They focused on their game, not searching on the screens to see who's got what. Amy was totally relaxed all day. Patterson was like that too. For me, it was terrific sitting back watching this whole thing come together. It was a lot of fun. I was so proud. We were really thrilled.
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Related It was pretty frustrating watching a couple weekends ago. I?m not used to sitting back and watching ... JACOB MICFLIKIER Before the game, I could see a lot of people's faces. They were focused. We needed this win bad. It ... JUSTIN HENRY The racecar was really good. It was all weekend. I was probably too confident in the car in qualifyi... CLINT BOWYER Today was a lot of fun. It was my first day out and I got to play with a lot of the guys I've been w... JUSTIN MOOSE As time begins to pass, I have come to find that what I thought was, wasn't what I thought was so. ASTRAEA L. SKYLAR The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER Voters thought he's verbose, but he was crisp and on message -- a lot of people who hadn't focused o... ALEC LAMIS It was a great year in a lot of ways. It showed what we were made of, and I was proud of those young... DIANE MADL We played really well together as a team. It was nice to see. And I have 14 girls on my bench, and t... LYNETTE FLACK But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I tuned that all out. Obviously, there was a lot of stuff going on. But it was just a spring trainin... BILLY WAGNER They knew it was on their shoulders when it was like 7-all. I was really proud of Tara and Sarah, th... JIM SHEEHAN To me, the most rewarding thing was that I was able to hang in there after a poor start and get my g... PHIL MICKELSON Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducte... NOLAN BUSHNELL Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, ... MISTY COPELAND Last year everybody focused on Tyler. This year it was the opposite, it was me. I'm not saying I was... JAY SEARS I was proud to see them hit with such force and I know they were too. This game gave our hitters a l... LORI SNELL We were after the kids and got on the kids about the way they played the night before. We weren't re... DON CAHOON It was really special for me because [on the night of Ripken's 2,131st game], I was in my first year... MIGUEL TEJADA It was a good showing for our team and it was a great atmosphere. It was a great game for everybody ... BENJAMIN BETTS I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON Neither team was really controlling the tempo. I think I was getting sleepy on the sideline watching... VIC WOLFFIS It was huge for us. That's the kind of thing that the team works so hard to just to come to this day... AUNDRAE ALLISON It was a really tough tournament. We did well. I was proud of their day, we got a lot accomplished a... LAMONT MCCANN I didn't see what happened in the stands, I was watching what was happening on the court. It was a h... BILL SWAN It is a hard thing to want to come back and play after something like that. Everyone was just really... LORI MILLER We tried to make a game that was really fun, that really entertained us for the years we were workin... JOHN HOWARD Not many times do you get the opportunity to be in the presence of so many great players. We played ... JASON REPKO We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for ... DOUG AVRIT They were the No. 2 seed, it was in their gym and their fans were really loud, but I was really prou... HERB GRACE That was some violent, violent weather. We're sitting in the clubhouse watching on TV and wondering,... AL MARTIN I was so impressed with her dedication; she really wanted this thing to happen, and she made it happ... CRAIG BORDNER I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL Our players left everything on the field. When they came off the field, they were spent. I was watch... DAVE HART He played awesome tonight. I was saying all day I was nervous about our focus because last night we ... BILL BUTTERWORTH The important part was having fallen behind early, it was really the first character game for us all... BILL TUSSEY It was exciting. We were 2-all and first singles was still on the court. John really came back in th... DAVE HIGGS It was little bit too late to come back in the second set. I was missing a lot on baseline, my serve... MARAT SAFIN And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio s... RINGO STARR They all got a chance to play, so that was a real positive. The younger girls got a chance to see wh... MICHELE COOKE It was pretty smooth. They were really helpful. I thought it was going to be a combative thing. I wa... CHARLES HARRIS I do not feel like we played very good soccer today, but I was proud of our players on how they resp... CURTIS BLAIR It was a great basketball game. The most important thing coming into this game (was) we had to get o... DOUG STIVERSON This is a game we were really focused on. It was an embarrassing moment for me as a coach and for th... DAVE KLINGEL When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a ... CARLOS BELTRAN We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, a... JUNKO ABE I was pretty excited. It's a totally different role for me. Coming back, with a whole new team, I th... BRADY BAJEMA I'm thrilled to be honored like this because this is my first year and I didn't really expect it. Bu... EMILY MAIER I was really proud of the way the girls battled back tonight. Pine Bluff beat Camden in their first ... HEIDI MARTIN This was a lot of fun. I wanted to wrestle well for the fans, and just because that's the way I am. ... BILLY CHAMBERLAIN She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t... MARGARET MCMULLAN It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew... KRIST NOVOSELIC It was my first action. It was nerve-wracking, being a freshman and getting into that game. It was d... ANTHONY RUSSO It was my first action. It was nerve-wracking, being a freshman and getting into that game. It was d... ANTHONY RUSSO It was just communication. They run some killer screens so when we got hung up, we switched. The mai... KIRBY COPELAND I was very proud of the way each and every girl played today. It was nice to all come together as a ... KRISSY HALL The thing I'll remember the most is how tough those practices were when I first got here. With Coach... ARMEIN KIRKLAND I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER It was a lot of fun. That's not every day. He looked good. I know he was taking it easy, and that wa... COREY COLES I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON Basically, I was in shock. I just couldn't believe it. Somebody called me earlier that morning to te... JEFF SUPPAN It was kind of an inspiration to see Vernell make that play, because of everything he's been through... DALLAS BAKER Opening for The Beatles in San Francisco at the Cow Palace was great. It was terrific fun to do. The... BILL MEDLEY It was really on the limit today. One of my teammates got hurt, but I don't think it was too dangero... ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER Today what was impossible is made possible and the rest is history SUNDAY ADELAJA The idea came to me when I was doing a show and saw this girl sitting down front and she was wearing... MARTI DODSON It was a change of scenery for me. I felt like I had spent so much time running on trails that I wan... DESBAH YAZZIE That was a bad situation for me, ... I'm lucky I actually got a chance to wake up and see them and g... WILLIE PONDER We had a larger pool of candidates that all were qualified uniquely in their own way. It was a very ... AUSTIN ADAMS It was devastating watching on TV and not being able to do anything. A lot was going on in my mind a... BARRY CRYER It's an honor to play in this game. All of the guys really got along well and it was a lot of fun. MATT CRANDLEY Both teams were well matched and played pretty well. One of the things we wanted to do this season w... BOB ERICKSON I didn't pay attention to the call. I was too focused on the game. ... I did come back and make some... ALEX GUERRERO I really thought we had them out of sync. We were sitting on stuff they like to do. It was a tremend... LARRY SHERRILL I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trop... KEVIN MITNICK Oh, yeah. The people are so wonderful and friendly. I have never been to Mississippi so it was a tre... DEBORAH BROWN We had a tough draw and I was hoping we could come back and put a good effort together. But on the w... MATT MCKAY I was just surprised to see a lot of people on the streets even when it was raining. So, even though... ANGEL LOCSIN And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for... WARREN CUCCURULLO Looking back on the season that we had and how crazy it was, I was just so excited that we got it do... HANNAH KIRK Rashad and I saw early on what McGrath was capable of. So we took it upon ourselves to lock him up. ... DENHAM BROWN Thankfully it was a great game for the fans. There was no controversy. The game was played, focused ... BOBBY WAGGONER This was a big ball game. The whole week, we'd talked about treating it like a playoff game. They we... TONY PITTMAN I was born in Morocco and lived there until I was 13; I'm really proud of my heritage. FRENCH MONTANA They kept telling me Wendy's grandmother is really a terrific woman. I said 'oh yes, oh yes.' I was ... LLOYD CONOVER He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from... JENNIFER WESTER I think this was definitely our worst loss of the season and it's very bitter for me because their b... BRIAN HILL And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER I didn't know what to expect. It was a lot of fun. All the girls were really nice. ASHLEY CHANDLER When we first started learning about it, it seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun and not so m... ROBERT JAMES It was tough. This was the day I was waiting for and we pulled together brilliantly to win this impo... ANT STOTT See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never re... MARKUS ZUSAK It was unbelievable worrying, not knowing whether Hannah was going to come back. That was the worst ... ELIZABETH CLARK There's 20 really cutting-edge, cool artists on there, so I was so thrilled to be a part of it, ... ... CASSANDRA PETERSON
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TOM CRUISE If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian ... TOM CRUISE Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people. TOM CRUISE What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture,... TOM CRUISE I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. TOM CRUISE As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I... TOM CRUISE The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell yo... TOM CRUISE The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you sur... TOM CRUISE I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I&... TOM CRUISE I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot o... 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TOM STOPPARD The thing that happens remarkably often is that the people who are writing a dissertation believe th... TOM STOPPARD I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. TOM STOPPARD My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. TOM STOPPARD The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it's no longer the abstract ideal version; ... TOM STOPPARD I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones... TOM STOPPARD Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change. TOM STOPPARD Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe. TOM STOPPARD All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. An... TOM STOPPARD Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. TOM STOPPARD The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with t... TOM STOPPARD For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea... TOM STOPPARD Every exit is an entry somewhere else. TOM STOPPARD Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. TOM CONTI I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quart... TOM CRUISE Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibil... TOM BRADY Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all... TOM BRADY Every man should know, if you're comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always ... TOM BRADY The only thing I ever wanted to be was a professional football player. TOM BRADY I'm never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast. TOM BRADY So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they me... TOM BRADY If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful. TOM BRADY My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe t... TOM BRADY There's not much time to unwind, but you know what, it's because I love what I do. I look fo... TOM BRADY I think the great part about what I do is that there's a scoreboard. At the end of every week, y... TOM BRADY I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to ch... TOM BRADY You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help th... TOM BRADY The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win. TOM BRADY When you're one of the leaders of the team, there are no days off. TOM BRADY I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn't think I'... TOM BRADY Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geome... TOM DELONGE I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal. TOM BRADY