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It was kind of a microcosm of our season, ... Started out slow, finished strong.


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Nothing real hard. Kind of started out slow the beginning of the season, first week.
KRYSTAL MCKENZIE That was a microcosm of our whole season. I couldn't put it any clearer. We dug ourselves a hole and...
JAY BAVLISH It was kind of a tease. We just started out great. ... Now I've got those [early-season] jitters all...
MEGHAN STEINER We started so slow and they started so fast. We can't put our offense in that kind of hole.
DAVID GIBBS We started off real slow this season, but we wanted to put ourselves back on the map.
COREY CLAITT I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note,
BARTLETT SHER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
GARY F EVANS... We finished strong last season and can do the same again. We can finish 12th, I think.
CHRIS COLEMAN He started the season off a little slow. But he's getting in better position as of late.
DARRYL BURROWS We started off the season slow. We were kind of in a rut for a while. I told the players we needed t...
ED MCCOMISKEY After a slow start, I kind of got my focus back. We started out slow in the beginning, but my team p...
FALLON LUMPKIN 'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kin...
JORDIN SPARKS Winning 20 games was one of our goals before the season started.
SASCHA HANSEN I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we...
REGINA SPEKTOR We started out slow with our defensive pressure, but we were creating a lot of turnovers, and we shu...
MARVIN AVERY you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can...
NED VIZZINI Jake was trailing most of that race. He finished super strong and just out-touched the other two.
BRENT NEWMAN This game, this series, was a microcosm of the whole season. [The players] kept their composure the ...
MIKE SCIOSCIA I was kind of skeptical at first. But Chris explained it would be a learning experience for all of u...
BRANDON ZARTMAN I think something that we look to build on is our finish from last season, and we finished last seas...
PATTY SHEA Ryan was slowed down early his senior year with a foot injury, but he finished the season in a stron...
JOHN SCOTT We let teams not as strong as we are compete with us. It's just been kind of the story of our season...
ARMANDO PADILLA We shot the ball early in spite of our foul trouble. Daniel shot lights out. He started off hot and ...
BILLY PEE We started out slow, but we just tightened up our defense on the basketball.
JAMES MCNALLY It was a really strong season. I think our program is in very good shape.
BOB MAYERHOFER I was kind of shocked. I thought (quarterback) Chris (Leak) was going to win it the way he played.
DALLAS BAKER I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
JOHN TORTORELLA When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I c...
GRIMES It's all about finishing strong now. We started the season strong and that's how we want to finish.
CORDIARY BELL We started out really strong against Hershey. Then we got behind. But we bounced back and picked up ...
JULIE SMITH We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.
MARQUES ALSTON It's wonderful to accomplish this. This was one of our goals before the season started.
KALVIN BAKER He was out so much before the season started that he got out of shape a little, so his wind wasn't b...
ERIC PRICE It was great for our girls' soccer team to do so well, but it did slow our team's progress a little ...
ED PULTZ That was so important. Against Red Bank we started slow, but I think it was because these kids had n...
BOB TURCO She hustled on that swinging bunt down to first and beat it out, she made a couple of defensive play...
RICH FULCHER I was more pleased than with our previous matches. We've kind of started to turn it around a little ...
AARON LYNN Our guys overcame adversity with meet management and finished the last event in total darkness. It w...
DAVE HIRSBRUNNER It was Clay's best race of the year. He picked a really good line through the course and finished st...
JOE HUMASTI It was very hot and humid out there and I started badly, my legs were a bit weak when we finished th...
CARLOS MOYA I was really happy with where we finished, ... It was a good way to start the season.
DAN STONE It was just nice to get some competitive matches played, get some nerves out of the way, and get the...
DAVE HOHENTHAL A lot of teams try to slow us down. At the half, we just decided we had to play our kind of game. It...
BLAKE HOFFARBER We started slow but steadily pulled away. It was a total team effort.
JACK MORRELL He did an awesome job today. The race started out at a slow pace but he kicked it in during the last...
COREY IHMELS It was one of our goals, to start out strong and start quick.
CORRY IRVIN We swept a few teams this year ? it just kind of sucks that it was our turn to get swept at the end ...
BRANDON MCCARTHY I was there at all the races. Terry just kind of was, you know, like a father figure there. He just ...
TONY RAINES We came out really, really strong in the first two quarters. But then, I don't know, we just kind of...
JULIE FUTCH This match was a microcosm of our first three matches. I'm disappointed that we come out here to thi...
MARK PAVLIK We kind of started to panic there and the coaches told us to slow down and just shoot the ball.
KAMILLE WAHLIN That kind of illustrated to us that we stepped it up a notch this year. I think that was the biggest...
BILL DAMUDE It really was a long process. We started filming in 2003 and finished editing in early 2005. But we ...
JOHN SIKES We did very well in the second quarter, and that has been a microcosm of our season. We play a good ...
DENNIS CROMER We started out kind of rusty and started polishing them in practice.
GUILLERMO SARLO This is the kind of game that defines a season. It was all worth it.
JOSH SATIN Running the ball kind of takes the heart out of them. It's been the key to our game all season.
ALGE CRUMPLER My family kind of freaked out because this is a big season, not only for me but for our team. We had...
LEE RUBIN It's a momentum booster. It's one thing we wanted to do, is start out strong because that's been one...
JAYNA HEFFORD I think we have the potential but it is not going to be an easy season by any means. We have a lot o...
LORI RUBINO There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chr...
BOB SAGET [Chris Simms will control the Bucs' playoff hopes for the rest of the season.] I've been out there a...
CHRIS SIMMS Basically, four of our top eight players were out for a large percentage of the year. We lost all of...
LANCE MAHA We played about 10 minutes of real good basketball. I don't know if it was our best stretch this sea...
ED SMITH That's the story of the season. We need to start off strong, especially against a team like Mentor. ...
LISA NEWSOME He kind of scooped up a pile of offensive linemen and just started shaking everybody until the guy w...
MIKE BELLOTTI It looks like she's really worked hard to get ready for the season. She's started off strong and I'm...
ANDY DAIGLE Chris is a huge part of our offense. One person can't stop Chris. He's too big, strong and athletic....
ADRIAN MOSS I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always h...
VICTOR CRUZ It was a typical first game of the season, ... Everyone knows we typically start the season slow as ...
JERRY SMITH We're having an up-and-down year. We have a young team and this game was a microcosm of our season. ...
GORDON MORROW I feel I gained a lot of momentum for next season. My season started kind of slowly, but I'm really ...
EMILY HUGHES There's a fairly strong chance the vehicle made it out of the Maroon Creek area before we started lo...
BRIAN NICHOLS He was out of shape, slow. And it (his poundage) was not muscle.
DANNY STRUCK We finished strong and that was the main thing.
REGGIE EVANS Chris has signed until the end of the season with the view to playing for us throughout next season.
GARY DOMONE Going into the season, I definitely thought our defense was our strong point, but our offense has be...
BEN LEVINE Obviously, it was kind of a reputation vote, but we're looking forward to the season.
JAMIE SALE I thought it was kind of silly when we started looking into it.
ALAN BECK We started out slow, and after that we started playing aggressively. They shot the ball well.
JACKIE LENZ Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER We started to double-team (Chris) Massey and get the ball out of his hands and just changed some thi...
LAVERNE KNOX We finished strong and stuck our landings. That was big. We had a great meet. We wanted to finish li...
ERIN STACK I looked up and (Glen) was kind of fading away. So I just tried to put it in a good spot and he fini...
LANDON DONOVAN We finished the season exactly the way we started it. The kids really wanted this, and it showed in ...
TIM MORRIS Jerry was a strong person, but a real gentle person at the same time. He was slow to get mad, but if...
JOHN PORTER Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KING I was too mental the front nine. I was happy the way I finished because of how bad I started.
AMBER NICHOLSON The shape does not change. There was a human being who was born, lived, and then, by some means or a...
NEIL GAIMAN You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playin...
SHANNON L. ALDER And then it happens. The panic. It's slow at first, creeping through the cracks in my thoughts until...
SARA BARNARD I was a little worried at how we started. That is usually always ours, but Chris Johnson did a great...
CLIFFORD GARNTO That was probably the best and worst weekend of the year. We broke ground and then Dick had his stro...
GARY WHEELER Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
MAX WEBER With half of the conference season finished, it's anyone's ballgame.
BLAINE TAYLOR Our game plan was to drive and kick out. It just kind of happened.
DANNY NOLL We showed a lot of character and I think our second period was real strong. It carried over into the...
TREVOR LETOWSKI It was a really nice ceremony. I was pleased with the fan turnout that we had to get the season star...
GLENN JARVIS She's been a real surprise. We weren't sure before the season started if she'd play JV or varsity. B...
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EDMUND BURKE Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our...
EDMUND BURKE People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin...
EDMUND BURKE Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society...
EDMUND BURKE Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the ...
EDMUND BURKE Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
EDMUND BURKE When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo...
EDMUND BURKE Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, i...
EDMUND BURKE The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting ...
EDMUND BURKE People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manho...
EDMUND BURKE Young man, there is America--which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with storie...
EDMUND BURKE Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE Chapter of accidents.
EDMUND BURKE Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ab...
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