Quotes about semi-finals (16 Quotes)


    This truly is a senior class that has changed the program. We went from a team clearly in the middle of the pack, if not in the mid to lower portion of the pack in the NCCC to the state semi-finals. It's such a credit to these kids after four years of having seen that and having struggled through it, to say that's not going to happen anymore.

    I wasn't happy with it at all. I thought I would go faster than what I did last night (in the semi-finals) so it's pretty disappointing. I didn't swim as fast as I did last night. It's as simple as that.



    I thought we did excellent today. The first half was good, the second half, up and down. Overall I am glad for the victory, and we are in the semi-finals and hopefully we can move on to defend our title.



    The manager is hopeful of a performance tonight of which the Hibs players who embarked upon that run to the semi-finals of the European Cup 50 years ago would approve. You still see some of that team around the stadium on match days and they are all perfect gentlemen, ... Those are the guys who laid the foundations for Hibs being an entertaining, open, passing football team, which is something I try to follow today. It's thanks to those guys that we can try and humbly follow in their footsteps.

    We are more beginners than them in the matter of semi-finals, they are more experienced. We must be careful because the Italians start slowly and then end up scoring against you.

    We played like a champion team in this match, and it was always our intention to play well in the semi-finals to send a clear signal that we want to do the double. We are at home and we know the conditions well.

    There's nothing we can do about it, so we'll just look ahead to the semi-finals. We've come out of the game with a fair few injuries so a week off with the minor premiership would have been nice, but we've got to play now.

    No disrespect to the teams that were there, but over the next 10 years I can't believe there will be four easier teams in the semi-finals. It was a great chance, a great opportunity, which is why I really don't like to think or speak about it. I watch Chelsea TV at home, and it has got to the stage where I can't even bear to see it.

    Ryan was slowed down early his senior year with a foot injury, but he finished the season in a strong way leading Natrona to the state semi-finals. He tested strong for us, clocking one of our top 40 times. He has great hips and defends the pass well.

    Our goal was to qualify for the World Cup and the African Nations Cup. After that, we focused on qualifying for the quarterfinals and then the semi-finals. Now we have qualified for the final and I am very satisfied with the performance.

    We are bringing through some outstanding youngsters and the character they showed to get us through to the League Cup semi-finals at Doncaster gave us a real lift for the Christmas matches and I think we took that into the matches against Charlton and Portsmouth.

    Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals.




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