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When he was little, I made sure my son, Aaron, met James and listened to our conversations. I wanted Aaron to be around James. Personally, I wouldn't be who I am today without James. He elevated himself and everyone around him. Even as coaches, he elevated us. He tried to walk a straight line in a crooked world.

What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.

When I play a villain, I usually get home and sleep straight through the night. It's physically and emotionally draining.

What you saw tonight was the results of trying to press for three straight days. Our shooting was terrible and we couldn't buy a bucket. That's one of the disadvantages of playing back-to-back-to-back. We got a little tired and we lost our legs.

Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.

Having a lot of veteran players will be a big help to us. We get a quick look at Section 2 teams with three straight games right at the start, but that's good for us to play teams that are so strong.

He's a fiery guy, and players are feeding off that. Joe is a straight shooter. When you're doing something well, he'll tell you. If you're not, he's not worried about hurting your feelings. He coaches with a lot of positive reinforcement, and guys accept that even more.

He's a great player. If he comes straight to the NFL and plays at the same level, he's going to help our team become better. If that happens, we'll welcome him with open arms.

He (Rowland) is really a favorite in this community. He is performing straight off a tour in Spain so we are really lucky that he can fit us into his schedule.

Going unbeaten (in the league) for a second straight year is a big deal to the coaching staff and the kids. I don't know if it's ever been done before, and we're trying to make it happen.

He's a senior leader. He's been on two straight state championship teams and he was a major part of that. He's our leader. He's our emotional leader. He's our physical leader. He leads the team.

He's always been known for straight talk and blunt talk ? never shied away from that. And that just hasn't been there recently,

He seems to be playing well. He's hitting it solid, and pretty straight and long. It's a good combination here.

He's had this injury three times before, so it's not too foreign to him. He won't do much for the next week or two, but as soon as he's right he will be back up and playing pretty much straight away.

His straight talk was a wake-up call. Practical energy strategies are doable and those strategies will conserve our oceans. We must act now.

He's a straight shooter and I respect his views. I like the fact that he's been in military service and he's sacrificed a lot ? a lot more than me.

He saw ... a plume go straight up and fizzle out. At no time did he feel his flight was targeted.

When they started playing zone, it slowed us down, made us stagnant. It was effective and teams have been playing us pretty much straight up (man-to-man). I'm sure some other teams are going to watch this game, and they're going to do some of the same things. I know what we're going to work on tomorrow.

We look forward to challenging for the league title and our fourth straight NCS title,

We made some adjustments on our press in the second half and played straight man. We tweaked our the high-low. It was good to be able to show them some things at halftime and actually have them come out and execute it.

How would you feel if you won eight straight games and then lose this one? You would not feel good about yourself.

He was just incredible. In six months, he won Australian championships -- he had phenomenal power and leg speed and his attitude even then was fight, fight, fight. He just went head in, straight away.

He was straight as an arrow, a churchgoing kid, everyone liked him. I don't understand why things like this happen. It's like a bad nightmare.

He was riding the stationary bike and running straight lines. Later in the week he should be ready to go.

He was lined up straight with the ship canal. All of a sudden, he went port (left) and hit the wall.

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

He was like a father to me. He was a down-to-earth guy, very straight forward. He let you know what he thought.

I addressed the tax issue straight up without any fluff. The questions were asked and I answered them.

I also think the English are maligned ... they are made to feel guilty about being patriotic and supporting their teams. But I found them really good to deal with, fair and honest and straight up.

He was a decent football player. He was an offensive lineman for us. When he got older he went straight to baseball.

He wants to suit up one more time, but we're five days from that. He still can't do anything ballistic. He doesn't do much with us but straight ahead shooting. He can't push off side to side or change direction. I don't see that happening in five days.

He walked straight into the recruitment office and he said, 'You don't have to give me any of your speeches.' He told them he wanted to sign up, and he wanted to sign up for the infantry.

He couldn't do that since she is straight as an arrow and one of the most ethical and trustworthy individuals I know.

He could not push off the mound and he couldn't get his position, ... He was throwing straight up. He couldn't get down and drive toward home plate off of that knee.

Having a bye can be a curse or a blessing. The blessing, obviously, is you don't have to play four straight games. The curse is the team you're playing has a game under its belt. If you're not ready, they can use that to their advantage. My players came out ready to play.

He just made plays. He has led them to 14 straight wins (now 15), so he found openings. We're going to have to go in, watch film and find out (what went wrong).

He is refusing to give senators straight answers to legitimate questions. A woman's right to choose and civil rights protections are at risk. Senators must not allow his evasions to stand. Americans deserve clear answers.

There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

There are still opportunities to grow in desktop and mobile computing, ... To say we are going straight into the television market is a bit of an exaggeration. Computing is the core of our business.

I would suspect the rise in January was a kind of bounce after four straight months of decline,

Just the energypeople love you man, that's straight up.

John had one target only and that was to win. It looked like a straight battle between John and Valentino Rossi, but I think they pushed each other to the limit and both ended up watching the last 10 minutes of the session.

John had a dream of black people as successful and smart and beautiful and heroic, a vision of keeping hope alive by showing black people as faces of hope. He never gave up. He never gave in. He once said 'At the end of the day, we're all just trying to give people hope.' I liked John Johnson. I thought he was a strong and wise, straight forward and kind man.

I think it means something because in this league confidence means so much. You never want a player to have so much confidence that he feels he can take over a game at any time. The positive thing about this is that he's not going to think he can walk out on the floor and score 17 straight against us.

I think it can sneak through. (Progressive rock stations) may play it. It needs to pick up the kind of vibe that John Mayer and Gavin McGraw that aren't straight up rock but pop tendencies,

It can flip on a dime from being almost farce-like to being quite serious and then back. That's what a lot of us like. I would say it's a comedy more than a drama. But then there are some episodes that are coming up that are straight drama.

It beat us up a little bit to play at 95 degrees for three straight days.

It always surprises me when people say that the realm of the lyric is the personal, and the personal is not political. I just don't know how we can get to 2014 and say that with a straight face. When you think of a poet like Yeats, how can you say politics is not in the poem? When you think of Milosz, how can you say politics is not in the poem?

It always helps in recruiting to a certain degree. To finish in the top 10 four straight years is exciting, and we think 10 wins is a pretty good benchmark.

It could either push itself straight up and down or pull itself forward. It more likely flopped around like a seal rather than walked like a horse.

It changes the whole mentality of the team. You go from winning 13 straight if we would have lost three straight, it would have been the other end of the spectrum. But I like where we're at.

It comes straight from the heart. You might hear some things you might not want to hear. Guys get emotional. Guys say it like they see it. And I think that's what makes it so touching, because it's from the heart.

It increases our chances of succeeding. To play four straight days against this level of competition and expect to win, I think, is impossible. To do it three straight days is tough.

It is a challenge to perform for 50 straight minutes. It is an aerobic workout, but an enjoyable and exhausting challenge. We get our energy from the audience. It is great to go out there and see 6,000-7,000 people singing and dancing.

I threw three straight changeups to Boone, then a fastball inside and he turned on it. That club is doing all the things right, right now.

It is a formality that the new application will be rejected as Jason doesn't meet the criteria, so it will go straight to a review panel.

It is a little bit of a grind. I can't remember going eight straight like this. We'll make sure they take care of their bodies and get some rest.

I think the kids are proud of getting the 20th win. It's the first time in school history a team has won 20 four straight years.

I think the navy was trying to get one up on us and trying to get us as wet as possible; we were going straight into the waves. But it's a nice enough day that it's going to dry out.

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I think it is going to be an opportunity for straight people to see with gays and lesbians think about the church.

I think the biggest difference is (Dungy) has had people in key positions that have been there and understand the system. When they have plays they make them. It used to be they did a lot of stunting and got caught up out of position. They're playing straight up with a lot of speed and they rally to the ball.

It is great raw material, but only 30 percent of this pool is ready to plunge straight in and deliver, ... A-list of challenges.

Lance wrestled a kid who was high energy and high intensity, and he was able to get it back at the end. It was a great match. You usually don't see kids go at it, at that pace, for six or seven minutes straight like that in high school.

I was disappointed because it was me who was involved in it. He knew straight away it was serious. We collided and he said: 'I think I've broken my foot.

I was doubting myself and I was thinking everybody else was doubting me. Even if it wasn't true, it was in the back of my head, so I wanted to hear it from (Braun). He told me straight up: I'm his point guard.

I was concentrating on winning instead of throwing the horseshoe. Now I don't care what the other person is doing. I don't watch their throw. I'm just looking straight ahead at the stake. If you walk in front of me while I'm in competition, I'm liable to hit you.

I was analyzing the guys' nonverbal communication. I learned that in sociology. When I see that, when I see fatigue, some negative things, you've got to go straight at them.

I thought we played a great game tonight. I thought we outplayed them. Trumbull has a good team. We jumped up on them, they broke back with four straight goals, we outplayed them in the third period and overtime, but they got a lucky bounce. That's what can happen in overtime.

I thought we played a competitive game against a championship team. There's a reason why they have won 20 straight games in this stadium.

I thought the rule was if you played 19 straight days and it went over 19 straight ? if you played 20 straight days ? you had to have the OK of the players. If we played on May 8, that would put both teams on 20 straight days. They're saying now it's 20 straight days, and the 21st is when you have to get an OK (from the players). That's probably new.

I thought that (Newman) worked hard (on Thursday night) and that is the way that she needs to work and the way the teams needs to work on a day to day basis. What we've got going with (Vincent) is that if you are going to key on her we will burn you inside and you have to play her straight up.

I think we found some good directions, and we need to check these tomorrow before recommending them to the race team. The car ran very well today, and we found a good balance straight away. It was certainly a very positive day for the team.

I think we lost a little from the week off. We had won seven straight and those three road playoff wins had given us momentum. I think we lost a little of our sharpness.

I think we kicked 4.6 in the third quarter, and seven points straight in the last - but the boys were pretty tired so I am going to take that into account, certainly in the last quarter.

I think we just weren't getting the bounces on Friday. The puck just seemed to bounce straight to their stick. We weren't finishing well and the puck just wasn't going into the net. Things just didn't go our way.

I think we just have to keep our heads on straight and keep our eyes on the goal. We just have to understand that even though there's a lot of us out there that are still young, we can still do it. We just have to trust in our ability.

I think we did a lot of growing up tonight. We are a very young team, but we kept our composure and focus and were able to finish the match in straight games. I'm very proud of these girls overcoming a lot so far this season and being able to continually focus on volleyball.

I thought Sean Morris sure bailed us out of some tough jams there, with three straight threes; one that put us into overtime and two in overtime. He was sick and he's been struggling from the field, and it was great to have him break out and give us a terrific game.

I thought overall we did a great job (Saturday). Our guys were ready, they were prepared and they were focused. I've said all along that this team has a lot of talent and if they get their minds straight and get their focus, they can do this. They put it together pretty well (Saturday).

I think what every lawyer wants is a judge, whether conservative or liberal, who, when it comes to the job of judging, will call things straight and adhere to the rule of law.

I think Calvin is a great guy. He is honest and a straight shooter.

I think it was a big learning experience. When you go out and win a big tournament and then turn around and lose to teams you are straight up better than, I think you get a sense of having to play your game every time.

I think it was good for us. I think some of us were a little tired. We had a lot of games straight through. From (the Iowa) game until now we got a little bit of rest in our legs. If we have a good week of practices, that'll follow through to the game on Thursday.

I think it was going to be a close one. It's a shame it had to happen. I think Amelie played a really good second set. From the start, I felt that she was a little bit more aggressive on the second, third ball straight away...Yeah, very frustrating week.

It gets down to core values, how you can live and keep things straight and maintain an even keel. It helps to listen to people who share how they've done it. It's an everlasting human story.

It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!

It is not often you play two straight games and allow no runs. Lance pitched great today. He was very impressive considering it was his first collegiate start. He pitched with a lot of confidence.

I think that's the only way to approach it. You can't get too excited, you can't get too depressed. Because it'll turn you either way just because it's the nature of the sport. Kathy (Duva), is clearly the leader and we have our priorities straight and so does everybody else. So once you have that, then you can do your business. Then when you look at it, boxing is really not that important in the whole world if you have everything else. So you just do what you gotta do.

I think some people might have the perception that I jumped straight off the beer truck to qualifying school. In actuality, it wasn't like that at all.

I think the '90s is the reason why I recently had to find natural haircare products to allow my hair to grow. That was a time where they were processing your hair, and it was a time when African-American women wanted that straight hair.

I think we're in a good earnings season. So far, of the S&P 500, 139 companies have reported. Over 60 percent have been upward surprises, only 8 percent of them have really been negative surprises. So we're in a strong earnings season. That's good for the stock market, ... I think the market's in a trading range right now. I don't think it's going straight up from here. I don't think necessarily we're going to get a big summer rally, but maybe a positive tone to the market.

Last year I think the situation we were in was a lot tougher task than the situation we're in right now, because we were down to three outs, and had to win four straight games,

Later on that evening, our daughter and son-in-law called back and said, 'We don't know what kind of pull you have, but we saw a helicopter come straight across the river to this house and shine lights inside the house,' ... While we were talking to them on the phone, a National Guard Humvee picked them up and took them to Moss Hill. They were very thankful to have a dry place, but there was no food, no water. It was just dry.

I was working hard over the summer to get my grades straight to maintain eligibility when I noticed that I had been listed at third string. I was at summer school. One of the coaches told me that word was going around that I wouldn't pass my classes but I ended up passing my classes.

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.

I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to fix it. It's mostly my fault for getting down on myself. My teammates have tried to pick me up the whole way.

I went into the U.S. Army straight out of high school. I spent 21 years in the Army before I retired.

I went straight to the bottom and it circled around and came back and it kept going around in circles.

I went straight method for my part, ... My character and Morgan's character go through an interesting arc. A lot of my scenes are with Morgan, and what I value and look up to are his subtleties.

I went to bed that night and woke up a few hours later and felt really bad. I tried to hold it in for about two hours, but then it finally got to me and I rushed to the window and went straight out the window.