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GLEN SATHER We're going to make the playoffs. I can promise you that.
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JAWAAN ALSTON In playoffs we know we have to win on the road, so we might as well start right now.
BYRON RITCHIE People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.
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BRENT LAMMERS We have a lot of good teams in front of us and these teams could make the playoffs. If we don't do w...
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LARRY COYER If you're going to fail, you might as well fail at the big ones.
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JAKE PEAVY You just want the highs to start once the playoffs start.
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WADE BOGGS You need to win 75 to 80 percent of your home games (to make the playoffs).
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ANDRE ROY I think you win and it speaks volumes, but if you win in the playoffs, that's where the respect is g...
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MIKE SHANAHAN Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED E. SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
ALFRED SMITH Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, y...
AL SMITH Potentially, we can go very far. But we can't look too far ahead because in our section, anybody can...
GEORGE WILLIAMS The scoreboard can't make you a loser. If you walk off the field with your head up, you don't lose. ...
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RAY ALLEN The fact that we're in the playoffs doesn't mean anything to us, to be honest with you. Hope...
MICHAEL STRAHAN My whole goal is the Arena Bowl, and to do that, we must make the playoffs. Division crowns are nice...
WEYLAN HARDING We got to pretty much every chance we had. In the playoffs [you can't] make an error. Don't give [th...
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CRAIG GROESCHEL In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
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DAN CASEL If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
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KAREN BLACK I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up?
KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit...
KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T...
KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ...
KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu...
KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i...
KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi...
KAREN BENDER