Breakdown Quotes

[There's also an element of unfairness to giving a coach a quick hook. Although NBA coaches know it's a crazy business when they sign up, it doesn't change the fact that most pour their heart and soul into their job.] Coaching in the NBA is not easy... It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. - Pat Williams

[The breakdown of emergency communications will be a key topic at hearings planned on Capitol Hill. Disaster response experts hope the Katrina chaos will] serve as a wake-up call... in the first major test of our emergency response capabilities after September 11, we see once again our Achilles heel is the total meltdown of the infrastructure we rely on for communication. - John Cohen

[In another one of his banned books,] Rejecting Lies, ... Under the pressure of ideology and the temptation of market economy, intellectuals have not become the society's pillar in the midst of the breakdown of moral values but have become the most thoroughly corrupt bunch of people. - Yu Jie

[Bangor] did a better job of winning the interior game tonight. Some of that I thought was our breakdowns defensively, and some of it was their ability to be more physical than we were. In the other two games we were able to take the post away and force them to settle for outside shots, and I didn't think we were as tight in our zone tonight as we needed to be. - Mark Reed

(The) third-quarter breakdown was pretty ugly. I think we got really excited. They were maybe surprised we had such a lead in the first half and they were ready to run with it. Then they tried to make the perfect pass, the one that really is going throw the dagger in when all you need is solid execution. - Jason Tesini

(Massachusetts) scored its goals on a couple of breakdowns and lack of discipline with our overall team shape early. They did the smart thing-they tried to sit on a two-goal lead and they did it, and we weren't able to crack them. - Steve Burns