It's really tough. Yeah, we had a great year, but it shouldn't have ended. We're the first team to win league. There's a bunch of great things to come out of this.
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Related Tonight we spread the ball around and had great point distribution. This was a great team win. This ... JOE BLINE Obviously, the seeding is based on a lot of different things. They were a great team, they played in... ANDREW STRAIT Last year we were kind of a bunch of individuals trying to get all the glory, but team chemistry is ... JEFFERY SCHMUDLACH Canada is a very tough team and we had two of the best teams in the first two games. We came off a t... CASSIE JOHNSON We just didn't come to play tonight. We had a great opportunity to get a win against a decent team a... MATT BLAIR We've really had a lot of success as a first-year team. We've struggled at times but it came out gre... JASON MAJEWSKI These guys are a great bunch of kids who were fun to coach. I have been so lucky since I have been h... RANDY JORDAN We lost to a great team having a great year. Lehigh is a club that follows its coach's game plan and... BILLY LANGE We had a great year, but of course it's disappointing to end it like this. It was a tough loss, they... HUGO LUNA I think Oklahoma State has a great team, and they've had a great run. (The Big 12 championships) hav... BOBBY DOUGLAS Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions. GAIL ANDERSEN The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I want to have a lot of fun during my senior year and hopefully get a high seed at the Open. We were... MARTELLE SIMPSON We had a great team this year. A lot of people talked about us being good next year, but we thought ... CHRIS PAUL They have a lot of great players, but they work together as a team. That's why they've been able to ... DONNIE EDWARDS This feels great to win the ILH again, especially because we overcame a lot this year as a team. But... VINNY NIP The momentum we had last year has carried over. The first thing that crept up after last season ende... GREG OMOTO The team in general really stepped up this weekend to the challenge and opportunity of a big and gre... MATT MCGUIRK It's a great accomplishment. We started off great this year, had some trouble, and there were lot of... JOSH SOARES Our staff is anticipating a really great year. The first day of school is an anticipation of good th... DAVE WILSON It's always tough to win at the end of the road. I'm just so proud of these kids and this team. They... JASON VELA We were more aggressive as a team than we had been all year. Players stepped up today and we really ... BOB WEDIN There's only one team a year that goes out the way they want to go out. We didn't go out the way we ... JEFF ADRIEN We really had a great meet, and you can see that as a team, we are really starting to get into our p... JOE CANTILLON A lot of people play in the league seven, eight years and have never even been in the playoffs. This... ISRAEL IDONIJE Yeah, well there have been a bunch. We have had 12,000 through March. But last year we had 20,000. NILE EASTON We had a very strong tournament. Nicole Hage really played well and ended up finishing third, but we... KIM EVANS This year, the win and loss record (7-9 league, 8-17 over all) doesn't really show a true picture of... DAN SCHREIBER I thought we came out with great intensity and were very smart with the ball. They then frustrated u... CINDY TIMCHAL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON This game had a great atmosphere. I'm glad we came out with a win. And I helped the team win. DAVID BOOKER It's great. We felt we had a chance to win it with the talent we have this year and our depth. JOSE MEJIA We have a lot of great players but unless you come together as a team that doesn't matter. We've com... SAM ADAMS It's a good team from a great league. It's a win we wanted to get and we let it get away. ... Those ... JEFF SCHULKENS I feel a lot more confident with the team this year. We had a great team going into the season last ... ALEX MOUNT It was great to send the seniors out with a win. We were getting worn down with not winning, but thi... LEONARD KRAUS We were getting a little nervous in February. It would have been grim if the storms didn't come back... DAVE POWELL To be able to win the way we did against a great team and great coach ... . We planned to play that ... JEFF HEATH Nick had a tough first inning on the mound, but after that he settled down and did a great job today... MARK RIGGIN It felt great winning a championship on our home floor. We faced a really determined opponent that h... CINDI SIMMONS I am really proud of the kids. We were not hitting the open shots tonight but we kept fighting and s... GARY ANDREWS It was an outstanding third quarter. It?s tough to play a team and beat them twice within a couple o... JASON TESINI We had a good team last year but you have to do the little things if you're going to win it this yea... DALE HUNTER It was huge for our team this year and for the confidence that we could beat a team as good as Utica... BRENT CAHILL We knew that (Guilderland) was a great team so we had to come out of the gate strong. ERIN GRAY We're looking for positive things. We're playing an independent schedule this year; the league we we... JUAN NIEVES We were really pumped up about playing in this game. It's good to help the team win, but everyone di... ADAM STERN We had some great talent on the team. I was really impressed. Things really came out great in the en... JASON MAJEWSKI It was a great basketball game. The most important thing coming into this game (was) we had to get o... DOUG STIVERSON This was a great win. But when we won, no one was overly excited, although that's the first win of t... ARMANDO JOHNSON We only lost three head-to-head matches last year - one to Galesburg and two to Monmouth - and both ... MATT JOHNSON It's always tough to win on the road. For the first time this year we were down at halftime. For a t... DON TRENTHAM That first round was a great win for Eli. That was a great win to have at the end of his senior year... MIKE BLAKE We needed everything to go perfectly, and it looked like things were going to head that way, ... I j... JOSH WISE Sickles played really good defense. You're not going to beat a team by only scoring 35 points. They ... DOUG APLIN I'm really excited, even more excited that we have a great team. We have an amazing chance of winnin... DIANA SREBROVIC I'm not upset whatsoever with how we played. I like where we are headed. We just needed to come up w... ANDY LOPEZ Last year's team, we were just so stacked all over the place. I had a great senior class. This year'... JIM O'HARA We've worked so hard all year. We were ready. The competition in this region was really tough, as it... LAURA PETERSON It was good to see them come out without any jitters and we knew (the Pirates) would have their runs... ROGER WALTERS We knew we had the ability to do it. Winning the MML was something we all had our eyes on at the beg... JARRYD LENTZ There were a bunch of things, cold, bronchitis. I ended up passing out during the tests. JOEY SEARLE I thought we'd get a bunch but we only had four for most of last year. This will be the first time w... DEAN TOWER The month of May was really tough on this team. We got way behind with some of the car setup and som... ROBBIE REISER I think last year, yeah, we were grateful to be here. It was a dream to be here last year. But when ... COURTNEY SCHUSTER That was a great team. We knew how to win. I still remember this: The very first day of practice, we... BRENDAN MALONE They have a good team. I think they're going to do well in league this year. We're 4-0 and I can't r... JACKSON WONG Yeah, basically we have to come out and dominate. We're Mount Vernon so they're out to make a name f... DANILIO HUTCHINSON Some guys left the rink feeling they didn't play their best game, and that's tough. It didn't happen... DEAN BERARDO It was really great to see us come back and win this one. It really showed me some character by our ... DALE LORTZ I don't know how we'll come out of the gate because we still have some things to figure out. But as ... DANTON BARTO For us to win a league championship, we knew we were gonna have to come in this gym and take it. JULIE FUTCH They're the best team we played this year. They were really tough to defend. DANIEL DILLON We've gone through years where we've had really good teams at the top, but I'm not sure we've had a ... DANA ALTMAN I really thought we were in good shape there. P-Rod didn't feel that great on the court, but I still... JAY LAPIDUS To be in first place is really hard to comprehend, but it feels great. Last year we were getting bea... COURTNEY SIMS I would have to say they are the team to beat in the National League. They won the pennant in the Na... ANDY PETTITTE We had made progress in each of our first three years, and we had a better team coming back this yea... CHARLEY CASSERLY We really sold this team on unity. Our motto this year is, 'One way, one team.' We told them we were... RICK RIOS It was an Interstate Eight battle. We could play each other 10 times and each team would probably wi... JEFF FROELICH We had a great team meet. We did a great job all together and we had a bunch of young kids perform. ... DAKOTA TEFERTILLER I don't think we could have gotten a much worse draw. We came in here and I really thought we had a ... AL SEARS If we play with the type of tempo that we did in the first half, then we're going to be tough to bea... ANNE WILKINSON It's really hard to beat a good team three times and we knew we had to come out and play really toug... KATIE DELONG 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 I think we’re going to have a good day today, but we should have a good day every time we come to ... FELIX SABATES Being our first year we knew we had a good group of girls. I don't think anybody else would have exp... JENNIFER NOLTE We knew they had a good team coming in with a bunch of of good individuals. It was an ugly win, but ... HARVEY STARBUCK We were 0-2 early and I wondered if we would win four games this year. But I knew we had a great tou... BILL BREWER That feels great. It did feel great, but this is a team victory and we control our own destiny. If w... CADILLAC WILLIAMS The team that makes the fewest mistakes is going to win nine times out of 10. We played a great firs... JACK TOUHEY We are just hoping that this is our year. We have a great team out here and we're confident we can m... JAVIER TORRES It feels great to win a first-round game. It was just a real team concept today. We knew we would ha... ANDREW STRAIT We've got a ton of work to do,. We were a young, inexperienced team, but after 17 games that's not t... BOB MARINELLI We've had a very good year. We have a great girls team with 22 girls. They work hard. It's been a li... BOB JOHNSTON I will tell you what, I would take this team over any team in the league. They play with a lot of he... GUS SIMPSON His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the nat... MATT LEINART To win on the road, in a league game opener, it's huge, ... We didn't play extremely well at times, ... BOB BENSON Definitely, [the win against Michigan] proved that on any given day we can beat anybody. Beating the... KRISTEN BUTLER This was a really, really tough loss for us. Both teams played hard enough to win. There wasn't a gr... BILLY GILLISPIE
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w... FLANNERY O'CONNOR That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. FLANNERY O'CONNOR They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w... JOSEPH O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete... FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is beyond logic that we see the light. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ... SINEAD O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR