We knew it was going to be a tough ballgame. I have great respect for the coaches at North. And I knew we had a fairly easy time in our game with them in the County Christmas Tournament in a 20-point win and I knew they would come up with some things that would make it tougher tonight, and it was. It was close until right at the end. I'm just glad we got this road conference win.

Rick Wood

It's a big blow. It makes it a little tougher to make a serious run at things.

Gregg Zaun

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win, but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

Glen Boss

For a second we were holding each other, face washing, and then he started throwing. We were one goal down, so I didn't want to be in the box for five minutes. That's why I didn't want to fight. If he's a good fighter, great. Maybe he should fight some tougher guys.

Radim Vrbata

We play teams that are much tougher and you can get injuries and not win a state title because of that. It only hurt us once in my 14 years here, when we played seven games in 10 days in Cocoa.

Jeff Goldberg

June improvement may yet materialize, but it's not turned up yet and defending a sequential revenue increase is getting tougher.

Joe Osha

In all honesty, for a school full of extremely smart people, we made some really stupid decisions [in the Wash. U. game]. It's really amazing. It happens. You're going to have mental errors, and that's just where you have to be tougher.

Chris Lepage

This just means we have a tougher road in the playoffs. We still have a chance to go a long way if we regroup. I think next time we'll come out, play hard and play with the confidence we didn't play with tonight.

Justin Morett

I think this year is going to be tougher. I don't see any magic monies coming out any hats.

Phil Dinsky

I think he became tougher. I think the players respect him now as a player who will block.

Jerry Sullivan

We know who their shooters are and we know their tendencies. We were able to get pressure on them and take their shots away. We forced them to take tougher shots, and that forced their shooting to be off.

Dan Sack

He's leaner, he's meaner, he's tougher, he's got a little attitude.

Bob Whitsitt

We always seem to play better when the competition is tougher. With my guys winning the other night [2-1 in overtime over Passaic Valley] in a tough game, that really helped them. They love the fact that they had to fight to win.

Chris Riley

Absolutely. Both of us are 0-2 in the region. A win gives us the situation where we can have an opportunity to survive. We probably need it more since we have what could be considered the tougher road left.

Richard Moncrief

Because of our injury at 215, we knew it would be tough with three weights to go. There were lots of tough matches. Apple Valley was just tougher than us.

Larry Goodnature

Upper Arlington and Grove City are both coming off good seasons and they're just going to make our league that much tougher.

Kathy Lindsey

Class is mentally tougher, but physically, it would definitely be the no-huddle. It requires you to be in a lot of shape to be able to do something like that. I think it will really help us when the season comes around.

Tony Ugoh

We wanted a true conference champion. We didn't want to lose out on going to the Rose Bowl because we played a tougher team than somebody else played.

Dan Coonan

He's tougher and stronger than anyone ever gives him credit for, so don't count him out.

Susan Molinari

The girls kept coming back. They were tougher than ever. I know that because they kept coming back and we work very hard.

Jeff Rinehimer

The women who used foundation to cover blemishes may have had a tougher time psychologically dealing with their blemishes than did the women who didn't use corrective makeup. Although it's difficult to say why this is, it may be that the women who didn't wear makeup to cover their blemishes felt more confident in their appearance.

Rajesh Balkrishnan

The higher prices, along with any increase in mortgage rates, could make negotiations between buyers and sellers tougher this year.

Dave Otto

We had had the 20-3 season, and saw we can compete at a higher level. At that point, we knew we needed to get some tougher teams on schedule. You have to walk before you run, and we don't want to keep fighting an uphill battle. You have to be ready before you put the big dogs on the schedule.

Chris Shaw

He took me down right off the bat and I battled back. I tried to throw at the end to take the lead, but he took me down and got some back points. Every match you have to be tougher. I made one bad move, but battled back.

Adam Vaccari

He's very foul prone and he struggles defensively if he is in foul trouble, so getting guys going at him it might give him a tougher job.

Anthony Stewart

This was a much needed win. Our theme this week was mental toughness. The difference today was that from start to finish, we were mentally tougher than Indiana. Yesterday against Penn State it wasn't there, but today it was and it was the reason we won.

Tim Madden

A tough bird. Hopefully it will be worn by tougher and faster and meaner players.

Bill Bidwill

She got a lot of really good experience traveling and playing tougher competition. But it's really a blessing that she came back and played for us her senior year. I think she's really glad she came back out, and we are too.

Steve Price

It's just as with any other business. It's tougher to sell to Sears than to John's Hardware down the street.

Jeff Davidson

One trouble with growing older is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

William E Bill Vaughan

The new division is a lot tougher than it was last year. Each one of the teams in the division has had success and it will definitely be a lot more competitive.

Scott Bray

Their pressure once again caused us problems. We did not play with a whole lot of poise.... I wouldn't say it's an easy fix, I would say it's a mentality. Once again I feel like we need to become mentally tougher.

Gail Goestenkors

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

Heinz Guderian

We didn't play real well today. We didn't quite have our best stuff this week. Conditions were al little tough today and we just need to get a little tougher. Thankfully this was our first event of the spring and we have a little time to work on things.

Kelley Hester

It will make us better. We all want to get better, and it makes us work at a tougher level.

Ashley Lewie

I started thinking about this camp as soon as last year's was over. Going to your first camp is tough, and the injury made it even tougher. But I learned how to prepare myself and what was expected of me. I can do all the things that are necessary. I just have to show I can do it night in and night out.

Joffrey Lupul

I think our program's success has already done good things for our school. I am getting more kids out. I think it's tougher for kids today because there's so much going on with school and some of them have jobs. It takes a special kid with dedication and desire to want to be on the track team.

Mike Gillis

This validates our business plan and demonstrates that despite the fact that the industry environment has gotten tougher, the United business plan can attract even more all-debt exit financing than it could last winter.

Jake Brace

[Ohio] is going to be a tougher meet than Toledo. I see it as being tougher than when we swam Miami, and by far tougher than when we swam Eastern Michigan.

Bob Thomas

I've got big shoes to fill. Sarah Brown was awesome. I loved watching her play the role. Tamara Braun brought amazing emotion and sensitivity to the role. I think she really did a great job. She was a little tougher than Sarah, but soft, too. I'm hoping to be somewhere down the middle.

Laura Wright

It is tougher to do than it looks. You have to be able to recognize who's going to block you, beat that guy, and then go down and make a one-on-one tackle, which is one of the hardest things to do. The returners in the NFL are the best, fastest, quickest guys in the league.

Wesly Mallard

I knew that she would be very good but she had done very well, even against the tougher competition.

Joyce Hedlund

Fortuna always plays us tough here. For whatever reason, they're tougher than nails here and tonight was no exception. Fortuna's a quick team and they have some strong players but our guys knew our position in conference right now and they really stepped up.

Duane Peterson

Alicia has had a fantastic season. To place fifth in Flight 1 singles is an outstanding achievement. We look forward to watching Alicia compete in the future. She's only going to get tougher and improve her game.

Lisa Link

The goal is to be balanced. The more balanced you are, the tougher it is for the defense to guess where you're going to go.

Dan Sundstrom

One of the reasons is we're a commuter school. Schools with more people living on campus have a much tougher problem.

John Steiner

A terrorist onslaught, a tough situation. In my assessment, it may get tougher but it gets better.

Barham Salih

Did the fact that 2004 was so (relatively) easy to win the championship make Ferrari a little bit more complacent going into 2005, and following on from that, does this year being so difficult, make the team tougher and ready for 2006?

Valentino Rossi

If it didn't have Gillette, Procter & Gamble would be in a tougher spot.

Christopher Meeker

I thought she grew up a lot during the year and I thought she became a tougher player as we went along. I thought she played more controlled as we went along. I thought she shot the ball better as we went along. I thought she defended better as we went along. I just thought she had a nice year.

Mike Steele

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Paul Vachon

This time of the year, the second time around the league is a little tougher. Teams with quality toughness seem to do better. We haven't. We got ourselves in position and it'll be a challenge to see if we can do something about this position we find ourselves in.

Pete Liptrap

We are also in transition talent-wise. We need tougher kids to play at this level.

Ron Woodard

There's a lot of game playing going on right now, ... The two parties are digging in the trenches, and digging in on their positions. The judge knows that Microsoft will appeal, and the tougher the penalties imposed on Microsoft by the judge, the more likely it is that the appeals court will modify them.

Ulric Weil

It's tougher today because it's corporate Hollywood.

Peter Bart

We're on spring break and are missing a couple of seniors because of that. It took us a while to get used to playing without them, and it always seems a little tougher to play when you're not in school that day. ... It definitely took us some time to get going this afternoon.

Jack Baldwin

I'd say that we are working on our doubles play. Doubles is always something the tennis coaches in the conference work on. It's a tougher game to learn. We're gaining on that. There are some things I've seen great improvement on.

Russ Borman

That's no easy task for any team. But it was even tougher to beat a team that's as good as Stratford.

Travis Dotterer

We have enough talent to make the tournament, but the thing we have to watch is the rest of the league is getting better and better. The schedule is getting tougher each season and we have to keep up with the pack.

Andy Daigle

She's the whole package, ... No player is as single-minded as she is. She is one of the great repeaters [of the swing] in the history of the game. She's physically stronger and mentally tougher. She wears people out.

Judy Rankin

The tournament is tougher than we expected.

David Trezeguet

There is always a difference (going on the road) especially with their team, they always play real good at their place. Minnesota is one of the tougher places to play in the conference.

Chris Lutz

The district this year is going to be more balanced than I've ever seen it in 21 years, and tougher overall. There's going to be some competition.

Bill Chavis

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

We served very aggressively the whole tournament. We won the serve/pass battle every match. We served better and tougher and more aggressively than everybody we played.

Beth Launiere

There's been some fear on the part of advocates that some enthusiasm (for tougher laws) will go away if people think the situation is getting better.

David Finkelhor

I don't think we could have picked a tougher schedule. But no one is going to feel sorry for Valley.

Gary Swenson

It's a lot tougher a business, but the profits are a lot higher in the urban market.

John Mcilwain

In recent years people have said some bad things about this conference, with (Duluth) East leaving for competition reasons. But I think it showed this year that it's getting tougher.

Kevin Mahoney

This is not to say that standards have been dropped, and in some areas they've been toughened up. There are tougher rules, for example, in the areas of solvency margins, and there is a new committee to bring all those regulators together.

Peter Skinner

They played at three last year and never lost a match together. Everything's a little tougher now.

Kitty Palmer

I can't imagine Walton going through a year without playing Delhi, ... I was comparing our schedule to last year and I think our schedule is tougher this year and we're D. ... That's one thing when we decided to go D, I asked (Delhi coach and Section Four coordinator) Dave Kelly if we could still play Sidney, Unatego and Delhi, and he said they could arrange it.

Jim Hoover

Since this is cut-off day, we made the pin placements a bit tougher for the pros.

Mike Carr

They dominated us on the boards in the first half so we concentrated on that in the second half. We didn't own the boards but we didn't give them those second shots they were getting in the first half. We played tougher defense. I think our man-to-man prevailed.

Joe James

Two of our girls played well and the other three didn't play up to what they should've been playing. I was disappointed but we are just going to have to go San Angelo, on a tougher course, and hope we do better.

Rick Sample

Competition for investments in Mexico is going to get tougher.

Ricardo Amorim

I think you always feel a little extra pressure at this time, but I hope that at this point they want that pressure. As the going gets tough we get even tougher.

Deanna Gumpf

We did a much better job on Richey tonight. Overall, I thought our effort was much better. Teams like Shorter and Berry are tougher for our team to play against. We are geared towards the other more physical opponents in our conference.

Tommy Brown

This was a case about how Intel used intellectual property from its customers. It makes for a tougher case to prove when the competition improves, and customer are better off.

David Powers

I like what I see. We're up 27 schools from last year and we've balanced the regions a little better. We're using a slightly more challenging lane condition, not as tough as Sport Bowling, but something that's tougher than the normal house shot, and we have some new bowling centers participating.

Randy Allen

It's getting a lot more competitive and a lot tougher. But that's good.

Omar Pedroza

They've been improving all year long. Coach [Steve] Powell is such an awesome coach. Those kids are getting tougher and tougher. We had seven pins last time. I didn't think that would happen again.

Tom Hontz

Our students won't need to learn any new subjects, but they'll need to know them in greater depth. The state finals will be more difficult, and the competition will be much tougher.

Rick Pillsbury

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

It's much tougher to break into a company [from the outside].

Jeff Moss

Davis is going to be very good this year. They've got tough doubles and even tougher singles.

Bob Spencer

A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

Aaron Spelling

This time it was a lot tougher for us. I don't know if it was the spring break or what, but we were flat-footed to start the game. It took us a while to get into the swing of the game. We got better and better as the game went on, and that's what saved us.

Dave Schweder

Why did we lose those games? ... We didn't make plays. We've got to get mentally and physically tougher.

James Bell

This was a tough match to lose. We were in the match all the way and played Lamar much tougher than we did two weeks ago.

Jill Breslin

I do think there's been progress in some areas. In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in.

Richard Haass

My biggest concern at day's end was I think that they were a little bit tougher than us. I think we're a better club but they were mentally and physically tougher than us today and that was a big difference.

Brian Brewer

The field in the 3,200 is very tough this year, tougher than last year. Derek is very talented, very intense and very competitive. I won't be surprised at all if he does extremely well.

Jim Hofmann

I think the feeding frenzy in Perth is over. It's a lot tougher than it was three years ago.

Phil Stevens

As you advance, the games get tougher. If we think that they will all be this easy, we're in trouble.

Paul Alioto

It's a lot tougher on the road, which we found out at Michigan State.

Sean Kline

That's tougher to explain, those are our two best centers and two of our top point-getters. It was a big loss for us.

Jay Mcclement

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.

Kristin Mccleese

You play so many games and it's great if you're on fire. You can ride things out. If all of a sudden, things start going the other way, it kind of escalates. It's easy to put a few bad games together and it's tougher to turn it around.

Brett Skinner

I think these teams are better and while it makes it tougher for us it improves the conference. It gives the conference the power ratings it needs and will help us get four teams into the playoffs. There's going to a lot of tough, tight games.

Mike Sewak

They turned it up at the start of the second half and we didn't handle it well. We needed to be a little tougher.

Lon Kruger

[Some of the tougher people interviewed in] Grizzly Man ... The Late Show With David Letterman.

Timothy Treadwell

Both of them struggled initially, but they're tougher than they look and [tougher than] their age. They'll face obstacles, and they're being forced quicker into action but they're tough enough to handle the highs and the lows.

Tom Moore

It's tougher than people think. The perception is often that it's a vacation, but the studies are hard, and you still have to swim, ... It's not for everyone, but it was right for me and Roland. We wouldn't have won the relay if we hadn't gone overseas. I don't think coaches here would have believed we could do it, but the US can-do spirit helped us.

Ryk Neethling

When we went in the locker room, we said we weren't pushing. We weren't getting as hard after them as we should. In the second half, we brought the fight to them. Instead of backing down and letting them do what they want to do, we made them step up and play -- play defense and make tougher shots.

Jermaine Spencer

[Marquette's] another one of those guys who hasn't had a tremendous amount of football experience, but we're working on getting him tougher, and we're real pleased with how well he's been responding.

Lance Perlman

I had fun, and they said I had a strong voice. But they also said they were being tougher this year (in selecting contestants). I enjoyed it, though.

Gary Moore

The tougher team won (yesterday), and I feel 100 percent confident saying that.

Sarah Lowe

I think we all learned we have to be tougher. We worked hard, but we made some mistakes at the end and it cost us the game.

Dionne Marsh

Special teams is a man's game. Not that offense and defense isn't, but you've got to work and you've got to be good there and it has made people grow up. Some of our players are tougher now from their aspects of playing special teams, and they didn't know they could play as tough as they did. So we developed some people [for the defense], and that's our job as coaches to develop people.

Danny Smith

We were able to survive. We realize it will only get tougher the rest of the way.

Janelle Spearmon

Combine it all, and it could be tougher to find a lot of legal mature gobblers to chase.

James Austin

They did a nice job doing what they do. They have a nice team to build on. They're tougher than heck on defense. They'll be very good before the year is over.

Tim Mueller

A hospital is supposed to treat the sick. The problem is that instead of treating the sickness, Congress has instead made it tougher for people with financial trouble to get into the hospital.

Brad Botes

I saw a Cheshire team that was pretty good; I liked the fight in us. We just have to get over the hump against those tougher teams in the SCC.

Jim Ferraro

Good hearted, he was happy, but he had been having a little tougher time lately with school.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

I told them (North Korea) repeatedly that the Japanese public's attitude is becoming tougher. I told them that if there is no progress on this issue, the domestic situation would become even more severe.

Koichi Haraguchi

By scheduling the tougher tournaments that we go to, the coaching, conditioning and practices that we have.

Jon Zofkie

There's a large core of guys in that locker room that were here. [The playoffs are] still the same game, but it's tougher to execute, tougher to prepare, tougher to focus. I think they understand that and that's invaluable.

John Fox

We just need to play tougher. We need to take better care of the ball and hustle to make plays. We'll move on from this game and work on improving.

Cindy Timchal

I'm going to have to be a little tougher in demanding that they reverse the basketball and work to get a better shot.

Jerry Aanonsen

I was sure trying hard, but being a professional is tougher than the college game. There isn't room for everybody.

Jerrus Roxas

He's OK. He's alright. He came to place and our mission is to win the next one. He got a little sidetracked, but each round gets tougher and tougher.

Will Pellum

Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on because they were dropping a little deeper. We had to start putting more long stuff into the box. [Columbus] does well with that with their big guys in the box.

Davy Arnaud

It is too early to celebrate. The talks will be very tough, tougher than for any other candidate country.

Yasar Yakis

She gives us another primary ball-handler and makes us a little tougher to press. She's a very good ball-handler, but a great playmaker. If you're open, you're going to get the ball. Her court vision is phenomenal.

Vincent Cianfarani

We knew they hadn't been going to their bench as much, but all their players are dangerous. They obviously had a lot of reserves step up against us. Their depth makes them a much tougher team.

Jeff Mittie

It's even tougher to get so close and not make it. If you're 20 points away with 10 games left, it's a little bit easier to prepare for it. But we were battling almost until the last game.

Patrik Stefan

It's definitely tough, because you know what's ahead. It's just going to get tougher from here on out.

James Holmes

Friday was just filled with anger, not so much sadness. As the weekend went on, it just got sadder and tougher.

Joe Scott

Confidence-wise, our team feels very good. It is definitely going to get tougher as we move along in the schedule, but we expect that and we feel pretty good about where we are at right now.

Sheila Mcinerney

We haven't been paying attention to wins or losses. Our character is getting tougher. Conference play is what it's all about.

Holly Brown

I'd like to improve that area of my game. Whenever I go against the big girls, they like to take advantage of my size. I will have to be tougher.

Hannah Reiff

I think I learn a lot from losses and they make me a lot tougher.

Maria Sharapova

I think we have a good opportunity. I think we can be an exciting company even with those players. This has always been a really tough market, and it's gotten tougher in terms of lower price points. You can't sit back on your heels; you have to go out and earn your business every day.

Rick Snyder

I believe we'll be one of the top teams in the league. Some people have us seventh or eighth. One picked us last. I don't think that guy knew what he was talking about. The Atlantic Sun is a much tougher league than other people realize.

David Michael Perry

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

William Ruckelshaus

It made me tougher and taught me how to deal with things when they're not going your way.

Tony Hunt

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Nariman Behravesh

From my standpoint I don't think it's credible. It is a lot of smoke, a lot of hot air. But were it to go forward, I think they would find it a lot tougher to operate than anyone thinks.

Sam Rovit

He just wasn't comfortable with it. The new program is still Johnny. But as a skater, when something isn't second nature, you find yourself thinking about it and it gets tougher.

Priscilla Hill

When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.

Eddie Mathews

Ultimately, the fragmentation is going to make it tougher for them [broadcasters] to hold on to their share.

Ed Atorino

It will be a much tougher game this time [than in December]. Everybody was kind of feeling their way around at that time. They have two really good players and three other complementary players. They have some good players, but they're not real big bodies.

Ed Sennett

Coach was on my case about not blocking out. He told me to get in the weight room. I told him was in there all summer. He said to get tougher, so I did.

Zach Waldher

I think this (setback) will make us a tougher team.

Ethan Dschaak

To be honest, I think he's been tougher on us than anyone else. If something goes wrong, he's constantly in our faces telling us what happened. I think that the other guys around here know that as well.

Erik Radick

Just to show the judge that we're serious about, you know, tougher drunk driving laws, we also plan to go to Santa Fe and petition there and lobby there for stricter laws when vehicular homicide occurs again.

Erica Ramos

I wish this team plays like they did in the second half all the time. We need to play tougher soccer. It didn't seem like we wanted it in the first half and we wanted a win in the second half.

Emily Cole

Over the past 25 years, we've seen the deregulation of the airline industry, the financial services industry, the telephone industry, we're starting to see it in the utilities. And this is changing so many things for consumers. It's leading to more choice and lower prices but in many cases it's also leading to tougher decisions and more headaches.

Ellen Stark

Without [revenue growth from its] power systems [unit], there would have been no growth, and the question is, as it peaks, how fast will the other businesses rebound and make up for the power systems decline? ... It's going to make double-digit earnings growth tougher to come by in the next couple of years.

Edward Jones

Playing the (play-in) game helped us a lot. It's a big win for the program and for the section. It makes a statement about our section. We're a lot tougher than people give us credit for.

Ed Goetz