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ANTONIO MCDYESS We had to come out hungry. We didn't have home-court advantage and Collinsville did. Coach told us, ...
ERIC HARRIS We just tried to pick the best team we can for this game,
RICKY PONTING We had some good blocking ? we stayed on them and tried to get after them. We tried hard to make som...
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KEITH FREEMAN She's real good at catching and shooting and shooting off the dribble. It makes a difference. We kne...
BOB KELLY C-I is a very good team and we tried our best. That is all I can ask from the girls.
JENNY TRAVIS We took our time to examine all the alternatives. We tried to make the best deal we could.
CHRIS ANTONETTI We tried to as best we could to maintain affiliations in close proximity, ... We certainly are not g...
STU JACKSON He's a great player. We tried to do as best as we could but it wasn't enough.
JIRI HUBALEK This was definitely supposed to be a test, and I think we did pretty good on it. We knew they were a...
ILIAN EVTIMOV You're crazy not to recognize that Mike Vick is a great player. He's going to make plays. We just tr...
KEITH ADAMS He's quick, penetrates and pretty much does it all. We tried to keep the ball out of his hands early...
CRAIG SICKELS We just tried to get them the ball and let them do what they do best.
BRADY QUINN We tried to play too fast and took too quick of shots.
JEFF CHRISTENSEN We tried a different tactic and went out quick. But he couldn't hold it. Hopefully he learned someth...
CHARLOTTE EVASICK He's a tremendous back. We tried our best to contain him, and most of the time we did pretty well. T...
BUBBA SCHWEIGERT I'm pleased. They have a good team. The first game, we did a nice job at first and didn't put them a...
MARK ROYER Parker broke us down badly. We tried to contain (her) penetration, which got us out of position.
BRENT BOWER The coach told me I had to step up when Danny Cloud went out. He told me I had to do my best, not tu...
BRANDON COLLINS We tried to get a good combination.
CATHERINE WYLER He is a great shooter, so you have to make him take tough shots. We tried to contain him, and to do ...
JAMIE DIXON We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro an...
CHERYL TIEGS Obviously knowing that they've got a little bit of stuff going on ... we wanted to make sure we jump...
TODD BERTUZZI You could look at it that way. As good as they are, we did contain them as best we could for three q...
BRYANT YOUNG We tried to get after them defensively without Strawberry. McCray did a good job handling the pressu...
STAN HEATH We tried to get after them defensively without Strawberry, ... McCray did a good job handling the pr...
STAN HEATH We needed to pull off one game against a good team to show everyone we could do it. We're doing some...
ALICIA WRIGHT Coach told us that we just needed to get a good night's sleep. That we had to keep the game and that...
MARTIN CLEVELAND We tried to think of different clients. Quantities were tough.
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DAN FEAGLER It used to be we tried to recruit two or three superstars and put together whatever we could around ...
LEON BARMORE He's been playing exceptionally well. In the LSU game, he was the guy they went to down the stretch,...
ANDY KENNEDY I just thought that if we could get it down to 10 we had a chance. We tried to make some adjustments...
LANCE WAGNER He's a good player so I just tried to get a hand up and contain him and not let him get to the lane.
IKE NWAELELE We have fried things in cubes, historically. We tried bars of Hollandaise, we tried different shapes...
WYLIE DUFRESNE Coach wanted us to go out and make sure we had a strong, strong defensive game. We tried to do that.
JOSH PEPPERS We tried to get some of our more athletic players around the ball. The team as a whole did a good jo...
MARIO CAMPS The team pulled together very well, whatever we tried worked.
DAVID GOWER He tried the best that he could, under the circumstances.
IVOR VAN HEERDEN We came out here and we tried our best, and just executed our offense. We knew that we were a big un...
BOB LUTZICK We tried to pressure them three-quarter court. We tried to pick up the pace and force a lot of turno...
DEAN RAHAS They went to a different level in the fourth quarter, and that's what the best teams do. Wade played...
EDDIE JORDAN I told my team that I didn't know what to do. We thought about it a lot and tried to come up with th...
MIKE CONNELLY We tried to dig hard from the perimeter; we didn't want to full-out double team him. We know that he...
BRIAN SNIDER We tried to take away her flashes to the basket and tried to make sure that she didn't get a lot of ...
DAVE URISH I gave it my best shot, tried to have the best rookie year I could.
SIDNEY CROSBY We took our time to examine all potential alternatives, contacted every team, and tried to make the ...
CHRIS ANTONETTI We'd probably have benefited if we'd tried to keep [the CRM deployment] simpler. We tried to bite of...
STEVE BUTLER We tried not to violate their culture, we tried not to take too many photos. We promised them we'd r...
RICHARD SEIVERT We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-s...
LIONEL ANDERSON We just tried to take it to them.
BECCA MCARDLE We could basically do whatever we wanted, so we tried to get penguins.
MARIA LEE The teachers were just shocked and saddened and we tried everything we could. The board tried to see...
ALICE CARTER We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.
TOMMY TUBERVILLE We knew they wanted to run and we tried to stop them from doing that. Man, those guards are good.
FLOYD IRONS They're all good players. We tried stopping them the way we thought would work, but they had other w...
JANA FRANCIS He had never tried them before, so we stopped. We are teaching him to gamble, which probably is not ...
TOM VINCENT We tried to do as many normal things as we could for as long as we could.
BRIAN DOMENICI We just wanted to make sure that we tried to we limit her touches. We shaded her in our zone. We wan...
KRISTY CURRY We just tried to come out and play team defense. Smart defense.
BOO DAVIS First, coach tried to give us this one play, and we didn't know what was going on, so we changed.
DEANDRE HAYNES I tried to start the game off with pressure and force them into reactions. Tried to avoid being flat...
DAN LEIBOVITZ It was a good game against a well-organized team. We tried everything, but when Tito didn't stop us,...
CARLES PUYOL It was tough. I tried to be positive and not come down on them for making mistakes. We got comfortab...
CEDRIC DRAKE We tried to pinpoint what we do best. We said at halftime we wanted to win the second half.
AL LAVAN Dave Allen is a great coach. He put some different defenses out there to make us do different things...
GARRY SAUNDERS We brought in a number of defensive linemen, which was a necessity for our program. We then tried to...
GEORGE O'LEARY We saw some areas we could score in and we tried to get the ball there as much as we could.
LARRY REYNOLDS You've got to credit Houston. We tried to find film of a team that was like them that we've played a...
DAVE ROSE We tried to beat them at their own game.
PRESTON DAVIDSON We tried to spot serve tonight. Maggie (Cooper) played really well, and we passed better as a team.
LORI ANDERSON In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
ALEX HALEY We lost five seniors, and three of them were starters. I've tried really hard not to compare this te...
AMY POWELL It was a very good way to open the season, especially after the rough pre-season that we had. Tonigh...
MARSHA ZOLLER Was it Charles Dickens who said it was the best of times and the worst of times? That's how I feel. ...
JEFF GORDON Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.
AL DAVIS He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should g...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. We definitely tried to guard them one on one and we weren't helping each other out as much as we nee...
KRISTEN KOVESDY We know that sometime in the future that land is probably going to be worth more than that, ... We t...
GARY HINES We tried different singers, it didn't work out. It never felt like a band.
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DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD So we mapped our program and we tried different strategies. Every teacher here became a reading teac...
HELEN WALTON It's tournament time, so you have to keep a constant effort, and that's what we tried to get done to...
DRAKE REED Our defenses confuse a lot of people. It confused us when coach put it in. Once we get it, the other...
CURTIS STINSON Defensively, we really tried to shut them down. They have troubles scoring in the half-court offense...
ANDRE MUSE We tried to start a rally, and hopefully we could get a run and get the game over with,
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CHUCK STEWART Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great tea...
JAMIE MUNRO A lot of the problems we found as a start-up we tried to get fixed as soon as we could.
JOSHUA KING We tried to revive him but could not succeed. We did everything to save him.
RAMANA RAO We're applying a bit more pressure up top. We added an extra offensive midfielder. We tried to take ...
CHAD ALLEN We tried courting traditional givers, I'll be honest with you. We met with them and talked to them a...
DEAN BARKLEY We just made them pretty uncomfortable. We tried to minimize touches in the post.
BRIAN GRANDIERI I felt like we tried to give it away. We didn't play our best. I told the girls after the game that ...
KEN ASHLOCK I was very pleased with the way a lot of our guys played tonight. Adam played the way I know he can....
JAMIE MULLEN We've tried to implement them as much as we can.
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CHARLES DICKENS I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
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CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
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CHARLES DICKENS Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
CHARLES DICKENS The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
CHARLES DICKENS Alas ! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty ! The cares, and sor...
CHARLES DICKENS What do you mean, Phib?" asked Miss Squeers, looking in her own little glass, where, like most of us...
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Freque...
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CHARLES DICKENS Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship;
and pass the rosy wine.
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CHARLES DICKENS You are fettered," said Scrooge, trembling. "Tell me why?"
"I wear the chain I forged in life,"...
CHARLES DICKENS We need never be ashamed of our tears.
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CHARLES DICKENS Lord, keep my memory green.
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CHARLES DICKENS When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now...
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CHARLES DICKENS The pure, the bright,
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The impulses to wordles...
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CHARLES DICKENS To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through ...
CHARLES DICKENS The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear br...
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CHARLES DICKENS The law is sic a ass - a idiot.
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CHARLES DICKENS Circumstances beyond my individual control.
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CHARLES DICKENS The dodgerest of all the dodgers.
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CHARLES DICKENS The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
CHARLES DICKENS The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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CHARLES DICKENS We forge the chains we wear in life.
CHARLES DICKENS 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
CHARLES DICKENS It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ...
CHARLES DICKENS The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
CHARLES DICKENS Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, ...
CHARLES DICKENS [Peggotty] gave me one piece of intelligence which affected me very much, namely, that there had bee...
CHARLES DICKENS In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothi...
CHARLES DICKENS Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,...
CHARLES DICKENS The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider noth...
CHARLES DICKENS Now that it was safe to drag their relationship out into the light and examine it mercilessly it was...
MONICA DICKENS Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...
CHARLES DICKENS Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
CHARLES DICKENS Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
CHARLES DICKENS I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't...
CHARLES DICKENS Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from t...
CHARLES DICKENS He had used the work in its Pickwickian sense . . . he had merely
considered him a humbug in a Pick...
CHARLES DICKENS