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We've taken a bit of stick and I think no one has criticized us as much as ourselves by our recent performances, ... We thought we improved against Austria and today we wanted to play with a lot of pace in our game, a lot of attacking verve. We were unfortunate not to score a few more goals.

We played well in overtime, but couldn't get the score with Pacelli attacking the ball. His (Andrew Gross) two finishes were absolutely great.

(Y-C) just got too many looks at the basket - right at the hoop. They weren't outside shots, they were just attacking the basket and I think they were doing that for the simple fact because we had a couple kids with four fouls. Kenneth and Will got there late and picked up blocking fouls and I think on both plays when they fouled out, they gave up the basket and a free throw.

We didn't do a good enough job attacking their zone. The first one's the hardest. Everyone thinks you're going to win easily. Bellows Falls played better than their record.

We're attacking and fast-breaking a lot more, and that suits us pretty well. More of our guys are doing what they do best better.

We're attacking these final tracks with 120% of our effort and we're going there with the plan to win and lead every lap.

We play well in spurts, but we just can't get a victory. We ran some plays in the second game and it worked. But we have a hard time keeping it going. If you are going to play well in this conference, you have to run some attacking plays.

We practiced on them attacking us, staying in that man-to-man.

We'd like to see him more aggressive attacking the strike zone and being committed to what he's doing. He had a lot of deep counts and a lot of misses off the plate. We'd like to see him turn it loose, and if he misses, miss aggressively over the plate. It's his approach and attitude. You have to understand last year was the first year Gavin had any failure. He has to get his mind straight and be aggressive.

We demonstrated much better attacking against Ferris, and we are continuing to smooth out our offense. Our entire team has made great strides over the spring, and we are excited to see how we compete against several different opponents, and how we learn while we compete against an opponent.

We work a lot on breaking pressure and attacking the basket. The girls were strong at finding the cutters and finishing.

We'll start seeing viruses attacking Windows with the ability to infect Linux and Mac machines. It's not a stretch to imaging a single virus going across all three platforms and even further.

The fact of the matter is we went after Iraq for oil. And the fact of the matter is that the United States has degraded our role as a great nation by attacking this nation that had no capacity to attack the United States and no intention of doing so, that didn't have anything to do with 9/11, didn't have weapons of mass destruction.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

It is useless attacking the insensible.

While President Bush remains focused on defending Americans against those intent on doing us harm, John Kerry remains focused on attacking President Bush.

We quit attacking once we got the lead. We didn't handle the ball well either.

We weren't as aggressive as we could have been off the dribble. We got more aggressive, started attacking the basket and opened it up and got some foul situations, and this is a good foul-shooting team.

We were rebounding, and attacking their defense. We also had kids step up who hadn't had great games much this season.

We were running our offense, looking to attack it any chance we get. When we are aggressive and attacking that's when we are at our best.

We knew the only way we could get them out of that zone was to get ahead early. We did a good job of attacking the zone early.

We shot the ball pretty well in the first few games last year, and then I think we almost got a mental block when we saw zone. Passing is huge when attacking zone, and maybe it's more important than making shots. Obviously when you make shots, people don't zone you.

Truthfully, our main game plan every week is to run our 16s and 17s, and then adjust to how they're attacking us? That's Corey going to the right and Corey going to the left.

We were told at 11:30 this morning that the militias and the TNI -- the armed forces -- were attacking the refugees. We have just received a third piece of information, from another refugee in that area, who's on the top of the mountains overlooking Dare.

We were attacking their man-to-man well, and they're mostly a man-to-man team. Their zone gave us problems. We didn't attack it right. Their zone beat us.

We've very lucky that John is a complete player. He can play an attacking role in the midfield and he can play more of a defensive role.

What we're seeing here is an attempt to subvert justice, an attempt to subvert the rule of law by those that are bent on attacking honorable citizens of Iraq who are trying to see that justice is done, whether it be on the prosecution side or on the defense side.

With my World Cup hat on, we have to get the most of all our players. This is an opportunity. It's not a reflection on the other guys. We've still got to make our mark with an attacking game. Our attack has been under wraps because we haven't had ball.

When we got up we started controlling the ball. They started attacking us and we protected the ball tonight.

We felt like we really needed to start off the game being the aggressors. The last time we played they had us on our heels. This time we wanted to make sure we were attacking the basket with either a post feed or putting the ball on the floor and getting to the rim.

US law enforcement and intelligence authorities have utilized the PATRIOT Act to thwart the plans of terrorists intent on attacking our nation again.

Usually a crime like this happens very rarely in Brighton. It happens I don't ever recall three suspects attacking one female ever before.

We're going to have a very strong attacking side that has played together for two years as a unit. We have a lot of firepower up front and a lot of creativity.

We're for people just controlling their dogs especially if they're in the habit of attacking people or other dogs.

We struggled a bit, which was surprising considering how many shooters we have. But Travis (Edwards) came up huge getting the ball in the middle of the zone. Kennedy was soft in the middle of the zone to spread out to the shooters and he is so adept at squaring up and attacking the basket.

There are some constant complainers in this neighborhood, who are unfairly attacking (the center) because of my notoriety,

We spent too much time attacking Gordon Brown and Labour rather than setting out our own plans. People had decided they wanted change - the thing they were not sure about was the alternative we were offering, so going on and on about Labour missed the point.

We are alarmed that state-run media are publicly attacking this newspaper. We are gravely concerned about the safety of Le Journal's staff, and call on the government to take steps to ensure their security.

We started shooting better and started attacking offensively and defensively.

We know who's attacking us, but we pull over grandmothers so that when we go to court we can show that we're treating white women the same way. Everyone knows that's the wrong thing to do.

We knew we were in the bonus, so we were going to keep attacking them. We weren't shooting the ball well, so we were going to try to get to the free-throw line and get points from there and that's what we did.

We knew who the scorers were, but the other players contributed greatly, which is a huge plus for them. We didn't rebound as well as we could. It was a matter of us not attacking the bucket on a shot. It's something we have to commit to improving.

As immigrants, most of us cannot vote or defend ourselves before Congress. We are not attacking the employers we just want them to talk to their congressman about the negative change in the life of many.

Early on I thought we weren't attacking the zone, playing too far out. But once we decided to start attacking the zone and playing within our shooting range, we got a lot better looks.

Early on, we had a real difficult time attacking their defense. We were standing around. We just didn't attack them. We were standing around waiting for things to happen. They're athletic and they're long and we were leaving our guards out to dry. We changed things a bit and we started getting more aggressive.

This terrorist enemy knows we cannot be defeated by him, but he is focused on winning the battle of perception by attacking civilians to spread fear among local populations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The terrorists' goal is to win the perception battle and to force us to lose our will to win.

Even though governments have been attacking tobacco companies, there's still a hard core of smokers.

Attacking and scoring are areas I feel we need to improve on. Our defense is not a problem, but I would like us to get as aggressive on offense as we are on the defensive end.

Attacking energy waste is the cheapest and cleanest thing we can do to address the energy crisis. We have no ethical problem with making dirty things cleaner, but by simply investing in energy efficiently we could create 1.4 million jobs by 2025 and reduce the overall electricity load by 10 percent.

Attacking football is the simplest way to victory and success. In Argentina, we are aware of this, which is why we play open attacking football.

Attacking Iraq now will cause a lot of problems,

Attacking Roberts as unlikely to defend the personal freedoms you are concerned about would have more resonance with many voters.

Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.

Attacking the profits of offences such as drug trafficking, money laundering and people smuggling is attacking both the motivation and ability to commit further serious crime,

Attacking those patriotic Americans who have raised serious questions about the case the Bush administration made to take our country to war does not provide us a plan for success that will bring our troops home. While the Bush administration continues to stonewall the Congress from finding the truth about the manipulation of pre-war intelligence, Democrats will continue to press for a full airing of the facts.

I see no reason to be attacking students in general. We need to look at those who are causing problems and get them to stop causing problems.

I've been really happy with the walks. Guys have been aggressive attacking the strike zone. It's always something you want to do but you don't want to get stupid. You still want to get as many people out outside of the strike zone, too.

Things are bad here. Arab gangs are going to neighborhoods and attacking people with swords and sticks. This is a retaliation from yesterday's riots.

As soon as the military goes in and can establish appropriate law and order, stop vandalism, stop the gangs running through the area, attacking people, commandeering weapons and food, we'd be more than willing to participate.

The security forces have arrested between 60 and 100 non-Lebanese who took the initiative in attacking police.

The three of us have a great understanding and know what we are all doing. Clint is more of an attacking mid, Danny plays more stationary, organizing everything, and me, I can be all over the place and win balls.

The team is looking really good, ... They're really balanced and attacking well.

The second game was a lot better. We got a lot better at our offense, attacking the ball and letting it come to our plate.

The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.

When you're breaking into a segment and you're attacking the sweet spot where the domestics have had a strong resonance for their brands, it's a long road.

We need to be more assertive in the attacking third and maybe we'll be more successful that way.

When you haven't had a lot of success up here, it comes down to confidence. He didn't have the same look he did this spring. It just looks like he loses his focus out there, especially with men on base. When things aren't going well, it looks like he tends to back off, instead of attacking the hitters.

We wanted to get them in foul trouble. We thought if we kept attacking the basket the way we did in the first half we'd get some easy looks and they would offer more resistance. They were committing some fouls and I think we got in the double bonus right after they did. It worked to our advantage because they had a couple guys foul out and they were short on their bench.

We've not seen a lot of zone. Indianola played theirs very well, and we have to get better at attacking it.

We always seemed to be a step slow. They came up with loose balls and really started attacking us. ... We were on our heels.

We've just got to adjust. We've seen zone before. It's all about ball movement and attacking through the middle, and I feel like as the game went on, we did a better job doing that.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

It was unbelievable the way he pitched. His record should have been better. It took some growing up on the mound, understanding the situation, the pitches and the sequences of attacking the hitter. He is kind of strong-willed. We had to kind of fight through that wall of his to see it our way.

You have to attack your own system in order to understand how hackers are attacking your system and how to defend against them.

What bothers me is that we need to do long-range planning instead of attacking any problem as it comes up. We need to plan ahead for what we want.

We also had players like Lindsay Lewis who scored five goals and had five caused turnovers, and Danica Strutt. We had eight people with a point in the attacking end. That's really what we look for, and we had a great time of it today.

The opposition parties, by attacking my relations with the federal government, in the last seven years, have not hesitated to score points.

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

We've got a lot of kids who can play. The key is to get them playing at a high tempo, working the ball around an attacking with speed.

Various ways have been suggested to counter him, ... such as batting out of the crease, standing on off stump, or even taking a chance by having a go at him. But attacking him is very difficult when he bowls as he did at Lord's. We have all worked very hard this week and there are various new plans, areas to work on and shots to play.

We wanted to take care of the ball, be patient in the offensive set. We knew they were going to come at us and trap Amir. Amir did a great job getting the ball to the open guy. We made shots. We were attacking their pressure.

We wanted to concentrate on passing and felt that we can do what we want if we pass the ball well ... We're still having trouble in a couple rotations, and we weren't attacking the ball.

We've had troubles all season long and the lack of concentration towards the end of the game. Tonight we didn't show that, we played with a lot more intelligence. Dallas brought everything it could, sliding balls in from every single part of the attacking half of the field. Cobi Jones and Landon Donovan -- their experience led to the victory at the end. The guys played with a lot more concentration and a lot more wisdom than we have at previous matches.

Brian Dunseth was supposed to play forward a little bit, like an attacking midfielder. But Robert Scarlett and Adolfo Gregorio were supposed to be more offensive in the first half. A lot of times, the ball would come to them and after a second touch, they would still have space after 30 yards with the ball. We stressed that at halftime.

Brian Jackson played some great minutes. He was shooting the ball well, attacking well and distributing the ball well.

Everything just started to slowly go wrong. After halftime, the lead went back and forth. Our defense didn't really step up. I don't think we were attacking enough in the second half.

We want an exciting team, a quick team, a fast team, a puck-moving, skating, attacking team, and to do that you need to put players in place who have those skills.

We did a good job of attacking the basket, and we got the ball to the right guy (Brandt) in the end.

We did a good job of attacking the basket in the fourth quarter. We made a few mistakes here and there, which was the difference. I'm real proud of the effort the kids put up, they played hard.

We did a good job spreading the floor, running the offense and attacking the basket.

We did a great job of attacking in transition. That was one of the things we worked on from Sunday's game. I thought our three guards really handled their pressure well.

We did a much better job of attacking their zone defense and getting good shots in the third quarter.

We did an excellent job coming out hard against Wesleyan and attacking their strength, which is their goalie.

The thing that's separating him from years past is his attacking the basket. He's putting the ball on the floor and really looking to get to the basket.

No rebel force can get U.S. support by attacking the AU -- in fact they are going to lose any support that we would provide.

Offensively, we need to keep attacking the basket. There were times in the regional tournament when we stopped doing that. And our press has been pretty good over the last half of the season. We need to continue getting points off our defense -- that's something this team builds on.

Offensively we were not making the extra pass and not getting a nice, smooth transition look. We were not attacking or executing our patterns. It wasn't Villanova. It's just the way we play.

Officially, MPAA stands for Motion Picture Association of America, but I suggest that MPAA stands for Malicious Power Attacking All.

Originally, I think we thought that Clint was going to come in and play like a forward and Andy was going to play the attacking mid. But kind of how it evolved was Clint felt more comfortable coming back and sometimes they were in the same space and it kind of complicated things at times.

Some people and politicians who have been attacking the industry seem to think that our companies are owned by space aliens. It's as though simply taking money from or criticizing a company is not going to affect millions of Americans who have invested in it.