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Related This was just the kind of game we need at this point. Everybody got to play, and we got to rest some... DEAN SHAW We'd kind of been faking it, at the beginning of the year, that we got along and that everything was... CASSIE COOPER When we got him, he was a late 2-year-old, almost 3. (Previous trainers) tried to break him, but it ... BRUCE MILLER I was there at all the races. Terry just kind of was, you know, like a father figure there. He just ... TONY RAINES His presence was the game. He provided a spark for them. During that second quarter, he got the ball... BOB HODGSON It was pretty disappointing to lose that game, and then they got runners at second and third. But Ch... BRUCE STEINBECKER Brooke was the spark plug that we needed to put the game away. KATIE KEAZER I was just planning on making a big play. I was just out there playing football and we needed a spar... QUINTON JONES Just because we needed a spark in the offense. We haven't necessarily had that spark that you need t... JAY DAVIS We felt pretty confident we would stay in the game. It was just 11 points. Jason hitting that 3 was ... KYLE JEFFERS The one thing I was concerned about (going in) was our conditioning, and that showed up in the secon... ALAN SORENSEN The second half we settled in more and just played a little bit more focused. This was just kind of ... CARMEN DOLFO I was kind of disappointed in our approach in that second game, but I'm also pleased with how we bat... BRIAN BLESSIE That's just the way it happened. It's nice to get out to a good start like that. It kind of helped u... JAKE WORLEY It all unraveled in the second. They got their third goal, and then the fourth one and now it's just... SEAN BURKE Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o... CHRISTINA ENGELA People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... Our defense in the second half was great. We needed an energy spark, and we wanted to come out and g... DUSTIN VILLEPIGUE That was the spark he needed. CARL MCNAIR Looking back on the season that we had and how crazy it was, I was just so excited that we got it do... HANNAH KIRK We just couldn't get the hits together. It was that kind of game. BOB DEAN We were so excited just to get the opportunity, so that was kind of our driving force. We were just ... LYSSA DENNARD Going into the game, we felt like the key to the football game was stopping their passing game. They... BLAKE FELDT We read every newspaper article printed on that team. We knew they were a second-half club, so at no... DAQUAN GIBSON You can tell that call gave them a lift. The guy steals second, they win the game, the place goes cr... MICKEY HATCHER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER That was crucial and I thought we really got caught in the emotion of that. We had just hit a three ... DENNIS BRADLEY That was all it took to get a spark going and let our kids know that this game wasn't over and we we... DUANE DESPAIN When we first got into foster care we said there was no way we were going to adopt. We told all of t... CRAIG MOORE He was already at the point of the game where we're going to go to the bullpen if anything happens. ... TERRY FRANCONA No, he got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened so he kind of took the offensive. He pa... TERRY FRANCONA We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL I kind of ripped into them at halftime. I said, 'This isn't a state playoff team' by the way they we... STEVE ADEN I guess I started feeling it a little bit, but I just wanted to shoot with more confidence than I wa... CHARLES ABOUO At some point, rock 'n' roll was mainly guys. So it makes sense that women would stand there and wat... PATTY LARKIN We got a little sluggish in the second half. But we stepped it up on defense and then our offense ki... CHELSEY NELSON We needed that game. That was our goal after losing last night. This was kind of the same game, but ... FRED BENCRISCUTTO We withstood that first spurt and then we got our bearings together and we were in the game towards ... MIKE BURNS We were up one and we got a rebound. But they got a key steal, basket and foul shot. That was a huge... BRIAN CLODI There was a little spark, so hopefully we can carry that into our Ivy League season. BILL TIERNEY It was pretty amazing. Things just seemed to work perfectly for about 30 minutes of the game. We got... CHRIS MARTIN Because of how we played the second half when Matt was down and the approach to practice the week af... TRENT JOHNSON It was just one of those fun games where everyone got into it. We made some three-pointers in the se... DICK SIMPSON We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter... KEITH ANDREWS It was just kind of a cumulative effect. We went back to (the run) more in the second half and we fo... MIKE GOFF It was just kind of a cumulative effect, ... We went back to (the run) more in the second half and w... MIKE GOFF I knew we had to win and we had to win now. We just needed a spark and Andy provided that tonight. DANNY WHITE He took over a program that was going through a lot of problems and he's trying to get it turned aro... DON SHULA It was tight so we wanted to get the ball into the hands of a senior. He was really cooking tonight ... DUANE MCWHORTER We knew he was going to. He had a spark and fire in his eyes. BOB BENINCASA I told the girls at the half that we need to have someone step up. We needed to maintain possession ... KAITLIN CARNEY We tried the 6-2 offense in the second game and it just wasn't working. It was two kind of inexperie... GREG KOCH That was definitely the turning point in the game. We got into some penalty trouble early there and ... DAYMOND LANGKOW We just gave them too many second-chance points to start the second half, and they got some offensiv... LANCE HUBER Kate came out very aggressive and really gave us a spark in the second half. Overall we got better s... JOE ECKLEY Our words this week were focus, execute and intensity. I don?t know if we showed any of that in the ... JOHN WALLER At that point, I was just baffled; I couldn't believe it. I told the guys that they needed nine runs... BRETT MACKEY We got off to a good start in that game, ... We just kind of got too comfortable and let them back i... EMILY BROWN Me and Will (Thomas) got some early shots at the beginning of the game and we made most of them. If ... FOLARIN CAMPBELL We seem to be headed in the right direction. That was a good ball club we beat. Timely hitting has b... DALE BUVID It seems to me that they kind of gave up. Then their coach was just sitting down (in the second half... CARA LAMBERT Their pressure on us way out past the 12[-meter arc] was something different that we haven't seen in... HOLLY MCGARVIE We had a shot at the buzzer and that's just the kind of game it was. DAN CODDENS I'm so proud of this show and I'm really stoked that fans were so enthusiastic about the sho... WILLA HOLLAND We seem to think, at this point, it was just a little trash fire that quickly got out of control. BRIAN ADAM Well the New Year was a new beginning for us and we're one point out of third place. So we just want... JACKIE BARTO It was good that we were able to come back and get a point, but there's not much else to say. We got... COLBY ARMSTRONG He doesn't give you anything that you're going to put the barrel on consistently. When we beat him, ... LYLE OVERBAY Tony was a little faster the first 20 or 25 laps of that run. Then we got equal and started reeling ... KASEY KAHNE Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so... LARRY HOGAN The kickoff return for a touchdown at the start of the second half was a big boost for us. Then we g... MARK WILDMAN We got off to a great start but just kind of stubbed our toe when they went to that zone defense. Th... CHARLES SMITH Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we are fixed and certain on... THOMAS WOLFE We didn't always take the open shots, we made things harder than they had to be, and then when Ohio ... CHERYL BURNETT We got eight hits today. We just couldn't get the big one we needed. They got the hit they needed. T... DAVE HUPPERT We needed to take advantage of the fact that the wind was at our back (in the second half), and we s... BRIDGET BETTERTON He played his best game ever. I think he was just exhausted at that point and when he started to mis... GEORGE FRANCK We needed to be soft on the perimeter and we got away from that in the second half. Once they starte... DIANE WILLIAMS Once he got into foul trouble, we lost all our momentum. Once he was out of the game, we were kind o... DANA DORAN I just thought I couldn't get into a rhythm in the first half. In the second half my teammates stepp... ALI MANN It doesn't matter now how many wins somebody had in the second half or how somebody was at a certain... MATT CLEMENT But their friendship and relationship was so clearly drawn on Jim's part, I was just playing the mus... JEFFREY WRIGHT If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of i... ELI PARISER We have some experience and I think that took over in a tight game and we were able to relax at that... RICKY CRAWFORD It was an emotional rollercoaster. We had that hope one time and then the next time we had bad news.... JUDY SHACKELFORD Coach wanted us to have a game like this, to get out and get after people at the defensive end. We d... BRANDON JENKINS That was huge going into halftime. During the first quarter, I think our nerves really made us play ... FELICIA CHESTER We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound lik... BUZZ OSBORNE That is kind of the way we have been all season. Clear back to the second game of the season when we... ED TUROSKY We came out content in the first half. Coach told us at halftime that was unacceptable, so I just le... MAX FOYE The pricing that we got . . . was just so irrational. DAVID LARCHER A lot of teams try to slow us down. At the half, we just decided we had to play our kind of game. It... BLAKE HOFFARBER We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines... DOUG JOHNSON We had seen the way the print industry had been disrupted; we'd seen how the audio industry got ... BURNIE BURNS I thought we came out in the second half -- once we kind of settled in -- and played pretty well. We... CHAD ANDERSON Everything was going for us tonight. The spark was there. We've lived on our defense the whole year ... GRIFFAN CALLAHAN This was a critical win for us. Our guys were hungry. We were kind of stumbling and bumbling offensi... DENNIS FELTON We needed to establish a run game and we hadn't done that all game. So, we kind of figured on the si... JASON JONES I haven't like our defensive effort in the second half at all lately. We knew (Brown) would be fresh... DON HOGAN
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PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe. MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra... PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&... ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst... RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house. THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h... PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce... MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w... 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PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ... PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre... PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th... PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men. PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it. PHILLIPS BROOKS