I could have taken a gamble on Ashley Cole but he only had one training session with the team. Last time I rushed him back and he had a set-back, he wasn't ready.
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GEORGE PORRITT Marco has shown us that he is a great kid in training and I felt that it was the right time for him ... IAIN DOWIE Ashley Cole deserves his place in the England team on his performances for Arsenal over the last fou... ALAN PARDEW Most teams do not get a back like that on scout team. We had to chase him, we had to contain him eve... DONTEZ SANDERS He carried the team on his back. He is a good shooter. He had a great game. BRUCE MANOLA I honestly didn't think he could come back. He's amazed us, the training staff, everybody. It's good... GREG COLBY Garrett, of course, has had his struggles, but he is a super jockey. I've always had faith in him an... BEAU GREELY He had opportunities, but when he received the ball with his back to the goal, they had 3-4 guys on ... BRENT WALSTON He had even taken out the pin from the grenade but our boys managed to catch him in time to put it b... AJAY KUMAR I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa... REGGIE SHEFFIELD He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. CASSANDRA CLARE You could have made a case for him as newcomer of the year if we had had one of those. I thought he ... CODY VANDERFORD Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Training was good, he (Houston) was in good spirits but at the end of the training session, upon ref... FRASER NEILL Tito talked to him in the last day or so. He was excited to go. He's ready for Spring Training. He f... JED HOYER I went back to my conversation with Siegfried that morning; we had just about decided that the man w... JAMES HERRIOT He knows I was the guy who just kept coming back and screwing things up, so he had to send me back. ... BOBBY MEACHAM Jan's not finished, ... He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken... LANCE ARMSTRONG Jan's not finished. He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one... LANCE ARMSTRONG He was so comfortable. He finished out good, but the other horse drew away from us. Nobody else real... BRICE BLANC He very kindly let me set up so I could start communicating back to the insurance companies. The mor... BILL BAILEY He needed to pass 24 hours for the year to compete in January and he needed to take 15 hours this fa... TIM SIEGEL He said he had accomplished all that he could in those four years, and it was time for him to get ba... BOB MITCHELL Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had al... CHUCK LAMAR He had a handicapped license plate, and they could have seen he wasn't going to be able to fight bac... DIANE THOMAS He could play the physical game, but he also had talent. I was lucky enough to have him as my left w... JODY GAGE I saw him play as a freshman. I wasn't sure if he could play varsity. He didn't have the freshman ye... GARY ERNST Two years ago, he was on course, and then had some injury issues the next year that held him back. H... TIM PURPURA I always told him he should have done a video on how to be a racehorse owner. He had a passion for i... BOB BAFFERT Santana did what he does best, he's a good pitcher and we were waiting for him to come back [out]. B... FREDERICH CEPEDA I am delighted to see Jonah back on the field again. I had the privilege of captaining him for the A... JUSTIN MARSHALL He had a rough inning the other day against Morris, and I wanted to get him back out there as soon a... JEFF PETROVIC He never really hurt me with his shots because he is not a big puncher. But he is a brilliant boxer.... ALEX ARTHUR But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water a... DEB CALETTI As soon as he got back and that incident occurred and he spoke right up about it, that is kind of wh... MARQUES HAGANS I've had to tell him repeatedly to shoot more often. When he was a freshman, I had to bench him a co... DAVE MAGUIRE Sol is absolutely fine. I have been in continuous contact with him. He needed time and space to gath... BON BATTU I had forgotten he was hurt against us, but I know he had a pretty serious injury. He's a class guy ... DON LEVER Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him... CAMERON STRACHER I had him gelded after his last start and it's taken him a while to get over that. He's doing well a... FRANK BROTHERS My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me ... ETHAN ALBRIGHT I didn't quite know he was going to turn into the teen idol he turned into. Back then, he had like a... A.J. PIERZYNSKI One who is confident never grumble when he encounters set back. If taken in positivity one can learn... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's a timing issue. Once he had surgery, he didn't gear up to be ready for Feb. 23 or even Spring T... BARRY AXELROD I told him angrily that I had been in front-line combat for over five months and no one would let me... GEORGE WILSON When I first met him in March, he had suppurating lesions. You could see the outline of the tank on ... PATRICK FOLAN I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked... KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR He continues to run with the team and we hope to have him back for the last couple of weeks of the s... MATT BLAMEY I know he hurt his knee last year and he had it cleaned out this summer, ... I think there's a small... CARROLL DAWSON He was coming across the lane and he had a good screen set on him. It was a clean play. It just caug... GRANT SMYTHERS I couldn't find anyone and he was visiting on set so I asked him to go change. He was okay with it b... PETER CHAN He's heading back. If I adopt him, he could stay. But he's heading back. BILL BAKAMUS He was an incredibly handsome guy. He could have had any woman, and he comes back and feels like now... DR. HARRIET ZEINER I heard what Ashley Cole said about kicking me if he has to, but he will have to catch me first. Whe... ROBERT PIRES He has so much potential. Sometimes we get upset with him because we know he could be so much better... DANIEL RUFFIN He was in agony the whole time. I wasn't even aware of it, he just told me. I knew he had back probl... ED MCCOMISKEY He's had a tender back, but he said he was good to go. I kind of wanted to just use him a couple of ... MARK STALKER I turned around the corner and saw him starting to scramble. The first time I was coming from behind... ANTWAN PEEK He expects to be back within a week or so. 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JOE BUTLER He had a nice game, and ran the ball hard. He missed a couple of holes and seams that could have bee... MIKE CURRY Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel,... IAIN BANKS He (McHenry) had a lot of schools in contact with him here the last several months, but he decided o... LARRY COLEMAN I kind of had a one-on-one on the other side. He just rolled through, I had him tight and stuck it w... COLE BAUBLITZ I asked him how he was before he left after the last ballgame. He said he was fine, ... That's all t... MIKE SHERMAN He was looking amazing. He was feeling amazing and I think it was just wonderful to have him back on... KARAN JOHAR He was so much like his dad. Not just physically, but temperament, too. He was never a mean horse, b... GUS KOCH I love my horse. He ran big today. He had a little trouble the last quarter, but I put him in the cl... CORNELIO VELASQUEZ He knew he had to go back out there. But he couldn't go back out there and swing at everything. He h... HAL MCRAE Our reports are good. Keith will be ready to go. He had a down year last year and we expect him to b... JED HOYER We thought he broke his arm Friday night and so did the doctors. But, he came back ready to go this ... ERIC WALKINGSTICK Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and ... BRIAN O'DRISCOLL One player doesn't make a team - although Ahmad is a unique player [and] he is different from the re... CLINT SINTIM My dear cousin means the world to me. He is my only ally and I lost him. Deep in my heart I know he ... CELIA MCMAHON (THE BOOKEATER'S DAUGHTER) Mike is coming in as a running back, but he will help out the team wherever he can. He is hard to ta... BRONCO MENDENHALL He could be out for 10 weeks, and with Ryan Price also suffering with a bad back, I had to bring som... DEAN THOMAS I have not decided yet on Ashley Cole, ARSENE WENGER I heard the window go out and then I see him, and he said they had a ladder in the back. ERIC SMITH I don't think he's got anything to be ashamed about. He did what he could do and he just didn't catc... JAY LINDSEY I know he had fun and he was a major part of this. But in order to get something good back, you have... PAT RILEY Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old things and I picked up that arrowhead in tears, that broken point ... LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE
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