We don't feel like it, but very often young people we meet think of us as celebrities. They come up and talk to us and we get e-mails from fans. By now we are recognized in the area and even when we go shopping in another town or when we are out at a nightclub.

No matter what field you are successful in, you won't be popular. People get jealous of your success. It is just like in the German Soccer League with Bayern Munich. No one wants them to become the German champion again and everyone is against them. You don't hate them, but you don't want them to win.

You get mad sometimes while playing matches at home but at tournaments you are happy when your brother is up there representing the family even though you yourself didn't actually do well. Then you are glad because you get half of the prize money, too.

It hasn't failed us yet. The masks are a great way for people to express their political leanings at a Halloween party or at a political gathering.

Maybe people aren't doubting us like they did in the past. Still, we've got to produce. Just because people say we're supposed to be good doesn't mean we're going to be good.

Some of us had to give and take a little more than others, but things have a way of working out. Some of us are contributing a little more than others, but we've been doing that in the past, as well. We just wanted to get this done for the sake of the league.