A lot more is expected of me this year. I think I've learned more about how to compete for the team. It's part of my job to get everybody ready to wrestle and be more vocal, and I think I've been able to do that.

It's a pretty big deal. Really, I didn't think about it until this year when I started passing some of the other people on this list.

Those two (Merrill and Rapids) are going to be huge. I think some people underestimated us at the start of the season, but we've worked hard and had confidence we could be in this position.

Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.

Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.