I figured if we got the first game it would keep us going. The hits and everything.

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I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We got what we basically needed. We got a great pitching performance from Mock to keep us in the gam...
BILL PLUMMER We came out and played hard in both games. (In this last game), we didn't get as many breaks as we d...
CURTIS JOHNSON The bottom line is we've got to win and keep on going. I think we've still got a shot. Before the ga...
CHARLIE MANUEL

If he didn't have the calf situation, he would have practiced, ... He played extremely well. . . . T...
JOE GIBBS We had pitching in the first game, but the hitting wasn't there. We got the bats alive a little bit ...
MICHAEL ARENSDORFF

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight busines...
CONOR MCGREGOR I'm just going to keep it simple, and keep the game plan I got here with.
CONOR JACKSON Pitching and defense have been there all year for us. And tonight we got some timely hits. Hopefully...
CLAY MCCAMMON It just woke up in us this morning. It was like boom, the first game we got going and then in the (T...
WADE WILSON The umpire told us that was going to be the last inning and that they were going to call the game. S...
ANN MUNZENMAIER We got runners on base without a problem. We just didn't have any timely hits. If we would have got ...
GORDON EAKIN Even if we lose this game, we're still almost at the mid-point of the season and only one game out o...
BRIAN BILLICK We finally won a close game. I figured it would be a one-goal game.
DARRIN KARUZAS I would have probably felt better if I'd had a body double, ... But I figured if Cate was game ... I...
DUSTIN NGUYEN It really did, and that's the thing I'm so disappointed about. We got nine hits in that first game a...
BOOMER WALKER Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, b...
TIM MCGRAW We knew Marian was going to be tough at home; they have a nice team. I figured it would be a tough g...
DAVE BEEBE It was a great effort to keep working hard and finish the game. We strung some hits together.
DEB THOMPSON If you would have told me we were going to score 75 points, I figured we would have had a pretty goo...
GARY CLOSE We have a lot of strong singers in the choir right now, so I figured if I'm going to do the 'St. Joh...
ANDRE THOMAS We just started outworking them. We knew that the team that put out the most effort would win the ga...
JAMES HUDSON I thought we had enough scrapping points to keep us in the game. They got a lot too, but we got enou...
GREG MORGAN We removed it because by the time we got around to doing it, we figured the city of Sandy Springs wo...
GEORGE COLEMAN It seems as if John hits the ball hard every time at bat.
BEN GYURE

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, Jo...
CHARLES DICKENS My personal feeling is were not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down fo...
CAROLYN ALLEN We got three runs and four hits in the first inning and after that I thought we just participated.
DENNY THRONEBURG John is one of these guys that if a nuclear bomb hits, it will be John and cockroaches left as the o...
KATHY PULLEY It would be a great momentum factor, especially if it was in the last game going into the tournament...
KAMI ROEDER With the pitching the way it's been going, if we keep getting the hits, we're going to be unstoppabl...
LAUREN CLARK We set it up a little differently. AJ (Johnson) had been going good and we figured that they react t...
RICK CARLISLE

I figured if I can stay with them, I could maybe keep some of their rhythm going.
LL COOL J If they hadn't gotten that goal, I think we would have dominated the game, but that goal deflated us...
GEORGE ARROYO We've been looking forward to this. After the (first time the two met), we figured they'd come in wa...
JACOB CAREY We knew going in that if we wanted to repeat as league champs this game meant everything. This game ...
CHRIS OLOFSON He's gotten some big hits for us. He's got great instincts and has been a game-saver for us.
DAN ROHN Sydney pitched really well. She usually does pitch well enough to keep us in ballgames. It was nice ...
ANDY FOX Sydney pitched really well, ... She usually does pitch well enough to keep us in ballgames. It was n...
ANDY FOX I think anyone who sat through this game for three-and-a-half hours figured it would end in that kin...
CHARLIE HICKEY We got everything going to the basket on offense. We didn't make the free throws to ice the game, bu...
CRAIG KOWAL I told the kids that this is a four-lap race. If we would lose this game, I don't know if we'd have ...
CHRIS RASO I then figured 'Why not?. I've got everything I want.
HAROLD COWART Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 The ...
BP. THOMAS WILSON There's not much we can change. We've just got to keep playing good. It might be the biggest game of...
ERIC BISHOP This was a good learning experience for us. We got away from our game plan, and it cost us. We have ...
LEVON KENDALL He's got to be moving and finishing hits. Tonight, he had a couple good hits and that's going to be ...
GREG PUHALSKI It happened so quick. I didn't have that many thoughts. When I first saw that I got shot, I thought ...
ANDRAY BLATCHE Isaac did it, but I got all the publicity. Isaac figured if the stupid reporters had got it right, h...
BEN DAVIDSON We just try to keep the game going at a pace that's good for us and make it more of a quickness game...
GREG CARTER I knew once we got that first one we would be okay. That first one is the tough one and our defense ...
CARL SERRANI My personal feeling is we’re not going to see the price of oil and the price at the pump go down f...
CAROLYN ALLEN I thought the team started out strong for their first game. I hope it will keep going from here.
MIKE ACKERMAN We know that every team is going to come ready to play their best game against us and it can be diff...
ANARIS SICKLES Luis pitched a super in the first game. We got some key hits and one helpful error from them to help...
ERIC GUTIERREZ That would be kind of nice (to get to .500). I don't think anyone would remember the game got us to ...
JACK MCCAULEY We thought we would be going there as it is the first game and Wales see it as their banker green.
CHRIS BALL

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else fall...
DAN DIERDORF

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else fal...
DAN DIERDORF We just really got it done. In series past, we were getting a lot more hits and not getting the big ...
JOSH SATIN This was the first game we really executed defensively. We also had some timely hits late in the gam...
DENNIS TYNER It definitely gets us in the flow. We got that first day out of the way and we are ready to keep mov...
KRISTI TOLIVER

It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done a...
STEVIE WONDER We came into the game knowing that the bullpen was going to have do some work, so it was good to be ...
BRAD THOMPSON I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER I figured we needed to step up and get some kind of edge back. Usually hitting 3-pointers gives us t...
AMBER BACON We got it figured out in the end. It shows what we can do if we come together.
COBY KARL We continued to battle, and got their closer in the game. If you keep battling and put yourself in p...
BOB MELVIN We started off slow. Male was getting good pitching and we weren't swinging the bats that well, but ...
DONNIE ENGLISH The first game was different but tonight we were just worried about getting ourselves back on track....
DANY HEATLEY

We are going to go agency by agency and get rid of the Social Security number on everything, ... The...
BOB FILNER I am happy the first game in the group stages is at home. Everybody will be up for it with us not ha...
BARRY FERGUSON Alex hit that first shot and fueled us the rest of the game. It was a huge win. If we lost, our titl...
JACK PURTELL The first game was very big for us. It gave the younger guys a lot of confidence. Now we can keep ro...
ABREE JONES We needed to establish a run game and we hadn't done that all game. So, we kind of figured on the si...
JASON JONES

If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We weren't letting the ball come to us in the beginning. When we got that first run off Lauren crush...
DON ELLENBURGER We gave up too much in the first quarter. If I could take anything back, that would be it. We came o...
KATIE BARNETT Both teams played hard, and it was a well-played defensive game all the way around. We got the clutc...
BILL SIKES We couldn't stop them. We couldn't keep the ball in front of us the whole game. They drove on us all...
CEDRIC BOZEMAN That was really a momentum builder and I thought it would change the pace of the game for us. We got...
JAMI SAFRIT I was really excited. I was under control and didn't realize how nervous I would be until I got out ...
FAUSTO CARMONA I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it ...
DON SILVER

I figured if I got posters and T-shirts and things with the name of the movie on it, it would help p...
GEORGE LUCAS I think we showed we're ready for the rest of league. We finally got our offense going. We were alwa...
ANDY ROGERS He's pretty much had our number all season, ... We knew it was going to be a tough game with him on ...
B.J. UPTON We're not going to blow teams out. I say that to these guys all the time. The only way it's going to...
ALEX BUTLER Our kids played well. We were slow coming out of the gate but, after awhile, we kept the momentum go...
DAN MCANESPIE

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the f...
HOLLY NEAR (If Pope John scored the next goal) it would have been over. I think that swung the whole game back ...
MIKE REYNOLDS We had to keep it under 50. If they got it going, we were going to be in trouble.
GEORGE ERDAHL

My first game, I played the first play of the game and called a timeout and got sat down, got benche...
MIKE SINGLETARY That really gave us a shot to keep the momentum. If they got ahead there, it would've been different...
GREG BEE It got physical, which we knew it would. What sealed the game for us were two steals toward the end.
DAN DEROSE We wanted to make Sandburg work for everything. Sandburg is good when they are allowed to set up som...
LAWRENCE THOMPSON JR I knew it was going to be a great high school basketball game and figured it would come right down t...
JIM FLYNN He took a couple of hits both on the face and in the head, I thought it was best for us not to take ...
FLIP SAUNDERS

I figured it would happen. I just got tangled up in there and received a hard pull on it.
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I figured if we got the first game it would keep us going. The hits and everything.

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