We work hard in practice. They make such a great game plan during the week, it makes it so easy in the game.

It was a lot of hard work. Practice makes perfect. I didn't have any experience until now.

The car was a lot more stable in qualifying than it was in practice ... I feel like we've got room to improve and I don't have quite as much of a death grip on the wheel, so we'll take it from there in tonight's practice. Hopefully we can make the car a bit quicker. Last year we struggled in qualifying, but had a very good race car, so we were able to work our way through the pack. This year we're starting a little further up the grid so I think we can challenge early in the race and hopefully end up with a good result.

We had 16 players show up for fall practice. We used to have to scrape to get six.

Coach Lee is very knowledgeable about the game, ... He's made me better. He'll make comments in practice like, 'You can't get away with that in the major leagues.' I used to field and I'd take a couple of shuffles. He'll say, 'The game is a lot faster there — you have to field in rhythm.' He's harder on me than he is anyone else.

The Maine Legislature created this problem in the first place by allowing the practice of forcing workers to pay dues to an unwanted union or be fired from their jobs.