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Related We played well against a good team. We were missing some of our bigger players, so we struggled on t... DEKE ROUTHEAUX We knew that they were a team that played a tough physical style. We just wanted to play our style o... COLLEEN CHRISTIAN In a way, if we want to make the postseason, we feel like we have to win out. We have got some good ... CARTIER MARTIN The style we play n we know at some point the other team is going to make a run. We have to keep our... BILL LEWIT Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We have done a better job on the boards lately. That was a concern we had coming into the season. I ... DAVE SLIFER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Coming into the game we really decided we were not going to let these guys intimidate us. We did a g... KYLE PEABODY I don't know. It's always a good rival team. Our team recognize that when we play them. I think we w... CRISTOBAL HUET I think we're treating them just like any other team. We know that they're good and capable of defea... MAX KLINEMAN I think we match up as well as any team in the region against them. When you're playing a good team ... BRAD COLEMAN We make good shooters look like All-Americans. The difference was rebounds. If we were going to win ... CARLYLE ROBINSON The whole game we didn't have a doubt that we would come back. We knew that we were going to have th... BRIAN HERNANDEZ If you rebound and play defense, that will win you a lot more games than shooting well. We haven't s... BRUCE THOMAS We made some big 3-pointers and we win games when we shoot the ball well on the perimeter. We did a ... BRIAN BAPTISTE If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL We did a better job of controlling the ball and converting on Bisbee's turnovers. We like to shoot t... COACH KIMBERLY EAST I think it is the biggest win of the year. We played 60 minutes against a great team and especially ... BRAD BOYES I don't know if we have their number. But we do play well against them. Maybe it's because we have s... ANTHONY TOLLIVER a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We feel like we have a chance to win every series we get involved in. If we can put the ball in play... DOYLE WILSON Obviously there were some good parts; we were up 20. But the glaring similarity to last game is we l... DAVID WESLEY They put a lot of pressure on us and our kids didn't react well. They're fast and they're a good tea... JASON SCANLAN I think we certainly have a group here that will get it back. I think there's a lot of pride in that... BRIAN MCCUTCHEON I think we're a really good team now. But we definitely have to play well against the teams we play.... AMY SANDERS We are a good team, but we are not a cocky team. We know going into every game that we need to play ... KEISHA BROWN We were not ready to play as physical of a game as we expected to. We need to have a sense of urgenc... CAROL OWENS We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight we were going t... MICHAEL BEAUMONT We did play well, but we just couldn't get the ball to go in the hoop and you're going to have night... BARRY BORCHERS We're having an up-and-down year. We have a young team and this game was a microcosm of our season. ... GORDON MORROW We're just having a tough time coming up with a key base hit. We have to figure out a way to score s... JOE HUGHES We've had 85 practices and every day starts with defensive stuff. We know if we play defense and reb... JAY HERKELMAN It's just another game. We beat a good team, and we have another good team coming in here on Saturda... ED WICELINSKI There was definitely a sense, a pride factor after the game, that we have a chance. You look around,... CHAD GREENWAY I think if we come ready to play, it will be another good game. They shoot the ball well. MATT MAHAR I thought we got some good looks at the basket. I thought we got some open shots. It turned out we'r... JOE ECKLEY I think the guys were tired of not producing. Enough had been enough. We played a decent enough half... TOM FREEMAN If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I don't think we're going to be satisfied with being a .500 ball club. Obviously we're not going to ... GREGG ZAUN Everybody says that it takes a loss to lose and I think it did take a loss for us to lose in a sense... JASON WILLIAMS We played tremendous team basketball. I knew that we were going to be able to get the ball inside ag... ALAN JOHNSTON We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting ... COLBY ARMSTRONG Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's a big win, we just know we can play better. I think we did a good job of upping the tempo again... ALEX GEE Those games build character. When you have games like this, coming back against their closer, it giv... BILLY SYLVESTER I think what we are going to do is go great ball pressure and deny wings to start the game because I... JOHN CALIPARI I think that we can win eight of our next ten games. We can do this because I see the bats coming al... MARTIN ANDERSON It's tough when you lose to think you're awesome. I know when we won a couple games in a row, we wer... TODD ABERNETHY They're pitcher did a good job. We want to win. We feel like we're good enough to win a couple games... ANDY JACKSON It's hard to rebound on a zone team, they were coming hard and we didn't do a good job of getting a ... CHAMBERLAIN OGUCHI We were able to dictate the pace of the game and they didn't attack us. We were able to move the bal... FRED THACHER We came up a little bit short, but we did do a lot of good things on the court. We missed some good ... DAWN SEILER Every time we get close and have [good rebounding], we win. We didn't do a very good job on the boar... JUAN PALACIOS When the doldrums went away, I think we got a sense of urgency and started executing. When we execut... MIKE SANFORD If our seniors don't play well we don't win that football game. I also think our coaches did a good ... HUGH FOUNTAIN We want to be the top seed. Manatee has three losses in the district, but they could lose again. We ... CRAIG FAULKNER I don't know if it (the loss) puts the pressure on us or not. We knew coming in this was a seven-gam... KRIS WIEBE I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced the... CLIFF THOMPSON Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO I feel pretty good going up there Wednesday. If we can play as good of defense as we have been and i... MATT RANN Whether it is big, important, another game or not, I don't know. All I know is we are playing one of... JOE PATERNO We showed a lot more cohesiveness in moving the ball in our last game. We're known for going one-on-... ADAM JACOBSON Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW I don't know why, but it seemed like we came out flat. We thought we had a good game plan coming in,... ERVIN BRYSON West opened up in a zone, and we hit some threes that got us going. I thought we did a good job of c... ARNO KIRCHENWITZ First we want to win our district. We want to go undefeated in district. I've got girls on this team... AMY POWELL We've got to start playing tough against every team, not depending on who the other team is. Look at... GRANT MARSHALL Morgan does that basically every game. We put her on their point guard and we tell her to pressure w... CONNIE ALLEN We knew going in that they were going to play very tough and aggressive. They have some young talent... DOUG JACK Our ball pressure was very good and we rebounded well. I wouldn't say we played a great game, becaus... SHEENA ADEN We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO You're never excited about a loss, but we did some good things tonight with a win in our first match... JOE GETZIN I think we did a great job of not giving up the big play. There were some missed tackles, but overal... SKIP HOLTZ As small as we are, if we can hold even against everyone we play, we've got a chance to win the bask... LARRY BULLINGTON The good thing about being a basketball team is that you play a lot of games. We have a game against... 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I thought we were a little bit bigger than they wer... JIM COLE The last two months have let us know we belong. We are a team with confidence that we can go out and... BRAD HAWPE I thought we did a good job of coming out ready to play and keeping our foot on the gas from the sta... BRIAN CLEARY It's a must-win game. Our goal is to stay above .500, so in order to do that, we have a crucial game... IKE DIOGU Once we had some runners on, we knew we had to push them through. I didn't think [Charlotte] was han... DEB SMITH We knew coming into this weekend we needed all the points we can get. We tied Manchester and we're t... CHAD WISEMAN We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to wi... KYLE LOOMIS The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. 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ELIZABETH THORNTON Everybody has a right to their own troubles. THORNTON WILDER We've gotten good pressure. That's not a question. Teams know that. Some of the pressure we've had h... JOHN THORNTON We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong i... MATT THORNTON From Day 1, I just played real well with Cheech. You don't plan for something like this. These two a... JOE THORNTON I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID! THORNTON WILDER Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day THORNTON WILDER A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, s... THORNTON WILDER Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. THORNTON WILDER The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive min... THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ... THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th... THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend. THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t... THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p... THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. THORNTON WILDER Usually you take a penalty because you're a little bit tired or lazy and you're out of position. Ron... SCOTT THORNTON It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline ... DOUG THORNTON We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while. JOE THORNTON He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that. MARSHALL THORNTON The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v... THORNTON WILDER We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove... THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo... THORNTON WILDER Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd... THORNTON WILDER One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with... THORNTON WILDER A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and fin... THORNTON WILDER Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. THORNTON WILDER I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in... THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense THORNTON WILDER Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. THORNTON WILDER Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignoran... THORNTON WILDER Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of ... THORNTON WILDER The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ... THORNTON WILDER