They can say that. But South Central is a tough team and we beat them. Crestline is a great team and we beat them. People are going to have to start to say, 'Hey, maybe they can do it.' I'll take the wins.

Martin Coffman

Whoever wins, I just hope they do the right thing.

Franklin Johnson

When it came down to it, there were three teams in the running for second place. The percentage of individual wins for Matt and Josh were higher so they took second.

Rachel Elkins

It is what it is. It's gonna be very difficult. I don't think we look at it like it's over. We look at it like we gotta get guys ready to play, we do have six wins in the bank. We gotta keep our head up and get ready to go out and give ourselves a chance.

Frank Haith

To get four wins over there was big. We're sitting pretty well in conference. We just need to keep playing the same caliber of ball.

Rene Barrientes

At this point, wins mean more. It won't be right for him to keep failing and me keep him on (the team). It's not fair, and I'd have to change all of that.

Derek Stingley

She's a great athlete. She's contributed to a lot of wins over the last four years. She's a great kid, a great student, very unselfish.

Jean Roise

When I came in, there was so much cheating and so many tricks, and they've pretty much taken that out. Now, it comes down to reactions, quickness and your teammates. The guy who wins usually did a better job.

Jason Arnott

It's definitely embarrassing to come out here for our first ACC game (at home), and to be 0-3. I expected to do well in this league. We're 0-3, but we're going to get wins in this league.

Jared Dudley

I'm a firm believer that slow and steady wins the race, ... Day in and day out, I try to be responsive to constituents. I try to knock on doors and spend time each day raising money.

Peter Shannon

That was a good match. The girls were down 5-0 in the first set before they woke up. I think the nerves settled in and they needed to settle down. They won three straight games, which made a difference. Even though they lost 6-3, the three straight wins got their confidence going.

Janet Disbennett

It has been a while since I ran US 36. ... It is a fast place. You get a lot of G's in the corners. It's flat out each and every lap. It would be great to get a couple of wins this weekend as we start wrapping up the season. We have 9 so far and have a goal of 15. We won at Moberly (24 Raceway) last year and have done really well at that track, so I am looking forward to getting back there.

Brian Brown

That's baseball. The team that doesn't make mistakes wins the game.

Joey Eischen

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out. It's the No. 1 rush defense in the league, being our defense, against the No. 1 rush offense (Idaho State). It's the No. 2 rush defense, being their defense, against the No. 3 rush offense in the league. So something's got to give. It may be the team that throws the ball best wins the game.

Bobby Hauck

We've come a long way. We've improved our pitching, improved our defense a little bit. It's still disappointing since we only have eight (wins), but we're going to try to get a winning season with the five games that we have left.

Terry Newton

We're getting good pitches to hit and we're not missing them. We have more home runs here [five] than we do at home [one], so it's a good sign for everybody to get things started off on the road with two wins.

Garrett Atkins

All of our duals are hard fought wins. We have a couple of holes in our lineup. Luckily, they had two forfeits also.

Shane Valdez

Football's all about hitting people, ... The team that hits harder is the team that wins.

John Mccauley

Our work's cut out for us this series. We've got Fergie going tomorrow. They haven't seen him yet. Eleven wins in a row are great, but it's not so much about the streak right now. Every game is an important game. There's two left here. We've got to play the best we can.

James Frisbee

I'm real enthused about where we're at and where we're going. We want to get to the point where we reload instead of rebuild. I think we're going to be competitive and we'll find some wins out there. I know the kids believe they can (win).

Rusty Zysett

It's not always how many wins and losses you have at the end of the season, it's how you got to that point.

Jerry Graybeal

We needed to prove to ourselves we could beat good teams, ... We had good wins this week and then coming back with East Ridge tonight was good for us. It really helps our mental state. Our kids need confidence, which will make us stronger. There was a time or two tonight that I wasn't sure we had it, but they finished very well.

Susan Thurman

It was the fear of losing more than having to win. Nobody ever wins the Brier from 3-4. I'm not saying it'll never happen, but it's never happened before.

Don Walchuk

We talked as a team that his was a big game. If we won we'd be up by 10 points, if we lost we'd be up by six, so we wanted to put some distance between the teams behind us. It doesn't matter how pretty the wins are, we have to get as many points as we can.

Craig Conroy

Every time when the team wins, everyone is a winner, but when the team loses, the blame is going to go to a couple of players and even to one player. But I don't care. I was never scared of that. There's nothing to be ashamed of. I gave 100 percent of what I have [at EuroBasket 2005]. I came here to play and win but I didn't make it.

Marko Jaric

I think right away (following the two wins), you could see what they did (to us). We went into Minnesota with a lack of urgency. I don't know whether that's carried on, but (the Red Wings) took the opposite approach and they've been working hard since then.

Dan Hamhuis

Offense sells tickets. Defense wins championships.

Dave Thorson

He's picked me up a couple times this year. I've got one or two wins because of him. Everything he does is 120 percent. He'll run into walls. He'll run through walls. He comes in on balls better than a lot of guys I know. When you have that kind of defense behind you, it makes throwing strikes easier.

Cliff Politte

Miami is incredibly improved this year and have already had some great wins. Their coach, Mario Rincon, has done a great job in building that team. It will be our first ACC match of the season and is no doubt a tough one. You always like to set a good tone for ACC conference play so it should be very intense.

Kenny Thorne

The wrestling program has grown a lot in the last four years. Not only in terms of wins and losses, but also in developing character.

Mike Hehnke

The public has the impression that the insanity defense gets used a lot. It rarely gets used and when it's contested it rarely wins.

Robert Batey

We will take wins, any way we can get them and as much I disliked being behind in those games, I'm very proud of our team for continuing to fight and their never-say-die attitude. It would have been very easy to fold up the tents when we were down by six, but they just kept battling. It was a courageous effort, and one that we should keep in the back of our mind the next time we're behind.

Leigh Ross

But I have no complaints. The kids battled. They played hard. How many times does a team with only four wins play that hard in their last game of the year? Our kids did and I'm really proud of them.

Doug Foote

Merck is still going to try and fight the next several cases and try to pull the next couple of wins out of a hat, so that Merck can say this was a bizarre coincidence.

Mark Lanier

She's great, she's awesome, she's every good word you can think of. She's a great player because she doesn't have to score 20 points to help. She does so many other things. Then she steps up and wins the game. That was clutch.

Sarah Russell

Twenty wins is monumental for us. We knew it was coming up and we talked about it. Being this close really probably had something to do with the start of the game.

Dan Stander

This is huge. It's about stringing wins together right now. You can't worry about what positions are and things like that. We're just trying to win basketball games.

Rick Ellis

I'm really excited because these are my first wins (at state). I kind of expected the 200 IM, but I was nervous about the 100 free.

Amanda Faulkner

I think they are excited right now, because they have just had two wins, and coming off of that is positive for us. They have a winning attitude right now. We're in there; it's just taking an extra step against the big teams, and tomorrow [today] is going to be a good challenge for us.

Amanda Bussell

He just loves universities and is enthusiastic about what we do with our students and our faculty, ... He beams every time a student wins an award or a faculty member has a significant publication or research grant or teaching award. In my way of thinking, he represents the best in American higher education.

John Peters

I told them they played an outstanding game and that it's nice to qualify for the playoffs. But we have two more games before the playoffs. We don't want to focus on the six wins. We want to focus on finishing 8-1.

Scott Guthrie

I believe that whoever wins an an election, even by a close margin, has a right and a duty to govern.

Massimo D'alema

There's no doubt it's (because of) winning. People want to play a team that wins because they want to compare their state to a team that's winning in another state.

Bobby Bentley

Our sense when it hit was that it was bad but could have been worse. For us, the coverage we gave it was a lot. We weren't looking to create angles beyond the obvious ones, like the impact on gas prices. That isn't the WINS way.

Mark Mason

We don't make a big deal out of wins, so we won't make a big deal out of a loss either. Give Ohio Northern credit. They did an excellent job with ball control, especially in the first half.

Larry Kehres

This is a great win. That's a Division I school that has three wins we just beat. There's a lot of pride. Our kids played their butts off.

Jim Henson

I don't believe any of our voters have been impressed with any of St. John Fisher's wins. When Roberts Wesleyan is arguably the team's best victory, that doesn't speak well to most voters.

Pat Coleman

It's really important to come into finals with momentum. We had more home and away wins last year but it means naught if you don't come into finals with momentum. Last year we came off four losses, this year we came off three super elimination-type finals atmosphere (matches).

Neale Daniher

They are like lobbyists. They're spreading the money around, so whoever wins owes them.

Juan Cole

Good pitching, good defense and timely hitting. That's what wins baseball games. We got everything today. A classic.

Jim Frederick

Going up to 100 meters will not create more interference for Bluetooth. We knew it was going to be a tricky problem but Bluetooth is going to be the one that wins (in frequency traffic wars) because it changes frequencies so quickly.

Christina Bjorknader

The players have received a lot of pats on the back and the fans are starting to look at the schedule and throw out some numbers on how many wins we're going to have. We're emphasizing to the players that the party's over, we have a two-hour bus ride ahead of us and we have to find the energy that we had in the first half last Friday and apply it to Eastern.

Shawn Mcdowell

Anytime you can take two on the road, it helps. It's big for us, and we need to string them (wins) together.

Deron Clark

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Keith Cieplicki

It would be special (if he wins both the long jump and high jump). Mike is a special guy. We would all like him to do it. He's our emotional leader. It would be a special thing for all of us.

Mike Holloway

I'm working under the assumption that I'm here for this road trip. I don't look any further than that. ... Obviously, (wins) make you stay a little bit longer than (losses).

Michael Cooper

He's kind of been in the back in the shadows all year while his brother, Zach, has been getting a lot of important wins. He's been slowly building his confidence up and today he came through.

Pedro Barbosa

To identify one reason would be unfair to Louis. It's not a matter of wins and losses. There were problematic things throughout the entire program. This is not an indication of how I feel about Louis Orr. There is not a finer, more genuine and honest man than Louis Orr. I have a lot of respect for him.

Joe Quinlan

Overall, the team has been working well. I am happy picking up two wins in the conference this week.

Mark Bates

We knew it was going to be tough. In most of the brackets, there were 3-4 kids with 30 wins. But overall, we weren't at our best today. Some kids just had an off day today.

Henry Agallar

We've got five wins now and hopefully we keep plugging away and get a few more. The key is just to get to the (playoffs) and see what can happen.

Glenn Howard

We've been hearing about our No. 2 ranking around school. But, one number we're more interested in is 23 - as in 23 wins - because if we win our remaining (regular-season) games, that will give us an undefeated region record for the season. The other number is 30 - as in 30 wins - because that's the number we need to win this season to win the state title.

Wesley Matthews

Two wins would be nice.

Jason Eldredge

It was a decent season, overall, and getting three wins was pretty good for a first-year team.

Mike Dubbelde

If Lukoil wins the arbitration, it's CNPC's problem, ... If they block this deal they can pick up shares of Petrokazkhstan at a lower price with no other bidder.

Daniel Mcdonald

We still only have 39 wins, but every person on the roster was into the game from the first pitch on. We were coming off the bench giving high-fives. We had a good shot in the arm of life. The win was a big part of that.

Mike Sweeney

Everyone at the camp wins. Players are coached and have a chance to make many contacts. Coaches have a chance to meet prospects and evaluate them and all of the money raised goes to this very important cause.

John Loose

I didn't know where we'd be at this point. But 19 wins isn't bad for a bunch of guys with six wins last year. Making the Sweet 16 is just amazing. I feel great for these guys.

James Causey

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

Positive news flow from Cisco's carrier business surfaced last week with two wins from China Telecom and Global Crossing. We believe the company is beginning to regain momentum in the core router business. In our view, Cisco can stabilize this business over the next several quarters.

Christopher Stix

Those were big. We scored some good points there -- not only wins, but pins, too, which really helps the team score.

Jim Heinzler

We've also got a chip on our shoulder, because all our hard work in practice still hasn't produced wins. We can't really worry about our opponents, we need to focus on ourselves first.

Tisha Hill

It was an ugly win. But it goes in the 'win' column. You don't put ugly in the win column, you put wins.

Nyla Milleson

Nine wins in two seasons were enough.

Jerry Porter

Coming in, you've got to picture yourself as the No. 1 guy. I think the first weekend of the year I had a good weekend, then we got two big wins against Denver and right off the bat I felt like I belonged.

Ben Bishop

Who knows? There's just no way to tell with the Williams sisters. Venus played a terrible match at the French, and a few weeks later she has an incredible run and wins Wimbledon. Both Williams sisters are good hard-court players, so anything is possible.

Mary Carillo

These things are always a great time. It's always nice to get out on the course and have a little bit of added competition between the guys. Hopefully one of our teams wins.

Nick Punto

Look at his stats . . . look what he did. He was getting two points a game for us. How many one-goal games have we lost this year so far? Those two points a game, you don't think we'd have six more wins, eight more wins?

Mike Sillinger

I like playing in that gym. We've played well in it. As long as we keep doing what we're doing, the wins will come.

Matt Proper

Maybe if we can get a few playoffs wins, next year it'll be better.

Lorenzen Wright

He's never been a champion of immigrant rights. But he may come around now because of the campaign. If he wins over the migrants, that popularity could pull a lot of votes in Mexico.

Felipe Aguirre

Adam is a three-year starter who had 19 wins last year. Jordan is also a three-year starter.

Tony Salopek

Man, we're supposed to get wins like that, ... That's a tough loss.

Dwight Howard

Elizabeth City has played well but has not shown it in wins and losses. They have been awfully close, and you've got to respect that. It should be a good game and a challenge for us.

Michael Costa

I won't be surprised if he wins the award. In my opinion, he is the best player in the state of Minnesota. We are definitely looking forward to his return to the Stampede as we pursue both the Anderson and Clark Cup championships.

Kevin Hartzell

It kind of sparked us up. They pushed us to the limit and that's what every team is going to do, but we stayed in our stuff and did what we had to do. We're going to get wins that we don't like and I definitely think this is one of them.

Rudy Gay

We were 9-17 my sophomore year. We made a vow to turn this program around. This year our goal was 20 wins. We were able to surpass that, and I'm pretty proud of that.

Vance Cooksey

Amanda is a special talent. She's performed very consistently in her three and a half seasons here and it's fun to see her win. It's her second win of the season and both were pretty big wins. Golf is not a game where you always reap the benefits for your hard work so its fun to see her do that. She's got some confidence as we build toward the end of the season.

Kelley Hester

The wins haven't picked up, but the quality of his stuff has been very good.

Guy Hansen

The wins are nice, coach-of-the-year awards are nice, the hall of fame is nice. But the award of coaching is when you get a wedding invitation from a former player, or when they stop in and talk to you after they've graduated. That's the ultimate, when you know you've had a positive impact on their lives.

Dan Gorbett

It all comes down to who wins and who loses. There has been concern on the part of many people that private and parochial schools have advantages because they don't have (enrollment) boundaries. I don't know how true that is, but you probably see the most dominance (by non-public teams) in basketball.

Greg Ransom

I don't know what it is. I can't answer it. The emphasis going into the game is to start aggressive; in a way to send a message we're going to play hard. I don't know what the deal is. We're a team that really needs some wins.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

I remember a lot of guys saying in the NBA everybody just sort of plays and then the last six or seven minutes you decide the game. Well, to tell you the truth, the team that shows up to play earliest normally wins. I totally disagree with that. So many games are lost in the first quarter. You get down 15 and it's such an uphill battle.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

We have three dual meets before the Allegheny County tournament. That would give Nathan a shot to reach 100 wins in the finals, if he wrestles five times at the county tournament. It would be great if it works out that way.

Jeff Pollick

We have had a season that exceeded my expectations. We finished the regular season with 20 wins and six losses. We won the Seacoast Class L championship.

John Hodsdon

We had a good month. We had some really good wins, and we had some really tough losses.

Rich Conover

The SCC is as competitive as ever and all I am really looking for is improvement from last years three wins.

Dan Nault

We know what we're capable of and we want revenge. We know we're the better team but we have to play like we did when we had eight consecutive wins.

Megan Baumgardner

He's added some stability in the middle of the field. I have him playing sometimes at center mid and sometimes at stopper. He's played well and wins the ball in the air on 50-50 balls well.

Matt Kane

Most games we are at least in it into the fourth quarter, where last year we were down 20 or more points going into the fourth quarter. We hope to get a few more wins when we play teams the next time around.

Troy Diehl

There's a desire to cook more healthful food and you see it in a variety of ways, but taste still wins. If it doesn't taste good, it doesn't matter. Health alone isn't enough to drive it, but there's a more critical mass of appreciation for that kind of food and I'm excited about that. It's a fascinating time to be working with food.

Peggy Katalinich

It was good to get two wins, no matter how they wound up looking like at the end. We've had a string of games where we've just not gotten the breaks at key times, like the other teams has, so tonight it was good to come away with two wins.

Jim Perrin

The team that understands the game the most, and executes, wins close games. We'll get there, but it's going to take a while for (our players) to learn the game.

Heath Lane

It's like getting two fat boys in the ring, ... and whoever wins gets to eat.

Frank Middleton

The kids are really determined to beat the school record of 24 wins. We've really been striving to practice the way we play.

Patrick Carlson

If he wins in November, he will be King Kong.

Abel Maldonado

I've been battling it out for nine years at this level (to get to 200 wins). But the Steelheads didn't make it any easier for me. This is a tough place to get a win.

Marc Magliarditi

Brent is always dangerous. He is a guy who can put an [opponent] on his back. ... I think we are going to see a lot more of Brent Jones pinning guys and getting big wins in the course of his [college] career.

Lenny Bernstein

There was a lot to play for tonight, and the girls did a great job of meeting those goals. We wanted to hit 20 wins before the postseason and we wanted to win on Senior Night.

Dave Kohnen

The defense always wins. Three and out, three and out, nothing new. The fans should know it's the same every year.

Bryan Pata

[The result ended United's winning streak at four and its unbeaten run at six, and provided the Galaxy with its first victory outside Southern California in nearly 14 months. (Los Angeles's two previous road wins this year were against Chivas, a lowly Los Angeles-based expansion team.)] We were flying high for a while, ... and this grounds us a little bit.

Nick Rimando

Oftentimes I think movies that come into the limelight through significant Academy Award nominations get a little better play in their current window, and most often that's a theatrical (box office) number. If the movie wins, it's got a bump up in revenue and a higher video profile.

Jeffery Logsdon

It's good to have a few pucks put away right now. I'm only concerned about the wins. We're putting wins on the board and everybody in the room is ecstatic right now.

Raffi Torres

We found ways to battle and battle, but not to pull out wins. We won one big game and thought we were turning the corner, but we lost some close ones down the stretch.

Becky Flynn

If Cuba wins, Fidel wins. I hope Japan wins.

Angel Hernandez

When you surround yourself with good players a lot of good things can happen. It is nice to get 600 wins, but I am just real happy that my team is playing the way they are.

Sandy Montgomery

I don't know what team plays better on the road than home. In my opinion in any league it's tough to accomplish wins on the road. We've got to go back to the drawing board. We've got another road game (at Missouri) and we'll try to win it.

Keith Langford

If this horse wins the Derby, then we'll know who did it.

Beverly Lewis

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Buxton

When you play Wyoming East, you know they're going to play hard regardless, ... They have a couple of wins under their belt already, and they've been in the games they've lost. We expect them to come in here and play hard against us, and we expect to have a dogfight on our hands.

David Witt

I told her that if we're going to be a team that really wins, we've got to get the other players involved. She absolutely agreed with it, and asked what she needed to do. She's been the most supportive of the new system.

Katie Meier

At this point, they are all must wins. Because the league is so close, everybody knows you've got to win out.

Carol Simon

[Offensively,] we won't lead the nation, but we're gonna score our share of runs. We'll be able to run the bases. We don't have to be super outstanding in any one area to win. We just need to be consistent to put some wins up on the board.

Shawn Rychick

They will be shooting targets in all different patterns, ... The fastest horse and best shooter wins. It's very entertaining. We have people all the way from 6 to 70 years old entered, and there will be people from 27 states here next week.

Jim Rodgers

He didn't win the Stanley Cup, but I hope he wins a gold medal in the Olympic Games.

Ilya Bryzgalov

We did what we needed to do to put ourselves in better position. This was an important week. We needed these two wins to give us a chance.

Bev Smith

There's a contradiction between the two, and as always, the Supreme Court wins, and that bodes ill for the California case.

Jeffrey Toobin

This is big. For us to get two road wins against two really good teams shows we are a team to be reckoned with in the Pac-10.

Ryan Appleby

This is a good way to finish 2005, and hopefully we can go into January doing some of the things we did. Niagara has dangerous shooters, and we can't look ahead to Canisius. We have to take one game at a time and hopefully we can come out with a pair of wins.

Brian Giorgis

The best way to keep yourself competitive is not to change anything. Right now we're trying to grind out wins and win the division.

Tony La Russa

If she wins, Judd Morse gets a lot of the credit.

Gary Mandella

To go into the fourth quarter 37-37 against a team that is as athletic as Concord, that?s a positive for us tonight. It can?t be the ultimate satisfaction, though. Our work has to pay off with wins. They need that as a team.

Tim Hopley

He owes me a steak dinner when he wins, ... I was in Vegas on business while he was in college and took him to eat steak and told him to order whatever he wanted. I told him he could buy me one with the winnings of his first PGA Tour title.

Neil Payne

We are doing all the things you need to do to be successful, causing turnovers, taking care of the ball, rebounding, executing our offence. But the only thing missing is wins. It's very frustrating.

Gerald Wallace

It was nice to get some wins and be able to get everyone out on the field for a significant amount of time. Everyone played really well today.

Ted Mcintyre

I'd rather shoot in the 60s every day rather than hit it long. I'd take two wins in a heartbeat.

Bubba Watson

How person wins and loses is much more important than how much a person wins and loses.

Tom Krause

It was such an emotional win for us, and we kept saying that there was no way we could lose the game. Our fans fired us up too. It was the best crowd I've ever played in front of at Pauley. It was such a great experience, and we had fun more than anything. Wins like this are what we play for.

Paul George

When you're trying to rebuild a program and gain respect, wins like that give you credibility right out of the gate. It makes a huge difference recruiting-wise. It's not the same old Kansas.

Ritch Price

Someone told me at halftime I had five assists, but I just laughed at it. The win's more important.

James Augustine

Vince had 30 wins and 2 losses.

Gil Brandt

I can't complain. It was as good as it could have been. It's been a good last few weeks. Been a good season. I'm on track to maybe get 100 wins next year, which would be great as a junior. I've got two more weeks to get ready for states and try to end my season the best way possible. I'm definitely pleased, but I can never be satisfied.

Mallie Shuster

They're a very good team. They haven't gotten a lot of wins thus far, but they haven't not been in any games this year. We've seen video of their games this year, and they've played very good games and stayed right with [their opponents].

Kevin Corrigan

We had a respectable year last season. We had some very good wins. However, I thought there were a couple of matches along the way we should have won.

Don Reid

I hope somebody wins. We can't handle the business we're getting.

Amanda Johnson

Bluff is a nice word for lying. The cards are going to even out in the end. In poker, the one who lies the best wins.

Chris Anderson

We have a good offense, but we're trying to get better on defense because defense is what wins games. We've been focusing on defense and trying to get better.

Ashleigh Tondo

We're really happy with two wins from three in South Africa.

Rodney So'oialo

Anytime a kid wins, it's awesome, and I'm so excited for the guys who do make it. But I'm heartbroken for the kids who don't. You never win. When you bring 12 it's tough to win them all.

Arnold Alpert

Once I got to the UA and had the resources to receive coaching every day and train with other teammates, I was able to progress very quickly into an internationally competitive level, ... I stayed on track and have now eventually ended up where I am today, and to know that I made it here through hard work and a great deal of support makes my wins that much more meaningful.

Cheri Blauwet

One game can make a season, especially when you have just four wins going into the game.

Bob Dwyer

Everyone's just really excited to go into our home court and get a win. We really wanna get some wins in these last three games before the tournament.

Jen Haubrich

If we look at security critical systems, say banking, electronic gambling, a great deal of care is put into making those machines secure, and still problems occur. I consider electing the leader of the free world to be a more critical question than who wins the lottery.

David Dill

Having to decide between Adam and Joey is a great problem to have. Both can be the starting goalie and we are excited to see who wins the competition.

Brendan Nash

If there are any kids that have earned a win like this, it's these six seniors that deserve it. They've been beat around by teams, but now they set a record for wins and have the first state win.

Bobby Ervin

They always say, 'defense wins championships', well, why not have the two best defensive teams in Iowa play in the championship game?

Deanthony Zanders

I would hope we were just part of an epic [Friday] and the last shot wins. All roads to anywhere go through Chester, I've said that a million times.

Gregg Downer

We've all had some good outings and some highs in the short season so far. Now it's just a matter of repeating those and stringing together some more of those good wins.

Dave Esquer

We want to win all the games we have left. To do that we have to become more consistent. I'm proud of how the kids have handled themselves and we are getting much better. It has not shown in wins and losses, but I'm hoping it will this year.

Jerry Groves

I'm not going to stress out over it and I'm not going to put more emphasis on wins or losses. I'm just going to focus on getting the team prepared to compete at the highest level they can.

Tommy Ramos

This is our biggest win. It's a team that wins games, not the (individual) athletes.

Bill Fisher

The key for this team is Kristen Barry. She missed her first three shots. Last year she shuts down -- this year she wins the game.

Lou Wejnert

The guys are playing an attractive, hard-nosed style of soccer and they deserve to get some wins. We can't let the element of doubt set in, and we need to play for and believe in each other without letting our egos get in the way in order to turn things around this season.

Mike O'malley

No one can doubt our heart, not with three overtime wins. No one can doubt that we deserve to be here.

Joey Borick

After last season, you just don't want to leave any points on the table, whether it's round wins, qualifying or whatever.

Aaron Capps

(North Side) is a good team, and we could meet them down the road again. These two wins against them show how far we have come this season.

Marques Johnson

I tell you what, it wouldn't surprise me one bit if she wins it. There are some good runners there, but she's pretty focused, and she's not letting anything get in her way.

Barbara Crousen

As coaches, we don't enjoy wins long enough. We'll enjoy this one tonight and then turn around and get ready for tomorrow.

Dave Schrage

Our defensive pressure set the tone for the whole day. We believe in the saying that defense wins championships. At this level, it?s not going be a game where both teams are running it up and down the floor. It?s usually grind-it-out basketball.

Chris Rider

Shots started to fall for us and we had a nice run. But it was a little too early. We need that run with a minute to go like our last five wins.

Bethany Irwin

We play hard every night. But right now, we don't have the skills to turn that effort into wins. We're not quite where we need to be.

Wally Kesling

This team knows their job is to score runs and win every inning. Whoever wins the most innings usually wins the ball game.

Stacey Johnson

I won a couple of matches I should've lost, I really pulled out some good wins.

Ryan Love

It doesn't matter if you get 3,000 hits in 18 years or you get 3,000 hits in 22 years. You still have to reach that milestone. You still have to hit 500 home runs, and it's like a pitcher doing it. If you get 300 wins in 19 years and a guy gets 300 wins after 24 years, he's still doing something right.

Wade Boggs

It's really nice. I'm sorry Kelly Meek wasn't on the sideline to make it more enjoyable. But a win's a win and we need it. We needed to win here tonight to keep us battling for the league championship and to let people know we can still play with anybody.

Phil Tronsrue

There hasn't been a difference. Over the past two years, each and every game was a coin toss that was decided in the final minutes. We just kept on gaining determination and smelling wins every time we played. There's just been a lot of little turning points along the way in last few years.

Jack Schrader

We expect a very wide range of conditions, ... The biggest difference (from Valencia) is that the water is flat, and that will level the playing field. It's more like racing on a lake. We wouldn't be surprised to see wins by some of the smaller teams.

Chris Dickson

Last year, I had a similar situation with the Falcons and the exact same thing happened at the end of the season when we needed two wins to clinch the division.

Jason Wright

There were definitely positives that we took out of the weekend. While having two losses doesn't put you in the best frame of mind, we are positive that if we put in some hard work this weekend that we can come out with two wins.

Monica Naltner

They play good defense and help each other out a lot. So that's a good sign. If you start playing defense, the wins will start racking up.

Sean Elliott

I think that's the most wins (Coffman coach Mary Ann Grimes) has ever had for her program, and it would be fabulous for both of us if we were to play each other in the final. It would assure that a Dublin school is going to the sweet 16.

Todd Hardesty

They're a fun team to watch; they're a very mature, veteran team, and they've got different guys contributing every night. They're already looking to the end of the year. The record for wins, that's not what they want, they want the ring.

Willis Reed

It's irrelevant. He can drive it anywhere he wants. He does and he wins. As wayward as Stephen Ames thinks he hits it, it doesn't seem to bother him.

Geoff Ogilvy

I'm happy with the seven wins. We're one game away with four left and if we play like we did against Amity (a 10-6 loss Wednesday), we could win all four. We just have to do a better job of keeping the puck out of the (opponent's) net.

John Porto

It's not good news for the Republicans if people are still remembering the bad old Ryan days as they head to the polls. It could impact who wins the primary and who wins the general (election).

Kent Redfield

You'd better show up to play. The team that wins is going to have to string three very good games together.

Kent Kolsrud

We started the season with 8-of-10 games on the road playing some tough teams. Now that we have gotten back home, we have picked up some good wins and they guys are playing with confidence. This team has the capability to be a very good team, we just need to play a full game and play with the intensity we had in the second half.

Tom Ramon

If we can get through this week (with wins) against Fairfield and Tatum, I'd feel a lot better about that ranking. The kids are excited about the game. What kid wouldn't want to be a part of a game like this? This one right here is going to be every bit as big as every other big game.

Ryan Tomlin

If the Moore faction wins three or four of those seats, and especially if Parker beats Brown, I think the perception will be ... that the church faction of the Republican Party is now more powerful at the ballot box in Alabama than the business faction of the Republican Party.

Jess Brown

Respect in this game is about wins and losses. The fact is, we didn't win. So they were right and we were wrong.

Bryce Fisher

I thought she might have been a little more radical. I actually expected to see more fundamental changes. I assume this is an interim Cabinet until after the elections. If she wins she will probably make more changes.

Horace Peterkin

We got to dig down deep and gut a few of these road wins out. Those games are going to be tough, I don't think there's any one of them that we can't win. And we're definitely just going to need to give a better effort than we did tonight.

Kevin Gardner

We finally got all of our bats together. To get some wins against quality teams was really, really good for us.

Paul Marick

It's going to be a gritty, nasty, physical game. What wins games for Cal is the running backs and that offensive line.

Alvin Smith

We had a positive season. Two years ago, this program had won once in five seasons. We've put 15 (wins) and 12 together now in back-to-back seasons.

Matt Coleman

Over our 21-game season we improved five wins over last season and we had chances to win five other games. It is definitely an improvement but it will take the girls working on things during the summer to continue.

Brad Gerfen

Thomas was just a little off tonight. But I wouldn't read too much into his loss. He's been sick, and that always takes a toll. He's going to bounce back and when it's time for him to win, he'll get some wins for us.

Kevin Kowalik

We're starting to play well. We just have to build on those wins and not relax too much.

Joel Przybilla

We have a lot of young players, and they had some first-time jitters in CIF. I told them to start stepping up their defense in the second quarter, and they did. They need to remember that defense wins games.

Mel Wilkins

We play a tough 18-game schedule against a lot of good teams. I think we have a pretty good setting team this year and are goal is try and stay as healthy as we can and crack out nine wins and get into the district tournament.

Bob Murray