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BOBBY STEVENS We were feeling each other out early on. We had more post players than they did. They only had two, ... DARRON ROGERS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We keep our chops up and inspire each other. That is the best way to keep it up, by playing with peo... INGRID JENSEN The season has just started and yet the way we've been playing makes it very exciting and hopefully ... JOE COLE We felt real good where we were at halftime being up by three with Benny hitting that shot. The seco... CHAD CLUVER A lot of it is being comfortable at the plate. I think early in the season we had some guys who were... CARSON KAINER We told the kids at the beginning of the year that our main goal was to win more games than we did l... ANDY PALMER At the beginning of this year I really loved our style, liked the way we were playing and was pretty... OLIVER PURNELL We're just basically getting to know each other better and getting to know each other's tendencies b... CHASITY MELVIN We have given up more points, 68 and 71 in back-to-back games, than we had all year. We have to play... BEN BORRIES We talked a lot about the beginning of the year as a team that we were definitely going to rebuild a... DON BUGBEE Our defense has done a great job the last couple of games. I think that has been a big difference fr... LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE The last year and a half or so (ball movement) was something we haven't been the best at. But we're ... GINA CASTELLI I expected (the pressure defense) from the beginning of the game. It's not as if we weren't prepared... LIZ BERNSTEIN I think we were more tired at the beginning of the game than we were at the end. We got our second w... ANDRE MUSE We're starting to come together and play better. Our defense has been pretty good all season. We jus... LISA KIRK The difference was the defense. We did a good job of knowing where the scorers were. And playing wit... BRIAN METCALF We're working a lot more on our own as far as all the extra things we do. We're not selfish. We play... KATE SALTMARSH That was our focus all week during practice. It's not like we were doing it on purpose. Tonight, it ... BRAD BYERSON That's what we were really excited about at the beginning of the year, the whole teamwork thing and ... CARLY CURRAN All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD We are starting make some adjustments. At the beginning of the season, we thought we had the right l... EDDIE CONDON At least half of our guests were ordinary people, ... In the beginning we didn't use celebrities at ... RALPH EDWARDS We knew we had to focus tonight. That was the big difference between this game and our other games a... JAKE CHAPPELL We just have to keep our focus and stay disciplined. We were disciplined last season, but not as dis... GARFIELD YUILLE Our defense this year is much different than it's been in the past. We have more defenses than we've... DARCI LEWIS We were uncomfortable with it from the beginning because we felt like we were, I guess our heart was... DUSTIN KENSRUE We're very healthy, a lot healthier now than we were at the beginning of the season. None of us are ... KRISTEN KOVESDY From Caron Butler - and there's no validation this automatically has to happen - to Ben Gordon, it l... JIM CALHOUN Overall, we're playing well, but we have to keep it up because now it's a one-game season. I feel we... RONNIE ROBINSON I didn't feel very good about how we were playing, but more importantly, I didn't feel good about ho... BENJIE WOOD Adam has a good defense in front of him that is playing better and he has been playing better as the... JOE ALBERICI We were getting a little worried. But we were confident we had it. All season our defense has been c... BRIAN WAGNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I told them at halftime that the reason the game was close was that we weren't playing defense. We w... EARNEST WILLHITE We were thinking this was going to be a rebuilding year after we lost those two players. But the gir... LARRY MILOSH We're starting to get on a roll before conference, which is what we needed to do. We're coming toget... MARTIN BENO (At halftime) we changed our defense up from one zone to another. We wanted to keep pressure on the ... SCOTT BOKELMAN We knew we were going to get better. We had to. We have too much talent not to. Were we expecting to... CHARLIE COE I thought the keys were our energy and intensity. Our execution was the best it has been all year. I... DOUG MCCARTER We're a lot more comfortable. More than that, we have higher expectations. We know that we are capab... KAREN COOK We were dumping it out today. Our outside halves gave us more effort than they have been and I was p... DOUG KILBY This was our three-peat so we can get that up there that we were undefeated for three years. That wa... JENNY COOK Our run defense has been great all year. Nobody has been able to run the ball on us, and we don't fe... KYLE WILLIAMS We were coming off Christmas break and I knew we'd be rusty. Our defense could have been better. Tha... CHARLOTTE JONES We are playing really strong defense right now. We have all season. But we have been focused in the ... ADANMA EKELEDO I thought our defense was starting to figure them out. We like to play fast, but I thought we were p... ED ORTEGO That was not a focus until later in the year. We definitely will be preparing to get our times down ... LAUREL STOKES They were playing really well. They were hustling more than we were. We weren't playing as well on d... JACK SCALCUCCI The defense stepping up like it did was everything. They are a tough team to shut down. We knew we h... BRYAN WELLS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU We were playing good defense and we were running our offense okay but we had to pick it up. We kept ... CATHERINE BOVE I think the fact that we have been here the past couple of years had a lot to do with our success. I... DAN ROLFES We looked at the weather and it didn't look good for Saturday. So we just did the whole thing Friday... DAVE LIPE That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We were playing passive. We were not attacking the basket at all. And we talked about playing good m... CARL SERRANI Greg (Burgers) and I understood that everyone on the team had to have confidence in each other. We n... KYLE COSTON It just became real clear that we were looking at eight to 12 girls, and we didn't feel comfortable ... BRAD MINTER There were two teams that manhandled us last year, Chicago and Tampa Bay. It was just the worst-case... BOB WICKMAN I think we had a better percentage from the arc than we did inside the lane. We felt like we were go... KEN BUBLITZ For real, to be honest, I feel like we can get to the Final Four. I said that at the beginning of th... COREY BREWER It was exciting to see how the girls were able to focus and play through during the match, especiall... CRAIG MANNING Our focus has been defense from day one. And the girls were motivated. They remembered that loss. JOSH GROTTING We were more aggressive as a team than we had been all year. Players stepped up today and we really ... BOB WEDIN In the beginning of the season we did a good job of getting used to playing with each other. The Car... ALLY STROUP We came out, and we were not intimidated. We came out and tried to play as we were coached, and I th... ANTOINE CASON You have to feel comfortable where you're working out to stick with it. Other women that are working... JAMIE MECIMORE The most important thing is that this team has put more of its own extra time in preparing for the s... KATHLEEN RODRIGUEZ We were around .500, struggling, at 5-6 at one point, and we just weren't playing hockey. We were to... KYLE DANCAUSE Our expectations were higher than what happened here. We weren't up to snuff today but it has been a... BOB DYER Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these di... CHARLES VEST I'm just now starting to feel comfortable. I didn't really know all my players until the end of (las... MARIO BAILEY We would prefer to have won our first game at the beginning of the season. But we'll take it. What w... DEREK ERGLE When you advance to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row, playing like we've been playing, you'... DON LOFTON We did 39 shows and we know we can just keep getting better at it. We were just starting to hit our ... LARRY GROCE I think most quarterbacks in their third year have a good feel for the terminology, a good feel for ... MIKE SHANAHAN We were playing unselfishly early in the game and were in a really good rhythm. Everybody is comfort... ILIAN EVTIMOV Our defense all year hasn't been where it needs to be. In the fourth quarter, we showed signs of pla... GREGG ZENEROVITZ I think we lost our focus, and one of the things we've been talking about all year is being mentally... AL BROWN We are well rested and I think we appreciate each other a lot more now than we did in the past, HOWIE DOROUGH I do. 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SAMUEL BUTLER Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive... PHILIP BUTLER Life is one long process of getting tired. SAMUEL BUTLER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. SAMUEL BUTLER Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. SAMUEL BUTLER A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid... SAMUEL BUTLER A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does... SAMUEL BUTLER When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which... SAMUEL BUTLER It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. SAMUEL BUTLER Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them. SAMUEL BUTLER Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. SAMUEL BUTLER We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the... SAMUEL BUTLER Neither irony or sarcasm is argument. SAMUEL BUTLER Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will... SAMUEL BUTLER There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad. SAMUEL BUTLER The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. SAMUEL BUTLER I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. SAMUEL BUTLER Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h... SAMUEL BUTLER Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. SAMUEL BUTLER To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all. SAMUEL BUTLER The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the... SAMUEL BUTLER There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. SAMUEL BUTLER What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer l... SAMUEL BUTLER You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it. SAMUEL BUTLER Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b... SAMUEL BUTLER Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God. SAMUEL BUTLER If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa... SAMUEL BUTLER We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ... SAMUEL BUTLER There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon. SAMUEL BUTLER Eating is touch carried to the bitter end. SAMUEL BUTLER The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. SAMUEL BUTLER