You could see it when he would hit a little bump in the road. He would start to get down and put extra pressure on himself, but you don't see that as much now.

I think that it is really important that we go in there with a little bit of a swagger and play with some confidence so we can go in there and make some things happen.

The whole last month has been more stressful than anything for all of us. We thought it was all behind us, but obviously it wasn't. 'Stressful' is the word I would use.

Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.

A few decades ago, the Irish decided they were tired of being always near the bottom of Europe's economic indicators. So they envisioned a better future for their country, and they put their people on the right road to get there.

In a city that worships the new and the sleek, the street market at Da Jing Road is willfully out of step. It is a splendid jumble of centuries, full of sizzling pot stickers and bleating cell phones, pungent rice wine and bullfrogs as plump as softballs.