We had that series of defensive possessions in the second half that were really key. Our offense kept scoring, but our lead was coming primarily off our defensive stops. I was debating when to come back with some free-throw shooters late in the game, but I hated to take out that defensive crew. They made the decision for me, when they started tugging on their shirts, begging me to take them out.
Quotes about tugging (14 Quotes)
Our guys have to be able to handle that pressure. There are a lot of distractions. There is a lot of tugging and a lot of things you have to deal with that are different from the regular season. I want them to enjoy where they are at because it is the pinnacle of college basketball to get to this point. At the same time, you have to keep the focus there and put yourself in position to play the best basketball.
Everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like a sort of chunk out of you. I don' think they realize it, but it's like 'grrr do this, grr do that...' But you do want to stay intact--intact and on two feet.
These accounting worries go right to the underpinnings of trust and confidence. If trust isn't there, you're tugging at the loose thread of a cheap polyester suit. People are worried about what other shoes are getting ready to drop.
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
It was on a bitterly cold night and frosty morning, towards the end of the winter of '97, that I was awakened by a tugging at my shoulder. It was Holmes. The candle in his hand shone upon his eager, stooping face, and told me at a glance that something was amiss.
Maybe it's a chain reaction. But you know what it is, a lot of times when you're tired, tugging down on your shorts, you look down and see your socks, and it's just a reminder to stay hungry.
It's crazy. I don't want to say you feel violated, but everybody's touching you all over the place. I've got both legs up, with some people grabbing one leg while some other people were tugging on the other leg. I've never had so many hands on me. But I've got nothing to hide.
I found that he was always well prepared and was extremely courteous even in the most hectic situations. I particularly admired his ability to be composed when sometimes he might be in middle of trying a district court case while one or two people involved in the next case were tugging at him, trying to get a side conversation going.
God directed me to do for gospel music what I'd been doing for the secular music. I had no peace with the secular side there was something else tugging at me.
He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened.
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
I give our kids credit, we do a great job of hacking at the ball. Every one of our tackles, we're right on the point of the ball, ripping and tugging. We practice it and we preach it.
Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.