I don't know if we were a little tense, but we just kind of lost it there, ... We never could recover. Once we gave up those runs we knew we were in trouble.

It's kind of nerve-wracking, but you get used to it. I like the tense situations. It really doesn't get to me as much as other people.

We just kind of lost pressure and we lost it.

People like to think of cultural judgment as having some kind of pure form, but I don't believe that it does. I think that prizes and awards shows function as a staging ground within the messiness and complexity of cultural judgment. [While] everyone remembers the Pia Zadora scandal, and even now the Golden Globes have the identity of being the most bogus of awards shows, that doesn't make them less legitimate than the others.

This is something the kids will cherish for a lifetime, ... Even though we're not going to Williamsport we've made the state of Tennessee proud.

We didn't show a lot of patience with the curve ball, ... We just didn't get it done.