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I guess he's on a different page. I ran well yesterday and I ran well today. I don't know anything about it.


Rick Ankiel

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ANDREW VONDERHAAR I love Rick Ankiel. There's something good about having him on a ballclub.
TONY LA RUSSA I thought I wrestled well yesterday and felt good about today. I don't know what happened.
HOUSTON MADER I thought we ran well today. Our times weren't great, but it was warm out there today.
DENNY CHALK The women ran tough today and to come within a couple of points against a very good Washington team ...
VIN LANANNA They ran a zone press at us. It wasn't anything special, we've seen it before. But they ran it well ...
JASON RUNDE I thought our boys ran well.
AMY BEANER I put half and half and it ran real well. I shouldn't probably recommend it, because I don't know, I...
DICK SMITH I thought we ran really well. To a runner, we ran faster than last week and got out a lot better.
AL KNUTSON Yesterday I played poorly. And today I played well.
CHARLES COODY I have always ran well there and it is renowned as a very fast track.
JASON GARDENER I thought we played well. I think offensively we did a good thing because their pitchers were pretty...
LACEY SCHANZ I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.
JOHN GREEN We put the ball in play and ran the bases well today.
LANCE MOORE I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I alway...
KEVIN GATES I thought the team ran fantastic. We had had two meets canceled, so I was worried about how we might...
RAY WHITE I thought the guys ran really well considering it was pouring rain and there was a 30 mph wind.
AL KNUTSON He stepped in hole as a baby. I ran cold water on it out of the well, but it never did go down.
LEROY ADCOCK I thought defensively we were in their faces the whole night. I don't know if they really ever got a...
JOE WOJTKIEWICZ I attribute a lot of that to the fact that Danica ran well in Indianapolis.
ROB JOHNSON Kingsley is the hardest course out there, so I thought the girls ran well.
DAN TUCK I really feel like I ran a good campaign and I wish him well. The people made their choice and the p...
BARBARA SHARPE The boys ran very well today. We're still working on our compression for our one through five runner...
BRIAN CORCORAN I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I got hot, and I just figured I'd keep shooting until I started missing. I guess my luck just ran ou...
JOSH JOHNSON I ran three miles today. Finally I said, "Lady take your purse."
EMO PHILIPS The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that....
KYLIE MINOGUE Individually, I didn't think I shot the ball real well. But we ran our offense inside and got some e...
WAYNE ELLINGTON Last year, they took away the run and we ran anyway. We ran it and ran it. It had a lot to do with B...
ANTWAAN RANDLE I played well. I ran to the ball and made a couple plays. The first game I didn't have any (mental e...
RIAN WALLACE Brian tests really well. I know he ran a 4.29 hand-held (40-yard dash) at Junior Day at Wisconsin la...
JOE KOCH I was 7 years old when Strom first ran for president. I don't really remember anything about the cam...
TRENT LOTT I thought we played pretty well on defense and ran the ball well. I thought we controlled the line o...
BOBBY HUMPHRIES We hope to offload a tanker sometime today. We wanted to offload a tanker yesterday afternoon but we...
DALE ROLLINS We ran out of gas yesterday afternoon sometime, ... I have no idea when we're getting more.
MICHAEL ADAMS The play we ran on that didn't go as well.
SAM NEWTON She ran a heck of a race. I though she could outrun those horses. I didn't know about the mud.
ANDY LEGGIO I was very pleased with Travis and Aaron's runs tonight. They ran well following a pretty tough prac...
BILL KUHNS I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there...
UZO ADUBA This was one our better performances. We swung the bats well, ran the bases well and made the plays ...
MARK RIGGIN I thought Trina ran well. You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best indiv...
DEREK HOOD I thought Trina ran well, ... You could tell she was giving it her all. I thought she had the best i...
DEREK HOOD I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.
BETTY CUTHBERT Why should I worry about who I was yesterday?! If I know who I am today!...
PHILIP T. M. Those two runs we scored with two outs were big. I thought we ran the bases well very.
GREG PAYNE You've got to be kid-
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl-
RICK RIORDAN Before I met you, my life ran on sheer amusement.
After I met you, my life ran on sheer compas...
HEENASHREE KHANDELWAL He went because he was very, very patriotic. I guess you could say it ran in the family.
DOROTHY MILLER I just think (Kent) ran out of gas after their big-time comeback against Eastern Michigan yesterday.
CURT MILLER There was a little jag in the course that was cut out this year. ... I ran well, but it wouldn't hav...
RAY NELSON I ran a post, ran straight past the safety and when I saw the ball in the air, I knew it was over af...
KENNY ANDERSON Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it, And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
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Percy ...
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RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ)
RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo...
RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties...
RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
...
RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr...
RICK RIORDAN