Hump Quotations

It's natural canine behavior to chew on all sorts of things, roll in other animals' droppings, hump and fight other dogs, menace anything that invades the home. All these behaviors can be curbed, but that takes a lot of work. Trainers say it requires nearly 2,000 repetitions of a behavior for a dog to completely absorb it.

We struggled with their defensive pressure. After our good start, we started to play too much one-on-one and it got us out of our early rhythm. We could not get over the hump after we fell behind in the second (quarter).

We have proven that we can play with schools like Arizona and Kansas. We are just short of a win. It would be nice to get over the hump and get into the win column.

We're happy that there are signs of life and improvement (in Illinois), but we're still in the intensive-care unit. It certainly doesn't mean we're over the hump or hill. There's still some work to do.

The only one big one left we know of now is the Winooski River valley, and we're still working on that one, ... Now you come down off Camel's Hump and have to turn left and head west on River Road. It's a road walk hard on people's feet and doesn't have that much shade. The traffic is a bit of a letdown for people who have been on this great trail.

One person is not going to put us over the hump for Sunday. We know we all have to play. We've all got to bring it. We're still tied for the conference lead. We will play Sunday, and it's up to us to regroup and refocus. Sunday's coming and we have to be ready.

(Rifle) was a hump we needed to get over. You could tell that especially the older kids were glad to get this done.

I have a big nose, though I love it. It's got a hump and everything.

I feel like we're over the hump now. Some of these top 10 teams like Silver Creek, Berthoud, Longmont -- we've played them all and have been in a position to win in the fourth quarter in every one of those games, and we finally got the job done. We had an incredible third quarter.

Gilliam doesn't hump it up there very hard, but he throws strikes and he competes. One of the things we do well is play defense, and he threw strikes in the second game and the kids made plays behind him.

Free-to-play isn't a business model. Free-to-play is a marketing strategy. It's a way to get people over the hump of trying out your game. It gets rid of the friction that happens when you charge an upfront fee.

If we would have gotten over the hump and gotten things to turn our way, with the momentum, I think we could have been all right.

I always like to see them because I coached them in junior high. They're all nice kids but it would be nice to get over the hump and get a win.

Hopefully, we can turn this thing up and get over the hump a little bit. We have to go the conference again (and) going 5-2 the first half (in the DVC) isn't bad, but we want to go 7-0 (the second half) and to do that we have to play better offensively.

We made the push, but we just couldn't get over the hump and get done what we needed to get done.

We made some adjustments to them attacking the zone and we had two opportunities to take the lead and we didn't get over the hump and they came back with that late run.

(Hastings) is starting to assert himself on the offensive end. I turned to my coaching staff and told them that one big shot would get us over the hump and Chris was the one that hit the shot.

I would say (it's a must-win). You don't ever want to put a game in that situation, but realistically we need to come out with a big victory in order to keep ourselves in that elite class with the top teams in the country. So far we've looked really bad and then we came close. Now it's time to jump over that hump and get a win.

It can be frustrating to watch our offense. But that's us right now. And you know what? Once we get over that hump and those bad things stop happening to us in the red zone, we're going to be unstoppable. With our defense, it's going to be fun. It's going to be real fun. Until then, we keep fighting and keep winning games our way.

It hurts your confidence. We just couldn't get over the hump tonight.

I think we got over the hump today. I told the team we don't have to talk about 1984 anymore.

I think we played well enough to win the game. Without sounding - now how do I say this - like I think something was done to us, I think we weren't allowed to get over the hump tonight.

I was a little sore that week or so, but I think I've gotten over that hump and I'm back to where I was before, ... I feel great.

I saw a Cheshire team that was pretty good; I liked the fight in us. We just have to get over the hump against those tougher teams in the SCC.

Our pitching staff still has to improve, and they know that. If they can get over the hump and make quality pitches, and we can cut our strikeouts down, we'll be in every ball game this weekend.

Our undoing was in the first half. I thought we played really well, really hard and really together. It's hard to dig yourself out of that big of a hole. We have to learn something from the last two games. We got fortunate in Chicago because we were able to pull it out when we played a poor first half. But we weren't able to get over the hump (Monday).

Or if it means too much. If it's just a hump that you can't get over, which can happen, it can just poison a relationship.

Our mindset is split right now. They're thrilled they've improved, but they're also a little frustrated they haven't gotten over that hump over where their talent lies.

I think our performance should be better this week than it was last week. They're another week in camp, they should be getting over the hump in terms of the physical demands and they should be getting sharper on the ball. Hopefully the performance on Sunday will be better.

I think coach knows I can make plays. He wanted to get me over the hump with plays like that because we play of lot of games where we're in that situation.

I think defensively we will be pretty strong. We banked a lot on our defense last year. This year we hope to get over the hump with some hitting.

I think one of the big keys in the second half was that we never could get over the hump and get the lead. Had we taken the lead, we might have won it. But we never could get that key basket or key stop to even tie the score. They made the plays when they had to. They did time and time again in the fourth quarter.

I thought he had a huge year. He took his team over the hump tonight. He put them on his back. He was phenomenal.

I thought if we could get over the hump confidence-wise, we could have a good season. I thought we could certainly have a good record.

That was a huge point in the game. And we just couldn't get over the hump in the second half. Presque Isle played a heck of a game.

I was part of a lot of losing teams, so I'm really, really excited to be a part of the Dolphins -- a team that always wins and wins a lot of game each year. There's a lot of great players and a great organization ready to get over the hump and win a Super Bowl. I feel like I have a chance to win that ring.

We just couldn't quite get over the hump and get the lead. Every time we made a basket, they matched it. But it was a big step forward for us. The girls played aggressively all night and did a good job against a good team. Maybe this game will get us going again.

We can't get over that hump right now. Teams always hit that one shot that buries us.

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 really tried to pressure them up the floor and make it uncomfortable for them. We just could never get over the hump and made some mental mistakes down there at the end.

We couldn't quite get over the hump and get the lead. Defensively, the team played a great game. But we needed to put a few more baskets in to get the lead.

We played them well for the most part in both games. There's always a stretch in each game that we let down. We've played with them, we just have to figure a way to get over the hump and that's going to be by improving our defensive effort because they are a very good offensive team and have very good shooters.

We needed this so bad. We had been so close in so many games, and to finally get over the hump is so big for our confidence.

We needed it; we talked about it. Obviously we don't feel like we won a national championship, but to be able to beat a top-five team, finally, and to get over that hump is a really good feeling.

We haven't made our splash in the NCAA tournament. That's my goal coming in here. That's the hump we need to get over to allow us to get more national expect and exposure.

The qualifying went from two laps to three laps and then to four laps, stuff like that, hoping I'd mess up one lap and not get it, ... Then, they changed the track, took that hump out of (Turns) 3 and 4. Humpy said, 'I've got you now.' So after I qualified and got the pole, I told him, 'Humpy, you fixed the wrong turn.' And he did.

We didn't buckle down when we needed to get over the hump late in the game.

Where do they teach you to talk like that? At some Panama City sailor wanna hump hump bar, oor is this getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell craziness somewhere else we're all filled up here.

We just haven't gotten over the hump defensively. It's something we're working on every night in practice, so we're not avoiding it, but it's taking longer than I think we originally thought it would.

We're over the hump for tonight. You never want to get there (.500) and keep falling back like we did. Again, we're over .500 tonight. We got to make sure we stay over .500 again tomorrow night.

The part that's been frustrating for me is how we get to .500, we start to get over that hump and then something happens and we go back down to it. We just can't break it,

We've just got to get over the hump here. You've got to bear down and not let guys get chances like that. We just can't let guys get those chances. Good teams don't do that, and it's frustrating.

We will have to get better on defense because this has been our little hump we haven't been able to get over in the last couple of years. We have to play defense because Carroll was beating us back door. We have to come out with that fire in our eyes to win.

We were down two (points) late in the game and we were right in it, but we just couldn't get over the hump and we couldn't seem to get any defensive stops in the fourth quarter.

We've had this dream, and tonight the dream had a chance to become a reality, to be conference champions. When you've got a bunch of seniors that have busted their hump like they have for as long as they have, you get what you ask for.

We want to get Diamond Lake over the hump and get people up there enjoying the lake again,

This year could be big for us if we can get over that hump and really get things going. I know for a fact that the city would rally behind us. They're already behind us now, but they're waiting for us to take that next step so they can really go nuts.

We will never forget the American Flying Tigers who fought shoulder to shoulder with the Chinese military and opened up, at the risk of their lives, the Hump Route to deliver strategic supplies to China,

We turned in another good effort. We just can't get over the hump down the stretch.

We are certainly over the hump as far as having doubts that we are one of the best teams in the country.

We got over the hump tonight. I don't think it takes much to imagine how hungry we are.

Every time we go into a road game we are focused on getting that hump off our back. It's something we do prepare for. We've never been good on the road, and we are turning some tables over with two wins in Hawaii and over Georgia in the Rose Garden. Things are coming along. We'll be OK.

There's something to be said for organizations that get here often; it builds a certain mystique. In our case, we thought we were getting over the hump once, but 20 years later, here we are still trying to get over that hump. We've had some suffering fans for 44 years.

Sometimes you see that happen, where a team gets over the hump and gets some traction. Don't ever underestimate the power of momentum.

The one-run losses are getting closer in a sense. We got over the big hump tonight by tying it in the ninth, but the we couldn't get over the smaller hump to win it.

That was a big shot. We really needed somebody to step up so we could get over the hump -- because we tied it a couple of times before that -- and get the lead.

This is probably the deepest team I've had. I have nine or 10 players who are about even. This group wants to get over the hump for everyone.

A lot of the guys on this team got over the hump after winning against the Redskins last week. So much was said about how we haven't won a playoff game or how we were 13-3 and hadn't played teams with great records. Our defense is probably the worst rated of the 12 teams in the playoffs. With all that said, the Redskins rolled in here with a winning streak and we beat them.

The young crop is a lot more talented than any group in years' past. I'm pretty proud of the accomplishments that we made in the winter. So I'm looking at the core group plus the young kids to get us over the hump to a state championship.

They're good, and they let us back in the game one time. If you don't get over that hump the first time, you're not getting back into it against those guys.

They're our biggest rival and all that stuff, and then you hear every year, this is the year, it really was disappointing. But to finally get over the hump and to win the Big 12 title and now be here has been a lot of fun. We've really enjoyed the ride.

It's been real frustrating. The kids played their hearts out tonight. We've done this for the most part all year. We just can't get over the hump down the stretch. We have a four or five point lead there, but couldn't hold on.

It wasn't one of our best games of the year. But this type of game gets us over the hump to begin the playoffs.

It was big, yeah, but we felt all along that we were going to win this game -- all night long. We've been trying to get over the hump on the road. We've had some tough losses, games we thought we should have won. Tonight we weren't going to let someone beat us.

It was always a close match, but Pierre could just never get over the hump. I hope Terrell doesn't get over the hump because he always worries me. He's an outstanding wrestler in my opinion, he just can't seem to get over the hump.

It's a little frustrating, but it's hockey -- you go through skids and this happens to be a long one, but you have to look at it and see it's a long season, ... Once we get over this hump we'll be fine.

It's not easy to come out and pick up your game and sit for a while. He did a good job keeping his focus and getting us over the hump to get us the team win. He's the man of the hour. It would not have been a very good night if he had lost that.

It looks like we're over the hump ... It looks like it's been defused.

It's frustrating. We can't seem to get over the hump in shootouts. But we had chances earlier to score some goals and didn't. That's the way the season has been going.

It's a very difficult thing to get over the hump and win those close games. We just have three or four minutes in a game that we don't play our best on both sides of the ball and the other team capitalize. We are always battling back, trying to make a comeback.

It's probably the best second half of the year that we have played. Since it is only the third game with the lineup as we have it, that was a big step forward. We basically started over at Christmas. I think as soon as we get over that hump and get a little experience playing together and a rotation pattern set, the wins will come a lot easier for us and we will have a really strong finish to the season.

It's painful, to lose a close game like this. Close is not what we're trying to do. You've got to get over the hump by winning these types of games.

Then we're tentative on offense. We're not attacking as much. We're kind of standing looking for somebody else to do it. So when we got to that point, we just couldn't really get over that hump and break into their lead.

That is what can get you over that hump and get a team out of a little bit of a slump. I haven't been able to do that, and that's what is frustrating.

It's been tiring, but you've got to get past that mental hump and know you can rest after the season. There's been a lot of fun and excitement. It's been a whirlwind, but you can't ask for anything better.

I've got to help them get over the hump somehow. We're right there ... and we threw the ball away three of the next four possessions. You're not going to beat teams like that.

It was a great win for us; we really needed this one. We had much better defensive intensity today; we've definitely grown there. It'll get us over the hump when we're not shooting well, and it definitely worked for us today.

It's tough because we dropped a gut-wrenching game against Virginia Teach the other night, and any time you lose some tight games, or three or four in a row, confidence becomes an issue. But the players came back to practice Thursday with some determined energy. Our message is that you can't fold up, and I hope they're internalizing it. It's an important mindset that if we work at it we can get over the hump here.

They've won a lot of games in a lot of different ways. Buzzer-beaters, last-second shots. We've had our chances, we just haven't been able to get over the hump the last few years.

That might be the thing that gets him over the hump and lets him get through a lineup three times.

I hope this is my breakout year because if that's the case, than it means I am really helping this team get over the hump and winning.

I just reminded them to not feel sorry for themselves, they are going to get tired a little quicker. The adversity just brings a close-knit team even more together. They realized it was going to take each and every one of the 12 players to get over the hump tonight.

I know he might put us over that hump that we need. The way he plays, he plays good defense, he can score too. Maybe that can pick up the intensity in everybody else.

I really felt like our kids focused a lot more in the second half. It was trying to get back over that hump and bounce back and I think they showed a little bit of the effort in the second half but not enough, though.

In order to get us over the hump we needed J.J. Holmes to knock down some shots, we needed Eric Lafayette to come in and play solid defense, and fortunately we were able to get that.

How about those Bears! What a great game! To get over the hump and get to the next level, you have to win a game like this on the road.

He's progressed, he's made it through the hump, the big self-doubt point, got us over that hump in the championship game. Now you hope he can do it one more time.

He's really doing a good job. He's been our ace in the hole this year. We've had a couple kids injured and he's filled in at catcher, third base and pitcher. He's got a great attitude. He's been putting us over the hump lately.

I don't think there is any advantage. Up until last year, I think we had a mental edge. But since they beat us last year, they got over the hump and now they know they can play with us.

The kids did a great job. We couldn't quite get over the hump in the second half, but they battled to the end.