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MATT CRANDLEY We only returned one starter this season so our goal all year was just to make the regional. But we'...
MATT MURPHY This was our three-peat so we can get that up there that we were undefeated for three years. That wa...
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GREG MACK Our boys have been knocking on the door the past few years. Hopefully, this is the year.
JAY SCHMIDT Overall, we played pretty well considering the weather. It was good to beat Smithson Valley because ...
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LAUREN HOUSTON We haven't seen the job market this active since we've been here, and we've been here for 10 years. ...
DAN CHAVASSE The girls played as a team today. I've stressed team from the word go. This has been our goal since ...
JASON GOLDEN This has been our biggest goal of the season, since the beginning.
BRADY BOMBER I don't want to talk about any goals. My goal was to make the playoffs before the season. And I've b...
JAROMIR JAGR Our goal for the tournament is to win two games so we can make a trip to state. It has been our goal...
HANK HARGRAVES I think our biggest strength this year is our height. We've been spending a few years to try and con...
ALEXIS CURRY I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a...
SAKU KOIVU Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost ga...
BRET MEULI Every year we go through all our storm sewer catch basins and vacuum out debris that is in there. We...
DAVE MCANINCH For many of us it's been four years since we trained for (this mission) and its been a wonderful exp...
EILEEN COLLINS Ever since our sophomore year, our goal has been to go to state. And now we're so much more mature. ...
DANI QUINN Our goal is to make the playoffs and do well.
BRIAN SHIPLEY I don't know how long it's been since we won a tournament, but it's been a few years.
KIT DANIELS 2005 was my best year ever. Although for the past few years I've been able to say that every year.
BARRY BAKER We've been worried about it in every tournament for a few years. What if this is the year?
KRISSY WENDELL It's been fun and a lot of hard work, but I've been glad with the outcome. I always said our senior ...
JONATHAN ARCENEAUX It was our goal since the first day of camp to be in first place by the Olympic break. Now that we'v...
DION PHANEUF Our defense has been playing well and this was our 10th shutout this year. I was pretty confident on...
DWAYNE LAWRENCE I was excited because it was less a question of whether I could make the team as it was of what I co...
SETH WESCOTT This was our game. We've been waiting on it since freshman year. We've wanted them for a long time a...
JOSH TURLEY In the next few years, there will be a very big change. Our goal is to be the leading player in this...
JON VON TETZCHNER We're just having a lot of fun. I think you've got to give credit to the core guys who have been her...
JUSTIN LEONE We've been having this annual convention on the last weekend of February since 1971. Our date has be...
DON CORBETT We've got to see if she'll actually pick up (the game) fast enough.
ANDY BEEN She's probably my biggest scoring threat right now.
ANDY BEEN Even though we're rebuilding, who knows what will pan out. They're enjoying it. I have 26, 27 girls ...
ANDY BEEN I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.
ANDY BEEN I am a satisfied man.
HARRY BEEN Our main goal this year is to advance to the regional final.
SHANE BEEN Our goal since sophomore year was to get to state and this year we're going to get to state. I came ...
DANI QUINN This is probably the biggest game since we won Class B in 1999. This is the first time we have been ...
CHARLIE KELLY It feels great to finally break the curse of our (playoff) losing streak. I've been on this team six...
JENN DAVIS That was our goal, to go undefeated and get a No. 1 seed in the playoffs. It's nice to make that a r...
DAN SHEERAN I had a chance to work with Norv Turner. We went to the playoffs -- Washington hadn't been there sin...
BRAD JOHNSON The few years leading up to that season hadn't been that good. It was a turn-around year. We had goo...
CLINT JOHNSON Many people had written him off a few years ago but he's been getting better and better every year, ...
ARSENE WENGER This is why playoffs are great. This has always been my favorite time of the year.
DANTON COLE Our goal is a team now, first is to make the playoffs. Second is to hopefully be in the playoffs bef...
JAMES FRISBEE I do. I think that at times we haven't been as consistent as we need to be. Hence, the fact we're no...
DREW BREES This season, overall, I think we're ending on probably our highest note. We started on a rather low ...
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ANDREW PETERS Our overall goal is to stop this casino.
JOSEPH FINNERTY I've been drag racing since I was 6 years old. I've not had a lot of success here and to win it when...
DEL WORSHAM It's only their third year. There hasn't been that much discipline. Our goal is to get better each d...
ANTHONY AMMIRATA Overall, I think it's been really good. That's an expectation here. Our goal every year is to have t...
BRENT KEMNITZ This is a goal we put up on the board at the beginning of the year. It's a goal Sara has had for fou...
KYLE MCCAUGHN We're going to look like we've been in this league for 10 years. We can't even make the playoffs and...
ALEX SWARTZ The Braves swept us in three games in the playoffs, but that was the first time they had been to the...
JASON MAXWELL Ever since I started swimming in high school, my most major goal was to make state. That's a humongo...
BEN RUSSELL This overall figure is down significantly from previous years, probably due to the fact that there w...
MARK WILLIS We didn't make the playoffs. We definitely did a better job this year, but we still didn't make the ...
JASON TAYLOR Overall, there would not have been a big effect. A few places would have been more affected -- for i...
JONATHAN MASSELL It's been our goal every year to get to the NCAA tournament, and every year once we've gotten here i...
CARRIE MASON She has been on the sideline since I was 6 years old, running up and down the sidelines saying I got...
FRANK GORE All the way to state. It's been the goal since we lost last year. I'll probably be 100 percent by th...
ENDIA WORD It's not so important for him, the overall. He won it last year. This is something that had been dis...
MARC HABERMANN This is my last season of basketball in high school and I didn't want to go down early in the playof...
CORRINE GANDOLFI Shes become the heart and soul of the team. Shes the true center half weve been missing the five yea...
EVA LANG I just have to look at the long run. In the long run, we've done some really nice things. Overall ou...
GLEN TAYLOR I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been r...
BIRDMAN We know what it's like, we've always been close (to getting back there). That is our goal, to make i...
FRANK PIETRANGELO In the three and a half years since I've been doing this, no dogs have been stolen.
BETH ADCOCK I look at it as the most disappointing year in 23 years [of] being paid, ... To not make the playoff...
BRENT SUTTER We've got good leadership from our seniors this year. I feel bad that we couldn't have got them to t...
DIRK HANSON I'm really pleased with their overall effort. Our goal this year was to play a more challenging sche...
GEORGE TULLIER It's overdue. There's been a few times this year that I could've scored if it hadn't been called bac...
CHRIS PERRY Our goal all year has been to make it to Macon (for the Final Four). It's a young team that plays ha...
DOROTHY SANDERS If it was our third year in a row in the cellar, then I might be upset. We'll keep doing this. A few...
MIKE MCCALL It's been there since halfway through the season. Yeah, it's been there all year and it's sad and di...
MARKUS NASLUND I've been dreaming about this since I was a little kid, since I was 8 years old. I'm just glad these...
BRYAN CLAY If we're competitive, we have great fans here. Calgary is a wealthy city, and Alberta is a wealthy p...
AL MACNEIL I'm optimistic that we'll make a profit for our first year here. We've been breaking even for 10 yea...
BRIAN SHAW Our goal, since our freshman year, has been Sweet 16. We're not talking about it, we're just going t...
ASHLEY BENTLEY We've been known for our depth for the past few years.
JEFF LOWELL I haven't felt like this in a while. There is some unity among us out here. A lot of us have been pl...
EZRA SMITH What's been disturbing to me, over the last few years (the price) has been high and consistently hig...
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ELIDA BALBOA We've been here since 1979. And we're taking a look at what our current residents are looking for in...
BRENDA BECKER It means a lot. I think all year we've been working for that goal and I think going into this season...
LAUREN EDLER There may have been some overall softening of demand this year, but fuel prices are going to play a ...
ALAN BAUM THIS YEAR we have a few more families seeking out help. But, donations have also been good this year...
BETTY WAITES We've been getting blown out here all three years since I've been here, even in the win. This has be...
BRANDON ROY I've been dancing since I was 14-years-old.
ARTHUR MEYERS I've been bowling since I was four years old.
TIM ALLEN The girls really want [playoffs] this year. That's the goal they've set and they're going for it.
ALLISON MAIRE It's a dream. This year has been especially hard. We were always the underdogs. Since conference pla...
JAMAR WILSON This is our year to win it. We've been starting since the ninth grade. Last year we really thought w...
DHANMITE SLAPPEY My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just ...
JAMES HARDEN Like everybody says, he's got to get to the playoffs -- that's the key. All this he's doing now, he'...
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KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&...
KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.
KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs.
KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia...
KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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