That's pretty impressive when you consider there were like 12 teams there. Most teams have one or two top-notch kids in their relays, and then there's a bit of a drop off. But with us, we have four or five swimmers who are all fast, but not standouts by themselves.
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ED BELVA There are four or five plays every game that will determine the outcome, and those plays are (usuall... JOE TAYLOR There are probably five or six teams that have a chance in Class A. But you just never know how kids... DICK CORN There were a lot of really, really close matches. It was a battle between two pretty evenly-matched ... DAVID LIPE I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams. BREANA ALLISON Look at the teams we played when I was not there - Indy, Minnesota, Green Bay, Philadelphia - that's... BRIAN URLACHER It costs us a little bit (to bring them in). But it's worth it. The future is, we'll have one or two... DOUG MCARTHUR You're supposed to get better. When other teams turn it up a notch or two levels, we turn it down a ... RAFER ALSTON We have four or five left, but they are going fast. HELGE SINES I think we need a bit more effort. Well, I know we need a bit more effort out there. I think that (t... GUY DUPUIS We have a good chance to place in the top five. There are teams that are definitely within our reach... JENNIFER DIEBLING Having four or five institutions drop out and then have two new ones step in is not necessarily the ... DAVID TOWNE The last few years we bit off more than we could chew. We've had a buzz saw of a schedule. Playing t... TOM HOLMOE Most teams have one All-Star, whether that guy made it this year or earlier in his career, and some ... RAY ALLEN If everyone comes with their 'A' game, then who knows who's going to be in the championship. I'd lik... JAMIE CHIARIELLO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL We battled all the way through. We were up in the first quarter and then we went down by four at the... JEFF SHAW Most of the top teams from state for the past couple of years were there, and we beat quite a few of... JEFF MARCUS For the first game of the year, to have two teams playing like that, that's pretty impressive. BRIAN WHITAKER We had a pretty good meet with the group that we have. I think (the weather) had a tremendous effect... LARRY CHAVEZ You hope a team gets some separation, and obviously, we hope it?s us. We need two or three or four t... BLAINE TAYLOR We're playing everybody this year. It gives us a guess at who we are and shows us what we have to do... BOB MACALUSO It's no bigger than Saturday's game (a win at Tulsa) was. But these are two teams who have played we... DOC SADLER Our chances are very good. There aren't but about five or six teams that will be right there for the... TODD HAYS We have seven guys that are right up there at the top every time. Last year we finished up there wit... JEAN FOSTER They're a dangerous basketball team. The parity right now with the top four or five teams in (the Se... CHRIS RENNER 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 Seven little crazy kids chopping up sticks; One burnt her daddy up and then there were six. MICHAEL THOMAS FORD It's a dream come true. I can't wait to get over there and see what's it's all about. I birdied one ... JARROD LYLE There were four or five times where a bucket here or there and we could have made a difference. DAN TREASE The chances are we [will] have a very tough tournament - we have at least four or five teams who con... JANUSZ BEDNARSKI It would have been nice to win this one, but Hastings had a nice team. There were no easy points out... TOM SANVIK We hurt ourselves bad with the errors there. You just can't give teams four or five outs in an innin... BILL SEXTON We weren't expecting to do that at all. It was unexpected, but we knew we had the kids to do it, and... CHRIS LORDITCH A top-four finish [out of 12 competing teams] would be pretty good and it would be great if we could... DEBBY KING Most teams that you have, they have one or two go-to guys. They've got a go-to team. BERNIE BICKERSTAFF We showed a lot of character, but it's very disappointing to come all the way back like that and sti... AARON FOSTER There was a point when we were 16-2 and we felt like we had struggled a little. But then I said ther... DEAN COFFLAND I'd take 10 of him. He's a warrior. He's just a guy who's going to win you a lot of games. You look ... BRIAN GREGORY We occasionally miss one or two during a performance, but we pretty much have it down. We practice t... GREG MUELLER It's a remarkable year. All eight teams in the tournament have 20-plus wins. Two schools who were to... BRAD UNDERWOOD Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the econom... DAVID MILLAR Its amazing. How many teams can say they have to play every game like its their last? Because pretty... ALAN ANDERSON When that e-mail was sent I realized not only were these kids homeless but they did not have plays t... AUBREY IRELAND We have five core kids who have been there before, but four young kids in their first year of varsit... JEFF ROOKLIDGE We're a pretty tough team to press with a kid like Jamie. If teams are going to press us, we want to... HEIDI MICHAELIS We have a lot of kids with similar size and quickness, and overall we're pretty athletic. With that ... DOUG BURGE Up to now we've played some teams where maybe you have to worry about one or two kids. You have to w... MARK STORM A lot of teams out there have these great records, but who did they play? We played those teams with... JOEY AVILA We've had problems putting away teams in the second half. But Coach told us we have to come out in t... EZRIA PARSONS These race teams are in the midst of preparing for a very important part of their seasons. But we wo... BRETT BODINE When you see four, five or six kids packed in one automobile, then it becomes a major problem, BOB ALLEN They're one of the top two or three teams. We knew they were kind of tough, and we didn't think we c... KERRY BENTHIN I'm disappointed in some of the kids, but for the most part we wrestled well. I thought there were f... DON EGGENBURG Helena is a deep team and very experienced. If we knock off one or two teams in doubles we have the ... SCOTT HARRIS This team has been such a great group to coach because they're so locked in on their goal. They all ... LYNNE ROBERTS This only affects the last four teams playing and, fortunately or unfortunately, the Panthers were o... BILL WHITLEY In recent generations, women's sports have been a blessing. Some of us can remember the bad old ... GEORGE VECSEY We've been down 10 or 12 points before. The girls realize there are four quarters in a game, and you... BILL WOLF Over a period of time, cream rises to the top, and five teams made it because five teams were incred... MARK MARTIN When we think a team is behind us, we force things that aren't there instead of being patient like w... JAMIE LANGENBRUNNER In many ways it was a typical California-Indiana game, and there have been a lot of games like this ... GARY EDWARDS We approach Wake as a very good basketball team. There have been more close games in the league this... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI When all of us are united on an issue, then one of two things has happened. Either the earth has spu... BRENT BOZELL We played on fields that were leased for a dollar a year from Goodyear. They're still there. They us... GALE MONTGOMERY PARK You look at the four teams that tied with six wins, any of those teams can do some damage. Certainly... BILL SELF It's been real frustrating. The kids played their hearts out tonight. We've done this for the most p... DENNIS HOPKINS Tonkawa started out struggling, and then before Christmas beat Eastern, one of the best teams on our... LOUIS WHORTON Ho Ming struggled a little bit at number three, but he looked good all week in practices. There was ... DAVE TALBOTT There are always two or three teams who won their division and went undefeated but never got to face... ROB WEEKS The last three or four games we have come out of the box pretty fast. Hopefully we can keep it up. T... LARRY SANDBURG There are national meets like the Penn Relays in track that have events on Sundays. We have always t... BILL READER Most have service. There may be a straggler or two in there, but by and large we think we've got it ... BOB ELEK From top to bottom, when you look at guys teams and girls teams, there's not much drop off from the ... DANA DRUMMOND I don't think anybody is going to give them a game. Most teams [at state] have two or three really g... PAT ABNEY I think we are capable of defending that championship, but there are some very good teams to beat to... LUTE OLSON Usually there are four or five treatments that are done before the transplant and then after the tra... ROBERT MONTGOMERY It's a shame that we had to end like this. We had kids who were participating in four or five events... JEFF BUYS We were pretty solid all the way through. I'm pleased with where we are in terms of our difficulty. ... LORIE COOK It hits you pretty fast, but in most cases it leaves you within a day or two. DR. DOUG MOORE This event continues to be strong. This is one of the strongest fields in recent years. Ten or 15 ye... BILLY PATE We're going to try and steal two or three games from some of the teams that we lost to in the first ... JEFF LAING You have to win from the point of not having the hammer a lot, against the best teams and that's pre... KEVIN MARTIN This was a fun tournament. If you look at the top four teams you have rated teams from classes B, C ... DEAN DAVIS About five years ago, we had five teams in the 'A' division, but it dwindled down to two in the spri... BILL VAUGHN The top five Teams overall are teams that have year round programs so the swimmers put in more yarda... DANA FOSSMO They're running pretty well up front. That's a big key at districts. One or two guys in the top 10 p... GREG MEISTER We were underdogs going into the Ely game and they were underdogs going into the Boyd Anderson game,... AL LANG The top four teams in the conference were there and although [the team] sometimes competed at their ... DALE ERICKSON Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always f... BRUCE JOHNSTON We've played well at times and we've gotten some quality wins, but we can't afford to take a night o... GENE KLEIN We're back on the winning track. We lost four in a row there, and a couple of them were tight games ... DON SHAW The execution was a lot better tonight. There were one or two technical things, but we can build off... BRAD PENRITH
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DAVE WEINBAUM People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with th... DAVE BARRY Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous sys... DAVE FOREMAN Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see wit... DAVE BARRY We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but ... DAVE BARRY We are not meant to know everything, Mae. Did you ever think that perhaps our minds are delicately c... DAVE EGGERS You sit at a desk twelve hours a day and you have nothing to show for it except some numbers that wo... DAVE EGGERS It’s not that I’m not social. I’m social enough. But the tools you guys create actually manufa... DAVE EGGERS Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not ... 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DAVE GROHL There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock ... DAVE GROHL If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun. DAVE GROHL Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wal... DAVE GROHL My children were taught at an early age how money works and that it comes from hard work. They'v... DAVE RAMSEY You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. DAVE BARRY Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by... DAVE BARRY I care about what the fans feel. DAVE MUSTAINE One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd. DAVE MUSTAINE I am interested in politics. DAVE MUSTAINE I didn't like the way I was let go from Metallica. DAVE MUSTAINE Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. DAVE MUSTAINE My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the ... DAVE MUSTAINE I've never believed in singing about Satan and thinking he's cool, because he's not. DAVE MUSTAINE Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and gu... DAVE MUSTAINE Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to th... DAVE MUSTAINE Next thing you know they'll take your thoughts away. DAVE MUSTAINE No, I care more about what God knows than what man says. DAVE MUSTAINE The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. DAVE MUSTAINE Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica. DAVE MUSTAINE I was always the new kid in school, I'm the kid from a broken family, I'm the kid who had no... DAVE MUSTAINE