Mccarthy

Our goal was continuity and consistency, and our goal was working on that today. We did have a bit of a letdown, and we can't afford to do that. We need to be tougher from here on out.

Brad Borigo

[If voters aren't pushing for a change in the system, it's hard to expect members of Congress to volunteer to give themselves tougher competition.] You're asking people to give up an enormous amount of power, ... It's going to have to come from the outside.

John Tanner

Wesley is putting the ball on the floor and attacking the basket more. He's always scored from the perimeter, but now he can take it inside as well and that makes him tougher to defend.

Tommy Mcwhorter

What you see is kind of a balanced assessment. There are some policy positions where some voters are fairly lenient to illegal immigrants and on others they're supportive of tougher approaches.

Mark Dicamillo

Tyler was our Saturday pitcher and did a good job in the role he was in, but he'll face a lot tougher competition this year.

Tom Hines

No doubt, it will be tougher competition in the tournament. But we have a shot to be very competitive.

Bob Aronson

I just think he's grown into his role more and more, and he's become aggressive. He's tougher and more aggressive this year. He's starting to blossom at the right time. He anticipates defenses as well as anybody I've ever coached.

Ken Green

There will be some teams tougher than others. But we just need a win. You have to play each game like it is the championship game. If you drop just one game, there is a chance you won't be able to win the league title.

Bob Stitt

We need to work on maintaining what we have, getting a little tougher and better. We don't want to get fat and content or cut our motor off.

Ron Aldy

I picked up a tougher schedule this year, giving up some surefire wins with five new games. West Haven was one of the new ones, so we had never played them before.

Lori Rubino

It not only makes us swim faster but it makes us tougher.

Mike Cavic

Jason's always been the biggest and tallest (6-foot-5) of us, and playing with him and the other older kids made me tougher around the edges. I've always been competitive with Travis, and we've pushed each other to get better our whole lives.

Tristan Welch

Fighting in the Golden Gloves makes you ready to fight. Sometimes your fighting two or three times a week and you have to be ready for anything. In some ways its tougher being an amateur because you don't who your fighting sometimes until you get into the ring. In the pros you know who your fighting and you can prepare.

Mary Mcgee

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Robert Hoffman

After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been a lot tougher. We began running a zone offense to combat Plant's defense. All we did in the lead-up to that game was concentrate on beating them.

Chris Arnold

They came out in the second half a lot tougher physically and mentally and it took a toll on us as a team.

Justin Bowen

I was upset because we have been in tougher situations than this, and we lost our composure. They were leaving the person they were guarding, and doing their own thing on defense.

Tom Gonsalves

This match took longer to warm up then it did to play. The tougher matches are definitely coming up quick, but everyone got to play and played well tonight.

Tori Fowler

Iran is a much tougher climb diplomatically [than North Korea].

Michael Krepon

We played a championship-caliber team tonight. (The players) don't want to feel like they did tonight after the game. This is one of the tougher non-conference games they'll have to face.

Paul Murphy

It's getting a little tougher with the schedule coming up. There are no excuses. These are all quality teams in the Olympic Conference. It makes it tough.

Joe Pavlow

His leadership, combined with our all-senior defense, will make it much tougher to score on South Lakes this season.

Matt Blamey

We rode after all four. I was fine. I would say it was probably a little bit tougher on the animal. It was a warm day. They need to catch their breath before they run out again.

Chuck O'donnell

There might have been a little tougher competition in the A-10 at the time. Temple always had good teams, and George Washington, Rhode Island and St. Joseph's were tough. But there probably isn't a lot of difference.

Tony Barbee

I think we had a great first season. It would be impressive if we could have two years in a row like that. We were a lot more mature last year, though. It will be tougher with a younger team to qualify.

Kara Connerty

I thought I was mentally tough before, but this made me even tougher, and pro hockey is going to be even tougher than this. Now I know that no matter how bad a season is, you have to stay strong. You have to find the positives out of anything.

Nate Guenin

Their records are pretty comparable, but I think the competition we've faced might be a little tougher.

Travis Reinsch

Ashley had a great freshman season and will return with a year of experience and confidence in leading the team from the back, ... By adding a high caliber player like Jamie to the goalkeeper position, we make ourselves even tougher in the net.

Anne Moore

It's really tougher to organize today because the laws are a barrier. There are miserable laws we have to use to organize and the political atmosphere is anti-union.

Jack Shea

I told him yesterday that he could win this thing. He always had a potential to be a champion at the world level. To see him mentally be tougher than everybody in the field was great.

Mike Conley

As we face tougher comparisons in the second half of this year, it is unlikely we will sustain this level of performance, ... Yet, the underlying trends are very encouraging.

Alan Feldman

(The talk) was about being tougher, and I think we all lacked that today.

Ian Kawas

Employers are now the bad guys. Which means we have created an environment that if we pass new legislation it will be much tougher on employers than anything we've ever had in the United States.

Demetrios Papademetriou

What it comes down to now is the kids who want to move on need to step up and be a little tougher. Those who don't (step up) won't (advance).

George Crooks

You don't know what someone is going to be like before you have met them and certainly satellite interviews are a lot tougher.

Rove Mcmanus

I think it's going to be hard if everything stays the same, ... If the economy drops, it's going to be even tougher.

Carroll Robinson

The course was much tougher today because of the wind factor.

Cal Hubbard

The disappointing fourth-quarter results indicate to us that, like its peers, Beckman Coulter faces a tougher environment and management does not yet have its arms around the one-offs that have been negatively impacting its margins.

Matt Miksic

There are that many scores under 80 and we had three scores under 80 which is why we did so well. The course probably played tougher because of the wind today. We're going to stick out game plan and come out loose tomorrow.

Jim Taketa

I'm happy to get through it. I wasn't feeling good all day and I got tired pretty fast. I've beaten that guy four times this year and each time has been tougher because I really don't change my style and he's getting more and more familiar with me and I can tell that he's getting better all the time.

Brandon Herrington

The second half was perfect. Better combination, better shooting, more vigor. We knew the match would be tough, but it was even tougher than expected.

Karel Bruckner

They play a tough, organized style and they're very patient. I think this shows the South is tougher than some people might think.

Len Bone

I feel comfortable about putting her in there. It will be a tougher race but I think she'll be effective at a mile. We'll see.

D. Wayne Lukas

I loved the crowd here both days. And I feel I have momentum going into the Open. I played two great players here. And I will face even tougher people at the Open.

Scoville Jenkins

The opposition is hoping to put a tougher challenge this time around.

Bruce Gale

It's tougher than some think. Someone can be a very good black belt, but still be a white belt in business.

Rob Colasanti

In the first place, we have to stop giving up so many fouls. But we have to be tougher on our marking. We can't be pushed around, we have to get that first punch in and we have to grab and hold. If they call a penalty so be it, but we have stop giving up goals on free kicks.

Chris Albright

We played much tougher, even though the score didn't show it. We didn't quit like we have in the past. The girls kept trying.

Darcy Potts

The rivalry between us all will be no different from those glory days back in the 1980s and 90s but given the challenges this time round, the demands of racing will be tougher for all concerned.

Nigel Mansell

Trust me when I say this: Steve doesn't want anybody's sympathy. In fact, he wants people to make fun of him because the more they make fun, the tougher he will get. And here's a warning to anybody who might make fun if he struggles early: You better look out when he finally gets his players in there. He's on a mission. He will get the job done.

Jackie Sherrill

We have to really schedule tougher in our non-conference and we have to win games that we're not 'supposed' to win. And then we've got to win our league.

Jennifer Rizzotti

We have kids that need to be in that situation (against a tougher opponent). They haven't been battle-tested, and there's not a better team that could do that than one like (Wheeler) who has been there, too.

Royce Huseman