Everybody stepped up their game, nobody took any shifts off, and finally we had our offensive production match our goal tending. The boys played hard. A lot of things clicked.

We will use this to learn and as a stepping-stone. I think the real test of the team mentally would be that when those things happen, when adversity pops up, you learn from it and use it to make yourselves better.

We've got some mental things to work on. We lost our composure and spent too much time in the penalty box and in the end, that killed us.

I think the guys didn't play with any passion or emotion [Thursday night] because I think they were looking ahead a game.

When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.

In my wildest dreams, I never would have thought we'd come to the point where were talking about the re-election of a black president.