"When the clock gets down to three or four minutes, me and Rick call it gut-check time," he said, referring to Rick Mahorn.

"It was gut-check time; this wasn't easy."

It was gut-check time, and I have a tremendous amount of pride when it comes to this game.

It was gut-check time for Jack.

I think definitely it is gut-check time.

"That third period was big gut-check time," right wing Martin St. Louis said.

It's gut-check time after Week 1.

We've got to get out of this slump, because this is gut-check time for the Houston Oilers.

I ask each of you just to look into your hearts, look into your guts - gut-check time.

It was gut-check time, and Pennington played as if he did not have an air in the world to uphold.