I hope we can prove you wrong, but it will take a long time".
So too the captain, Steven Gerrard, who says "we can prove people wrong and break into the top four".
OK, we can prove that wrong immediately: I dispute it, Brad DeLong disputes it, Christy Romer disputes it, and I think we fall into the category of "economists worldwide".
This is a time when we can prove people wrong again, because I think some people, with injuries or whatnot, have been writing this team off.
"We're just trying to get women out there to play, to pick up a cue and then hopefully we can prove everybody wrong - that women can compete against the men".
I hope in the case of Ebola, we can prove Karr wrong.
The thing about conventional wisdom, though, is that it's difficult to challenge even when we can prove it wrong.
"There are some top teams around the world all fighting for the same thing, but all we can do is try and stick together, work hard and see if we can prove some doubters wrong".
If we find a bank or a financial institution that has done something wrong, if we can prove it beyond a reasonable doubt, those cases will be brought".
For what, I ask -- so that more of our troops can die or be maimed, so that the administration doesn't have to admit it led us to war on false grounds, so that more terrorists can be nurtured, so that we can be proved wrong yet again when those dominoes don't fall?
