Gardiner's defensive pressure was unmatched. It was something we hadn't seen all year.

You can definitely tell we have a lot more experience. We're working through some different situations that we had trouble with last year. And we're trying to get better maturity wise. When things flustered our team last year, the guys started to fall apart. This year, that's not happening.

Our kids decided in the second half that they wanted to play Saturday. Third is the best we can finish, and we're going to try to do that.

We've played all year with a bull's-eye on our backs, and it shouldn't be any different this week.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.