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DAVID BLANKENHORN If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first p... FRANK ROBINSON Yeah, it makes it a little easier to follow those guys. But you know, those guys had to be the leade... GREG OSTERTAG In those days, who bought? Who had money? Aside from being ostracized for doing something no one els... JAMES KOSHIBA Those guys played hard and they played well. They [the Jaguars] were bringing a lot of pressure, so ... MATT HASSELBECK When we began thinking about this year's parade and what had happened in New Orleans we realized we ... JEANNE FLEMING We were like a wounded animal up there. They had us backed in a corner, and sometimes that's dangero... DAVE EWART We didn't think they could guard our big guys inside. We just kept pumping it in there. BEN JACOBSON Any lack of joy in the world is the result of disobedience. CAROLYN SHIELDS The group of guys I came up with in the 1990s were very innovative. I remember some of the older guy... TRACY LAWRENCE You can't get big in hockey. You need to be pliable... they've even taken fighting out of th... BRETT HULL It's definitely something to be proud of. Those other guys are not a bunch of pushovers. I think the... MARK AMIRAULT We were able to do the things that we've been working on in practice really well. We weren't out the... BARRY KING A few games were well below freezing and those guys came in the cold with shirts off and painted che... JULIUS JAMES I remember sitting up there in Kentucky just thinking I was so frustrated and mad that I wanted to h... CARL KRAUSER There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties wit... GUY FORGET He does make sense, but I do want to go out there and play. I just don't know. Those guys are playin... CURTIS SUMPTER I don't think it was anything Stewart or David did, ... We just got off to a hot start and from ther... MIKE WEIR Just somehow to be able to get a win, that's huge with all those guys out. We need to just keep it g... JAMIE MARTIN My pad level - I'm a tall, lean guy - if those guys get low and bull rush me, they'll be able to mov... ERIC STEINBACH All those two-out hits, that tells you something, ... I just sit out there in the bullpen and watch ... CHAD FOX I know the summer time is where they really try to weed those guys out. There are guys who really wa... VINCE CARTER There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The rati... BONNIE RAITT We just couldn't execute -- those guys were executing their offense and getting points out of it and... JOSH PEPPERS I would like to be mentioned with all the top guys, all the elite guys. Everyone wants to be one of ... DEMECO RYANS Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES Out West, there is a saying that water flows to money. But in New Orleans, water flows away from mon... CRAIG COLTEN There were eight guys that played last year? That means 20 new guys? Wow. That just shows it's harde... BRAD FAXON The news said the hurricane would hit New Orleans, and we were closer to Mobile (Ala.). We went to b... HEATHER WETZEL Two mobile homes were demolished on (U.S.) Highway 70, ... and there was one injury in one of those ... JOHN ROBINSON We had two guys that transferred in that I'm confident will go to state. And, they were so anxious t... JORGE AMAYA We kept asking him about the nail and he said it was feeling good. He was throwing the ball well, bu... JEFF MATHIS Those guys carried me through. I had a lot of tough three-set matches this week, and they were my le... JAMES BLAKE I was real honored to be right there with those two guys (the troopers). At that point they were jus... JAMES FARRELL Judging from some of the guys who played here in the past, it extended their careers and they were a... 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