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[It showed on the field. Butler made four tackles against New England and ran down elusive Doug Flutie for a 5-yard sack. He added a pass defensed.] I just go out there and make plays, ... I'm just trying to make the team.


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MATT MITCHELL I just feel great to have the opportunity to go out there and try to make the team.
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ANTWAN PEEK A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away ...
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JIM CLARK I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James al...
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DAVID MOSS We're just the new guys trying to make a name for ourselves.
DENNY HAMLIN If I had just done Dayton and (Butler and Warren) counties, we would be profitable by now.
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DALE ROBINSON He was too much for us. He dribbled and passed, posted up and drove. He doesn't look like he's big [...
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ANTHONY HOPKINS I figured I had to make mine. I hit some good putts on the previous three or four holes and he got a...
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STEVE ANTICH He is coming to play in India I am feeling very proud. He is selected in the England cricket team. H...
HARI SINGH As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
CALVIN TRILLIN I was trying to go up and he crunched me into a cradle and ran me over. He just overpowered me.
JOSH ROBERTS Butler was seeing the world as it was, complete with L.E.P retrival team
EOIN COLFER Byron made a good call. He told me to run a slant and go. Fortunately I ran a good enough route for ...
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OLIN KREUTZ At any time he was a threat to go to the house whether it was a 6-yard slant or a 3-yard out. He was...
WARREN SAPP Every time we play Butler it rains, so that's not something new for us.
JOE BRESCHI We showed that we could make plays on them. But they made a great play at the end.
KIRK HINRICH He would have no motive whatsoever to set a fire. Mark may be the obvious culprit, as in 'the butler...
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DAN HOOKS We just felt like we had to go out and make plays when we had the chance.
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BRIAN BARKER The usability of that lower level is a huge benefit of the new Butler.
JON HLAFTER It was definitely a coming-out party for me. He did catch a four-yard touchdown pass (late in the ga...
LITO SHEPPARD As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
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MATT MARKS She told me the [Butler School] had been torn down.
LARRY MELMAN Coach just said go in there and I did. They threw 11 times to him, and he caught only one pass, and ...
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DEAN VANDER PLAS I'm just happy to be a small part of a project that will provide housing and economic benefits to Bu...
GEOFF DAVIS Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.
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CLARK HAGGANS I wouldn't say we panicked, they just made their shots and we didn't make ours. They just made the p...
TIA STOVALL I would love a robot butler.
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ANN TALBERT We can't give up big plays. They score both on the run and pass on the blink of an eye. With their p...
MIKE DAVIS I was very impressed by that, ... He's just ready to make some plays. The better he is, the better w...
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SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
SAMUEL BUTLER A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not se...
SAMUEL BUTLER The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not bein...
SAMUEL BUTLER The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
SAMUEL BUTLER The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
SAMUEL BUTLER Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.
SAMUEL BUTLER The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
SAMUEL BUTLER He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER Spontaneity is only a term for man's ignorance of the gods
SAMUEL BUTLER To be at all is to be religious more or less
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his ...
SAMUEL BUTLER One who is proud of ancestry is like a turnip; there is nothing good of him but that which is underg...
SAMUEL BUTLER A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to ...
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