Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort. When we work on defensive skills, they have worked hard. We have better team chemistry; they all get along. Last year it was an individual thing.

It's the result of a tremendous effort and hard work from the staff and players. There's no secret, they're the best organized team in France in all spheres.

This involved some long, hard work, but we got a good bipartisan effort to make this bill work,

All of those years of hard work are paying off and both those guys have an excellent shot at going all the way. They're both peaking at the right time.

We're doing everything we can to make it safe and playable. There's a lot of hard work going into this and I won't be sleeping until Saturday. This was the largest stage ever built and the last of it didn't come out until [yesterday] morning. What we saw then was certainly bad enough for us to try to replace it. I made some phone calls.

Every day with this team we've gotten better. One day our hard work is going to pay off.