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I came into this meet knowing I had a shot at winning the 100 and 50. That was my goal, so that's wh...
AMANDA WEIR I got a good shot, I just couldn't finish it. I was pretty much speechless. Luckily, my sister came ...
CHRIS NICOLOSI I knew it was going to go far when I hit it, but I didn't know how far. Once I got around second and...
LAUREN GIBSON I was so nervous out there in the fairway. I hit a great shot and the wind came my way at the right ...
MARK CALCAVECCHIA I was pretty nervous until I got my first shift.
BLAKE COMEAU Once I hit my first shot I felt comfortable. And Coach was confident in me. He told me to keep shoot...
KATIE OLSON Against the Czechs, it was Tomas Vokoun in net, I came in at pretty good speed and almost put the br...
ANDY ROACH The first thing that I thought about was that wall. I was like, 'Man, I don't know how I'm going to ...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS You could see how nervous I was on that shot. After that, I got it out of my system, and I was feeli...
FRANCISCO GARCIA![]()
Late in the fourth quarter, everyone hit a critical shot. Tony Parker hit one, Bowen hit a couple an...
PAT RILEY I lost concentration on the fifth hole, hit a terrible shot. Apart from that it was pretty good. I a...
ANDREW BUCKLE I was disappointed in my tee shot because it was into the wind and when I started the first hole, th...
SARAH LEE So far so good. I took the stick in the face, hit the wall pretty hard and got cross-checked. I'm ho...
ERIK COLE When I hit the ball, I knew that I had hit it high enough to hit the wall. But there were shadows on...
BUCKY DENT![]()
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
NANCY KERRIGAN After his first dive, I was pretty far behind. I knew I had degree of difficulty on him. I knew if I...
DAVID BOUDIA I had to use my left, I was on the left side. I would have gotten in trouble if I shot it with my ri...
LEON FREEMAN Right now, the putt on the 72nd hole, that's the putt I'm going to be thinking about. I hit such a g...
ERNIE ELS![]()
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ...
ALLYSON FELIX![]()
I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs.
SIDNEY CROSBY When I hit that shot, I was pretty excited. I just took a regular jump shot. I just made sure I took...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER I was a little rusty and nervous. But I got focused and hit 11. I'd been telling my parents I was ti...
JEN NICHOLS I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai...
SHEILA E. (The offense) makes my job a lot easier. I had pretty good command of my fastball and slider and was...
KYLE MCCULLOCH I really didn't feel that nervous. Once I got my first at-bat out of the way, I was pretty loose. It...
DREW MEYER I knew I had to redeem myself because I let him hit that three at the end of regulation. I looked to...
DANTE ROSS![]()
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I s...
CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game.
KELSEY ASSARIAN The college coaches said I was going sideways with my shot. I worked hard on straightening it out th...
CEOLA CLARK I was really nervous. I couldn't handle it being my last meet. Before my last race, I was in the war...
BRIELLE WHITE One I'm going to keep in my pocket wherever I go. One I frame and keep it on my wall.
LAMAR BUTLER I was nervous at first, ... But the snapper and the holder had been good all night and nobody had be...
BRAD COX Right after the first goal we wanted to get the puck in deep and work it hard. I was pretty much wid...
NICKLAS LIDSTROM In the first half, I couldn't find my shot. I was struggling, but coach told me to keep shooting.
COURTNEY WATKINS I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ...
HELEN NILES My coach saw I was hitting in the first quarter, so he just told me to keep shooting. My shot was fa...
JUSTIN ARTHUR He was (expletive) gonna hit me with a crowbar. I could not move my car . . . I stuck my gun out. I ...
LUIS PEREZ I was going to glove it at first, and when it hit it kind of checked up, and the next thing that wen...
ADAM EVERETT![]()
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, dig...
CHARLAINE HARRIS My plan was to go hard but I got boxed in early. I really think I wasted a lot of energy on the firs...
COLLEEN WETHERBEE I knew I was going to make my shot. I was trying to take a leadership role and keep the team poised,...
JOSH AKOGNON I met the team in Minnesota. I pinch-hit against Eddie Guardado and struck out. We came back home an...
MARK LORETTA I was pretty worried going in after some slow training times last week. The times today were solid b...
SHANNON REMPEL At first I was nervous and scared. It took five or six lessons before I thought there was a glimmer ...
HELEN CHANDLER It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m...
BEN SAYLOR I was pretty upset with myself in the first half because I felt as though I had so many wide-open lo...
EDDIE JONES I just put my head down as soon as I hit the blue line and shot it. Luckily, it picked the far side....
TIM CROWDER It's nice to come back home with another medal. I don't really know what my problem was in that firs...
JOSH KNECHT![]()
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS I have type one diabetes, and I've had it since I was 10 years old. When I was first diagnosed with ...
LYNN RICH When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the groun...
DARIEN MICKENS In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to ...
DAVID CARRADINE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My co...
DAVID RUDISHA Honestly, I was a little nervous just because it was the first game. I had the jitters before the ga...
PAUL RICE I knew I was one behind before I hit my tee shot,
GEOFF OGILVY I knew something bad happened because I hit him pretty hard. I didn't know exactly what happened, th...
ANDRE BARRETT I own a business, and my wife was expecting our first child, and boxing out of Nashville is pretty h...
FRANK WOOD![]()
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happene...
JONAH LOMU I was pretty nervous the day of my first lesson. But as soon as we took off, the fear and anxiety me...
HARRY MATTOX I don't know what happened. But I took a lick in the standings and hit the wall pretty hard.
CLINT BOWYER I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When...
BRIAN GILES Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be...
FAT JOE After that I started getting my adrenaline back. I just wanted to make up the points. I was nervous ...
CHANDLER JONES When that ball was in the air, I was nervous. When you look at the shot he hit out there, it was the...
DONYELL MARSHALL At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeli...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ...
RON WOLF That was probably my most solid hit in the past year. It hit right on the sweet spot and I thought I...
ASHLEY GUILE I thought we were getting hit inside pretty hard and I was tired of our kids getting hit. As physica...
HAL MCMANUS I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit the...
CHRIS AGUILA My bunker shot was made easier when Jim didn't hit it close. If I just hit it on the green, I win th...
WES SHORT JR My first option was the shot. But I didn't have the shot. My second option was to dump it [down] low...
LAMONT HAMILTON I wasn't nervous, ... I was just overexcited. It was my first time seeing guys like Deion and Ray, a...
JASON CAMPBELL I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.
BUSTER PERKINS I know going into the locker room I was so frustrated. I struggled shooting against Walpole and I co...
BRITTANY ENGLE![]()
I was so stoked I got it out early. I was nervous because I fell on the first hit of my first run, b...
SHAUN WHITE His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawre...
CHRIS HERNANDEZ I was a little nervous. I had butterflies in my stomach.
ZAYVEN REESE Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS I just stuck with my game plan. Every shot was perfect, I guess.
BROCK WAUGHEN I had a pretty good shot of adrenaline working at that time, and all I wanted to do was to get on th...
DAN LANKHEIT After the second-last pair went, I thought maybe I have a shot. It was hard watching, though, at the...
JAKE KLASSEN A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
BUBBA SPARXXX I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her...
JAIME CLAMPITT I was thinking of going back there when the opportunity arose to come here. I decided to take a shot...
JASON KROG![]()
I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my w...
VINNY GUADAGNINO We were struggling before this game and I wasn't hitting my shot. I needed to hit my shots and I was...
ANGELA DEHNING On the 17th hole my palms were sweating and when I hit the tee shot, I knew it was heading for the w...
PRAYAD MARKSAENG I told Walker to just hit the rim on his last foul shot because I said there was no way [Moon] could...
ANDY SCHULZ Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my...
SHEENA EASTON I knew I was tied when I made the putt, ... And I knew I was one behind before I hit my next tee sho...
GEOFF OGILVY![]()
The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them.
ROB THURMAN![]()
I though I got a pretty good look. He had a hand in my face (Andre Miller) but I got a great look.
ALLEN IVERSON It was hard. I was very nervous about the season at the beginning. But everything has progressed. We...
KARI RIENDEAU![]()
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward...
SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so ...
CONOR JACKSON![]()
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don'...
MICHAEL J. FOX![]()
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was...
WILBUR SMITH I was kind of hoping he was going to make a move. At the last second I saw he was going low blocker....
ANTERO NIITTYMAKI It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
BEN CURTIS
AMANDA WEIR I got a good shot, I just couldn't finish it. I was pretty much speechless. Luckily, my sister came ...
CHRIS NICOLOSI I knew it was going to go far when I hit it, but I didn't know how far. Once I got around second and...
LAUREN GIBSON I was so nervous out there in the fairway. I hit a great shot and the wind came my way at the right ...
MARK CALCAVECCHIA I was pretty nervous until I got my first shift.
BLAKE COMEAU Once I hit my first shot I felt comfortable. And Coach was confident in me. He told me to keep shoot...
KATIE OLSON Against the Czechs, it was Tomas Vokoun in net, I came in at pretty good speed and almost put the br...
ANDY ROACH The first thing that I thought about was that wall. I was like, 'Man, I don't know how I'm going to ...
DEMETRIS BENDROSS You could see how nervous I was on that shot. After that, I got it out of my system, and I was feeli...
FRANCISCO GARCIA
Late in the fourth quarter, everyone hit a critical shot. Tony Parker hit one, Bowen hit a couple an... PAT RILEY I lost concentration on the fifth hole, hit a terrible shot. Apart from that it was pretty good. I a...
ANDREW BUCKLE I was disappointed in my tee shot because it was into the wind and when I started the first hole, th...
SARAH LEE So far so good. I took the stick in the face, hit the wall pretty hard and got cross-checked. I'm ho...
ERIK COLE When I hit the ball, I knew that I had hit it high enough to hit the wall. But there were shadows on...
BUCKY DENT
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open. NANCY KERRIGAN After his first dive, I was pretty far behind. I knew I had degree of difficulty on him. I knew if I...
DAVID BOUDIA I had to use my left, I was on the left side. I would have gotten in trouble if I shot it with my ri...
LEON FREEMAN Right now, the putt on the 72nd hole, that's the putt I'm going to be thinking about. I hit such a g...
ERNIE ELS
I always look back to my first Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens. I was very new to the sport, and it ... ALLYSON FELIX
I'll be the first one to admit my first couple of years I was pretty hard on the refs. SIDNEY CROSBY When I hit that shot, I was pretty excited. I just took a regular jump shot. I just made sure I took...
ANTHONY TOLLIVER I was a little rusty and nervous. But I got focused and hit 11. I'd been telling my parents I was ti...
JEN NICHOLS I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai...
SHEILA E. (The offense) makes my job a lot easier. I had pretty good command of my fastball and slider and was...
KYLE MCCULLOCH I really didn't feel that nervous. Once I got my first at-bat out of the way, I was pretty loose. It...
DREW MEYER I knew I had to redeem myself because I let him hit that three at the end of regulation. I looked to...
DANTE ROSS
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I s... CHI CHI RODRIGUEZ It was crazy. I was nervous. I was definitely nervous. My heart was going crazy the whole game.
KELSEY ASSARIAN The college coaches said I was going sideways with my shot. I worked hard on straightening it out th...
CEOLA CLARK I was really nervous. I couldn't handle it being my last meet. Before my last race, I was in the war...
BRIELLE WHITE One I'm going to keep in my pocket wherever I go. One I frame and keep it on my wall.
LAMAR BUTLER I was nervous at first, ... But the snapper and the holder had been good all night and nobody had be...
BRAD COX Right after the first goal we wanted to get the puck in deep and work it hard. I was pretty much wid...
NICKLAS LIDSTROM In the first half, I couldn't find my shot. I was struggling, but coach told me to keep shooting.
COURTNEY WATKINS I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ...
HELEN NILES My coach saw I was hitting in the first quarter, so he just told me to keep shooting. My shot was fa...
JUSTIN ARTHUR He was (expletive) gonna hit me with a crowbar. I could not move my car . . . I stuck my gun out. I ...
LUIS PEREZ I was going to glove it at first, and when it hit it kind of checked up, and the next thing that wen...
ADAM EVERETT
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, dig... CHARLAINE HARRIS My plan was to go hard but I got boxed in early. I really think I wasted a lot of energy on the firs...
COLLEEN WETHERBEE I knew I was going to make my shot. I was trying to take a leadership role and keep the team poised,...
JOSH AKOGNON I met the team in Minnesota. I pinch-hit against Eddie Guardado and struck out. We came back home an...
MARK LORETTA I was pretty worried going in after some slow training times last week. The times today were solid b...
SHANNON REMPEL At first I was nervous and scared. It took five or six lessons before I thought there was a glimmer ...
HELEN CHANDLER It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m...
BEN SAYLOR I was pretty upset with myself in the first half because I felt as though I had so many wide-open lo...
EDDIE JONES I just put my head down as soon as I hit the blue line and shot it. Luckily, it picked the far side....
TIM CROWDER It's nice to come back home with another medal. I don't really know what my problem was in that firs...
JOSH KNECHT
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I have type one diabetes, and I've had it since I was 10 years old. When I was first diagnosed with ...
LYNN RICH When he got to the door on the far end, he walked in the door and hit the wall and fell on the groun...
DARIEN MICKENS In the second installment, I pretty much dominate the show. Somehow or another, though, I manage to ...
DAVID CARRADINE I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My co...
DAVID RUDISHA Honestly, I was a little nervous just because it was the first game. I had the jitters before the ga...
PAUL RICE I knew I was one behind before I hit my tee shot,
GEOFF OGILVY I knew something bad happened because I hit him pretty hard. I didn't know exactly what happened, th...
ANDRE BARRETT I own a business, and my wife was expecting our first child, and boxing out of Nashville is pretty h...
FRANK WOOD
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happene... JONAH LOMU I was pretty nervous the day of my first lesson. But as soon as we took off, the fear and anxiety me...
HARRY MATTOX I don't know what happened. But I took a lick in the standings and hit the wall pretty hard.
CLINT BOWYER I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When...
BRIAN GILES Before I was rapping, I was always around the rap game, even though I was in the streets. I would be...
FAT JOE After that I started getting my adrenaline back. I just wanted to make up the points. I was nervous ...
CHANDLER JONES When that ball was in the air, I was nervous. When you look at the shot he hit out there, it was the...
DONYELL MARSHALL At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeli...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give ...
RON WOLF That was probably my most solid hit in the past year. It hit right on the sweet spot and I thought I...
ASHLEY GUILE I thought we were getting hit inside pretty hard and I was tired of our kids getting hit. As physica...
HAL MCMANUS I was battling that at-bat. I had two strikes and some runners on base. I was just trying to hit the...
CHRIS AGUILA My bunker shot was made easier when Jim didn't hit it close. If I just hit it on the green, I win th...
WES SHORT JR My first option was the shot. But I didn't have the shot. My second option was to dump it [down] low...
LAMONT HAMILTON I wasn't nervous, ... I was just overexcited. It was my first time seeing guys like Deion and Ray, a...
JASON CAMPBELL I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.
BUSTER PERKINS I know going into the locker room I was so frustrated. I struggled shooting against Walpole and I co...
BRITTANY ENGLE
I was so stoked I got it out early. I was nervous because I fell on the first hit of my first run, b... SHAUN WHITE His man had come out on me and the defense was rotating the big man back on Lawrence. So I hit Lawre...
CHRIS HERNANDEZ I was a little nervous. I had butterflies in my stomach.
ZAYVEN REESE Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS I just stuck with my game plan. Every shot was perfect, I guess.
BROCK WAUGHEN I had a pretty good shot of adrenaline working at that time, and all I wanted to do was to get on th...
DAN LANKHEIT After the second-last pair went, I thought maybe I have a shot. It was hard watching, though, at the...
JAKE KLASSEN A lot of people thought I was going to be a one-hit wonder, so I had that chip on my shoulder.
BUBBA SPARXXX I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her...
JAIME CLAMPITT I was thinking of going back there when the opportunity arose to come here. I decided to take a shot...
JASON KROG
I was a huge Spice Girls fan when I was a kid. When I was younger I had a Spice Girls poster on my w... VINNY GUADAGNINO We were struggling before this game and I wasn't hitting my shot. I needed to hit my shots and I was...
ANGELA DEHNING On the 17th hole my palms were sweating and when I hit the tee shot, I knew it was heading for the w...
PRAYAD MARKSAENG I told Walker to just hit the rim on his last foul shot because I said there was no way [Moon] could...
ANDY SCHULZ Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my...
SHEENA EASTON I knew I was tied when I made the putt, ... And I knew I was one behind before I hit my next tee sho...
GEOFF OGILVY
The guy had guts—I had to give him that. Later on I was hoping for a first-hand look at them. ROB THURMAN
I though I got a pretty good look. He had a hand in my face (Andre Miller) but I got a great look. ALLEN IVERSON It was hard. I was very nervous about the season at the beginning. But everything has progressed. We...
KARI RIENDEAU
I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE I had a pretty big sophomore year and I think my junior year I was struggling the first month or so ...
CONOR JACKSON
Vanity's really overrated. When I was 20, teenage girls had my picture on the wall... I don'... MICHAEL J. FOX
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was... WILBUR SMITH I was kind of hoping he was going to make a move. At the last second I saw he was going low blocker....
ANTERO NIITTYMAKI It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
BEN CURTIS
I'm a career Air Force officer. We have a saying in the Air Force: 'If you want people to be... 
If Snowden really claims that his actions amounted to genuine civil disobedience, he should go to so... 
Accusations fit on a bumper sticker; the truth takes longer. 