My dream was to be there five, six, seven years and come back. I got married, I bought my house and stayed.

We had channel 7 on with Dick Clark and when the ball was coming down, she was coming out. Then five seconds later, she came out.

I saw a need . . . of the Hispanic community moving together to work on education, employment and in the political area.

We're definitely playing better together.

We knew we'd play, but we didn't exactly know what it would be like. The first thing I learned was that it's not a kid's game at this level. We've all had to grow up in a hurry.

We play hard, we bring a lot of intensity, we're just not playing well enough. It's frustrating.