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And I think tonight we also saw players keen to avoid injury ahead of the Games, which was possibly understandable.


Ian Rutledge

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BYRON SCOTT The hungry lion hunts best, and we saw which team was hungriest tonight. They handed it to us.
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JACK KRAMER I think we played well tonight. We have had a lot of games this year where we beat ourselves and ton...
KAREN VANDYKE I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.
JODI PICOULT We showed great pride to avoid defeat although I can't congratulate my players for drawing, ... It w...
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TREVOR HOHNS The team we saw on film was not the team we played out there tonight.
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BERTI VOGTS Players make plays and that was a big play. We really wanted to win this game tonight.
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AARON STRAUB I think what Ian said has a lot of merit,
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JOE CONSOLINO I don't think we saw Schilling at his best tonight. But we took advantage of it and that's what we h...
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JASON WITTEN It's all about staying aggressive and getting ahead of hitters. I didn't get ahead of many hitters a...
LUKE HUDSON Well, it's been a total team effort. I think it was just getting everybody healthy and getting every...
JASON NIBLETT I think we've really improved tremendously. We feel like the past couple of games we've really gotte...
DAVE GREENBERG We think it was a bad call. It's kind of like adding insult to injury.
AL MICHAELS Too many early errors. It wasn't nerves, that's for sure. It was just one of those nights. If anythi...
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IAN MCEWAN Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
IAN MCEWAN I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
IAN MCEWAN What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
IAN MCEWAN I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don&#...
IAN MCEWAN One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
IAN MCEWAN True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
IAN MCEWAN But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID I'm the blackest villain of all time.
IAN MCDIARMID The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
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