I didn't really have any big goals. I just wanted to gain experience. I was extremely excited to do it. I just wanted to get in there and finish.

The goals of this program are extremely challenging and success is uncertain,

I still don't think it happened. It's a big shock even now. Going from the best shape of my life to not even being able to walk was really strange. It took forever to get used to, and it still hasn't even set in.

[That's what Rockville, Md.-based Celera, a company that sets ambitious goals often unlikely to yield big financial returns in the short run, has set out to do.] This has been in the works for a long time, ... This was something that was always obvious to do as a next step.

You get something from everything you do whether you fail or succeed regardless of how useless it would seem to be at the moment.

We played so much better defensively in the second half. We only allowed two field goals for NYA and we passed the ball well, getting 17 assists in the game.