Tentative Quotes

You're telling me you want (the team) to get up there and get aggressive, but when a goal is scored like that, they're going to be tentative. That has to stop for us to get any type of consistency here. Or we're done. - John Tortorella

You worry at this time of the year that you get a little bit hesitant, a little bit tentative, and it becomes a walk-it-up, grind-it-out game. I don?t want it to be like that. I don?t want to be afraid to run and afraid to lose and worry about ?What if.? I just want to go and run up and down the floor and make some plays and see what happens ? that?s when we?re at our best. - Geno Auriemma

You know what, 18 scoring chances to 10. We can't have [expletive] four goals go into our net on 10 chances. We can't. Especially the fourth goal. It can't happen. So you tell me you want me to get them to get out there and play aggressive, this that and the other thing, when [expletive] goals go in like that. They're going to be tentative. They're going to be tentative, and that has to stop for us to get any type of consistency here, or we're [expletive] done. It has to stop. - John Tortorella

You know how it is in Hollywood, everybody kisses everybody. It's a handshake in Ireland. And a kind of tentativeness. Except when it's mothers and small children. - Frank McCourt

You cannot be tentative against pressure. They sensed that fear and they jumped on it like great teams do and took us right out of the action. - Andy Kennedy

Writing in a wry, omniscient third-person narrative voice, Perkins deftly captures the tentativeness and incompleteness of adolescence. - Barbara Barstow

With Cisco saying that its order backlog is growing [there are] good tentative first signs that the future is getting better. But it will still be a slow dribble. - Jim Glickenhaus

While we are pleased that we were able to reach a tentative pilot contract, the financial implications of the agreement, coupled with the higher price of jet fuel, will further impact our results. Therefore, we expect to post a loss in the third quarter and probably in the fourth quarter as well. - James Goodwin

When your confidence is down the last thing you want to do is scream at the players too much. But we were playing tentative and (associate head coach) Barry Smith and I had to get on them a little bit. We were on our heels, and championship teams play on their toes, not on their heels. - Rick Tocchet

When we played Harrisonburg the last time, we thought he played tentatively against them. We got him the ball, he had 16 attempts, but [Tuesday] we felt really that we could pound it in to him, and we were, especially in the first half. - John Woodrum