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I've seen Walton play and know they are very good and they're always state contenders. They're going to be our toughest game, and we want to prove that we're good and we can win state.

I've only got to hit it about 200 yards there to have 95 or 100 yards to the green. I've tried to lay it up there three days in a row. It's the toughest shot for me because I don't cut the ball.

It would be amazing if I could win here as it's the toughest Grand Slam to win, just because of the traffic.

It was the toughest work I'd ever done.

It was the toughest time in her life. At times she was sad, and at times she was happy.

It was the toughest match I've had all year. The mental part (was the toughest); I had to get in my head I could hang with him.

It was tough because we tried to play good D. Allen Iverson is definitely one of the best players. He's the toughest person I've ever had to guard.

It was the toughest decision of my life.

It was the toughest decision I've ever made. It took a lot of thought, anguish and tears.

It was the toughest decision I ever made in my life. But in the end, I kept coming back to Ohio State.

It was unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it. It was brutal. It was the toughest situation anyone has ever been in.

It was very frustrating. It was one of the toughest things I've ever had to go through. But I didn't want my injury to affect the team, and I had to keep a positive attitude.

It was a labor of love, and it was the toughest ticket to get. Guys still talk about it and say that was one of their favorite events at this rodeo.

The second half of football season is toughest because you've been doing it a few months already. Practices start to wear (you down). You get home and you don't feel like doing anything but going to sleep and you've got three or four subjects of homework to do.

These schools aren't the worst. They are good schools, but they have the toughest challenges.

The second run, it was really tough. There were lots of holes and waves. It was the toughest GS of the year, I think.

The super-G is the toughest event because there's only one inspection and the speeds are high. It's pretty special to be on the podium with Bode and finish the season strong.

Tennis is such an intense sport. They have the toughest schedule all year around. It's kind of cruel, actually. So for a couple of weeks, she was able to enjoy herself in Jersey.

Sometimes the toughest games to win are the ones you're supposed to. I was proud of the girls for keeping their focus and understanding what we're trying to accomplish and not getting caught up in what our opponent is doing.

Seeing Homestead win 28 years in a row certainly merits a level of frustration. The toughest part is knowing that in any other sectional around the area, we would have several trophies by now. They (Homestead) have a top-notch program full of players that train privately all year long and certainly have to be given a lot of credit.

Sascha organizes the guards and April organizes the posts for us. April is a very good defensive player. She'll get the toughest post in every game we play.

Quad City has historically been one of the toughest buildings in the league to play in. We could be 0-3 and still be a very good team. I don't want that to happen. I think we have a chance to be 1-2. We've got good things happening emotionally and chemistry-wise.

Raising money can be the toughest thing for a candidate to have to do, and it can be a factor that leads some people to decide not to get involved in politics.

Probably the toughest part is knowing that I have to play well. That's the one skill that I am still working on.

Our conference is one of the toughest conferences around. That makes it hard, but it makes us better too.

On this surface, on clay, yes, he's the toughest player because every point is very intense. He plays very intense. Also, on both sides he hits very hard. Until 4-2, all the games were very tight, but he ended up winning them because he had a better physical condition. He is like a beast, an animal, on the court. He's very strong and he's very well prepared.

Of the three (South Sound girls) teams, we probably got the toughest draw. But our district has always been strong. I think all three of us are all very capable of placing at state.

Officiating is a lot like being married. You tend to have selective hearing after a while. The toughest part to figure out is when to respond. When does (a coach) have a question, or when is he talking to be talking?

No question, it was a trying year. Mentally, it was the toughest year of my career. I always felt like I could find a way to pitch myself out of a hole, and last year, I don't feel like I ever did that.

The most improved player in the whole Valley. No doubt about it. It was all guts. He's not a kid that you sit down and watch lots of film with because he is what I would call not the most cerebral player, but he's the toughest player.

Southern Miss and Tulsa, there's two teams that have the toughest time scoring points. But I think it's going to be a very evenly matched game. They're dangerous.

Once you earn the No. 1 ranking, the toughest part is holding on to it.

No, we?re not going to do anything flagrant. As long as it?s not flagrant. We?re not the toughest team in the NBA. We?re not very physical, but tonight we brought it out. We?re not going to flagrantly foul anybody on purpose. It?s just going to be good sportsmanship, hard fouls.

Dealing with the kids' emotions was the toughest thing.

Coach said this is probably the toughest part of our schedule by far. We have to make sure we focus.

The brokerage earnings are by far the toughest to predict, because so much depends on how their internal investment performance was.

The Big Ten is the premier conference, it's the toughest conference, and to do it week in and week out really says a lot about the character of these guys.

Austin Meier has to be one of the smartest, toughest fourth-quarter players in the state. He just makes play after play down the stretch. His decision-making and timeliness on big plays on both ends have been lifesaving for us.

As long as it's not flagrant. We're not the toughest team in the NBA, but tonight we brought it out.

That's what you want, to be better than .500 on the road. That's usually the toughest part of the equation, but we didn't play well at home.

That's what seniors do. Ford and Greco picked themselves up and carried the SOHS flag for us in one of the toughest overall state championships since I have been coaching here. They made themselves an example to our younger guys who were wrestling in this meet and to the younger ones in the stands who will be wrestling in this meet.

That's just one of the toughest situations I put myself in, having to take him out and putting in a pinch-runner. It worked to my favor tonight.

You're talking about a boy that just turned 21. When you're 21 and playing in that element and in a position that next to the goalie is absolutely the toughest on the ice, it's not easy.

Yue Her had a tremendous season. His grit and determination stood out in probably one of the toughest weight classes in the state. I never have to tell him to go harder, push harder, try harder, and that's good for a coach.

You would hope our kids would want to play them just to settle the score. I'd say that's one of the two toughest regions in Tennessee, that one and Memphis. Antioch is big, they're quick, they shoot the ball pretty well, so they've got everything you could ask for.

Your first head coaching job is the toughest year of your life,

You're only as good as the competition you wrestle. If we wanted to, we could probably go undefeated every year in duals if we wanted to go find the weakest teams to compete against, but that's not our objective. Our objective is to go out and find the toughest competition to see what we're made of, and hopefully that improves us when we get down near the end.

You're facing one of the toughest systems in the whole country. You never look forward to playing a Dick Bennett team.

You never know, this is the toughest league in lacrosse. There aren't any breathers.

This is by far the toughest weekend so far this year. We have some other tough weekends coming up, but as far as two teams in the same weekend, this is probably our biggest test.

This is great. I thought if we could beat (Dwyer), maybe we can win state. This was our toughest test this year. It helped that we had our crowd here. We couldn't have done it without them.

This is going to be the toughest game of the season up to date. I think because of the magnitude of the game. I think because Saint Joseph's is 10-10, under .500 in the league. This is a big, big game for them. It's a big game for us. It's a nationally televised game. Plus it's a tight, tight building. They are right on top of us.

This is probably the toughest we (have had it) in a long time.

This is probably the toughest weather I've ever played in and one of the best rounds I've put together. The wind was blowing probably 20 miles per hour with gusts up to thirty. You really have to play smart when you're playing in this kind of wind. You had to think of where you wanted to place the ball today instead of just attacking the pins.

This is probably the toughest the conference has been. If we're not playing well, we could go 0-7.

This is probably the toughest seven-day stretch of our year, in two places we haven't played real well. So we really need to buckle down and play as well as we can.

This is probably the toughest loss we've had all year.

This is one of the toughest losses, and one of the best losses I can remember, just because what the club showed. It was impressive watching them compete like that. I'm just talking about our team. They did the same thing.

This is one of the toughest decisions I have ever had to make, and it was never taken lightly. I love this United Way and the team we have built. Working with the agencies has been a pleasure and I am in awe every day of their work.

This is one of the toughest conferences in the state.

This is our toughest one yet, ... It's fair to say Palau was a vacation compared to this.

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

This game will be our toughest challenge of the three years. Pallotti is a really solid team. I don't know if we can score enough points to win, but I believe if we can get 45 points, we will have a real good chance of winning the game.

This game was so crazy. It's probably one of the worst games we played in the whole streak. I told the guys after the game that they handled one of the toughest times ever in baseball. A young team faced TV and newspapers and everywhere they read they were scrutinized. I'm proud of them. It was tough, but the guys handled themselves with class.

This bill is the most comprehensive, toughest bill that has ever been drafted in this area.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

This has been a tough project. When you add onto this many sides of a building, and deal with this many existing conditions, it's complicated. I know it's one of the toughest projects I've had to do. And there are still some concerns about dollars.

This guy has already been through the toughest baseball drama you can be part of. He lived through all of the extra scrutiny. He comes in here prepared for all of that.

They're the toughest team ... toughest team I've ever seen. Not close, and I've been around some tough teams. Really tough. Really tough.

They're about as big, fast and strong as Porum, ... Going in, we thought our two toughest opponents would come in Week 1 and 2.

Although the government has more money than anyone else, it's one of the toughest defendants to sue in the United States of America today. In fact, the United States is the toughest defendant to sue in the United States.

Amazon at this level is a large retailer. So, 84 percent year-over-year growth is not bad in a very seasonally tough quarter, particularly given that Amazon's core categories are at their seasonally weakest in the June quarter. You did see that in their segment breakout. Books, music and video grew at 38 percent, but June is the toughest quarter.

A lot of times games are built up and they don't fulfill their promise. This game more than fulfilled its promise. Villanova may be, pound-for-pound, the toughest team that we've played anywhere, any time. Early in the game, we had to match their toughness. They were getting every offensive rebound. They were hustling like crazy. Unless you have a tough team, you cannot win this conference. It was like an old Big East backyard ball amongst two really good teams.

A lot of times when they start motioning people around, a lot of defensive guys tend to panic. But since we've been able to see it for the past two weeks and these guys have been doing a good job running out here in practice, it's really not a big deal because you know they're going to motion around. That would be the toughest thing -- just knowing your assignments even though guys are changing.

They play a little bit different style of game, and I think sometimes adjusting to that is the toughest thing." ()

They have big shoes to fill. As the defending state champions there are a lot of expectations on them. Defending the state title is not our focus. We want to develop chemistry, play well as a team and learn to compete. All that is going to prepare us for the toughest district in the state of Texas.

They are both very consistent offensively and defensively. They draw the toughest defensive assignments and still give us 10 to 12 points a game.

They are probably the toughest of the sides we could have drawn but you have to take what you are given,

This policy reverses a decades-old Energy Department practice of opposing claims filed by people who helped build America's toughest defenses, ... They are people who became ill after working with very hazardous materials under dangerous conditions.

This might be the toughest stretch of the season.

This is the time of year where everybody is banged up, because it's the toughest stretch. I'm sure everybody in the country has two or three of their best players that aren't feeling 100 percent physically, but it's just a matter of where you are mentally.

This may be the toughest dual season that we have had in quite a while.

This is the toughest thing we've had to do since impeachment. It's really heavy lifting.

This is the toughest sun field in the big leagues; it's no secret. I never had a chance to set up. The ball never came out of the sun.

This is the toughest State of the Union address that any president has had to make in a long time. Domestically and internationally, the atmosphere is poisoned.

This is the toughest program I have had the opportunity to administer, ... I can't tell you... there aren't problems with the program.

This is the toughest place to play in the league; it's a tough atmosphere. A lot of people don't come down here and win.

This is the toughest loss I've ever been a part of. We had the game most of the time and we gave it up in the end.

This is the toughest I've ever seen, and I've been in the business quite a few years.

This is the toughest and most competitive I've ever seen the conference. All the teams are so much better this year.

This is the toughest and most challenging year for the economy.

This league is the toughest league, as far as I'm concerned, in all the CCS. All up and down, there's not an easy team.

This jurisdiction has been viewed as one of the toughest jurisdictions for corporate defendants in the country. It will place a premium on very good jury selection skills by Merck.

They're a team that has persevered and done amazing things. It could be the toughest defense we've faced all year.

They're a very tough team to compete against, and they're the toughest team we've competed against so far, but I wouldn't say that's why we got creamed. We just didn't wrestle up to our ability.

They're a very strong team, like Syracuse, like Toronto, like Rochester. Our division is probably the toughest of the four, so whoever we play against it's going to be a huge battle.

They're going to be tough, it don't get any easier for us. We've got one of the toughest schedules.

They're doing well, ... Jamal's having a great camp so far. Steph's been a little banged up, but when he's out there, he's learning. They have the toughest job. Coach is hardest on those guys. As they go, we're going to go, but they'll be OK.

They're doing pretty well. It's a good start with this green of a team, but we'll find out a lot this week. If our pitching is healthy, that's a key thing. This is our toughest stretch of the season.

They're about as big, fast and strong as Porum. Going in, we thought our two toughest opponents would come in Week 1 and 2.