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Related It just wasn't there today. I felt more nervous today. Today, it finally hit me that this was my las... IAN DAVIS All I could do was pump my Michael Jordan fist, ... You know, when Michael Jordan hit that last shot... RONALD ALLEN I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON I didn't do anything special in my training. I just think I was more prepared for my next meet. It w... BRANDON GOLDMAN I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa... JUSTIN ROSENBOHM That was the best part of the game for me, it just lifted so much off my shoulders. I haven't been a... CHADD MOORE I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS Being down here for the fourth year really helped me... the experience of going though it before. I ... CAITLIN SEED After that I started getting my adrenaline back. I just wanted to make up the points. I was nervous ... CHANDLER JONES I honestly don't know. I think it hit my arm or something, maybe. I shielded my face because it was ... BRIAN WOOLGER I was pretty worried going in after some slow training times last week. The times today were solid b... SHANNON REMPEL There were a number of reasons why I was back. Part of it is my love for racing. My preference was t... DEREK INGALLS He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo... CHRISTINA ENGELA I just wanted to hit everything, pose and position. It was my best score of the year. BIANCA LOFFREDO When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur... TIM BURTON I lasted about 10 laps before the cramp hit my left leg. I knew I was only to last so long and at th... CASEY STONER I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life. JACKIE WALORSKI My coach thought I was feeling so good that I was just going to forgo my water bottle, but I actuall... DEENA KASTOR I felt like it was a big enough moment in the game where we needed to get something going. Right whe... JEFF FRANCOEUR There wasn't anything physically wrong. I hit a professional wall. My swing got sideways. I was off ... BRET BOONE The guy came in with a 1-1 count that was a hard slider, and I hit it off my leg. I was thinking, ne... ERIC KING All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way. JOSE MUJICA Then one of my coaches told me to just enjoy it because it was the last time. So I was thinking abou... IAN SHANNON It's an amazing feeling. It just hit me this morning when I was eating my breakfast. And I really co... EPIPHANNY PRINCE For me it was a great race, ... The first few laps were pretty tight. I had my areas where I was qui... DUANE DAVIS I just hit my shots, to take a little pressure off of us. That was it. JAKE WEST Once I hit my first shot I felt comfortable. And Coach was confident in me. He told me to keep shoot... KATIE OLSON It was long, stressful, but fun. I hit my spots and my defense backed me up and we came through with... SARAH ALLEN I was pretty nervous. I though I had a far shot at the medal. My plan was to keep going hard and hit... BRENT HAYDEN 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 I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. MAYA ANGELOU I had just got my license, and my dad was real proud of me for it, so he let me drive his pure stock... DUANE CAMPBELL I really wanted to be on the high school team this year. My brother was on it and my father was the ... JOE ATWOOD All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it s... MAX ANGELELLI It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me... EUDORA WELTY I was just sliding around, swimming and hoping I was going to hit it and it went under my pad. KARI LEHTONEN I think tonight was more my game. I felt like I skated a lot more and hit a little more. Last night ... DANIEL PAILLE Since this was my last year, I really wanted to go out with a bang. This was really big for me. DEBBIE MERRILL But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I knew my slider got them out before, and I was going to make them hit it. JEFF WEAVER It's been great learning different things. I learned a lot from coach, and with this being my last y... MARAH GUZMAN My slider was really good to start the game. I realized that. Just throw it until they hit it. TIM HUDSON I knew I was one behind before I hit my tee shot, GEOFF OGILVY I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys... ALICE ENGLERT I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last... ODED FEHR This is my last race before I take a break and I really wanted to end it on a high note. It was also... BRITTANY REIMER That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a... JENSON BUTTON I didn't hit too bad a shot on the last hole. It was probably the hardest shot I had to hit all day.... CHRIS SMITH I was disappointed in my tee shot because it was into the wind and when I started the first hole, th... SARAH LEE It was a big relief to get my first hit. I was there to play defense, but I wanted to be in a positi... JEFF FIORENTINO That was a great feeling to hit that shot. The last Cal Poly game was a really hard one for me to wa... KARENA BONDS I hit rock bottom before I even went there. Actually, prison was the rescue mission that God had put... EL DEBARGE I don't even think I've made the finals in the U.S. Open. It's just been a cursed event for me. I di... SHAUN WHITE 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 lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway. SAKU KOIVU When I hit it, I pretty much knew it was gone. It felt really, really good. It was right down the mi... HEATHER DOIRON I was young; I was newly married. My Cambridge degree was still warm in my pocket - a roll of parchm... HOWARD JACOBSON It was one of those plays where it was set up perfect for me. It was a good hit, but he's my teammat... BRANDON MOORE It felt good to get out there and throw strikes. My command was the key tonight. I was able to spot ... CHRIS DENNIS I wasn't really watching a lot of other divers I was just trying to zone in on my game. I was hit... DAVID PIERCY That was tough, but it just made me work that much harder in the off-season. This was my last chance... MAHMOUD SULIEMAN I have a strong memory of my early childhood. I can remember life before I was two. I remember being... CAROLL SPINNEY I kind of rushed it on my feet. I was a little nervous because I didn't win it last year (a loss to ... DEREK REBER I guess it turned out that he didn't have one. But as I was running out, I felt my body tighten up. ... CHARLES PARKER I just try to feed off of Devon. That's how my game is, I just try to compliment him. He hit some sh... JOSH CHAVEZ I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother i... GEORGE ZIMMERMAN Coach [John Fox] let me know that Stephen was down and it was going to be on my shoulders, me and Ro... DESHAUN FOSTER She always was one of my biggest rivals. Whenever I pitched against her, my goal was not to let her ... LINDSEY GREER When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner ... ASHLEY TISDALE When I graduated, I was going to go to school for law, but had such an affinity for hip-hop. It was ... DOUG E. FRESH I suffered a concussion in my last match. We were both tying up aggressively when his forehead hit m... GEORGE HINGSON My last race was at Le Mans in 2000, my first race was in 1959, so I dodged a lot of bullets along t... MARIO ANDRETTI All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnede... ANNE SEXTON It's more of a technical thing. Now I know how to hit a breaking ball much better because of my work... YUNIESKY BETANCOURT 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 I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have f... SAM SHEPARD In my head, I was figuring, 'I thought I hit it better than that,' FRANK CATALANOTTO Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born. LACEY SCHWIMMER I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before... MUHAMMAD ALI I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON It was a bit of a gamble and as it turned out it was not the right choice. When I came out I was bar... JARNO TRULLI He pulled my foot, drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous. ... JENNY HAN It was my third event. I knew it would be a tough race to win. After I hit the wall it was a relief.... KARA LYNN JOYCE I don't feel I was ever a 'famous' child actor. I was just a working actor who happened ... ELISABETH MOSS I dedicate this semester to Brittany. The moment when it started to hit me was when I sat in my car,... ERIC WISE 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 Last summer, I was walking to my car early in the morning before work, I had an early meeting, and I... JUSTIN ELLIS I was just watching them hit my dad, and all of a sudden, they started holding me and smearing me. MICHAEL BECK I still like second place...it feels like I have another win, ... My swing was really good [the] las... JEONG JANG The last place I wanted to hit was the right bunkers so I was trying to guard from that and I overgu... STEVE ELKINGTON I just wanted to hit my spots and tried not to over power things. I was trying to get ground ball ou... AARON WILLIAMS I could feel the baby being torn from my insides. It was really painful....Three-quarters of the way... RANDY ALCORN The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I... 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THEODORE WHITE The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. SLAPPY WHITE If people reach perfection they vanish, you know. T.H. WHITE We cannot build the future by avenging the past. T.H. WHITE The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards. T.H. WHITE The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God ANDREW WHITE Lives are not stories. A day, a month, a year, or a lifetime has no plot. Our experiences are only t... RICHARD WHITE She wants her silence to be final. Here, more than anyplace else, she wants her memory uncontested. ... RICHARD WHITE A good speaker is a good listener who hears what lesser speakers fail to. SOMERS WHITE