Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

O'Brien added. ''And it still came down to a last-second stop on the 1-inch line. That just shows you the talent that they have and the capabilities they have.

Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.

To have all three lines, and even the fourth line, producing is a big part of us winning a lot of our games this year. The depth, it helps to wear the teams down, and come the end of the second and the third period, it's tough to keep up with four lines. And that's probably been one of our biggest strengths all year, is being able to rotate all the way through.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

There are only two kinds of people in our town. The stupid and the stuck."