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I thought Phillip did a good job of battling back after struggling with his control. This is his first year on varsity and only his third varsity game.

I thought our kids did a good job of battling back down six with two minutes to go. We got it tied and all we have to do is get one stop. But they hit the shot. If they don't hit the shot and we get the rebound it's a different ball game.

I think we will be battling all the way through the final minutes of the 16th game of the year to determine where we play.

I think we showed a lot, battling back after the first night. That was pretty ugly. We could've -- not folded, but we could've come out and played sluggish again. We battled and I think we should take some positive things from that.

I think Bristol already brings that out in guys, because there's such tight corners and the track is fast, and I just think you're going to see guys battling to get into that chase who are going to be pushing the envelope really, really hard.

I think anytime you're down eight runs and you end up getting the winning run at the plate, I think that shows a lot of character and heart of the club. They were battling to the end.

I think it's the way it should be. If you get in, you have to beat the teams you're battling with and that's exciting. It should be in our own hands.

It has been a tough race so far. We haven't had the results we expected. I feel as if I have been battling ever since that first night off Vigo.

I think that television and Hollywood film will have a much easier time of working with this phenomenon as opposed to battling it.

It is one of the toughest in the country; teams are battling for every win. I think it is necessary for us to stay sharp and stay focused and keep our guys in that zone, and then we can do well.

Just a warrior and he didn't stop battling all year long.

(Jerod) is battling the flu. He wrestled well, he's doing the things we've been working on in practice - getting his shots high and finishing hard.

Our kids showed all sorts of character and heart. It's all about those guys that keep battling and battling and keep believing we're going to win.

Our kids just kept battling and playing hard. I mean, to win a championship game and not even get to 50 points is truly remarkable.

Our guys did a great job battling back.

Our kids are battling so I'm proud of them.

Our people have been battling right through the night to try and contain the flames. We have asked the police to look into it.

Our young guys grew up. I can't say enough about our backs. We kept battling and battling.

Ritter is a first-team All-American and in the Olympic program and it showed. We had a game plan against her but we didn't stick to it too well when she came back in. I give our girls credit for battling and coming out with a lot of intensity. That's just a very good Michigan team.

Robinson is concerned about making the club more than anything else, and that's understandable. We encouraged him to play, but it's one of those things where we can't really endorse it. We understand that he's battling for a spot on our staff, and that's important for him.

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Pitman is finding their bats and starting to hit the ball. I think we are just battling some demons (on offense) right now that we just need to let go.

Playoff hockey. It was just intensity by both sides. We've got to do a better job of being more disciplined but both teams were just battling hard.

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Our Level 7 team was battling some minor injuries going into this meet. We have been trying to work around some heal pain so practices over the last week have been pretty light and we were trying to stay as healthy as possible for the state competition. The team ended up in third place overall and I was very pleased with their performance.

People keep dismissing tonight as unimportant; I don't and I know Steve doesn't. We have got to brush ourselves down and come out battling against United. We see it as important to the club to win these kind of games because they raise the spirit and right now we've got to say that one of our problems is confidence.

Sutherland has a nice team. They've got size, we had trouble battling them on the boards. We rely on the outside shot and tonight it wasn't always clicking for us.

Some of the guys who are coming in here battling for jobs didn't do themselves any favors today. You're not going to win a job (in the first two days of camp), but certainly you can dig yourself a crater and we have some guys who are are looking for ladders right now.

Lloyd's been battling himself the last few days. He came into the office a few days ago just talking, trying to get him to think in simple terms ... not try to do too much. Pick somebody out in the infield and try to hit it as hard as you can at that person. He made a great adjustment (Friday) and did a great job for us.

I wish I knew. Maybe because they've been battling for the last month and they've been in this grind and have to win every night. Anything can happen in overtime, when the games go into overtime.

I was very proud of our guys battling back after being down by two. Ryan had a huge night at the plate and delivered the key hit when we needed it.

I was extremely proud of our guys. We knew we were facing elimination, our backs to the wall, and even down to the last 30 seconds of that contest we were battling tooth and nail. I couldn't be more proud of the group of kids in that locker room.

I think our team finally came together. We've been battling out of a slump and it's a special thing to have everybody come together at exactly the right time of the year. I think now we're going to get rolling and make a good run in the league and national tournaments.

I think I'm a better pitcher than 49-50. I was just battling to find out who I was and where I was and get him back here as quick as I could. At times I've shown that, last year I ran off seven in a row but then I ended on a bad note, but take the positives from anything.

I still think if they were to wrestle 10 times, they'd each win five times. Welch just happened to win this one. They're so even. I think you're going to see them battling each other in freestyle, and even in college, for a while.

It does feel like a playoff atmosphere. We've been battling to catch Toronto and we've done it. Now we're trying to pass them.

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I'm still not putting guys away when I get ahead right now. It's killing me a little bit, but luckily the defense is bailing me out. I'm battling right now. My command is not where I want it to be at all and it's making innings interesting.

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We never quit. We kept battling back and that's always good to see.

That was a tough game for us. We had some runners in scoring position and some runners on base eliminated and that hurt us. But I did like the way the guys kept battling in the latter innings. They never quit.

That was unfortunate to happen, but it should not take anything away from what was a very competitive game between two rivals who are battling for the top two spots in district.

That was a huge win for our players. It still gives us a shot at the playoffs. The thing about the way it happened is we kept battling away at it and finally got there.

That's the team that we've been battling the last couple of years.

That says a lot about our ball club. The guys keep battling with two out and the other team may think the inning is over and let up a little bit and we kept getting the big hits.

I was proud of our effort for three quarters. Unfortunately, we didn't finish the fourth quarter well. Our inexperience showed a little down the stretch; we play a tough schedule and right now are battling some injuries to key players.

I was proud of them for battling back, but it's really frustrating. At the start of the third quarter, which is so very important, we came out and gave up three quick baskets. All of a sudden, we are down 13. That's really important to establish (tempo) at the start of the third quarter and not let them jump on you. That really hurt us. We spent the rest of the time catching up.

I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit the ball hard somewhere.

I was battling all night long, really. I wasn't as concerned about my losing streak on the road as I was my stiff neck.

I was battling absolutely as hard as I could. A pitcher would rather have a rocket hit off him than have someone stand up there and keep fouling off pitches. That's frustrating for a pitcher. He thinks this is the pitch and you foul it off. I know as a catcher I got frustrated. ... I think it was a great opportunity for a hit, a walk, anything. Once I was three, four minutes into the at bat, I'm thinking 'I have to get on base some way.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

Who know what would have happened if we played like that for 40 minutes. But I thought we showed great character battling back the way we did.

White Salmon played hard. It was their Senior Night, and they kept battling back on us. We had it up to a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter, but they hit three 3s on us and we got a little sloppy with the ball.

We'll come back and play it again tomorrow. I'm proud of the boys for battling back, but once again I want to get over that hump and beat somebody.

We're all battling to finish strong and finish with the fourth or fifth byes.

We played a strong game. We're all competing and battling for each other. We're just not getting too many breaks, but for us, we just have to continue to do this. We have to stay with it. Every guy is battling in here and that's huge. Everyone is going the same way and eventually it's going to turn around.

We dominated the first half but Kelso did not stop battling and the destination of this season's title could go down to goal difference.

We got down. They are a top team in the conference and they were up there for a reason. We helped them to get to that position. But our guys did a good job of battling back. We had some of our big hitters up there with a chance to tie the game up but we just couldn't get the big hit.

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We had good at-bats from the sixth inning on. We really pushed the issue, kept battling and got a lot of two-out hits.

We have a lot of issues with our team now. Our guys haven't been consistent during the season and now we're battling some psychological issues that are impacting our ability to perform.

We have been trying to learn mental toughness. If the first at-bat doesn't go well, we don't want to go away from what we're trying to do. Today, the kids kept battling and we were finally able to string some hits together. We have struggled this season to put together some good at-bats in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings. We've had a tendency not to do it, and that is the mental toughness we want.

We have a lot of young guys battling for those other spots.

We were sleepwalking through three quarters. We've been battling some sickness here lately but we're not going to use that as an excuse. The guys showed guts in the fourth quarter.

Yeah, we'd like to be 10-6 or 11-5, but right now we're not. We've got to keep our heads up, keep battling out and just get going.

We never gave up. When you have this much hitting in the lineup and guys that can swing the bat, we're not giving at-bats away. We're battling our butts off, and we've shown we can score five, six runs in an inning. There's no reason to drop your head and give up.

You know it's all around the league right now ? the Predators are playing teams that are not in the playoffs. They should walk in. Honestly, sometimes those are as hard as games against teams you're battling for playoff spots.

We've been getting better as we go along. We might be winning if we'd been able to get better starts. We've spent the week battling through the fleet. We've had very good downwind speed, which has enabled us to make up ground.

We were just battling uphill all night. We couldn't get it in gear tonight.

The past month or so that we've had success, we are just competing and battling with a never-say-die attitude. We know we need points. Unfortunately we dug ourselves a hole but I think it shows great character that we came back out and continued to battle. We weren't going to take no for an answer tonight and the guys really responded.

We played with a lot of emotion tonight. Coach Boots told us not to even look at the score in the second half. We were just supposed to keep battling and focusing on playing good basketball.

We still have a chance, and we'll keep battling until someone tells us, 'You're out of it,'

We battled the entire game. Even when we got behind, we didn't quit. We kept battling back and eventually wore them out.

We battled the best out there today with Setzer, Musgrave, (Ron) Hornaday, (Todd) Bodine, (Jimmy) Spencer for a while, ... Those were the veterans of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series battling out there at the end and I'm proud to be in that elite group.

You look at the beginning of the year, everybody was thinking that we were a team that, if we were lucky, we would be battling for a playoff spot in the end. That wasn't good enough for us. We found a way to clinch early and only finished three points behind Ottawa. We showed we belonged with the best. It's the same attitude that we're going to bring to the playoffs.

We were able to get up on (PHU) early, and we did a pretty good job battling underneath. We knew this was going to be a tough, close game.

The fact that we have something to work at, like battling somebody in a pennant race, means that pride will step in for us. It will force us to play hard and focus on the game.

We're just back in the hunt again. We're just starting right back where we were, so it's just keeping battling back. When we meet Ottawa next time we're going to be more ready.

We showed a lot of character, a lot of heart, battling back after two losses. It was a satisfying win; everybody contributed.

We should start getting a good barometer on the guys as far as endurance is concerned. So much of golf of battling through and being mentally tough when you're tired, and I think coming down the stretch, we're going to be tested on that.

We're trying to survive. We've got injuries. We've got people out. I think we're battling pretty good.

We were very opportunistic tonight offensively. We did a good job of battling in a few at bats and also had some key two-out hits that brought in runs.

We have been battling the Nation for the past 13 years and I have a feeling that the Bureau of Indian Affairs is not going to listen to us.

We have been battling since the very first day of the project to build this job with the documents that were put in front of us. It was just impossible.

We have been a team that hasn't had three-quarters of our salary cap for a large part of the season but we just keep battling and keep working. It's a compliment to everyone in there. We have 28 guys and that's why you have rosters like that because you are going to have injuries and things throughout the season.

This whole tournament, we've taken everyone's best shot. We just had to keep battling through that.

We knew PV was a good team. They're always going to keep battling hard. We kept our heads in the game. We kept focusing on defense and foul shots. That pretty much took over for us.

We kept battling and battling. It was just a matter of time before things started going our way.

We keep battling all day. A lot of good things happened.

We're not mathematically eliminated, ... But we're in a pretty good hole right now. . . . We still have a chance, and we still keep battling until somebody tells us, 'You're out of it.'

We're not in the top 10 battling for the championship -- it doesn't matter to me where we finish. It's where we finish each race to get ourselves prepared for next year.

Women have fought for a long time in this country and in this world for equality and the right to stand side by side. They're really doing it out here. They're in the fight. They're out there battling too.

Thomas is a really tired kid right now, because he just back from a soccer tournament this weekend and we're trying to work with that right now. We're just battling some nagging injuries and we'll have to work through that.

Torrey Pines is a great program, and we've been fortunate to have success against them. Today it was just a case of two good baseball teams battling it out. We got some timely hits and some outstanding pitching when we needed it. I thought we put forth a pretty good effort today.

We didn't get our noses dirty enough. We didn't go to the net enough. We're both battling for a playoff spot, and they just came out hungrier.

We didn't get down on ourselves and that's hard to do. I've seen pro and college teams do it. We kept battling until Waukomis ended the game.

We have to come out, especially at home and not let the other team get a jump on us like that. This is the second or third game that's happened. Battling back is hard, especially when you play a team like Nevada.

There is plenty of time. You want the two points in regulation, but we kept battling all night long. We just couldn't find a way to get that extra point earlier.

We always tell our kids to never give up. They just kept battling back.

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