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We went to the line with great poise and composure, and it allowed us to keep scoring.

We're a fearless team. We got a lot of poise ... I felt like we were ready for it, but we could have done a better job with their pressure defense.

We don't want to put all the pressure on him, but you know what? If we have to go to the air, he certainly has the poise and the confidence to do it.

We executed much better. The top three guys in our order got everyone going. Jared (Mundt) and Mike (Lamb) both threw with much more poise and had hitters off-balance all game.

We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They get a little frustrated and lose their poise a little bit.

We finally began to find the open man and get some of our poise back that we lost in the first half.

We needed more poise offensively. We weren't determined enough to just hang on. If we have the ball, they can't score. It seemed like we lost our poise and would throw up about anything to try to win it all of a sudden.

We came out very aggressive early. We played very well the first three quarters, then Shrine put on a rally and made a game out of it. We kept our poise and hit some big free throws, and got out of here with a win. Colleen Smith had a great game and in the end I think she was too much.

We aren't happy where we are. We have to do a better job in the base fundamentals of the game. We have to work hard to keep our poise and to execute under pressure.

We haven't played well here in four to five years. I was impressed with us, but also with their poise there at the end. They had the ball in the hands of the player they wanted it in.

The qualities of man comes Thus, not only he is able to survive in any kind of situation but he also maintains his poise in such trying times.

We answered the first run, but the next one floored us. We didn't have a good enough defensive effort at that point and we didn't have any poise at the offensive end.

The politics are what is kind of messed up about this league. A guy gets money, and it's obvious he's going to play. That is the way it is in this league. You just have to do the best you can to maintain your poise and composure.

The poise of this team was very good. We could have easily shut it down down four (points), but we didn't. That says a lot about this team.

The poise in the noise, the false starts we had...That's ridiculous,

We played well at times, but we didn't relentlessly execute like we needed to. In the end, we were able to gather our poise and play hard down the stretch and pull out a win when we needed to. But I'd like to see us play more consistently than we have been over the full 40 minutes.

We played with some poise and confidence. Even when we didn't do things well, we didn't act like it bothered us. We acted like guys that had been there before and that's encouraging and something we need to build on.

We played with poise today. They pressured us but we handled it down the stretch. We've lost some close games and I was worried that would bother us today. But I never saw any doubt in our players' eyes.

We played with a whole bunch of poise -- a whole lot better intensity in the second half.

We didn't deserve to win the game. It was one of the worst performances in poise and intelligence we've ever had. I thought we had better athletes, better stick skills and were better at handling the ball.

We actually used three different presses in the second half. Sometimes the press can backfire and lead to a lot of fast break baskets for the other team, but we managed to keep our poise and control.

We played (well) the first half because we were patient on offense. We were able to get some nice easy shots by being a little bit patient. I think our poise was rattled there in the third quarter. It was tough to climb back out of that 17-point hole. We made a heck of a run at it. We just couldn't finish it.

We were all right. We had a minute left in the game, anything can happen. We got a few stops, came down and made a few buckets. Crystal (Kemp) knocked her free throws down, and fortunately we came out with a win. It (coming from behind) says we have a lot of poise and a lot of experience coming back from last year. That is the difference between last year and this year.

We didn't have our poise in the first half and that is something that if you don't have it against a good football team at home, it is going to be ugly.

We showed a lot a poise and maturity in the situation.

We came back and did just enough to win. We showed good poise out there.

We can't allow someone else's style to take us out of what we want to do, and, first and foremost, that starts defensively. We've got to board to create easy opportunities for us in the transition game, and we've got to have poise in our half-court game. If we get rushed out of that, or we're making good decisions, then that has a tendency to affect everything else that we do.

This was a huge confidence-builder for our girls. Lauren was so smooth out there today, and she showed a tremendous amount of poise for a ninth-grader. There were some rough spots, but this gives us something to build on.

The past few days, the phone's been ringing off the hook. I think the most important thing for me this weekend is to see how grounded our guys are and check their poise and composure.

The power play got us going. We moved the puck around well and showed some poise which got us going. That was key. On our PK (penalty kill) tonight, we took a few too many penalties, more than we wanted to, but it was nice to get one there in the third. We will need to be a bit more disciplined.

You can tell by watching him that he's a lot more seasoned and has a lot more poise than the other guys. He has a little more confidence in what he's doing right now even though he's only been here a short time.

We wanted to center the ball up and call a timeout. We just needed to have poise and patience.

We'll kind of study the film, ... but I think he's got a lot of poise in there. I think he carries himself well. I think he's an accurate passer, but we're still getting to know him.

Tonight I'll claim her as my niece. There's no one else I'd want at the line in that situation ... she has so much poise ... (She was) fabulous, unbelievable.

This team has played with a great amount of poise all year. We've been down a couple of times this season and come back. So, it's something I knew we could do. That wasn't easy, playing here in a hostile environment.

We kind of lost our poise out there and they ran away from us. In a matter of minutes, the game was gone.

We just stayed poise as a team. We knew we had five minutes left (in overtime period) and that's a lot of time.

We just showed some real poise and didn't freak out. I think beating them gives us a lot of confidence and hopefully it leads to some good things.

We were pretty fortunate; I could say lucky. If we don't play with more poise (tonight), we'll be in trouble.

We lost a couple players and our rotation got a little messed up. We found a way to win. Obviously, this is a team on the other side that has been finding ways to win. There's no quit in Columbus. We knew they were going to come back. We maybe have to show a little bit more poise in our own end late in games.

We had that poise and composure toward the end and we had some guys hit some key foul shots at the end.

We showed some pretty good poise there and kept plugging away. Just getting the puck to the net and bouncing the puck off somebody's stick, or whatever. It was good perseverance there.

We showed a lot of poise and composure. After we got down 10 after the first five minutes, I thought our composure was as good as it's been since I've been here.

We don't want parents and kids writing checks for big ticket items, thinking that that's what they need to win this thing. You win this on your speaking ability, your ability to ride and your poise and personality.

We're very fortunate. We didn't play with very much poise at the end.

You look at a team like Creighton which has struggled with injuries and things like that, but they still have a roster of veteran ballplayers. For us to be as young as we are and finally be able to show some poise during their runs and execute down the stretch, it says a lot about how far our team has come in the last month.

Both his game and his poise and maturity on the course were critical to our success last year and we expect more of the same this year. He doesn't let one shot mess him up.

Brad showed great poise and solid decision making. He took good care of the football and played mistake free. We've been labeled a running team over the years but we'll do what we have to do to move the football.

There's nothing that doesn't impress me from stuff to makeup to poise to command. All of it. He's as advertised. He's as good a kid off the field as he is on right now, too.

I've been telling them to keep poise in these games.

The whole year he showed that poise and composure.

The Villanova loss was tough but we showed a lot of grit and poise bouncing back from that game.

I've seen him grow from last season. I watched a lot of film on him when I was in Cleveland, and you can just see his poise in the pocket. He's making more reads, not checking down to the back as much. He's trying to get the ball down the field.

The thing I think Lucas has is that calm poise and mature demeanor about him and he makes everyone around him better.

Ryan has a lot of heart and toughness. He never takes a play off. As a freshman, he plays with great poise that we have come to count on. He really doesn't play like a freshman.

Right now we're not playing with poise and confidence in what we're doing,

Personal fouls, sloppy plays and penalties, that's not us. I'm glad we came back and played like us in the second half. I told them at halftime that if we play like Virginia Tech we'll win -- and that's without penalties, but efficiency, aggression, playing with poise and carrying out your assignments. Louisville did a great job. We were lucky to win. We played more like Virginia Tech in the second half and I was proud of that. We gave great effort.

No question. We have to keep our poise and make plays. We have to move the puck and create scoring chances.

After 30 days of practice and three wins now, it was not something I expected. I was very surprised there was a lack of poise from particularly my point guards.

During that run we took some quick shots, then they came down and scored. We got down, lost our poise a little bit there ... you can't do that.

Despite its youth, this group demonstrated uncanny poise in the fall. With the losses we suffered not just on attack but at midfield as well that poise will be crucial to our offensive success this season.

At times we played with poise and at times we didn't. Our mistakes hurt us and I think minimizing them would have kept us around à as it kind of got away from us in the second half.

That's where the game was. That little run they went on they showed their maturity, we showed our immaturity. You've got no chance on the road against a quality team when you can't have some poise in those situations.

You've got to show some poise and weather the storm, and our guys did that.

This is a well deserved honor for Chris. He has always been a tenacious defender, but this season he gained a great deal of poise and has showed the offensive flair that made him an impact player at both ends of the ice.

This allows us to breathe for a moment, ... We've got a young team, the fifth-youngest in the NFL, and these guys are trying their best, trying to understand what the coaches are teaching them. We've maintained our poise and tried to overcome adversity. Now, we have to keep getting better.

They were hitting on every single thing they did, there were a lot of things that did not go our way. You just try to maintain your poise and be positive with your players.

This guy plays beyond his years. He has poise and awareness with the puck that he certainly doesn't look like a first-year player.

They showed poise tonight. Mt. Pleasant is very scrappy; they're relentless. We got up on them, and they kept battling and battling. Then we got lazy, and they took advantage of it.

They never seem to be in a situation where as a coach you say, 'Boy, we just don't have it tonight,' ... Their mental approach of 'It's going to be OK,' that's probably the biggest thing, the poise they have.

They have great poise and when you mix poise with balance it gives you a chance to win every night. When you're playing a team with tremendous poise you have to have that yourself. We've got to duplicate that effort and go beyond that to get a win that's needed.

They got close and it seemed like the whole crowd was against us. But champions have to battle against things like that. We were in foul trouble, too, but we showed poise and made the big plays when we had to.

They didn't get down, they didn't lose confidence. They showed a lot of poise and a lot of confidence.

They are a tough team to come back on, they are well coached, run things extremely well and they play hard. My hats off to them, they deserved it ... they won tonight. It was what a championship game should be all about. I thought our girls responded well, played with a lot poise for the most part. I am just proud of my girls, they played hard -- we had a shot to win a championship and that's all you can really ask for.

They present you with problems that no other teams do, their ability to throw the ball puts them in another place. Their passing game is difficult to stop. Decker has a lot of poise in the pocket and they have great receivers.

They're a top 10 team. They made plays. It was important for me to show poise and be ready to make plays when we got the ball back.

They're both good players and mature kids, and I've never had both of them healthy at the start of the season. They both play with more poise and more relaxed when they're on the field together.

It's a team that lost their poise and their composure, simple as that. ... We humiliated ourselves here today and we embarrassed ourselves.

It's a team that lost its poise and it's composure, simple as that. We clearly talked about what needed to be done in the second period and if we would have given ourselves a fighting chance by playing even-up hockey, there's a good chance we win the hockey game. We lost our composure, saw some selfish hockey, some undisciplined players and some guys who chose to think of themselves before their teammates.

It was a very rugged basketball game for long stretches. Bodies flying everywhere ... a lot of fouls ... but we kept our poise at the end. We played good enough defensively at the end of the game to win.

It's a weird-looking stat sheet and how you can win with 25 turnovers. But I loved our guys' poise after the first four minutes of the second half. The first four minutes of the second half were about as miserable as it can possibly be.

It is very important for the legal profession to be involved in the community. The competition is a wonderful way to promote communication skills, confidence, poise and those kinds of things.

It's a good step in our confidence. We really had poise the past two nights. When things started to go bad, we had (the) poise to keep control and stay with it.

I told him that he played a great game. His first game starting there's a lot of hype and pressure on him. He came out and played with poise and made some plays. Like I told him, I think he's going to be just like his brother in due time.

It really has been an adjustment because ever since I came in, we've been going to the playoffs and Super Bowls. As a player, as a coach, as an organization, it's a challenge to come in every day and show a great deal of poise and professionalism.

It probably was a good loss for us. We lost our poise and committed some turnovers we usually don't make. The loss rejuvenated us and tested our faith. We could have easily gone south from there. But we refocused, got things back together, stuck to the covenant, and things have been working in our favor ever since.

For a freshman to come in here the first time, he showed good poise and I think he's right on track,

It's the type of game that gets you playoff ready, win or lose. I was happy to see the poise of the kids.

It is well deserving for this group. Even though we didn't talk about the No. 1 ranking, it's always there in the back of your mind. They have played with maturity and poise and just handled situations wonderfully. I have been so pleased with the poise and the confidence of this team.

It makes it a lot easier when you're playing with a guy like Al. I don't think I'd have had the success I've had if it were not for him. To be able to play with a guy with that much poise just makes you a better player.

It may affect our transition game. He's got really good poise with the puck, he's got good deception where he can look people off and then make the appropriate little outlet pass. Those are real critical to our transition game and how much time we spend in our own end.

It?s been a process. You never get from one stage to the next without it being a process, and our confidence has grown with every victory and our poise has grown with late-game successes, with being able to execute.

Danielle and Brittany stepped up today and decided that we were not going home. I told the squad after the game that when Upstate made their second-half run, we showed a maturity that we did not have last season. We had the poise to hold things together, and then Katherine hit those two huge threes.

Dana spotted up, had his hands and feet squared and shot with confidence. I was pleased with how our kids played with poise down the stretch.

It's much easier at home to be able to find that poise that you have to play with. On the road, it has to be something from within to keep that composure and toughness. At home, you have a much better chance of recovering from a deficit.

It was poise and not being tough enough yet as a young team to handle a lead on the road. We had people trying to do too much, taking shots too quickly. ... Basketball is a game of runs and we've got to work to shorten the opponent's runs from five minutes to two minutes.

It's very, very difficult to win a college basketball game, and this is a perfect example. There's no sure thing. Non-Division I teams are beating teams a lot more experienced than us. I'm just grateful that we survived. And we did a little better than survive. Down the stretch, we played with poise and were able to get the win.

It took me three times to get a 'hello' out of him the other day. But he certainly has a great deal of poise for a young pitcher.

They literally have five players and they all can hurt you. You can't lay off any of them. They play well beyond their years as far as poise and knowing what to do.

They like to get you in a frenzied pace. As long as we keep our poise about us and limit their possessions, we should be okay.