The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart

I struggled with the idea that this character, the parent, would ... stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort.

I struggled with the idea that this character, being the parent, would go so far as to stop speaking to her daughter and not make more of an effort. We had it in bits and pieces, but it was hard for me to justify – that I wouldn't try harder, that I wouldn't reach out more, that I could stand to be away from her for that long.

The players had the character, heart and resiliency to show that the game up in Maine was a fluke.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them -- the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.