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JEFF CHAPMAN I've always wanted to open up a baseball facility and be a mentor to kids.
WAYNE GOMES Eric was in control the entire match.
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ROB LOVELL We work to help the local veteran families. At Thanksgiving we gave out baskets filled with food and...
ARNIE EARL We did that because we don't want kids in foul trouble. … We try to match up on their better shoot...
DEREK FISHER We have a lot of kids with similar size and quickness, and overall we're pretty athletic. With that ...
DOUG BURGE A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled.
“Shoo,” Eric s...
CHARLAINE HARRIS That was awesome to see, and it's great to see what we practiced (pay off) and to see the kids try i...
BO ROUNDY This is by far the best team we've seen. Their posts are quick so it's hard for posts to match up wi...
CONNIE ALLEN We try to get matchups, and he's a guy that's intriguing because we can match him up in several diff...
DAVID OLIVER We had the match set up to win and our experienced kids didn't come through as expected.
DAN KING We match up well. We have weapons offensively that I think it's hard for them to match up against. T...
JARED JEFFRIES We would love to be able to see the dress. We try to match the ribbon with that and make sure the fl...
ANGIE BROWN Initially, I thought there was no way I could be a mentor. Then I realized, these kids live to be wi...
JASON CLARKE We match up well with them, and they match up well with us. This should be an entertaining contest.
GENE MONTELEONE It's difficult for us to simulate their passing game in practice. Defensively, we have a lot of kids...
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ERIC BENKER It's a tremendously meaningful experience.
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ERIC BENKER For everybody else in the league this year they?re a nightmare to match up with. Everybody?s going t...
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LANCE TRAYWICK The experience is a plus, but what we're really impressed with is his character and personality. We ...
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CHARLIE SHEEN These kids really need someone else, a mentor, to do things with, to get them out, away from the eve...
JANET TRINKAUS It's part of our mission as a group. We try to mentor weavers and our open house has the goal of let...
MARGARET TENNIS I thought it was going to be a good match up. They match up well with us.
MARK VAUGHN I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father tim...
FLAVOR FLAV We love to get young people out here to learn and then they can mentor others.
HANK CHARDOS We match-up well [with URI] if we communicate defensively.
MARNIE DACKO The kids were playing hard. We had momentum swinging and we were playing with confidence. Eric was c...
JODY STEMKOSKI It's funny how teams match up. For these kids these are phenomenal times.
DAVE NORTON The first match we were down match point in the super tiebreaker. The fact that we fought hard and c...
MAHESH BHUPATHI I think we match up with them well, though.
GREGG FORD To be honest with you, I think we match up pretty well with them.
LAURIE KELLY We've even thought about toying around with playing him, Cedric (McGowan) and Eric (Hicks) together....
ANDY KENNEDY I'd like to see them again, we match up with them well.
BOB PRENEVOST I try not to think about that too much before my match. I try to clear my mind and get a good match.
DAVID HELMER We made it different enough so that we didn't try to match it.
GREG BURNS It's going to be a good challenge for us. We match up fairly well with them.
LEVON KENDALL I've seen them enough through scouting, and I think we match up fairly well with them. They may be a...
JEFF HANS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Recesses will be inside. We will try to use due caution with our kids.
DANA PARKER We try to serve a wide range of kids' needs, future scientists as well as kids who just want to try ...
JEANNE CHOWNING Some of the kids, especially those who have been turning 720s on a video game with their fingers ver...
EARL SALINE We had to play a zone because we didn't match up with them, and we did a great job with it in the fi...
FRANK CONNELLY Danville came in with a ton of energy. But with the energy they came in with, our kids seemed to ......
ELDON HOY I just didn't think we could match up with their depth and athleticism. We're missing two starters f...
JOSE FERNANDEZ We can't simulate what they do [offensively] with JV teams and look teams, so we just tried to work ...
BOB SINCLAIR We can't simulate what they do [offensively] with JV teams and look teams, so we just tried to work ...
BOB SINCLAIR Eric was on a bit of a mission. He heard me talk about Carmine all week to our hitters and he had to...
CLYDE METCALF We all wake up at our leisure; the kids know not to wake me up. Then we make breakfast or go out to ...
JOSIE BISSETT “"The Boss became the Manager who stepped up into the Leader and then transformed into the Mentor"...
SIMCHA GLUCK I think we match up really well with them, especially if we can get our fans into it and use them al...
JANA HARRIGAN We used to turn up on the day of the match, meet for half an hour and then go and play,
BRUCE MORROW We try to make people feel safe. We want parents to feel comfortable with their kids coming to play.
ERIC KRISTENSON We have the guard play to match up with their guards; that's their strength. And we also have the de...
BILL LAIMBEER We start out the year like no one knows anything about wrestling, then we tweak the more advanced ki...
GARY COOK I think we match up good with anybody in the Pac-10.
CHRIS STEPHENS I think we match up well with Claflin. It will be interesting.
MARSHALL BALLARD We're excited to see how we match up with the best teams in the state.
ANDREW PALMER Kids that do well often have more connections than kids who didn't have connections. Sometimes it's ...
JEANNE CHOWNING We picked it up from the semifinal match. It was our last CSAA match ever, and we didn't want to go ...
GARY STANGLEWICZ We're a bunch of Canadian kids making music that is really far from our homes, so we try to make it ...
JAY MALINOWSKI They loved what we had, but we just couldn't match the incentives. We gave it a good try.
JUDE HAGIN Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting w...
TERRY PRATCHETT We match up with them well, but we got to put four quarters together instead of just two.
BUD HENDRIX I think physically we just got manhandled. Our kids just couldn't match up. They took us out of our ...
ALLAN BERTRAM We played extremely well in the first half. The kids were playing with confidence. We felt pretty go...
CHRIS SCHULTZ I thought we played a very efficient match as a team. Our kids played with a lot of focus. I'm very ...
CARY JUSTMANN It should be a barn-burner. We match up well. We may have edge at the post with Jenna.
BRETT GRAHAM Eric did an absolutely outstanding job on the mound. He threw strikes and we backed him up with some...
JOHN O'MALLEY If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON It's wonderful to work with someone with mentor status.
MADELEINE PEYROUX We could then compare what we made with what we found in the syringe. And it was a perfect match, al...
DON CATLIN We're not a first year school anymore, we feel we can play with anyone on our schedule, ... We have ...
BILL FISHER The Southland game will be even more physical than this one was. We match up with them, and they mat...
GINA MITCHELL Etienne Barbara may not start but he will surely play a part during the match. I want to try him alo...
DUSAN FITZEL Have a good mentor to follow and become a good mentor to be followed.
SATYA KALRA If your partners in business do not match up to God’s standard, then seek other partners
SUNDAY ADELAJA I think we should fare well in our league. We do run against some schools, like Norwell, that have u...
DON BATES We try not to have the kids go lacking.
CLIFFORD HOPKINS Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
ORRIN WOODWARD They can come in and post their name on a bulletin board. Then I can match them up with the leagues ...
LARRY GRAHAM It's disappointing to lose this game. This was a team that we match up really well with, and we domi...
DEBBIE RADEMACHER I was really impressed with how many balls we dug up tonight, ... And I think we're hard to match up...
CHRIS LAMB We played well in the first game, we just couldn't come up with the big hit. Eric was just dominant ...
ANDREW BRADLEY Devon was tough to match up against inside. We struggled to finish for a while. Corey was the one wh...
COREY GADSON We carry on looking for housing opportunities for the evacuees along with the local housing authorit...
ED CONLEY If you wrestle a match for six minutes, then we have a shot.
FRANK CASTANO It's always great. It gives us a chance to see how we match up with a variety of teams in a single d...
JOSE MEJIA Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.
DONOVAN BAILEY These kids just trust in each other. We started a tradition of winning and as players graduate and o...
BRAD BIARD This was a great match-up. They're so athletic...They have a great coaching staff. Our kids worked a...
DEB BENNETT The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, ...
ROGER PENROSE We have to try to put all the pieces together. Every guy has to get into their match.
PATRICK THOMPSON We had to work hard for this. We served well. We didn't have a lot of aces, but it was a good match ...
HOLLY PICKENS Obviously, tonight we didn't match up with the Colts in any aspect of the game,
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ERIC HOFFER Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses ...
ERIC HOFFER We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are ...
ERIC HOFFER SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-eviden...
ERIC HOFFER The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the b...
ERIC HOFFER The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do un...
ERIC HOFFER