I just wanted to get out there and blow the cobwebs out.

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.

Knocking out the cobwebs that had been over L.A. and over the Great Western Forum and way back in the Sports Arena days when Jerry West and Elgin Baylor and Wilt Chamberlain never could overcome the Celtics - that probably was my fondest memory,

We were all very relaxed -- that's how I knew it would be a fast race.

I couldn't beat her on the second lap. It just wasn't there as much as it has been in the past. I'll just have to get back into training.

That's just me. I don't like to talk myself up or anything like that, I just like to hang back and do my own thing.