I was terrible my first year. In 10th grade I was still bad, but the team needed someone that small. I knew that I just needed to stay off my back for the team.
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Related My ninth and 10th-grade years the team didn't make it. And that was my first year going and I had fu... APRIL MCCLENDON The first half was real frustrating. When the team needed me, I couldn't do anything about it. But i... ANTHONY SLACK I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of m... ALFA H When it first happened, it was a big deal. When it happened again it was big, too, but I felt I play... CHRISTI NARDOZZI I knew my team needed me. I didn't want to end my Public League career with a loss. AMANDA THOMPSON I just kept calculating the numbers in my head, and I knew I needed to hold off Curry. JAANUS UUDMAE When I was pregnant, I wanted to take some time off from acting, but I still needed a creative outle... JOSIE BISSETT It was common procedure for Eric Johnson to determine what needed fixing and get it done. That was w... SUSAN CERBONE I did a little prayer while I was up there. I was just focused on the form and knew it was going to ... JOEL QUICK I knew I needed to lose some weight. When I was playing out there during the season and I was hurtin... ARRON SEARS When I was getting injured so much, I spoke to my family and my manager and said, 'I need my bod... ALEXANDRE PATO I knew that we were down by 14 points and my team needed me out there. Halftime, I told them that it... CARMELO ANTHONY That was probably my best game since I've been here. Louisville was a ranked team and my team needed... OLLIE BAILEY The dynamic, team-wise off the field, was just awesome and that transferred to the team we had on th... AMANDA WEBER I knew that for my team I needed to get something going since we were flat. She had been throwing in... ASHLEY LONCARICH I was tired, but I had to fight through it. My team needed me, and when my name was called I stepped... BRANDON HEATH I have my loyalty to the team of my youth. Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. The team that I grew u... BILL DE BLASIO I knew at that point, I was in desperate trouble, and I knew I was sick and needed help. And I still... MELANIE MORGAN I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I ... JIM EVANS I got to thank my brother Eric for the throw, ... When someone comes through like that you have to p... ERIC CLARK It's definitely a great time to be coming out here and hitting all my free throws. Last year when we... LEWIS WITCHER They definitely told me right off the bat I was still a big part of the team. They made sure to tell... ANDREA VALADEZ My team needed me. We knew once we got Ray back that we could do a lot of damage. DAMIR DZAFIC I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3... PAUL PIERCE I knew coming in that playing this team, win or lose, was going to be good for us. We needed this, w... BILL STRAND It was aggravating last year because I wanted to help more. But we knew a post game was needed this ... MARKIE WORKMAN The entire family went through therapy, me last, finally at my wife's urging that I was in such bad ... GARY REQUA I worked hard at my four-year M.A., but got a 2.1. That was a big disappointment, as I wanted to wri... SAUL DAVID I played very well in AC Milan, but I had two years of injury problems. I needed to change team and ... ALEXANDRE PATO Today I was horrible. I've had my head in my behind the whole season. I needed this as a confidence ... CHAD REED I was not happy even when India didn't play a Test in Karachi last year. But since I was coach of th... JAVED MIANDAD It was the first month of her freshman year. When someone can do that, I knew it could be something ... BRIAN KOLZE I enjoy coming back to the city and back to the arena and play against the guys I know. I definitely... BORIS DIAW I never knew I never knew that everything was falling through That everyone I knew was waiting on a ... THE FRAY The team needed someone, so I made the switch to tackle this year. I've also spent some time playing... BRANDON MACARZ Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third ga... JOYCE BICKERS The fact that I wasn't dressing, I was a little bit surprised, but I knew early in the week. We just... BOBBY WADE I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Financ... SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI We needed this one. I told my athletic coordinator (Orlando Garcia) before the game that this was pr... JAIME GONGORA We're all just pretty disappointed. It was a long year, a tough year, a disappointing year. We're a ... KYLE KORVER I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my ... AARON PAUL I was 10th my first year. I finished fifth the next year and third last season, now I'm looking to w... MICHELLE ARCHAMBEAULT I was just happy that my team won. DANIEL NAVA I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was ab... RAGHURAM RAJAN My junior year was a stepping stone to my senior season. That was my first full season running. I kn... A.J. ELLISON I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time. BAM MARGERA I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat... CARSON WENTZ I needed to lead my team. They were relying on me, and I had to win it for them. BARRY WILSON I missed out, but I think I let the team down, not being able to play. It was definitely disappointi... BRIAN THORNTON I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a... ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I just reminded myself that there was still a lot of time left in the match. I knew I had to stay on... HUNTER COLLINS My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I had to do it. My team needed me to grab the rebound and score. KAREEM CARTER I'd gone through it myself. So I sort of knew what someone needed to have done for them. It was grea... CAROLINE BARRY It's my responsibility, ... It just was utter nonsense that it happened and I feel bad for Freddie a... WAYNE GRETZKY I was doing some guiding and working for my father just outside of Los Angeles. I used to fish some ... JAMES NIGGEMEYER The main difference this year is I feel that I'm more important to the team. We lost some good post ... KELSEY ASSARIAN We needed another outside back that we knew could play first grade. We thought we were one short the... CRAIG BELLAMY I knew I needed to spark the team some way. They got me the ball in the right place and I just strok... BILL COLE I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in b... HANNAH HART I was so attentive to my great-grandmother because I wanted to learn everything. I could barely reac... VANESSA RILEY It was a hard sale getting them here. I was instructed to get the program back in compliance and not... EDMOND DONALD I knew in the first half we were not playing Sacramento basketball, ... I knew I was struggling, I w... YOLANDA GRIFFITH My sophomore year I had a real bad sprained ankle and was out for a few games. Then last year I tore... ARTEZ FOSTER Last year, I still had a ways to go. Me, personally, I don't think I should have been starting. I st... JOE COHEN I knew enough to stay back. But my main concern was to get him awake. MAX JONES That first game was a really tough loss for us, and I knew I needed to step up with a strong perform... JOSH LEWIS Another reason I wanted to stay here was to build a good team for next year. I have my eye on bringi... GUIDO BUCHWALD I didn't know what the numbers were, but I knew I needed to hit some shots. Then I realized I was go... CARMELO ANTHONY That was my last game. Rex wasn't in for the first quarter, and we were just a different team when h... ALEX BROWN Missing the Olympic team gave me the push that I needed. I stepped it up a couple of notches and did... ALICIA SACRAMONE I needed to find out who I was outside the music industry, and for the first time in my life I found... JULIAN LENNON Great. Just what I needed was a compliment on my wardrobe from someone who's always on the worst-dre... PAULA ABDUL When I hit it, I pretty much knew it was gone. It felt really, really good. It was right down the mi... HEATHER DOIRON Everyone knew I was anti-marriage. I'd spent my life saying it was something I neither wanted no... ORLA BRADY I knew by the way my kneecap was it was off to the side it was bad. DAVE FULLERTON My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next ... KURT RUSSELL I never knew I never knew that everything was falling through That everyone I knew was wai... THE FRAY It was just overall, a game that felt really good. I was very aware of it, I'm not going to lie. I k... PAU GASOL I am still completely hands on in every aspect of my business - finally having a production manager,... ELIZABETH HURLEY I told Ritchie that down deep [Box] didn't want to leave and he ought to talk to him. That's all I d... RUDY DAVALOS They didn’t care, which was too bad because I thought everyone should care that I fucked Pe... KARINA HALLE I don't think of myself as a money player, ... just a player my team depends on when needed. I reall... GABE GAUTHIER At first, I was really, really angry about the whole situation. Especially when we started practicin... PAUL POSLUSZNY When I ran inside, all I could see was black smoke. A couch on the back porch was already on fire, b... MATT EMMERLING The opportunity was to go to a young, up-and-coming team, ... It's always nice to come back and say ... CORY STILLMAN Every day there was tension. I worked under terrible pressure. I was afraid that at any moment, I mi... MOHAMED SIFAOUI I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to ... HEIDI MURKOFF I feel like we have a solid team, and we have some good seniors. But I just felt like we needed some... HUTTON JONES I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traum... PAIGE VANZANT I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade. G-EAZY You will respect my authori-tah!' Oberon said, in a passable imitation of Eric Cartman. I reminded h... KEVIN HEARNE When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally ev... STEVE MARTIN I had three terrible starts in the major leagues last year. There is no denying that. I threw the ba... KYLE SNYDER My initial thought was that I was going to try out for the team. JAIME DACEY The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there cr... ROBERT M. DRAKE When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of fi... CHARLI XCX I was mad I got in foul trouble the past two games. But my team had my back in those games. Coach to... MARCEDES WALKER My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I l... MICHAEL KEATON I actually played my first game in the Navy in 1944. They needed a fourth (player) for bridge and I ... GEORGE WILLIAMSON
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