This time, as a country, we couldn't lose it. The United States lost and we got a really good chance, so we had an unusual power inside us. That was a great game.
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Related We had a really good inside game. COACH JIMMY HENRY The team has been working so good on the road courses this year. The whole weekend really clicked fo... SCOTT DIXON It was a tight game. We played extremely hard, but I'm disappointed that we lost. We've got a really... LIAM KENT This was a hard loss to swallow. We really wanted this game and we felt we had a chance to win it. JOSH DOLLARD It was a good showing for our team and it was a great atmosphere. It was a great game for everybody ... BENJAMIN BETTS Timely hitting continues to be an issue. We had a great time, the weather was great and we got every... DALE BUVID People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER We had some good pitching and the guys hit the ball really well. We got some other guys some playing... MARK LARSEN We had nothing to lose. I think we played a very good tournament and gained a ton of confidence here... CHAD AMBUEHL This was a big game for us, because last game we lost and we really wanted to reestablish that winni... JUSTIN SMUCKER This tournament was a very positive time for us as a team. There were two out of the three games tha... DOMINICK RADOGNA I'm upset that we lost, but I thought it was a great year. We got beat by a good team that played gr... LADY COMFORT It was a great game for us. If we play like this, we have a chance to win the gold medal, but Team C... ALEXANDER RADULOV We knew we had to step up. Mike was incredible inside, and that really set the tone for us. It was a... JOSH BRANCH We've had good years and lost in the first round the past two years. We got a first-round bye, so th... JAKE PLUMMER We had a good game today. Jeb had a great game and we had some guys really step up for us on both th... JAMIE MUNRO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL You pile it all together and you have to lose the game despite the fact we still had a chance to win... CHARLIE DACEY I really do believe we had an honest chance from the start. They were very fair with us. It was a fa... JOSH LIEF It's awesome that we got to come here. Even though we lost, we're still going to have a great time t... LINDSAY DUDA It was great. We had nothing to lose. We all played our hearts out. It was just a great experience o... AMANDA WARD It is hard to really describe what this night means because it has been so long since we had a true ... DALE BARNES As crazy as it is, with only 2.6 seconds left, we had a chance. We got a great look. Nick had an out... JEFF CAPEL Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we... DEYTH BANGER That was a good goal. We really should have had this game. JOSH CHILDRESS We lost a single game. That shouldn't be cause for us to say, 'Let's fire de la Torre or Ricardo (La... JARED BORGETTI This has been building. We felt we had a good chance but we also knew it was anyone's game coming in... BEN ROY We can go out there with nothing to lose because nobody really gave us a chance to even win a game i... CHARLIE BELL Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW We really had a good chance to win that game. Again, we didn't hit the ball and we didn't make some ... MARK PERCY I thought it was a great night and everybody had a good time and really enjoyed themselves. We had a... STEVE ANDREWS We had a great morning that led us to a great night. This has given us a chance. JACK BAUERLE We've been looking forward to this. After the (first time the two met), we figured they'd come in wa... JACOB CAREY We got behind 22-4 as a failure to follow an offensive game plan. We shot too quick and didn't work ... MARK FREEZE The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA It was such an emotional win for us, and we kept saying that there was no way we could lose the game... PAUL GEORGE It was great, we had nothing to lose. We just played our hearts out. It's amazing, a once-in-a-lifet... AMANDA WARD We had a second chance and I don't wanna say we blew it, but we lost it. Now we got a chance to get ... CEDRIC HUMES When (Brantley) got hurt that gave us an opportunity to really work the inside game. Once we did tha... JEFF FROELICH We had pretty much all the ingredients you need. We had a really good point guard, an inside game th... GENE BESS We lost a couple going into that first game. We got confused. This time we held our heads high. ADRIAN HULL Everybody talked about how we'd lose this game by 28 points. To me, it was a great effort by my team... CIP SANCHEZ We did have a very solid fall, which is a little bit unusual. A couple years ago, we had a real good... BUDDY ALEXANDER My teammates' energy was fantastic and we fed off each other the entire game; that's really what pus... ANGIE BROWN It's good we lost that game. I think it has brought us together as a team. VENOY OVERTON It's a tough game. We got them by 10 last time and they got us by 11 this time, so we both improved. DANA ROSS We only lost three head-to-head matches last year - one to Galesburg and two to Monmouth - and both ... MATT JOHNSON This was a big game for us. We had a wake-up call against Ackley. We found out we weren't as good as... INDY UHLENHOPP If we win, it will be over. If we lose, we will have to talk about an appeal at that time. ... If we... ANGLICAN BISHOP ROBERT DUNCAN It hurt us to lose Dowdy because we have never played that much of a game without her. We depend on ... GEORGE SHELLEY We lost the last two, so this one was really important for us. It's kind of a confidence builder. We... CYNDI VALENTIN It was good that Chance was on because it was a game that was very close at the end. It could have g... ERIC NIESLANIK Wow, I didn't know we were up that much. I knew we were up a lot. It's frustrating to lose this game... MICHAEL REDD We've been staying up-tempo, pushing the ball up the floor. We really don't have a great inside pres... PETER ARNOLD Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN We had a couple of tough games back to back that we played well in and lost, and then a game we won ... JEFF YOUNG I thought our kids played well. To play a team like this (Benton Central) which has lost only one ga... FLAVA SIRK I knew that if we kept the lead, then we had a good chance to bring it home. We had a little trouble... DEBBIE SKELLY It's kind of mixed feelings after losing a game like this. We're disappointed, but at the same time,... ERIKA HOLST We were really close all tournament and we felt we had a chance to win it. We were able to play in t... DONNIE DARR This game almost had a tournament atmosphere, the way it was played. The last time we were up there ... BARRY BORCHERS I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knoc... THOMAS FRIEDMAN It was really a great game between two great teams and it's too bad anybody had to lose. We both put... JARRETT HICKS I think we had a great season. We won a third straight league title and we had a good record against... RICK O'BRIEN (Hoover) got a lot of pins and we got a few of our own, but they had more first round matches so tha... TRENT MILLER Usually in a game like this you're hopeful for one good shot at a pitcher like Pedro. And we got tha... FRANK ROBINSON I'm very comfortable with it, ... It was a time where we really got the chance to develop ourselves ... LEE EVANS Gray was a very good game for us. It was a good way to bounce back after Lake Region. We had a lot o... RICK CLARK That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so ... ADAM RICH It was a great win for us. We had four players out so it was a great effort by the girls out there, ... DONATO GONZALES We concentrated today on what we are supposed to do. We got the ball inside to Mayers, which really ... DAVE SCUDDER We had a good game and they had a bad day. This game was totally a surprise. I was expecting an over... DEAN WATERS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN When we lost that game here against Radford and I had the turnover to basic-ally lose the game, I ne... JACK LEASURE I want to have faith in strangers. I want to have faith in what we're all going to do next. But I'm ... DAVID LEVITHAN They wanted this one. This is a big game for us. They beat us 1-0 last time and got a goal late in t... JASON WALKER The key to the game was defense. We did a really good job on Hill and Souza. We were able to double-... BILL STEVENS We had a pretty good turnout. It was a great crowd for a great game. KATHERINE OSMAN This was a great finish. We've had great games with them the last three years; unfortunately, we alw... MARK STEWART That was a big win for them but I don't thin that game got us to think 'oh, this team has a chance t... DREW MILLER We didn't really expect the bid to come. It was just a great opportunity and second chance for us to... LYSSA DENNARD We had a little bit of redemption. Our Senior Night game didn't quite go as we wanted. We got anothe... DAN GRUNFELD Every time I look at that, it kind of leaves a knot in my stomach. It was an unbelievable football g... JEFF TEDFORD I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seem... JOHN MADDEN There weren't a lot of hung heads as we walked off the field. It was a great game, we matched up wel... GARRON WHITEHOUSE We love the guy to death. He's a great coach and a great mind. He's done so much for this defense an... JAMES FARRIOR It was sold out, really loud and really intense. It was a good away game to get us tested. We passed... ANTONIO ANDERSON It was good because we got a chance to see a lot of guys play. And we had some nice finishes. DAVE SICA It was a great game, an exciting game. We had a shot to win it at the end. We got behind, but battle... DEKE ROUTHEAUX It was a lot different for us this time. We just couldn't get the ball inside as much. AMY VOELKEL I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's been like that forever. We got spoiled by Joe Louis, by Rocky Marciano. Muhammad ruined us for ... ANGELO DUNDEE He took this job so seriously, and we had a really good time. KATHY FACKLER I think about it all the time. Someone had to lose the game. They played better than us that day, an... SHANNON BROWN We had a president of the United States who had been out of the country but once before he was elect... TED TURNER It was really a team effort. We had a great season. It's the first winning season in a while. We los... AMY WRIGHT It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to sw... SARAH CHALKE We had a good scheme and the players got it done. We felt that as long as we could stay in the game ... DAN SACK China is a rising power, so we can hardly curb all tensions with the United States. ZHU FENG
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