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Renaldo knew going into today that he wasn't going to start but when the opening came, he was ready. He was ready because he practiced hard the past two days. Starting or not starting doesn't matter to Renaldo. He was ready regardless.

Overall, it's been what we expected, not really what we had wished. The fact that some sports are not practiced in the country, you have to live with.

Our fans are really good, and that last group of guys practiced and earned their opportunity, too. They did a good job.

I was happy with the results. We haven't practiced that much this week because of rain.

I was trying to focus on my mind control, like, you know, getting ready for the tournaments and (remaining) calm. I practiced on my shots also, but I was more focusing on controlling my mind and all of that. It helps all of my game, but mostly putting was helpful with the mind control.

I think if it is Garcia, having practiced against him every day would help a lot, but I wouldn't go into the game expecting seven turnovers just because you know the guy. It works both ways. We know him, but he knows us from practicing against us. We both do film study. It will come down to who is more prepared and who executes better." ()

I was glad we won and hopefully we win (today) and go to the finals. We practiced hard on Saturday, but we had to prepare for another team. It was hard.

I think he's adjusting very well. I know he's had two solid practices, and I think today was the third solid practice. I think that's been a good move for our football team, and it will be a good move for him. It was probably good that we practiced him there some during the bowl practices. That's helped him make the adjustment.

Katie on a stress fracture gives us 14 minutes and basically had to take herself out of the game. Ashley hasn't practiced but came back and gave us everything she had. But we're just really limited.

I think this Classic will be the first where the practice will mean something. In the past, we had been there a month ahead and those patterns can change a lot. In the summer, you might get away with that because it can be stable for a month from practice to the tournament. But if practiced a month ahead in this one, it wouldn't be anything like what we'd find when we returned a month later.

I think we were well prepared tonight. At this point in the season, everything is taken care of because of all the time you've practiced so you can play your game.

I thought our players handled it pretty well. they practiced hard and practiced fast. We got better. We were able to come back last night and get a game preparation practice in for Oregon State and that went really well. You like the preparation time, but you also like getting into a game week rhythm. It is hard to keep practicing against each other all the time.

It comes back to the fact that we practiced well Thursday, Friday, and we practiced well today. We're doing what we're supposed to do, and that is paying attention to detail. And - go figure - you win.

I wasn't sure about the pitch or the tone at first, but I practiced with it, and it really is beautiful.

Today, the third-graders tasted Asian food, and they loved it. The performers for Thursday's shows practiced in their costumes, which made them glow, and we loved watching them.

We had not practiced well until this week and that has me more optimistic. The kids understand the offense and defense and our long-term goals. They realize it is more of a journey than a short trip. We may get beat, but we can still move forward from there. If we win we have a better shot at the conference, but either way we can move on.

You know, we practice with it (noise). We practiced it out there today (Wednesday). I scream at the top of my lungs so that they can hear the snap count in practice. We work at it, but I think the biggest thing is just concentration.

We just went back and practiced after the Virginia Tech game and worked on some of the mistakes that we made in running our inside zones and stuff like that. Cleaned up a little blocking and stuff that we might have messed up in the first game.

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

We haven't played in 10 days. We've been inside a lot and practiced our hitting. Defensively, we're a better team than that. It was nice to get out. We were rusty.

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

We needed to get another center in here. Now we have two proven centers in (Antoine) Murphy and Lacey. He practiced (Wednesday) morning. He looks good.

We proved to people we can throw the football. We'd practiced it, but we hadn't shown it as much. If people try to gang up on us and stop the run, they're going to give up big plays.

We played like we practiced all week, with no sense of urgency,

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

We played real physical with a lot of intensity. We left practice bleeding a lot. If there was a loose ball on the floor, we went after it. And if a ball went up in the stands, we went after it up there. There was just the attitude that we practiced with the attitude that we played with.

We played today exactly like we practiced yesterday and we can't get away with playing at anything other than the top of our game the next three games. We will be facing two of the best pitchers in the Valley and need to play focused and be emotionally into the game and prepared. When we play focused and disciplined, we can beat anyone.

We had to. We had no place else to go. You kind of practiced on spots you literally walked around and found a place that didn't have a ditch in it.

We had nine first-year players against Montreal. We practiced with 15 players today. Everybody knows our situation. We're limping. Still, we're only one point out of first place.

We really went at it. I thought it was going to be hard for us to get back into team things. ... We played today how we practiced all week. We got in the mode of competing all the time, and it carried over into today.

That's the way it looks now. The best way to describe Jake is to say he's day-to-day. We hope he can play, but he hasn't practiced in a week.

That was a play we practiced every day in practice, just about. I got a good look at it. They did a good job of contesting the play.

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

That was huge. We spent a lot of time in spring training working on two-strike counts. We practiced that, as far as putting the ball in play and cutting down your swing a little bit, and it paid off.

There are no hard feelings from our side. We don't have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us.

We hit the ball. We've been off since a week ago Saturday, and we practiced yesterday for the first time, and we're getting the rust off.

When I moved to the East Village in the late seventies, I wanted to be a street performer, so I practiced daily. I never did work up the skills or the courage to perform on the street, though.

We've seen a different John Logan this week. He practiced like he knew he was going to play, which is good, because we need him.

Today was the first day we practiced in here, ... So I think, you know, it was more of an unfamiliar facility for us, and we'll get more reps in the O'Connell Center, and it will be good for us.

We have made a concerted effort to make sure the kids remember to have fun. We practiced Christmas Eve morning between 9 and 11 a.m. and we had some of the coaches and ex players playing a little. We want to get them back into the mode of having fun. Nobody has their heads down.

This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.

When guys get to be seniors, they know it's time to step up, ... He has practiced hard. Sometimes he wasn't the most consistent pass catcher, but he's got a little confidence and he's really going to play a bunch.

When guys get to be seniors, they know it's time to step up. He has practiced hard. Sometimes he wasn't the most consistent pass catcher, but he's got a little confidence and he's really going to play a bunch.

Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tire blow out at Michigan, and I probably hit harder than I did at Atlanta. And I went and practiced my Cup car 15 minutes later.

We actually prepared for them today. We knew this was a possibility and we knew they were in the game. We watched tape of the game two years ago, and we practiced and prepared as if we were in this game. So we already got a head start.

We actually put heart-rate monitors on the kids and they practiced with them. That way, I could tell who was working hard and who was not. That was just tremendous for us.

We practiced against each other for several years so it was great to see him tonight and get to play against him. He's a great player and great friend.

We practiced against Juninho's free-kicks, ... But not enough to stop him.

We practiced against six guys all week, but you can?t simulate their speed. So we knew we were going to have turnovers. But, we wanted to defend well and get the ball in the paint and we did that really well.

We practiced against that play during the week. They do a lot of different things with him. He's a marvelous athlete. He's got speed.

We practiced against (the 2-3 zone) in practice over and over again. All the teams usually run zone against us since we're so big inside with Jack. So we worked on the 2-3 zone in practice to find a way around it and find what works.

We practiced against the 3-2 but we were passive. We didn't attack it.

We practiced against their full-court pressure. We knew that if we got the ball to the middle we could break their press, but we had too many mental lapses in the first quarter and we couldn't get back in the game after that.

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

We practiced a lot and sometimes it really got long, but today it paid off. I've got a lot of talent around me and I just try to get guys the ball.

We practiced covering the option all week. The defense did a great job of staying with their assignments.

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

We practiced for everything we thought they were going to do. Obviously once the game starts you get 60 minutes to get it done and we just didn't get it done in certain crucial areas against a good football team on the road.

We practiced for two months over the summer every day, and we had games. It keeps you in shape. You play against top competition, probably the best in the world. That gives you an idea of how good of a player you are.

We practiced hard and played hard ... but they played better.

We practiced hard last week. We got after it. We had to get the intensity back and not accept losing." ()

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

We practiced lots and lots of tasks, we were prepared to do a lot things that we'd never done before, and that theory was sort of tested on this, and that's sort of the whole idea of going into space. You don't really know what your challenges are going to be ahead of time, so you practice everything you can think of.

We practiced most of two-a-days without him. It would have been worse if he would have practiced this whole time and then lose him now. Guys got valuable reps and you have to count on them.

We practiced on Monday, but we didn't practice very long because I think it's important that we have fresh legs because this game, going over there, is going to be so emotional.

We practiced on them attacking us, staying in that man-to-man.

We practiced our free throws for an hour and a half after school. I guess it helped.

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

We practiced really hard and our coaches really got us prepared. We felt like we could get any shot we wanted by working the ball around.

We practiced that next Monday (Sept. 5). We got the word out as best we could that if they could make it, we were going to practice. I think it helped the kids a lot to get back around their friends.

We practiced this morning at the University of Dallas.

We practiced very well for that game, but I wasn't aware of the hangover from the BCS thing until the night before the game. This year, we've told everybody that the game on Thursday is the only thing that matters. That's where you get a chance to make a stand.

We practiced well all week and played well the past week. They really keyed on Eric and that opened things up for Doug.

We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to call what they were doing and we played well as a team.

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

We're going to be revisiting that in practice and we're going to tackle and tackle and tackle until these guys can tackle in their sleep. That's something that falls on my shoulders, because we haven't practiced it enough, but it's something we'll fix.

We worked and practiced hard all season to allow us to compete. I was real proud of our effort all year.

We basically practiced it at our house for a week. And my sister, who is a dancer, helped choreograph it for our live show, ... We taped us doing it in the backyard not to use as our own video, but because we wanted to show the dance to a video director for this other idea we had that involved choreography to prove to him we were the band to do it. It turns out the director never even got it.

When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a business approach to the whole thing. It was basically our two-minute drill and we practiced that week in and week out. We knew we had a lot of time.

When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.

This summer I just practiced real hard. I was real dedicated. I don't think I missed two or three workouts this whole summer.

We've got Kraig, we've Jake, we've got all kinds of options. We practiced them both this week, and we did some other things. It's a game-time decision.

We always had to practice around watering days. Now we can come out and practice on it. We never practiced on the game field, only on Thursdays.

Whether you call it a low-grade separation or a contusion, he practiced every day. He won't get treatment for it. He blocks out pain. He plays through it. It's a testament to his toughness as a football player.

When we got out there (Tuesday), the weather had turned kinda bad. It was cold and windy and not at all like the weather we'd practiced so well in during the past few days. We're just glad to see the kids still perform and not get thrown off by anything, then go out and get the win.

We faced them at a pre-season jamboree and practiced with them over the break so we know they will bring a tough, pressure defense. We'll have a size disadvantage, but we are quick and can jump.

Yes, I'll feel a bit of nerves. Hopefully, I'll feel like a player in a Grand Slam tournament, knowing that he's practiced and prepared as hard as he can for this moment.

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Duce is working this week, hopefully he'll be ready by Sunday, but he is not ready to carry the load and he hasn't really practiced even through training camp,

Could've, should've or would've, you can't change what happened. The varsity eight sat on the line before the race and got over-excited. What's upsetting is the night before, they practiced so well and were really together.

I started warming up at this place downtown for this guy and they asked me to be the headliner, ... From there, I practiced more, rocked the crowd, participated with the crowd and got notoriety.

The good thing about it is we've practiced with Anthony. He got an opportunity to play in the second half. It's not like we're in Week 9 or 10 and all of a sudden you throw him in there.

You can tell it's Southeastern Conference time. For our first day of practice this week, we were focused and we practiced very hard. We had good camaraderie.

Todd miraculously played rather well considering he hadn't practiced all week. We didn't know until game time if he was going to play.

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

The stuff he's doing is within the framework of the offense because he's practiced at game speed.

The second game of the season, we played in that gym we practiced in this morning, and we got our lunch handed to us.

We'll work him out, just because he's a vet who has been in a lot of big games before. We've tried to rest him as much as we can, but we feel good about the guys that have practiced all week long. If we can get him, that's a bonus.

With special teams it's the first time we've practiced with lines - ever. Now we practice wide side of the field, short side of the field. With hash marks you can run full-blown practices without getting out cones and saying, 'This is a hash mark.' You can do situations a lot easier.

We've only practiced not even a handful of times yet. It's just nice seeing him back there. It's been a long time since we've played together, so it's nice to pick up where we left off.