It feels great. It always feels great. But it's the players who won it. They never gave up. There really wasn't anything unique about them ... they just handled every fundamental part of the game.
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Related It feels great. It really feels good. I'm proud of the guys. They put in the work. NATHAN ALMOND It feels awesome. This is the greatest moment of my career so far, it feels great. It will always be... BRYAN ORTENZIO It just feels great to come out to the ballpark and have every game mean something. CARLOS BELTRAN I was so over crying. KIERA CASS It feels amazing to win in the regional final, and with the teammates I have. And Connecticut's such... ALISON BALES It feels good. They get up for every game. They?re excited to play. They count down the hours to gam... CASEY TODD It feels great, what more can you say? The first championship was definitely irreplaceable, but it f... MATT CATHELL It feels great. We needed this win and we got it. We all were part of it, just by hanging in there. JASON BROWN It's amazing. You dream of it happening all four years you're playing. Once it happens you can't rea... RYAN BRENNAN They knew what they needed to do and how to get back into the game. This feels so great for the play... ERIN SAMPSEL When people don't like you... you feel it. They don't pay attention at you... they some kind a ignor... DEYTH BANGER I played my own game and created some scoring chances. Of course it feels great but it's just one ga... JARKKO IMMONEN It feels great. It feels magnificent. JOHN GOTTI I guess it was all my coaches. They just taught us to finish what you started. It feels great to sum... COOPER DEWITT It feels great. It's not really the way you draw it up, but at this point in time I don't really car... BRENDAN MORRISON It feels great. I'm really, really happy for the kids. HOWIE HEWITT It feels great. Everyone is really excited. JASON STEVENSON It feels great. Just playing with all these guys is unreal. And getting this outcome in the game was... LEWIS RATCLIFF It's joyous, and it feels magical, and it just is a great feeling to be a part of it all the time. LARRY YANDO It feels great to be a part of it, ... She earned it. She deserves it. ASHLEY MILLER It feels really great. Some of them we haven't seen for a long, long time. BOBBY CHARLTON I'm one of those guys who liked the corner drugstore, and it feels like it just got bought up by Wal... RICK MAJERUS Great basketball teams are great during crunch time. I don't think we gave them the game. They stepp... ANDY JOHNSON It's a great honor. There are a lot of talented players in the area. This feels great. CODY YELDER It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but ins... CHIPPER JONES It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but ins... CHIPPER JONES I thought they won, and I started to cry again. It feels great to win ... It's a completely opposite... BOBBY MARTIN They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it. JAMES C. DOBSON That says a lot. In any sport, there's always good teams that don't handle (success) well. They get ... CHRIS GIVENS It feels wonderful right now, it feels great, but I just want to keep on working hard. Our season's ... JARRID FAMOUS After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee... TOM BRADY This is great, this is great. We did that (free throws) and it was game over. And it feels great. JANISHA GEARLDS It feels a lot better than last year. It's something I can't even describe; it just feels great. HEIDE SCHEID I've always felt that my life's been at the right place at the right time; I feel like there... OLLY MURS It feels great. It feels good. I'm looking to excel, succeed. IVORY PITTS About time, ... It was a good one, too. It feels good because we won the game, that's most important... EDGAR RENTERIA I told myself before the game, Patrick Roy always came back superb after a shaky game. It always fee... PETER BUDAJ This feels real great. To finally have it, it feels great. Now we're looking forward to state. ADAM JACOBSON They've got a great outfield and it won the game for them tonight. Shoot, they made a couple great d... BRUCE BOCHY It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up. CASEY AFFLECK It feels really great after working really hard this year with my practice partners and really great... DAVID HELMER I thought the best team won. But my players never gave up. They battled all the way to the end. ALEX GOLOVKO It was a great game for our low-post players. They were just dynamite. AARON HILL The defense played fantastic. They gave us the ball and great field position. We didn't do anything ... JEFF MITCHELL It never feels good, but I've had a couple of heartbreakers where I could have won the game, but ins... CHIPPER JONES Of course, it would be great. But every single win that I have feels like a great win. And it might ... SERGIO GARCIA I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that a... ANNA KENDRICK We really wanted to keep a low profile [coming here]. This gave us something to shoot for. It feels ... BRIAN WAGNER It feels really good. We've had a lot of close loses, and to win a game like this in the league feel... DEMETRIUS JONES It feels good. I get nervous before every game. But once I was out there, it was the same as any oth... DESAGANA DIOP A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. DON HEROLD Zane Trace, every opportunity we gave them, they took advantage of it, ... They're a real scrappy te... LORI ANDERSON Zane Trace, every opportunity we gave them, they took advantage of it. They're a real scrappy team a... LORI MERRIMAN [The win] feels really good. I won it as a freshman, so it feels good to start and end with a win. BRETT STEGMAIER Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not... DON BLUTH It feels like we just won the Pac-10 championship. NATALIE JONES It happens every year at this time. It feels totally out of control, like you can't do anything abou... JEANNIE CHAVEZ This is the best possible way we could have gone out. I couldn't imagine anything better than this. ... ERIC MEISTER It feels great. We came out and played really hard. Before the game, people were saying we were goin... BRITTANY JOHNSON A humorist is a man who feels bad but feels good about it DON HEROLD I just love the American spirit of racing. It feels just great to get involved with that. KIMI RAIKKONEN It feels great. It's been up and down and to get a district win... It's great. MADDIE HUMPHREY Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid... SENA JETER NASLUND Murray is a great team. It always feels good to get a win on the road against a good team like them. WILLY CHILD It feels great. I think they were a little more relaxed today. It's hard to teach them to forget abo... KATHY LANGSTON It felt great. It feels like new socks. ASHLEY EVANS Every bad game is disheartening. You screw up one game and it feels like the end of the world. I giv... LEO RADKOWSKI It feels great everything finally paid off. I never thought it would lead me to this. JOE CONTI We've played a ton of one-run games. I know we've won some of them, but it just feels like we've los... ADAM LAROCHE Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think o... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD It feels great to be the first team to win a district title. We'd already beaten them twice, which w... EVAN WASHINGTON It feels amazing. This was a team effort and every single player, whether on the bench or on the fie... CLAY CAMPBELL The performance was great. The players were down after the 5-1 defeat but they came out tonight and ... DAVID MOYES I'm incredibly grateful to my union for all its support and to the board members who were willing to... JENNIFER COLE You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li... LIONEL RICHIE It's great, it feels like a real hockey stick, it has a real feel. I've tried every kind [of composi... BOBBY HOLIK Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not dis... DON BLUTH Cardio tennis is great. It is great for the sport but, most important, it is great for the player. I... LUKE JENSEN This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It ... MICHAEL PHELPS This is not what most people think of traditionally when they think of memory loss. It feels like a ... MARK MAPSTONE It feels great, it feels great. It was on our mind a little bit, losing two years straight. We were ... BRENT BENSON It really feels good to be recognized with some of the other top players. I didn't really expect it. KAREEM CARTER They (Eastside) played great. We never really got anything going. We took a game from them that were... CURTIS HAGGINS Last Sunday, we were the lowest of the low. But this all makes up for it. We're at the highest of th... KIRIL WACHSMANN It feels great. I'm real proud of those guys. WILLIE RANDOLPH It feels so great to three-peat. CORRINE GANDOLFI Our people really enjoyed it here. The facilities are great, and we have a great relationship with t... ROBERT SARVER It feels great, but the team needed this win. It was a big win for us. DEREK ROY It feels special. Even just being at work, it feels like you're part of something. It's like a taste... ERIN SMITH It was a game we should have won. They scored off our mistakes ... it was a great game for the crowd... CARL WITHEY . . . And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, ... JODI LYNN ANDERSON It was a great game on both sides. Everybody stepped up and played when they had to play. All that m... JOE POKRAKA It gave our kids confidence that they could play with some great players and teams. JAY OSBORNE It feels great. I mean, the last time they did a great job of shutting me down, but this time we mad... ERIC CURTIS We had defensive lapses and gave it to them in Game 1, and they had defensive lapses and gave it to ... BOB RIPLEY You know, we had a really awesome machine coming in here, a really strong machine. It just really fe... HAROLD RYAN We never ever thought about going unbeaten. It just kind of happened. We took it one game at a time ... JALEESA ROSS I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled tog... HAYDEN FRY It's a great feeling. Every year we wrestled them since I've been here we lost. But everyone wrestle... JUSTIN RIVERA
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