We've all been on a team since we were eight years old or so. We've always looked forward to the high school swimming scene, because it's way more competitive than USA swimming. We were ready for it when we were in middle school.
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Related Some of the plays we ran (in high school) were plays we'd been running for eight years. COREY BOON [Rasco has also served as a volunteer firefighter and first responder. He graduated from Prairie Gro... GREG MACK The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever. E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن... EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts." "Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ... E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat... E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel. E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark. Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain. Gat, h... E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young. E. LOCKHART It's been interesting, in a little bit less than nine months weve gone from trying to convince peopl... JOHN HOGAN I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to... LAURA ROBSON Eleven years old is not an early age to set your sight on the Olympics for a gymnast, because we nor... DOMINIQUE DAWES I knew Jack since we were both five years old. We went to school together and he was a good guy. DETECTIVE SCOTT ATWELL We have a healthy learning curve process. We went to music school. We've all been trained since we w... MARC FRIEDMAN When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that ... JAMES WOODS You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanish... BRANDON SANDERSON We focused on getting off to a fast start because coach thought we'd be cold because we'd all been h... JOHN WOOD In Greenville, we were blessed to have lots of youth arts programs. I changed middle schools to go t... DANIELLE BROOKS We started this program when our kids were going to school there (AHS). With all the budget cuts, it... LINDA HERRON In high school, we never paid any attention. Everyone was like, 'No.' We pretty much got scolded for... ERIKA ARRIARAN Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old. LLEYTON HEWITT Because we were a three-year high school for so long, I would like to see us pursue this. GERRY MURPHY When I was in elementary school, I'd see Nate on stage in high school. I always wanted to do a show ... JUSTIN BEGLE Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college togeth... ALICE COOPER We went to school together, so we've known each other since we were young. At age 15 or 16 we starte... JOEL CADBURY Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You kn... ERIC SHANTEAU I'm disappointed, obviously. The kids were looking forward to it. They've been on a high ever since ... ANDY FILA We expected a tough game, and we were ready for it. We've been second the last two years here, so we... BRIAN RICKER High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where t... KYLE CHANDLER I couldn't tell you why. Maybe it was because we were a small school in the middle of nowhere. JEFF HORN I went to a very academically competitive high school. So I was always quite studious and quiet, jus... BEN BARNES They were all in high school or junior high. NANCY LOPEZ We were on two different middle school teams, so we were both the point guard. ... It was kind of ha... AMANDA LUNA This is all part of a larger emphasis, here in New Jersey, on school safety. We chose this school be... PHIL MEARA We didn't execute the way we were supposed to and they're going to get an earful about it, but it wo... JACK SCHIMANSKI It was absolutely wonderful. We thought we were somebody because we were in this new school, HUDSON BROWN The Manteo Middle School swim team has to practice at the Elizabethan Inn swimming pool at a pretty ... DEBBIE GIBBS We've been doing this since we were 9 or 10 years old, ... We've been doing this for a very long tim... KELLY ROWLAND We were on a station for 24 hours, and the calves would be swimming around us crying. We couldn't re... CARIN ASHJIAN It was just a good competitive high school baseball game. Juices flowing. The kids were competing an... BRIAN CROWLEY We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my k... GAIL DEVERS I've been clean since I've been in the league, I've been clean since I've been in college, I've been... REGGIE EVANS The idea is to determine if in fact we're going to be able to build a middle school or a high school... JUAN FLORES We knew the alumni of Atlanta High School were loyal to the high school and the community, but the d... BILL THOMAS We've all been working so hard, thinking about that school record. We just all happened to be on tod... JAMIE KANTNER Never eat anything bigger than your ass. E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva... E. LOCKHART It helped that we played the same defense from the time we were in the AAU program to when we were i... COREY BOON I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school. KATHARINE MCPHEE Weve got a lot more than a lot of people. IAN WILLIAMSON We have the experience and the drive to win it all. We have been dreaming since we were five years o... DAVID ALSTON Our performances in the relays today were a testimony to the Stanford tradition to be at your best w... LEA MAURER Since we were 9 years old we've been seeing ourselves everywhere. We're so used to it, it doesn't re... ASHLEY OLSEN This is a great thing for the high school program. It was a very rigorous process. It was very compe... DR. ROY SEITSINGER Swimming is a life-long activity and it's one of the best all-around conditioning sports. I strongly... BRIAN INGRAM The rate increase were seeing for Unitil customers is the largest increase weve seen in electric rat... ANNE ROSS It looked like we belonged here. For three quarters we were competitive. HOWARD SCHNELLENBERGER We were finding a lot of kids coming in like eight, nine, ten, and eleven years old. We were a baby ... JULIE HANSEN They were pretty glad we got three houses done (Monday) when they didn't think we could get two done... ANDREW FIELD Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I... FERID MURAD It's tough for any high school team to come up with six pitchers or more. It's tough to play six gam... LEN ANDERSON When we started the school, we faced the question, 'How can we help our high school students. We dec... BILL HOOD High school wasn't so bad though because, by then, I had worked out that there were far more ner... BETH DITTO We weren't completely focused and after our swims yesterday, we knew we had to pick it up today. We ... LAURA STARK See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeli... BECKIE SCOTT We've been getting ready for sectionals, so the scores here aren't a big deal. In this meet, we have... MASON STORM When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec... ILLEANA DOUGLAS Weve made it tough for looters to get into the neighborhoods, ... We work with a military police uni... AARON KATZ It was the strangest feeling. It was like we were waiting for this, so when it came, we were so read... LAURA FALKENBERG They knew the sharks were swimming at the top and they were trying to get them to swim deeper. It wo... CONNIE GEORGE It was like telling a high school team that in eight years they were going to have to win the World ... ANDREW CHAIKIN Derek told us how great it was there and it sounded like a better deal than the places we were at. W... BRIAN IDALSKI For the most part it (high school) has been great and I know I'm going to miss my friends. I'm plann... LACEY SHUMATE That loss made us a better team because we realized the other guys were going to have to do things t... EMANUEL DAVIS We were pretty much upset with the fact that they called us a reform team. We are not a reform team.... MANNY LOPEZ Even though the site selection process is a bit off in the future, we feel the old high school, beca... BILL DANA I felt we were the Oakland Raiders of high-school football. GENE DALES I spent eight hours here last week on this budget. When we left here you were ready to take a vote. ... COUNCILMAN CHARLES MATTHEWS Weve included features that werent in the original proposal, ... Our concentration before was on the... CARLOS MARIN We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray... ZAC EFRON My high school years were exactly like 'Superbad.' SETH ROGEN Each year of the 10 years has been equally competitive for different reasons, ... Those early years ... BRIAN WALSH We were always skating on thin ice, Shaking the wrong dice, Swimming against the tide, Playing on th... KEITH REID I thought Hammond had a great school system, and my classmates were very competitive. I've always do... MICHAEL MOORE We have an 8-year-old doing gymnastics, and we have a gentleman competing in swimming who is 90 year... JEFF COLLINS I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a ... MARK HADDON I don't think Carver High School will be closed next year. If we were asked to, we would be happy to... DON MARTIN Certainly this is a public affairs school, and he's a former president, but I think he really excite... CRYSTAL JONES We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years. NICK FALDO She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. E. LOCKHART What fun we had, how beautiful we were. E. LOCKHART Always do what you're afraid to do. E. LOCKHART It has to be gang defense. In other years, when we were better on defense, it was because of a team ... BRAD BUCKMAN We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags tha... COLIN COOPER We actually kind of went out one time in high school on a double date thing. We were both shy back t... JOY WILLIAMSON We had a really good team that was made up of guys who were very good high school players and compet... ED HEINTSCHEL When I was in elementary school at Tillman, Black History Month was important because I went to a ma... DARNELL JENKINS It's always tough to win at the end of the road. I'm just so proud of these kids and this team. They... JASON VELA
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