I feel very fortunate and very blessed for the type of season that we had. Every once in a while, you look back and say, 'Did that really happen?

I never looked at it as us having a monkey on our backs. We didn't prepare any differently for this game tonight than we did the other games with them. I think the big difference was that tonight, we executed our game plan as well as we could have.

I thought Southern Fulton never quit; they really battled. That was a credit to their kids. You don't win 23 games and not be competitive and not have a lot of heart.

We wanted to play fast and we did. I thought we shot the ball with a lot of confidence tonight and our kids looked comfortable.

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.