The girls have made a commitment to it. We had to get folks in the right places for us to do that.

She took it right at those big girls and wasn't scared of them. She gave us the intensity that we needed at that time. She is too young to even think about doing it. She just did it.

She's such a good player. You just have to try to limit the number of touches she gets and try to make her give it up. She's a good one-on-one player, and she has that added ability to make the other players around her better.

We were asking a bunch of [junior varsity] players to do things they probably weren't ready to do.

They wore us down. They're a good team.

We really had a commitment to the firefighters to finally get this movie right. Especially after September 11. We really wanted to put our best foot forward and kind of leave our egos at the door and really be what these guys are, which are a lot of selfless wonderful men and women that want to help,