Clawed Quotes

When you play the style we play, you're going to have some turnovers. But we had some uncharacteristic mistakes tonight. We need to get control of that. But I liked the way we clawed back into it. It's something we can learn from. If we don't learn from it, then we're not as good a basketball team as I think we are. - Derek Robey

We were riding high and then the thing crashed on us a little bit. We've been fighting ever since and because we were working so hard to get these wins and coming up short, it was devastating. But ... we've still got a lot of fight left in us and we scratched and clawed our way to a victory tonight. - Rasual Butler

We waited too long to start playing. We kind of sleep-walked through 2-1/2 quarters. Then near the end of the third quarter, we finally started getting aggressive. We started driving the ball, and our defense picked up. We clawed ourselves back into the game. - Scott Skiles

We scratched and clawed, we just fell short. That's the bad part. Our kids played so hard and have nothing to show for it. This was fun, but it's never as enjoyable when you lose as when you win. - Ken Bublitz

We scratched and clawed our way back and tied it, and we probably had our worst four possessions of the game in a row right there. We turned the ball over and gave them a couple of open shots. I don't know if we were casual. It's hard for me to identify exactly what caused that. - Cathy Nixon

We scratched and clawed for a few runs their in the first inning. But for us to be successful this season, we're going to have to hit the ball. - Hal Hayden

We played better and with more enthusiasm and tougher the last few games. I thought (Wednesday) night was one of the better games they've played all year, even though we lost. We competed hard. We battled, we scratched, we clawed, we kicked, we grabbed. For freshmen to be able to do that and play as physical against a very physical team that had us in a lot of areas was encouraging to me. - Jeff Lebo

We played a heck of a hockey game. We played about as well as we've played on the road all year. We fought, we clawed. - Ken Hitchcock

We had the lead almost the entire game, but they just took it back at the end. They just clawed back and they're the type of team that if you give them an inch, they'll go after it. We played hard and we played well. - Liz Leonard

We had opportunities to do it. We had a couple [of] shots to ring a bell and make something special happen. That didn't happen tonight, but we did claw back in and clawed within two runs. - Clint Hurdle