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It always is. That's how they really stayed in the game. They were just really, really tough tonight. They didn't let us get a 10-point cushion. They kept it within four or five all second half. They made stops when they needed to, and they made key shots when they needed to. So, it was close down the stretch.

I talked to Dan Marino. He told me to stay focused and that I'd get butterflies and be nervous and that there would be anxious feelings, but to make sure I stayed under control and not let it get the best of me. He said to enjoy it, have fun, because you never know if it's going to come back.

It certainly won't be the last hard-fought game between us. They are a much-improved team that gave us all we could handle tonight. They're very athletic and quick. But we stayed level-headed and poised, and we knocked down our free throws.

I think it's a new course record but I wanted to go sub-15. I got out there and I just stayed focused.

I think it says something about Freddy that, despite his ups and downs in this race, he has stayed dignified, animated, and charismatic.

I thought we would be okay if we stayed within striking distance in the first quarter and we did. We were able to take the lead in the second half. This will be such a great learning experience for the younger girls on the team.

I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.

I thought we stayed right with them. It was just that one lull that put us in a hole that was difficult to climb out of. But I thought we did a good job climbing.

It didn't get in my mind. My head has always been in the right place. I just stayed positive the whole time and did my work.

I thought that Elyse Barnes, the little freshman kid, did a great job on her. She stayed in front of her and kept her drives to a minimum.

I thought they were smart, they attacked us inside a lot and got some good baskets. Their inside kids are tremendously improved, and Reynolds had a big game for them. When he starts hitting jump shots, you can be in a little trouble. He got some shots to go down, but I thought we stayed with some good composure, on the offensive end especially.

I thought that the sprint was my best chance but I stayed calm knowing that there was still two individual events coming.

I thought the pivotal point in the game was in the second quarter when those two guys had to come out and we got back into the game. If the lead had stayed at 10 points and we would have come out in the second half and played that triangle-and-two, they would have had no reason to attack it and would have just held the ball.

I wasn't the six-foot guy that fits pants perfect and all that. So my pants always came up right in the middle of the calf and I just said screw it, because I don't like pitching with them all the way up (to the knee). I had a good year and kind of stayed with it.

I wasn't lighting matches or anything. I was doing all the bits of other work and stayed clear of the big burner.

Troy Christian really gave us a good match. There was a lot of pressure on Pat to deliver, and, to his credit, he stayed focused. I'm so proud of all these kids and our coaches.

Thy early smile has stayed my walk;But midst the gorgeous blooms of May,I passed thee on thy humble stalk.

We had open shots, but couldn't make them. They stayed ahead about 15 points and we could never catch up.

We came out, jumped on them, and stayed on top. My teammates are doing a good job getting me the open shots and I'm knocking them down. That's the way I should be playing.

We came out kind of slow. We kept our composure, and we stayed in the game with them.

We were going to try something different on him but then we decided we weren't going that route. We stayed in zone. Every time they needed a basket he made it.

The problems he had were in the outfield. When you first saw him out there, 'How is he ever going to be able to play?' But Tony stayed with it, and became a good outfielder.

We were just being relentless. Guys were tired, cramping up, but we stayed in each other's ear.

We were just breaking each other, and most times pretty easily. It was very difficult conditions. I think that today whoever had the stronger head, and stayed in the match, won.

We don't have time to mess around. We stayed together and pulled it out.

We didn't set the tone and we got down big. I thought we had wide open shots, and we couldn't make them. We stayed with it, but just got down too far, and they had a nice level of comfort. We didn't play as well as we needed to play to win this game.

We didn't shoot the ball very well, to be honest. The effort was there. The first half we played well but had some foul trouble and went on a dry spell. We stayed on 26 points for a long time and missed some easy shots.

We didn't change our game plan. When they scored we stayed relaxed. It was almost like we knew we would score more runs.

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn't going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they're not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden 6 minutes into the game put him out there. That wouldn't be fair. I think it's better that he stayed ready, but unfortunately he didn't get in.

I would not have stayed if Coach Hill didn't come here.

The athletes were treated like criminals, they weren't even allowed to make a phone call. They checked every drink, every food, and they took a lot of stuff with them. They came around 9 and stayed until 12, and then took the athletes away to be tested.

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

Valerie stayed strong for her son, she couldn't cry. The elderly and the sick were completely bedridden. I could only imagine how traumatizing it would be to lay in bed and not be able to do anything.

We played physical tonight and when you play that physical you can somewhat intimidate a team. I feel like we jumped on them and stayed on them tonight.

We just didn't have enough speed. He has a lot more water length than we did. I was happy we stayed with him.

We have tracked those who have stayed and have applied for benefits, but I don't think there were that many of them. There just weren't that many who have stayed.

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

I was on the left side and I stayed out of it. There were a lot of people who went down. It looked like everyone was going down.

I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years.

I was rapt with the win. I was never worried. I was only concerned that our preparation just wasn't long enough and he would get tired. I believe that was the best he showed so far. That wasn't our best preparation. But unlike some of his other fights, he never seemed to have any real lull. That was a surprise to me and made me feel good. I was very proud of him. He showed a lot of balls. He took a lot and stayed with Gabi the whole fight.

I was really concerned that we might run out of gas. We only played seven players, but the energy level stayed up.

I was proud of the way we played in the second half. We didn't do that many things better than in the first half, but we stayed tough.

You can definitely say, 'great player' of Gilbert now. He does what great ones do, in practice, after practice, in the games. You can definitely say it now. Look at the way he leads, which has to be important. I missed a three-pointer on the break and he said, 'Shoot it every time.' I had a pretty tough first half, but the way he talked to me and stayed with me meant a lot.

When I saw that program in 1967, I was convinced I was drafted, ... And it stayed with me all these years.

I was really happy with the win. Unfortunately, we still didn't play up to what we can. It was a lot closer than it should have been. But the girls definitely showed their mental toughness and stayed focused.

I was really pleased with our first half. The belly play was good to us and they couldn't stop our fullback in the first half with Mitch and Josh. That's where we had Harrell in the second half. I'm disappointed we didn't score on our second series after we got first-and-goal, but I started improvising and sort of got cute. I should have stayed with what we were doing.

When something like that happens, neither team gets into a rhythm. Both teams were in foul trouble very early on and it stayed like that rest of the game.

That was probably the least amount of curveballs I've thrown in my entire career. I had a pretty good cutter today and I was locating my fastball pretty well, so I stayed with that all day.

That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.

We got the hit we needed at the right time. We've been slow at the plate, but we stayed close with our fielding and pulled it out in the end. That was a big a play at the right time.

We got to 'em early and stayed strong throughout. We're showing more improvement every day.

We got to meet and hang out with all the United States athletes because we all stayed at the same dorm. We got to know guys like Greg Louganis, Carl Lewis and Riddick Bowe, plus athletes from all over the world. It was fantastic experience.

While we had to count an error, I thought the team fought really hard and stayed the course tonight. Any time you compete, you want to win but tonight we had other goals as well and I think we helped ourselves a lot in meeting those.

We followed County Judge Mike Pfeifer's instructions and stopped anyone moving, ... A lot of people were passing through pulling boats. A lot of people stayed in the motels.

We had to make sure that construction stayed on schedule. Our current plan is to use the month of June to slowly transition freight operations to Louisville and other facilities.

We came this far, so close, but everybody in this (locker) room believed it. The non-believers stayed in South Carolina. Everybody in this room believed we were going to win it.

We haven't found any evidence that he committed any crimes here. There's evidence that he stayed here for a period of time with his family in the late 1990s.

We have not seen each other as a group, I didn't watch any of the games. I just kind of stayed away, did things with my wife, shopping.

Mick wanted to start this year. He knew he was ready. The biggest change (from last year) has been his mental attitude. He's always had the ability, now he developed the right attitude out there. He had to accept it and take it upon himself to take it to the next level. Some individuals never buy into it or only buy into it for one or two starts. Mick stayed mentally focused and bought into it the whole time.

When it let loose, it let loose. Bricks were falling on us. I gave up, and, somehow, floated to the top, and there was a big white roof there, and I got on top of it, and that was the end of it. I stayed there for four hours in the storm.

We were able to come back today. We showed a lot of character and stayed poised and didn't get down, ... But we have to come in next week and try to do better.

We're a global band. In 1995, we played 42 countries. So when America did that trend, when grunge came in, we didn't change to be that. We stayed true to who we were, played the world and continued to grow.

We drove for 10 hours on rocky trails out into the central part of Mongolia in a Russian utility vehicle with no shock absorbers. Then we arrived at a remote area where we stayed in a yurt and waited to meet a horse wrangler who was scheduled to bring our rides.

We have to play with energy, focus and intensity. We went up big at home and they came back, but we stayed together. At Carolina, they went up big and we weren't able to come back.

We were losing but everybody stayed focused. We knew what we had to do to pull this out in the end.

We were never worried about the game or anything like that. We stayed calm.

We can't focus on what was happening on the scoreboard. I told our players that the one thing that they can't beat us at is playing with pride and class. We stayed together as a team and we did not turn on each other." ()

We played full court man-to-man to start the game with lots of pressure. With about eight minutes left, we went back to half-court man and stayed that way for the rest of the game.

We played hard, and I was really glad that my kids stayed composed.

We played hard, but it's the same thing every time. We've got to cut down on our turnovers. I would've liked to have stayed in the zone all game, but their shooters did a great job in the first half.

We put a couple of things in just for that game, because that's a little unique defense that Joe Lee runs. In retrospect, there were some things we put in that we might have done a little differently. Other than that, we pretty much stayed true to norm on everything.

We came into practice (Tuesday) very encouraged about the win. We didn't even talk about how we finished the game. We stayed positive.

We have a lot of fun. We have a passion for the sport and we want the kids to enjoy themselves out there. We want them to be successful, but we want them to enjoy the runs. We want them to enjoy the mountain and to enjoy the scenery. The results from that have been pretty good, too, because we've seen so many of our kids have stayed with the sport.

We catch a lot of flak, ... They give us a lot of ribbing over that. I just say, 'I'm just the low man on the totem pole.' I don't feel responsible. I don't know if we would have stayed if we would have avoided that or not.

We have been through so much as a team, all those big games that we have lost and the way that we have been able to rebound. The thing that has always been consistent with us is that we have always stayed hungry.

We played pretty well in the first but the two chances we gave them they happened to score, ... We stayed patient and wound up tying it in the second.

We couldn't stop Price in the first half. In the second half we stayed with him. They tried to go to their other guys and that helped us because Price wasn't getting the ball as much.

We wanted to hang tight with Winter Haven and see how they would react if we stayed in the game. They did a good job, though, and stayed up on us.

We have a great bunch of girls, they just kept working and stayed focused.

We have a group of guys who were very focused and stayed together.

We had a little trouble with their big kid, so we overcompensated and sent too many guys down low, which gave them some open looks. We made an adjustment in the second half, stayed home and pressured the ball.

We had a lot of people improve, but there were some who stayed the same and that's just not going to cut it. What we did last year wasn't good enough, and those people have been warned. We've got guys coming in here who might take your job. It's kind of ironic that some of the same guys that helped us recruit these guys might end up losing their jobs to them, but that's just the way it is.

We had a lot of trouble at the Grove and the guys stayed up all night getting the cars ready to come here today. We even brought an extra car along in case we needed but everything worked out for us today.

We hang in there. It hasn't always been fun. It hasn't always been pretty. But we've answered every challenge. We stayed on top. We deserve to be division champions.

We really wanted to focus on defense right out of the locker room and the girls stepped it up in the third. We stayed on pace and the free throws were big for us, too.

We really worked hard for every point and stayed focused for the entire match.

We dusted ourselves off and stayed in the game. It was a lot like being a pro expansion team. You go through some bad years, but you stick with it and stay the course.

We ended up making the running but he jumped great and stayed on again once he got his second wind.

We got beat by 20 points in front of our first sellout crowd. We just got smacked. I played hard, but it wasn't enough. People came out with uniforms on, but I guess everyone's heart stayed in the locker room.

We got behind early, but we stayed in the ball game and didn't get down. It was just a game where we couldn't get over the hump.

We really stayed with our work ethic. Our players seem to enjoy that.

That's the history of business in this country, ... Wal-Mart did something differently, and Home Depot certainly did something different, and Sears stayed the same. If you don't respond to changes, you can be left behind and find yourself in trouble.

That's the history of business in this country. Wal-Mart did something differently, and Home Depot certainly did something different, and Sears stayed the same. If you don't respond to changes, you can be left behind and find yourself in trouble.

That's the thing about Furman. I just felt like, if I stayed at Furman long enough I'd get a shot. I'm not sure what I would have done if I didn't get it, but we've always hired from within.

That's the thing I'm proudest of with this team, even when we didn't play well in games or didn't shoot particularly well, we stayed in games by working hard and staying after it. We beat a very good, well-coached team tonight.

That was an unbelievable tie-break. She just kept hitting winners but somehow I stayed in there,

That was a paramount concern. When I looked at the map, it was very clear that neither of us would get to where we wanted to be if we both stayed in.

That was -- pick an adjective -- brilliant, outstanding. He was on the plate and he stayed ahead of the hitters. He's had seven outings for us, and six of them have been good ones, but this one might have been his best.

That was not just a red card -- it was worth three or four red cards, ... It was ridiculous that he stayed on the pitch. He should be suspended for four games.

That was a great effort by the guys. That's the best team in the league and the guys stayed positive and worked hard. It's nice for them to be able to feel good about the way they played. They gave everything they had, and that's what I asked.