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Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were letting them shoot at will with wide open shots.


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CARLISLE FLOYD The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f...
KEITH FLOYD You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
PINK FLOYD If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
PINK FLOYD If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d...
PINK FLOYD I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
PINK FLOYD How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
PINK FLOYD There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
PINK FLOYD There's someone in my head but it's not me.
PINK FLOYD And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
PINK FLOYD There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
FLOYD DELL When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she...
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