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Related She lit us up. That showed me she was ready to get out there and compete. JOHN COOK They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Our pitching has definitely carried us. All three go out and compete and give a chance to win on mos... ASHLEY BURNETT We've had a lot of people asking about them. People would just come up to me and ask me about them, ... ANGIE JAYNES People just put them up without telling anyone about them, and then we just find them when were out ... BUZ BOEHM I thought tonight we were the aggressor. We came out and took it right to them and made it tough for... EDDIE JONES They showed their instant love for us and us for them the next morning when we went to leave. So man... DOUGLAS NIMMO We came out with a lot of energy and got off to a better start, which was what we wanted to do. We w... DOUG EVANS We came out here and coach told us it was going to be a tough game and their team made comments abou... MIKE DENTON You get disappointed about what happened, but ultimately we came to play. What happened is over with... BRODERICK BUNKLEY There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is th... BARBARA KINGSOLVER They just didn't have their A-game tonight, we can't go up there and expect them to play like that. ... GARY KENDALL I heard it was a hostile environment and I heard in the CIAA every place we play is going to be toug... JAMAL DURHAM When we scouted, them they didn't shoot like that from the perimeter. She was five-of-seven in the f... BOB GILBERT Our guys went at them and they were ready to play. They have all the intentions of doing what we're ... MATT PAINTER I told them and halftime that we were playing down to a different level. We had to rise up and make ... DON MADZIA What you worry about is frustration. Our guys want the ball and want to score. We just tried to tell... FRED SKROCKI It's hard to replace them. But you know what? USC doesn't worry about us replacing them so we better... JUNE JONES I just told them to turn and then find the glass. We were too quick at times, rushing things. We'd j... SARA SCHOPPER He was concerned about us, about family and about other people who were worried about him. ED LONEY They tried to man us up. We felt right out of the gates they were going to try to press me and Eric ... LEE EVANS I think there are a few people out there who could have testified at my trial, ... I think they saw ... MICHAEL WOLFE We're starting to wrestle up to our potential. There were some tough teams, and it showed us where w... RAND BAKER Coach got on our tails about us not playing as hard as we usually play, so we had to really think ab... BRANDON BOWDRY We knew it might be our last game and it was against our friends and nothing was going to get in our... KATHLYN MCCLAIN They came out in the first half and were just stroking it. We finally started switching up, which wa... JEFF FEENSTRA Our competition is so tough at the sectional meet, I felt pressure just to reach state. People were ... KAREN KUHLMANN To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We're not forgetting about th... CARMEN ELECTRA Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to g... DR. JAMES C. DOBSON It took some good pitching by Brittany to get out of that jam. She stepped up her game and showed me... SARAH PAYNE Another 200 people showed up; 200 people came out of the blue just because they'd heard about it. Th... BOB CLARK We just stuck to our game plan and ran right at them, ... We knew we couldn't run away from them. We... AHMAN GREEN There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou... LEWIS THORPE We knew it would be a defensive game tonight. The last time we played Nevada at our place it was a t... JANICE RICHARD She was our Windex girl tonight. She went to the glass and just cleaned it all night long for us. Sh... JOHN CHANCELLOR Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expe... LAUREL CLARK We weren't concerned about what GM was doing. We were concerned with what the consumers were doing. ... DON ROMANO When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were jus... MARIAN KEYES There was a lot of concern about who was going to pitch this year, what are we going to do, sort of ... MICHAEL LOTIEF We were concerned about a few people until we saw them come in. DIANE MORRIS They were just delightful people, and we spent some time with them the next day, ... We just started... KAREN TEMPLETON Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect ... JAMES DOBSON She has the ability to step her game up in big games. She did that last year in Seattle when Sue Bir... BRIAN WINTERS We were rooting for them, and they were rooting for us. After they won, they came by our locker room... ASHANTI COOK This could mean there are people out there who know about the car and the homicide. And we're asking... BILL PROFFITT After a month or so, the novelty began to wear off. So I, like, put up a poll to see who the next on... IAN SPECTOR And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast: / The same came there... BIBLE We showed what we're made of and how strong we are as a team. We were very focused in the fourth qua... ATONYE NYINGIFA We only sold about 4,500 tickets [for Saturday] in advance and what happened was we were just overru... GREG TOPALIAN I think it's great. We did get off to a bad start, but we showed some toughness by winning 12 of our... BRANDON RUSH At halftime, what I talked to them about was their shooting. We couldn't buy a basket and (San Juan)... JACK MCCRORY Early, he was topping out about 84 (mph), throwing BP fastballs. Obviously you can't keep pitching d... ROYCE CLAYTON We talked about how lackadaisical we came out last game. Coach [Willard] Coker told them they were N... DAVE ROBBINS We came out ready to play. Melvin came in and established an inside presence for us. Once they went ... JUMAINE JONES The daughter says she just picked them up and threw them out and she was the last one to get out. ED STEVENS We went along with our day and didn't think too much about it. I was just glad we were there. GARY MCDONALD Things are kind of right where I expected them to be. For us, since our loss to Mack, we've known th... DUANE PETERSON What happened was there were eight Lasts; the first five came out of another port, and they went out... ANGELO CHARLES CRAPANZANO We were more focused and ready to play this time. We came out ready to play and really took it to th... BENNY HARRIS She came in and she was just not what you expected in that part, JOSH SCHWARTZ We were only authorized to adopt two children by the government. But the three of them were sisters.... LUZ HOYT We're hungry to play them again. We have a feeling they were excited when the seeding came out and t... JOSH MANNING Our software doesn't capture PIN data. And I wish we could have talked about this [with Visa] before... ED SOLADAY It's about us going out there trying to impose our game on them and them trying to do the same to us... MARTIN JOHNSON I came out shooting and I wasn't really thinking about it. They went in, so I was glad it happened f... JOE ALLARIA I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Here, show me w... DAVID ORTIZ I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni... DAVID ALMOND It's just like what I told Raff when I went out to talk to him in the ninth. The pressure was on the... JEFF FUNARO We came out pretty fired up in the second half. We stepped up our effort on defense and that's what ... KATIE WILTON I went on the internet today and some people were saying some more shit about me. You know, like the... FERGIE We knew it was going to be tough. But our feeling was if we could tire them out we were going to win... GAIL GLADDING We were geared up. We played with a lot of emotion and energy, and our defense was outstanding. Once... DAN FRIEND We definitely didn't come out with an attitude that we were going to take it to them. There just was... DANNY CALIFF I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played th... MADELEINE PEYROUX We came out in the second half and reasserted ourselves. We started to play our style and forced the... ZAM FREDRICK We told them at halftime to keep plugging away. Our second quarter was just awful. I saw a couple po... DAVE KERSCHBAUMER We just showed up, threw our gloves on the field, expected to win and deserved to get beat. MIKE TRAPASSO We were a little concerned about them being nervous and I think some of them were. After we got into... BILL PLEIN Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere. PAMELA STEPHENSON Turnovers were big and we did a very poor job of rebounding. We play a zone defense and that's all a... MARILYN BAUER We had people saying, 'What about Sept. 11?' and 'Do you want them to come here and knock down more ... JANE MERCALDI That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, f... CONNIE WILLIS People have been talking about him since he was a freshman. I never had any conversations with him a... GARY LINDGREN We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting... ADAM ALIREZ He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why... MARTIN BASHIR That was what we looked at from the very beginning, what was going to happen at 60, 71, 89 and 215. ... JAKE PALUMBO The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's ha... CHRIS ISAAK It's about time. We owe that to them to give them something to cheer about. They come out every game... JAMON GORDON We came out and didn't go hard. We were switching defenses up to try to stay with them. They just ca... DANA SHAUGHNESSY We just have to go out there and play hard. We had two tough ones at Nebraska and Colorado and we've... CRYSTAL KEMP The people I went with were some friends I had grown up with. I'd known them all my life. It really ... PREITY ZINTA Just watching them wrestle . . . they have that aura about them. They've been there, they know what ... GENE WILDER We knew we were going to have to play well to win. At our drawing, I thought about going in the uppe... TODD ENGLE Everything came together. The coaches showed us what to do, and we did it. We knew it was all going ... ERIC WALKER We played good ball today. I liked what I saw. We came out ready to play. We got good pitching, and ... MACKEY SASSER This was a tough place to play and we had to just go about our business. Give them credit, they play... DARIN HAZEL Waking up this morning, my first thought was that they came back to beat us like they did last year.... KYLE KANNENBERG I think the key for [our play in the second half] was that we picked it up on defense. We were able ... FAEZA BOUDERRA We had just gone to bed and heard screaming and she was sitting right by our door, and she was all b... EMILY BODART
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No risk is too great to prevent the ... CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice. CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ... CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h... CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never... CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened... CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th... CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ... CHUCK BERRY Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we... CHUCK PALAHNIUK One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ... CHUCK ZITO It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... CHUCK NORRIS Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. CHUCK CLOSE In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tai... CHUCK NORRIS I know that I'm going to die and that you're going to die. I can't do anything about tha... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe it's better just living the way you figure life is when you're a kid. Before you get too smart... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real smart begins when you quit quoting other people. CHUCK PALAHNIUK You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their dis... CHUCK PALAHNIUK