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Related if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI They're going to get eight teams in every year. You just want to get in the hunt. You can be a 5 see... DIGGER PHELPS It's always better when you can do it as a team. We didn't catch any breaks last week. Actually, we ... ALTON JOHNSON But I don't think you can (think about that). You have to stay in the present, so hopefully I can do... ANDREW PRATT We have had a good last couple of days of practice. We had a great week in Charlottesville last week... BRAD BUTLER I'm not looking to jump in and be a star or whatever. They've got things going down here so I can ju... LAMAR GORDON You are always trying to do what is best for the team, not just yourself. If you have a chance to ge... GREG PRIOLEAU Stuff like that happens in baseball. We have been playing well and when you are giving it all you ha... BOBBY SMITH I just think you have to focus on what got you here. In the playoffs there are so many upsets in the... ED PULTZ When you get to your 11th drummer, and then things start going well, you can get him to do just abou... BEN CLARK I just really just try to get better as a player every week, just focusing on the team we have to pl... ROB GRONKOWSKI I think teams are starting to realize, if you guys are going to face Tampa Bay it's not that rollove... JOE BOROWSKI How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? Yo... LOU GEHRIG That game didn't mean anything to us, other than it's just nice to get the win wherever you're at. P... BILL FETTERS It just feels good to get that monkey off of our backs. As a competitor you don't want to hear about... BOBBY ENGRAM Last year was like a blessing being able to work on things in Hamilton without the pressure of being... YANN DANIS We're just going to go out here and play the way we've been playing. Any team can get beat in the Bi... JAMAR NUTTER We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA I don't worry about things as far as statistics are concerned. I just want to prepare the best I can... DAN MARINO It has been special to have a season like we have had so far. The team is playing well. We just want... CRAIG NELSON I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do t... BILLY BOYD When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no m... CHASE BROOKS Anything beyond this week is just a bonus. You have to get to the finals before you can think about ... JENNA RUDDELL When you're playing a team like Grinnell, you have to be ready for anything. When things are going b... KYLE MACGILLIS This has been an unbelievable week for this team. These guys just will not quit. To be honest, I've ... ANDY PRIOLA I'm probably not well-versed enough on the process other than to think that the way this team has be... JIM LES What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? Yo... LOU GEHRIG It's amazing, ... I don't think about the last four years. All I'm thinking about is today. Going in... ALBERT PUJOLS All the games so far, we've been in every game, we've just not done the things we have to do to win.... ANDY BEAL You just have to listen to your body, as hard as that is to do, ... You want to be out there playing... NATE JACKSON One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' t... TOBIN BELL We're not going to play like we did last Friday night. A lot of times you just put stuff like that b... BARRY CARTER More than anything I want to be on a team that I can help win. You want to feel like you're a part o... KOYIE HILL It's the perfect show to write on because you get to do everything. One week you can do a con story,... EDWARD KITSIS I love it. We get the chance to see a team's one, two and three pitchers instead of just the same gu... BROCK KNIGHT I think the biggest challenge has been just figuring out who we?re going to put on the hill. When yo... MARK MACE We're going to do a lot of things to try and guard Slaughter. I don't think you can just put one guy... DAVE ROSE If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bo... LARRY FITZGERALD Going into an overtime, you just want to relax and try to get as much fluids as you can. We've got e... ERIK ADAMS Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore. BELA KAROLYI To say you wouldn't want to win the division, that's a foolish answer. To say that's the priority, n... LOU LAMORIELLO And as an actor - or even as a person in the industry - if you're unwilling to change, you'r... CLINT HOWARD When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in ... JULIAN BARNES You look at what you accomplished last year and you always try to set a higher standard for your tea... HERMAN EDWARDS I think when you have experience in those (new) situations, it does help you. You have a chance to c... DAVE ALLISON In the past couple of games, it seems like (our infield) is starting to get things going a little be... GARY MCCLURE A lot of things you do to cover up insecurities can be just as harmful to you as anything else. TYLER JOSEPH This is another step, and a very important step, in ownership being named. It was just a matter of w... FRANK ROBINSON We were getting some wide-open looks, and we just weren't putting them in the basket. Against a team... DEVIN BROWN Just like any hobby, you can spend as little or as much as you want. The sky's the limit. Some of th... ART WILLIAMS You don't think the game's going to go as long as it did. You go out there and try to get your innin... RUSS SPRINGER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA You get to the point where you realize you're not going to win the championship or anything, so let'... MIKE GONZALEZ As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you lo... JESSE TYLER FERGUSON I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a base... THEO ROSSI You have to be tough-skinned and willing to accept criticism, and at the same time, just try to do m... ALAN JACKSON We were just going into the studio and not trying to over- think everything. We were on a mission. S... GITI KHALSA (McDyess) has been like that the last week or two. It takes him a little while to get into his flow.... FLIP SAUNDERS A situation like that, you just don't think about anything ... you just go get it. They were scoring... JOEY GATHRIGHT If you are a military man, you know that you just don't do these sorts of things, ... they have to d... LAWRENCE WILKERSON It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't nee... STEPHEN CHBOSKY All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's just so many people in the Midwest that everybody wants to help, wants to help, ... You know... DAVE WALKER It's like you have a car and you have a bad rim, you are going to feel that when you are driving. Wh... MIKE RUCKER Sometimes in this league you just get spanked, and you usually come back the next week looking to at... MIKE RUCKER I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i... DEREK JETER It was a good win against a good team, especially when you can get a win on the road. Memphis has be... GREGG POPOVICH That's super embarrassing, so you just want to get somebody back when they do something like that to... ANDREW BYNUM We've had one practice. I gave them Saturday off. We're going to keep doing what we do. You don't ha... RITA ATKINSON When I think of what I've been through the last 30 months. To think you can play a game like golf ? ... JOHN ENGLER If you do not have those receipts I would certainly take pictures of those things you made improveme... DAVID SANDS It's not a pleasant feeling by any means. Last year it was tough just to try to get up for games, to... JAMES COOK We had a good team last year but you have to do the little things if you're going to win it this yea... DALE HUNTER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I just want to be in there at the end of the game to try to help the team win. The last six minutes ... JASON KIDD We've had some tough losses in the last couple of weeks. We just decided to go into this tournament ... BETH LAUNIERE You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together. EDDIE MURRAY That really woke me up you just can't relax on anything, because anything can happen to anyone. C... JAMES PINKNEY I think the frustration you can get into as a young artist is when you realize your limitations, but... JOSE JAMES While I don't think sociopaths have any sort of moral urge to do good things, I think they can and d... M.E. THOMAS If you want to be playing in October, you have to win the close ones. We ain't going to win them all... CARLOS LEE It's equally as hard to get back. I think the one thing that you have is the knowledge of the ups an... DARRYL SYDOR He's explosive, he's going to get a lot of looks. You just try to make him work. You try to limit hi... JAMES POSEY ...I've learned that doing what you think is right doesn't always make you feel good. For another, I... ANN RINALDI Last week I had a lot of things that I needed to adjust in terms of my swing. But this week I didn't... AI MIYAZATO We had four turnovers last week, ... That's not going to put you in a position to win. We've had a l... MARK WALKER It’s about Nietzsche’s theory of universal debt. Your parents make it possible for you to believ... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Statistics say that a range of mental disorders affects more than one in four Americans in any given... CARRIE FISHER I was an infantry Marine, and there are only so many things you can do when you get out of the milit... ADAM DRIVER When a team pressures you, there are three things you have to do. You can't panic, you have to handl... LARRY BARBOUR Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU The guys count on you to be that wall and I think fortitude goes into that. You just want to exude t... BRIAN ELLIOTT It?s always good to make those yards when you need them, like in short yardage and goal line situati... BILL BELICHICK The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm just worried about playing the best I can play (and) helping this team win a championship, ... S... ROBERT GALLERY
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