“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”
Yogi Berra
“Last year we beat you in a trial and you won the premiership. Now we've beaten you again.”
Des Hasler
“We haven't beaten Bedford since 2001, the year we both won state. If we would have wrestled a little smarter, we might have gotten them today. The opportunities were there, but we didn't capitalize and Bedford did. I've got to give them credit. They pulled out the wins in key situations.”
Tim Roberts
“Some people may have expected us to drop points at Liverpool or get beaten. We didn't do that, we won emphatically in the end which sends out a statement. A lot of talk comes when you're the champions. I remember back to Man United and Arsenal winning the league and people do have a go when you're top. The art of it is to be strong enough to use that to motivate and we did that. We showed our character and our strength.”
Claude Makelele
“We've never won this tournament since I've been here, and we've never beaten Cherokee. So this was a big step for us.”
Anthony Corrado
“We haven't beaten anyone in the playoffs yet, and that's what we have to do. We've won a lot of big games in the regular season, but we need to win playoff games to get respect.”
Brian Urlacher
“We felt if we had beaten UCLA, we would have won this thing (the regular-season title). So it's probably fitting that we're playing. I just hope we get our legs back.”
Ben Braun
