Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor.


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Please, we can get along here.
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In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING
Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
DOUG KING
America is not a democracy, it's an absolute monarchy ruled by King Kid. In a nation of immigrants, ...
FLORENCE KING
American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pa...
FLORENCE KING
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is...
STEPHEN KING
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid.
BASIL KING
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty -- as a way of enjoying elitism wi...
FLORENCE KING
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Person...
LARRY KING
Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. F...
FLORENCE KING
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can ch...
STEPHEN KING
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
FLORENCE KING
His heart had been broken. And now all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible f...
STEPHEN KING
The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value,...
FLORENCE KING
Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well ...
STEPHEN KING
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equalit...
FLORENCE KING
Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
STEPHEN KING
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING
Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING
I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING
I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.
STACEY KING
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl...
FLORENCE KING
Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good h...
ALEXANDER KING
Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.
ALEXANDER KING
The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
MACKENZIE KING
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
STEPHEN KING
There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
STEPHEN KING
I am your number one fan.
STEPHEN KING
Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee...
KING DAVID
Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
STEPHEN KING
Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it...
STEPHEN KING
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
STEPHEN KING
Do you drink?"
"Of course,I just said I was a writer.
STEPHEN KING
Muhammad Ali - he was a magnificent fighter and he was an icon... Every head must bow, every knee mu...
DON KING
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. ...
KING KRULE
In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!
KERRY KING