We have teams pressing us. We have teams that are almost in the same situation as we are. It would be great for us to step ahead of them and up the ladder in our standings.
Quotes about standings (16 Quotes)
We're happy because this was a big win for us and it puts us ahead in the standings. They did enough to get the job done.
We're very aware of the standings. We talk on one hand about chasing down the teams ahead of us, but it's so tight that you have to be aware of who's nipping at your heels. The only way to separate yourself from the pack is to win your own games.
They are ahead of us in the standings. They have played pretty well this year. It was a big game for us and we really wanted to see what we were made of. I think we did pretty well.
This was a must-win situation. It's very disappointing. Now, every team we play is ahead of us in the standings, and we have to try to focus on beating all of them.
Being in the playoffs is a big accomplishment and we want to do well when we get there, but right now we don't want to lose focus on finishing as high in the section standings as possible. That's our primary focus at this time.
Joe does a great job drawing double-teams and fighting off guys, and I just pick up the garbage in front. I just always play hard, and if it happens, it happens. ... It's amazing to play with him, and we're making up points against teams ahead of us in the standings.
My assistants pay a lot of attention to that stuff, checking scores during the game and things like that. But I don't even know what the standings are. I know that it's going to be a dogfight until the end.
My goal this year was to get ahead of one team in the standings. We're capable of doing it.
We sat down a couple of nights ago, after we lost our second game, to Italy. We were disappointed with the loss, but one encouraging bit of news was that we knew we still had to play everybody who was ahead of us in the standings. We realized if we would win out, we'd get to the medals round..
I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.
They were ahead of us in the standings, so it was good to bring them back toward the field.
Grand Rapids will say all the right things, but I think they'll look at the standings and see they finished 25 points ahead of us and think in the back of their minds, 'Hey, let's win four straight and move on. We want to go in and maybe take it to seven games and see what happens then.
We lost the momentum be----fore we started. I think the momentum started shifting Thursday after the Nordic races. They got us out of a hole. Friday night, we improved our standings slightly. It was great to see the effort. All four days, we went through some anger, anxiety and joy at the end of it.
I don't feel the anxiety I felt in my first start for the Mets, ... Obviously, that game wasn't as important in the standings as tonight's game.
In the points standings, I'm kind of far out but, if I ride well and someone else messes up, then anything's possible, ... It would have to be a crazy situation for those guys ahead of me to really mess up, but you never know.