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Jodi Rell

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AL MOSS This year, we knew we had a ton of potential. We worked really hard all season and it paid off.
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KIRSTIN VOINIS We thought they were a little weaker at 215. We thought we had a better chance and it paid off.
DENNIS FRIESTAD We knew we had to do something to get the tempo back in our favor and it worked.
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HALEY MCINTYRE I knew Rogers would be tough. They have great ball control, they pass the ball well. I was wanting t...
NATHAN ALMOND We slacked off after we got the big lead in the first half, and coach made sure we heard about it (a...
HENRY JOHNSON The experience paid off. We had a couple lapses, but we were able to come back.
DON PARR My hats off to Coach Tarver and the Howard coaching staff. They have done a great job. We had some b...
TIM JAMES We just had to relax and play our game. We knew we could come back and take this thing. I think we j...
NICK FRUENDT We never gave up. That's just not our character. We knew we still had it, but we knew we had to pick...
KRISTIN RILEY That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM We knew it was imperative to get off to a good start and we certainly had some jump in our step,
ANDY MURRAY We played hard and it paid off. We had the mindset going into the game that we were going to win.
COURTNEY BEASLEY We knew they were on a roll and this is like their Cinderella season. We knew they?d be up for the g...
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LINDSAY THOMPSON We knew we had a couple of tough losses and we knew we had to come out hard and get some shots on ne...
BEN FRALICK We had to get fired back up. When we got off to that big lead, we thought we'd beat them. We figured...
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CHRISTINA ENGELA To stand on the
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ASK AND IT IS GIVEN That's when we had lost Sierra, and we knew we had to pick it up. That game right there, I really fe...
APRIL MCCLENDON After they got up in the third quarter, we knew we had to step it up.
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SEIMONE AUGUSTUS The difference in the game is that they had 33 points off our turnovers. We knew we couldn't afford ...
RONNIE ARROW It's a different position every week and thank God it was our turn to step up. We emphasized trying ...
BEN WATSON When we got the ball back with about five minutes left, I asked the guys up top if we should go for ...
RON ADAMS We got whipped inside. Aldridge and Williams, they knew when the ball went up, they could go get it....
ROBERT DAVENPORT We knew it was going to be a game of runs. We told our guys we were going to make ours, and when we ...
ERIK GOETZ We knew the emphasis we had to put on this game. We slipped out of first in our division and we want...
TONY AMONTE We didn't think it was ours at halftime. We came back when we played them, and we knew they could do...
ALISON LACEY We knew we had to step up tonight and I thought our girls played hard the entire night. We knew this...
CONNIE WEST We kind of took a chance, but we knew they were coming up real hard when we kind of ran our short ro...
ADRIAN REESE We went in tied, but we knew that we had the game, because she made that crazy 3-pointer. We knew th...
KATIE MURPHY When we won in 1990 we had a similar set-up with most of our players back from the previous year. We...
JOHN BRADY It reminded us when Candice (Britton) got hurt (earlier in the season). We knew what kind of motivat...
KEAUNA VINSON We stepped up in the clutch. We missed a bunch in the first half but when we had to have them we kno...
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AARON ROWAND We have made every change the commission has asked us to make to the technical documentation, and we...
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BRIAN CAMPBELL When we came out and had two quick goals it helped, and when they scored, we scored right back and t...
HENRIK ZETTERBERG Once we lost to Keokuk we knew we just had to get it together. It just picked up our desire.
ALEX BURGGRAAF We started out sluggish in the first half. In the second half I set some goals for them and asked th...
KATIE KEAZER It was only when we stepped on to the basketball court when we paid attention to the media and whate...
MANNY LOPEZ When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) They beat our butts. They showed up. They knew it when they got off the bus. We didn't show up ready...
HENRY QUINLAN We knew they had to have a 3 to tie it up. So I told our girls to guard them at the 3-point line, an...
DAVID BAGWELL We went back to our basics, and it really paid off for us. We executed our game plan so well that we...
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KAWIKA SHOJI The vendor provided the service that we asked and should be paid for it.
ABBY OTTENHOFF We built our business little by little to meet a demand and didn't realize it was a big business unt...
DREW GOODMAN They were taking a lot of time off the clock with their offense, using almost 30 seconds on each pos...
BRYAN ROGERS We knew that they had great post players and they had great guards also, but their guards couldn't m...
LISA WILLIS We really picked up in the second quarter and they (Flandreau) cooled off, and we had some good cont...
BILL VINCENT We weren't completely focused and after our swims yesterday, we knew we had to pick it up today. We ...
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JOE AUSTIN We had five receivers on the front line and it was a semi-hands team. We had one or at least two sho...
JOE AUSTIN When Jasmine put that goal in we all knew we could pick it up and get right back into this game.
LIZZIE FARRELL She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART You just never know. We knew they were going to foul us and we had to hit our free throws and we did...
CONNIE WEST Indeed when we went to the meeting last week with them some of the conditions that they had there we...
DENNIS LINDSAY It was really physical out there, but we got our composure and knew we had to wall up and be as stro...
JEN UHL We had a hard August, so it was good to get our guys a week off so they could rest and heal up.
GREG ENNIS We had a couple of times when our guys could have squeezed off shots when they chose not to. We've g...
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BILLY PATE When the defense picked up, then our offense got involved too. We knew what we had to do.
RASHONDA MAYFIELD Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cut...
DENNIS CARDOZA We can exhale now. It feels like we got a little monkey off our back and we can gear up for Sunday.
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KYLE LOOMIS We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to com...
BRETT AMES We took our foot off the gas and could have paid for it in the end. Just general sloppiness.
GRAHAM WHITEHOUSE When John put that goal in to tie it up, we knew we had a good chance.
DAVE O'BRIEN We just have to get our concentration back and get our focus back. We have to step it up. We catch b...
MARLON WHITE About as close as it can be. We knew we just had to stick with our keys. We knew exactly what they w...
BRYCE FISHER Last Christmas (2004), the staff had asked me if we could leave it up, so that's when we started.
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MICHAEL MYERS We won it with possession, superior forward play and grit at the very end. Our conditioning really p...
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BEV KEARNEY We had no intensity on defense to start and they just ran up and down the floor on us but we came ba...
JAY KARLINS I knew we had won it before we even got on the field. When we were on the bus coming up, everybody s...
CAMERON BEARD We weren't hitting and they weren't hitting. It was going back and forth, and it was kind of dead fo...
DEVEREAUX PETERS We found a way to scrap and win ugly. Two nights ago we were on fire, but tonight we had to earn som...
DOMINICK ROMERO We weren't supposed to win it, so the monkey wasn't on our back. That makes a huge difference in thi...
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AMY DUPONT We picked up our aggressiveness and started taking it to the hole. We knew they were calling the fou...
IVAN CHAMBERS We have had confidence in our pitching and defense all season and tonight it paid off. All four guys...
JEFF SCHEXNAIDER We had some strong swims today. They knew it would be a tough day and they stepped up and swam well.
LARRY BAEDER I thought they deserved to win, they had more good chances to score. I thought it was funny that peo...
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JODI PICOULT Love is the most dangerous craving of all, if you ask me. It turns us into people we aren't. It make...
JODI PICOULT I know better than most people that a criminal isn't always a thug in a black leather jacket with a ...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes parents don't find what they're looking for it their child, so they plant seeds for what t...
JODI PICOULT I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always unde...
JODI PICOULT When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.
JODI PICOULT That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how muc...
JODI PICOULT Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
JODI PICOULT If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones...
JODI PICOULT We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....
JODI PICOULT It's choice that makes us human.
JODI PICOULT What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha...
JODI PICOULT When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
JODI PICOULT The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
JODI PICOULT Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
JODI PICOULT Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
JODI PICOULT If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
JODI PICOULT Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
JODI PICOULT Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
JODI PICOULT It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
JODI PICOULT You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
JODI PICOULT Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
JODI PICOULT You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
JODI PICOULT It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
JODI PICOULT How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
JODI PICOULT I know you love me. The question is, how much?
JODI PICOULT What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
JODI PICOULT Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
JODI PICOULT In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
JODI PICOULT Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
JODI PICOULT You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul...
JODI PICOULT I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...
JODI PICOULT You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?"

We...
JODI PICOULT Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
JODI PICOULT Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't...
JODI PICOULT People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
JODI PICOULT Michelle Obama has gone from political skeptic to political partner to a woman with a White House ag...
JODI KANTOR One of my favorite stories is from Obama's first campaign: Michelle Obama was out there every da...
JODI KANTOR The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
JODI PICOULT Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
JODI PICOULT Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru...
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