It gave us a rush and our momentum picked up, but we slowed down for a couple minutes and they retaliated on us. In the second half, we just picked our game up again.

I think these are the best games to start out with. It's better to start with a challenge, so you can expect more as you go into the season.

I feel light as a feather, ... I'm really happy that we won. I feel like everyone has written us off all year, and I just knew we could make the playoffs. God, it just feels so good. It feels like a huge burden off our shoulders.

Seeing some of those things (on the poster) made us laugh, and some of them made us remember how much we hurt because of that. We've worked hard with that in the back of our minds.

For the three of us this is the last go-around. We're not gonna go out easy.

In no way did he ever show this. There were no eruptions from him or anything. He told us he had problems, depression. But, he had the best doctors he could find in North Carolina.