In Class S you usually field a team with athletes instead of soccer players. These guys have developed a skill level that's so much better than any team I've coached.
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Related They are definitely Division I athletes and soccer players. They're a kick to have on any team. GREG FISH With these new four players, we will have a different team on the field. ANTONIO CUE Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as ... JOSH ALMOND It's great to have the best players on your team. Last year we brought some players from Mexico. Tho... ANTONIO CUE This team has been playing with a lot of confidence. This team probably has more confidence than any... CLAY FITCH Last year, we were 11 freshmen just trying to get by. This year, with the transfers from junior coll... JAY ENTLICH I was as proud of these guys as I was any team I've coached. We got down early and they battled back... JOE DENSBERGER They were better conditioned than us and are superior athletes. This game showed my players how hard... AGNUS BERENATO I'm so proud of the team. The guys just wrestled great. We wrestled better as a team today than we h... CODY SANDERSON There's not too much to say. Alabama thoroughly beat us. They are a better team. They were coached b... STEVE SPURRIER I'm so proud of the other two guys on the team. I'm usually not a team person. I usually don't root ... JOHNNY WEIR When you consider the nine players in the batting order, this team is a little better than the 1993 ... BOB BOWEN Soccer's not a game that you can restrict players, especially creative players and players who h... TIFFENY MILBRETT Many guys hit their personal records tonight. It was very windy, so the good times were a bit of a s... DAVE HIRSBRUNNER Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized f... JIM BOULTON This team was at a higher level than other freshman teams I've coached. They still have some work to... DAVID BRADSHAW What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athl... SONDRA RADVANOVSKY There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and... DEAN TAYLOR These games are why you have 11 players on a team. This was a team win tonight. JOEY MEYER This group of guys stuck together as a team to win this title. We don't have any individual attitude... BUBBA THORNTON They're good basketball players, but they're even better people. They're a pleasure to work with. Th... PETE LEWINSKI It's hard for any team when you lose world-class players, but you saw today that we have some young ... BIRGIT PRINZ We didn't have enough guys (eligible) to field a team. ... We'll have a team out there for Friday. DOUG SUTOR I've told these guys, we're a good team. We don't have great players like we did last year. BRUCE WEBER It's a big deal for these guys. We usually don't get a huge crowd because of the weather. I've been ... DENNIS HOGUE Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized ... JIM BOUTON Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized f... JIM BOUTON Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea... EVA LANG Matt is just a tremendous worker in every sense. We have guys on this team like Matt who can really ... BARRY JOHNSON Kenny gave me the best guys, ... Not only put the best players on the field, but put the best team p... OZZIE GUILLEN They're a very good team. I was surprised that they finished third in that league because I thought ... JASON BUMBLIS I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at socce... CARL HAGELIN We're feeling pretty good. I don't want to hype us because people usually play better without pressu... DAN GARCIA I have a better head of hair than Rick Perry; it's just not in a place I can show you. KINKY FRIEDMAN Their athleticism is what makes them so good. They are outstanding athletes, but they are not a bett... PAT FUSCALDO We have a lot of confidence on this team. We know we have skill players who can score the goals. DOMINIK HASEK We have a really good seventh-grade class. Even though they're small, their soccer skills are so dev... LISA COLLEY In terms of coming to Bible study and chapel, this team has more guys involved than any team I've ev... JOHN OLERUD You can't say enough about the older guys on the field, helping us fit in. You talk to any freshman.... AUSTIN YOUNT We're not worried. (Topsail is) no better than what we've seen all year. They're a well-coached team... GREG HAMPTON I don't think our staff or our players would have any problem if we had to face them in the conferen... WILL BROWN Only with this team. These guys are unbelievable. We've got such a whole team here that it makes our... JEFF BLAIR That's quite a feat. That's a good team, a well-coached team. It shows we played a little better, to... KEVIN ESTES I don't know where these guys fit in our team, ... but they're all very hardworking, very serious pl... GEORGE KARL It's much like any other team, like a baseball team, a football team, where each year we have guys, ... TODD HAYS A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldti... GUY LAFLEUR They had a much better team this time. They had some speedsters. They had more players this time. Th... DENNIS HOGUE I think we have a very similar team to last year. We had a very young team last year yet they had a ... TIM ABNEY They are a quality team. They're well coached and they have a lot of speed all over the field. Which... CINDY EMFINGER The fever has caught on. Seeing the boys soccer team win two in a row and this spring season with th... EVA LANG Our success depends so much on how we play as a team of 15. We are not a team of individuals. What m... LIZZIE HARVEY From top to bottom, when you look at guys teams and girls teams, there's not much drop off from the ... DANA DRUMMOND To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, w... MARV ALBERT They were bigger and stronger. We've done OK playing bigger and stronger teams, but these guys were ... AMY FROESS They are a tough team for me to play emotionally because I coached every one of these players for si... DAVE WOOLLEY They are a very good team. Usually what you get at a D-III program is some players who maybe aren't ... JOEL WALTON These athletes are determined. And they play to win. Our soccer team can win this thing. They show a... DAVID MCKEOWN We have a lot of good people on our team. I always liked defense so much better than offense, that's... DANIELLE ULTICAN Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or bask... CHAD HARBACH I'd put her up with the top one or two female athletes in school since I've been year. She'd probabl... DAVE WALSH We need to find athletes who are determined to play as a team and have positive attitudes. Hopefully... DAVID MAXWELL It's going to be tough because Danville is always a great shooting team and they are well?coached. T... GREG WORRALL We have a much different team than the last two years with only three (players) returning. The other... GERARD SULLIVAN The thing that has been great here is that the players we have on the team, for the most part, will ... EDWIN RIOS I think with this team, more than any team, you can't have preconceived notions or a preseason plan ... MIKE BREY There are just so many good players in town now that it's almost a disservice to have only one team.... JUSTIN CHANDLER This is the best all-around field hockey class we have ever signed at Indiana. They possess a high l... AMY ROBERTSON Joe is one of the best team players I have ever coached. He enjoys supporting everyone and has been ... BILL WADLEY Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA Whenever you can hold a Class A team to just three field goals you are playing pretty solid defense. GREG AMUNDSON You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy tha... ERNEST MANDEL That's where things started wrong. Guys came in here worried about themselves instead of the team. A... RASHARD LEWIS There's so much hard work, dedication, and focus goes in from not just the athletes but from the... LYNN DAVIES We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only ... MARLEN RONTEN Our substitute players have meant so much to this team. You know they are going to play well when yo... GINA MITCHELL We're a much better team than we were when we played them in December. But they're also a great team... BRAD CHASTEEN We have 41 athletes, 36 of them have qualified and that is a big step up from last year so I think w... GABRIEL BURNETT You might think killing people might them make them like them, but it doesn't. It just makes people ... TEAM STARKID It's better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team! DAN JACOBS I couldn't be any more of proud of my team than I am right now. These guys played their hearts out a... GREG KING There's a couple of guys that have called and said 'I like my guys doing two bullpens in between sta... DENIS BOUCHER I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from d... DONALD TRUMP Missouri is a very well coached team and deserving of their ranking. They have an experienced team, ... BRAD HOLLAND It is difficult to get a better opponent than Brazil. The team has outstanding class and spectators ... AAGE HAREIDE Airport is a strong, physical team. They have a lot of football players who play basketball, but the... CHRIS SCHULTZ It's exciting, especially to beat a team like Steamboat who's so well-coached and has such a good te... DWIGHT RAWLINGS Tennis is a funny game, and this is true of any team in the district. Unless you have the rare luxur... BOB NUTTING The first year, the team was coached by the city of Cleveland, but the YMCA took over for the next t... JESSIE BURCH It was a wake-up call for our team. Anthony has responded great. There was a whole misconception of ... DARRIN HORN We have a lot of offensive players this year. The best offence is a team offence. With the team we h... JENN SWANN All three teams are about as good as you can get. On the first team, you have five girls who can pla... GEORGE ERDAHL We haven't seen Colorado in a while, but they're a high-skill team with a lot of great players who'v... DAN HAMHUIS There are few guys in the team with a lot more experience than me, so it comes as a bit of a surpris... ASHWELL PRINCE We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team. ANTHONY CRABTREE We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team. ANTHONY CRABTREE We have so many players going both ways — we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team. ANTHONY CRABTREE I'm real proud of these guys. They wrestled hard through a lot of adversity. I've had as much fun wi... HERSCHEL SANDLER I'm not making any bones about it: we have two or three guys who make a lot of money on this team, .... BRENT SUTTER I thought about it the year before when a couple of guys on the soccer team went out. BLAKE SAUER We could have played a lot better. We have real good players on this team, so there is no excuse. JOY HOLLINGSWORTH
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"Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ... RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked. "Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea... RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu... RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods." "House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large... RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder. RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..." "Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He sla... RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you." Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you? RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g... RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his bac... RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ... RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "W... RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is... RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid. RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Je... RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed! RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio... 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