Practiced Quotations | Page 3

We always start at Page 1. Everyone that?s returning knew exactly what to do and practiced really well. And everyone?s that?s new was struggling, to put it mildly.

I've practiced my free throws, but I just don't know what it is. You don't take a whole lot of them at this time of year. There's not much time to practice. I just don't know.

I've practiced that Russian voice since I was a kid. I've always done imitations of people's voices. I used to do imitations of some of the other guys like Greg Valentine in the locker room.

I've practiced the last three days full-go, so I'll be 100 percent by tomorrow.

I've practiced two times already and the practices were great. My vision is back 100 percent, and I'm ready to get back out there and just play.

It was tough to practice the day after we found out that we didn't make it the NCAA Tournament. But as we practiced and practiced, though, guys' spirits got up and we were just happy to be able to wear this jersey again and to be able to compete.

It was a perfect miss. That sounds crazy, but I missed it perfectly, and I followed it and got fouled, and we were in a position to go to OT, but I lost the game for us. I've never practiced that but I know how to hit the back of the rim and make it pop out.

You have to realize that Brian has practiced with us, maybe three times, but he's played 20 shows. But he adds rock 'n' roll attitude.

We've practiced for over three weeks. We finally got our feet wet.

We've practiced hard, but we're tired of beating up on each other,

We've practiced in all kinds of weather. Today, it's almost exactly the weather that we're expecting to have on game day. That's good.

We've practiced it a lot but we waited to call it until we felt like it was the right time.

We've practiced out there a few times and the kids were really excited. They were pretty excited the first time as were the coaches. It's nice to walk out the door and have it right there.

We've practiced these type of close game situations, but it's tough to help the girls feel the pressure of games like this one in practice. We made a couple of mental errors, and they're a great hitting team that was aggressive when they needed to be.

We all didn't play the game that we practiced and got ready for. What can I say?

There is nothing that has surprised me, because I think I know the player and he's practiced well and performed well in games. He's done a lot of good things and hopefully there are a lot more good things to come.

There is some home-course cooking involved. There's a few places on this course that our players know definitely not to put yourself there. If other teams find themselves in those places they can end up making bogey or worse. We've already practiced around those areas and set up a good game plan. Hopefully our knowledge and course management will be to our advantage.

We had a shoot-around today and practiced them for 15 minutes. Now I think it's becoming a mental thing more than anything else, but hopefully we'll get through that in the next week.

Everything they did, we practiced against. They just whipped us up front. When we had eight guys in the box, they blocked us. When we had nine guys in the box, they blocked us.

We had practiced that play, ... There was a comment in the paper about our guys standing up. You watch the film, and our guys are pointing out that the halfback is (still) back there.

We had practiced that play. There was a comment in the paper about our guys standing up. You watch the film, and our guys are pointing out that the halfback is (still) back there.

We didn't have time to thrash our bodies as much. We practiced compulsories 41/2 hours a day.

The thing that cracks me up is we've practiced that. I guarantee you, we're the only team on Earth that practices that. If Flutie goes down, I'm the backup drop-kicker.

Thanks for bringing that up, I never thought of it. When you play golf tournaments you never think about it. When you are playing you try and be ready with your total game and when that is well groomed and practiced you are ready for the tournament. That has always been my philosophy.

But the kids have practiced well the past couple of days and were looking forward to Orland this Friday.

We had so much confidence, ... I expected this. I expected to win. We had so much confidence and practiced so hard, we knew it. We have the 'it' factor. We have the heart. Slowly but surely, we noticed them losing their heart.

One day it might be really cold and snowy, and the next day it might be sunny, and you might have a match that day, but the day before you practiced indoors. You have no idea what?s going on from day to day.

I've never been a rocker, and I kind of hate punk rock, ... I grew up on ABBA and the Carpenters. When I first practiced with these guys, I was scared. I figured they'd think I was a dork.

That's what they do. They have one big quarter and put you away. That's what it takes. We practiced against their press and still had trouble handling it. We didn't execute.

That's what we practiced all week, working on red-zone plays. We know we have the ability to do it.

A lot of teams have been zoning us for some reason lately. We practiced being patient, trying to get the ball inside first and settling for the perimeter shot second.

And I just practiced on it and practiced on it. I found a lot of little things about details, about accents and how much of an accent to make.

They (Scott City) have a good team. I think they play both fall and spring ball. We were looking for them to play small ball, so we really practiced against the bunt and it showed today.

This has been a frustrating season in a lot of ways. This is the first of my 12 teams that practiced harder than they played. Come game time, we didn't always play as hard as we should have.

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others have idled, have perservered while others gave up in despair, and have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.

Teams have tried just about everything to take us out of our offensive rhythm and the things we've practiced or are used to. Fortunately, we've still had some success.

Our serving was terrible. We practiced it everyday for a long time. I don't know what to do with that.

Felix is the only guy on the team that can make the pass. We practiced it and had guys throwing it all over the gym.

Eric hasn't practiced this week so he won't be ready to play Sunday. He is suspended for one game without pay. From there on, he'll be back and will play the final three games of the season, which I hope we'll do better than we have so far.

There's obviously a lot of distraction. I can't say there's not. A lot of the guys are without power, certainly the coaches are without power, a lot of those things. But they've dealt with it pretty well, practiced pretty good the last couple of days. Guys have been here and gone to work.

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on for about a half hour the day before the game.

We didn't execute they way we had been preparing to. Basketball is about effort and execution. The effort was there at times, the execution wasn't. I just felt like we were playing not to lose instead of playing to win. We didn't stick to our game plan. We didn't play like we practiced the last week.

Torture and ill treatment are systematically practiced in Nepal by the police, armed police and the Royal Nepal Army in order to extract confessions and to obtain intelligence, among others things,

Torture is practiced systematically by the security forces, ... This was admitted by high officials of both the army and police.

This group has slowly figured out that we can't blame it on anybody else, that we can't hang our heads. If we want to change this, it's got to start inside our locker room. I would say over the last week or 10 days, we've really practiced extremely hard every single time.

This group of kids is really working hard. I would say this is the best we may have practiced since the first couple years of the high school.

The way the skill guys have practiced all camp came out in the scrimmage today.

This game will be our second game in four weeks. We have practiced 5-6 weeks to play three games, and the girls are tired of practice.

You're always ready for games. Practice is something that's very necessary to get you ready for games. They've practiced very good and very hard so far.

You practiced and you played hard. He's very structured, very detail-oriented.

You're going to have your differences in the way you practice. There are no hard feelings from our side. It's an important preseason game for us, to show we're getting better. We don't have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us. They're not in our conference; it's over with.

This is going to be my first experience playing against a team like this. This is going to be the best team we've played thus far. But we've worked hard and practiced hard. We had a good practice (Friday), and I think we're ready.

This is the first of my 12 teams at Oklahoma that have practiced harder than they played. They practiced and competed hard this week. But come game time they didn't play as hard as they should have.

In June, we practiced five times a week, so I didn't really have a life then,

In kobudo, I felt strong, and I put every last bit of energy into my kata. I'm (happiest) with what I did in kumite this year. I've practiced and practiced and kept getting better, progressing. If you have the right teachers to teach you, sometimes you have a breakthrough.

I like Carter to play games in. I don't like the fact that we're at a severe disadvantage because we don't have a practice facility. I've virtually practiced every hour on the clock except midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. I've been in the gym at every other hour.

I learned a lot from (Mason), watching how he practiced and his preparation for games. I think Mase is a guy that I don't know if I mirrored my game after, but I definitely mirrored my preparation and that kind of stuff after him,

Against Christian, it looked like we hadn't practiced and we just threw on our pants and went out to play.

Information assurance, as it's practiced today, is not a science. It remains largely ad hoc,

I knew for a while but I didn't want to tell anybody. We came out here and practiced with Spud and everything went great.

I'm not worried at all about Bobby. I'm not worried at all about Darrell. In the past, Darrell hasn't practiced at all with the team and come out and had the best games of his career.

I had several scouts say to me at the Senior Bowl (in Mobile, Ala.) that the way he practiced is far above some of the other guys. That's what made him a good football player, and that's what is going to make him a good pro.

I had spent a lot of my life in other cultures. I spent four years in Indonesia. I traveled through Japan. ... I have seen theater practiced in these ways before: mask theater, puppet theater.

I like playing against them and we just went through their stuff and practiced for what they do. So we should be able to get ready in a hurry.

I'm really happy with the way we responded and the way we practiced all week. We created some turnovers early ... I think we did a great job of establishing the tempo.

I'm proud of the way we practiced and the way we played this week. This is an awesome group of kids to coach, and today you saw their passion and love for the game.

In South Korea, short-track speed skating is the popular sport, just like the table tennis in China. The level of its young skaters is much higher than the youth in China, where the sport is only practiced in two provinces with about 300 registered skaters.

I had a broom that I'd raise high in the air and the kids practiced shooting over the broom. I think it helped, because we weren't intimidated.

If you had asked me before the game, I'd have told you we were ready. After the game, I'm concerned. We looked like a young and inexperienced basketball team, and we haven't practiced that way.

Oh my, this is amazing. I practiced hard every day and just tried to do my best, and it all paid off in the end.

I've improved a lot on my irons. I practiced a lot last week.

I messed up. That's what we practiced all this week. My head just wasn't into it, it was a matter of not keeping my head in the game.

I kind of tried to forget about it as much as possible. I really doubted myself after the game, didn't want to talk to anybody. I got into the gym the next couple weeks and practiced free throws, a couple hundred a day every day until I made them.

Take nothing away from Louisville - those guys executed their game plan, ... I don't quite know what team we brought to Kentucky. This wasn't the team I practiced with and I played with the last four weeks. This wasn't the team that, when our backs are against the wall, we fight.

The bloom is off the rose for the Internet industry. There is a sense that American companies have a higher obligation than has been practiced in China in recent years.

Any time you go on the road, especially when you've got an hour and a half bus ride, it's difficult. I thought we responded well to the bus ride, but made some little mistakes. They big played us at the beginning, then we were hanging tough with them. At the end, they just kind of wore us out. It's my fault. The boys gave a good effort. I've got to do a better job coaching as far as practice goes. I don't think we practiced very hard this week, and that's my fault.

I was a beginner again. I practiced hard and used to listen very closely to recordings of American jazz drummers such as Tony Williams and Kenny Clarke.

The next morning, he got up early and started practicing his basketball technique. He practiced and practiced and guess what? He made the team.

It's great to get back to practice just because we haven't practiced for a long time. I feel like our focus is really there because we know we have a whole new team and have new people to replace.

That's all we practiced against, was against a zone, because they went man-to-man the first two games and I was pretty sure they were not going to do that again. From the naked eye, you would have thought we were surprised by that.

Their defense was certainly stifling. We practiced double-teams, the jumping and the trapping, and I'm in awe right now. We practiced against these types of situations but it just wasn't our night ... they just played better than us.

Their performance in the triple jump surprised me. We had practiced that event only one day. But those guys are students of the events they compete in. They were learning as they were jumping.

That's all we've been doing this week. We practiced hitting the boards. We saw on film that they didn't know how to box out very well, so we worked hard to take advantage of that.

It's case by case. Obviously, if you have somebody who hasn't practiced all week, you have to take that into account. We are just going to look at all the circumstances and go from there.

It's better, ... I could have practiced today. We'll see how it goes. I want to be there in the end, so I don't want to risk anything.

I really believe that you gain confidence from hard practices and having success in those practices. Lately, Travis has practiced hard and he's had success. He's really come along.

I just couldn't get into a rhythm. We couldn't get to a lot of things we practiced because we had a lot of three-and-outs. I kept my eyes on the rush. I didn't keep my eyes downfield.

I heard some things this week, but you never know what the deal is. We practiced and prepared all week for those guys playing. Before the game we let our guys know the match-ups would be different.

In the previous few days we'd practiced the way we thought we would be doing it. But we just had to work it out with each other.

I hope it gets back to that. When we were growing up, guys my age practiced the outside shot or mid-range jump shot. These kids are practicing how high they can get up on the rim.

I have talked to him about his whole preparation about when he was going into the Slam Dunk Contest. He just said he practiced a couple of days before the event and then every day leading up to it and that is what I did. I have been practicing for two weeks just to get my routine down. I am just going to go in there and not shy away from it.

In the past, Darrell has not practiced at all, not even been with our team, and came out and had some of the greatest games of his career.

He's sore. We only got limited minutes from him the other night. Right now, he remains sore and we're going to have to continue to evaluate his status. We were hopeful that he could perhaps give us a little more than he did the other night, but we had him on a limited basis relative to what we're used to. He's not going to practice today (Friday) and he didn't practice yesterday. Since he hurt himself against Florida State, he has not practiced at all. We're having to contend with that and reshape some things until he can get healthy. We'll continue to evaluate how he feels and hope for the best.

I probably could have practiced today, but it was more precautionary.

I practiced well. I'm ahead of the game, but I really haven't been banged around yet.

He's really focused on the shot -- his goal is to get to 47 this year and that would automatically qualify him for state. He has the potential to get to 45 -- 47 might be a stretch, but if he keeps working he can get there. He hasn't really practiced the discus much because his focus has been on the shot.

He's practiced for two days, he's moved around well and, heck, we need him. We have a couple days before we get out there, and he wants to play. It's his senior year, man.