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That was our focus, stopping him. I saw the film from other games and I went, 'Oh, are you kidding me? This kid is for real.' We have two guys who can guard a guy like that and we were lucky we did.

I was really pleased with how everyone competed on both sides (men and women).

I wasn't sure if he was going to pitch (tonight). He tweaked his back lifting weights and it was 50-50 if he would pitch.

I was not going to go just anywhere. The stability of the program appealed to me. Dan is the dean of the Big 12 coaches and has done a great job retaining his coaching staff despite all the success ISU has experienced.

My coming back wasn't about coming back to the industry, it was about coming back to the company.

You can have a peace of mind and you can focus.

We played great the last time out. We finally got some success for what they've been trying to work on.

We have to take care of the ball better. We turned the ball over a lot against Indiana, then we turned the ball over in critical situations against Minnesota in the Big Ten tournament.

Those guys make a big difference in our team, Lester with his aggressiveness and his toughness and Chris with his basketball knowledge and his savvy to make plays defensively and to make shots on offense.

Without concerted and coordinated political action, the gains achieved in reducing the burden of infectious disease will be washed away as a new wave of preventable illnesses engulfs those least able to protect themselves.

You almost have to be in the room to see the respect they have for him, the love. I have never been around anything like that. These guys will do anything for Coach LeBeau. It's not tough love. It's soft love. He says: 'I'm going to show you that I care about you. I'm going to ask what I want. I don't have to beat it out of you. I expect it.' It's different, but it shows you can treat (players) like men, if you have the right group.

We played very well on Tuesday and scored two very good goals. But we need to win in the league.

We had to step back and re-focus. We had to accept the situation we were in, and not look for somebody else to blame, and then move on. We still had games to play, and the opportunity to compete for a championship.

We have children who need to be fed, and some are so neglected that they badly need showers.

We have a lot more leaks than in the past.

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

We have two guys as talented as they are and they make a big difference. The practices leading up (to the NIT opener) allowed us to get our chemistry back.

We needed it bad, we need to keep getting points.

We came up short but like I've always said, everything doesn't always go your way in life.

We didn't do what we should have. We put our future in the hands of someone else.

We haven't been getting the results in leads as we have in the past. What we've had has been a shotgun approach. The bottom line is (branding) will make us more marketable. The last five years the face of tourism has changed, and we've got to get out there and do a better job.

We'll do whatever the development dictates. (Allen) and I think we can make a great addition to downtown, and that will enhance what we can do in the future.

Today we knew we had to get this one. We had to keep ourselves in position to have something happen for us.

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You don't mind doing things that showcase the university. It gives us a great opportunity to really have our kids compete against the best of the best.

We were all kind of worried about him. But we had to go on with the game.

We work for the citizens of this community, and I believe in being accountable for the taxpayer money we spend.

We knew we had to step up. Lester is a big part of our team. It was a big blow. Hopefully, he'll be ready for Michigan State. I think he will be.

We knew we had to make a commitment to play defense and that's what we talked about at our meeting. If we play defense like we played tonight we're very tough to beat.

We would go into town at night to have dinner and I couldn't find my way back through four-way stops and dirt roads.

We knew that we had played a great team and competed with them toe-to-toe. But at the same time, it gave us a direction to go in our program. We knew too that we weren't the caliber team that they were.

We're not looking for a bailout. We're looking for a recovery to the sorry state of the industry before the attack.

We're not looking downwards. We are midway and we should be getting into the top half as we have lost only two in 18.

This really isn't my event, it for everybody that's involved. It's for the kids, adults and the volunteers. They're the ones who make it happen and make it so special.

When you have a guy who can knock down shots like that, it's not hard to develop chemistry with him. You just have to find him when he's open. Ron has really stepped up and played well. He's made shots and rebounded well from the wing.

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When we play defense with that kind of energy, we're as good a team as I've ever seen.

Finding a hotel that's close is where I am right now.

We've had to do absolutely nothing to the race car.

We almost laugh when somebody tries to drag bunt on Evan because it?s been money in the bank. He?s real good at that. And our shortstop is not a deep-in- the-hole guy, so Evan makes up for a lack of arm strength at shortstop with his range.

The other airlines by virtue of the bankruptcy court have reduced their labor costs below where ours is today. That represents a competitive problem.

Unbelievable. Bart Conner is one of the most decorated male gymnasts to ever compete. To put me in a category with him, it feels amazing.

You have to look it in the face and realize your part in it. We didn't finish the season well and I think that hurt us.

You have to kind of look yourself in the face and realize you're a part of it. We didn't finish the season well, and I think that hurt us. We feel like we left it in somebody else's hands. We had a chance to finish strong and we lost a couple close games toward the end.

When you make a mistake, it fuels your fury and I couldn't have felt more powerful heading into the still rings.

We sold our house in New Jersey that year for $112,000; it has since sold for more than $1 million.

We just wanted to do a thank you to him and bring members out to wish him well on the PGA Tour.

We just got lucky in here a couple of times. We worked hard, we battled and we got points.

We weren't strong enough, and they made savvy plays. Vincent is a great player, and the defense of their whole team was great.

When all is lost, ask the I.R.S. -- they'll find something.

We have to do a better job defending. We haven't defended for three games. We haven't been tough enough lately. But we have to give them (Buckeyes credit).

We're going through this in real time, ... We're using existing mutual aid agreements.

We see a lot of good pitching. In terms of velocity and location.

To be honest, I think I shot the ball well, but I don't think I was in a zone. A lot of those shots weren't really tough shots. I was wide open a lot of times. I thought I was supposed to make it.

We did a great job sticking to the plan of playing great golf. Now we're focusing more on the mental side of the game. Hopefully we can continue to go out there and keep working hard.

We went right to the Super Bowl on it. It was new. It was revolutionary.

Brian does an unbelievable job. They weren't going to quit. It got a little scary there at the end.

Everything seemed like it was clicking. The whole line was blocking, the receivers were blocking downfield and the backs were blocking. Everything was just going right.

Everything seemed like it was clicking, ... The whole line was blocking, the receivers were blocking downfield and the backs were blocking. Everything was just going right.

Everybody's trying to get folks to come to their town, and you've got to get them to look at you first. This may get them to look when you're basically competing with the entire world for that tourism dollar.

Every level he has played at, he has been the best around. You could tell great things were in store for him even when he was a young kid.

Every minute, I am learning something new. It's cool to learn about the process and how it actually works.

Every fighter will get knocked down, but a champion gets back up -- every time. And that's what Zach is -- he's a true champion.

At the beginning of practice, the coaches would be off to the side talking about what we needed to work on, and Albert would be leading the stretching exercises. He is a natural-born leader.

Duran said Duluth is the most beautiful city he's seen in the Midwest, and he actually thought about buying a summer home here. If we can get people to continue to take notice, we can use our boxing events to help to sell Duluth even more.

Florida gives Zach a chance to forget about all this other stuff and just focus on boxing.

Focus Features is following a nationwide release pattern and playing it in just a handful of theaters. They haven't offered the film to us yet, but it might become more available, especially if it wins Oscars.

There's something very transparent about Ellen, in an everywoman way.

There's no getting away from the fact that our away form is very poor.

I should've had 13 assists because of missed passes to Courtney Sims. I wanted to come out and distribute the basketball because we knew they'd be playing a lot of zone.

The rivalry was the last thing on my mind. I tried to downplay it as much as possible because we aren't used to having a large number of people at games and I was afraid we'd lose focus.

I've seen Matt play numerous times. He played against our reserves last season in the Cheshire Senior Cup. He's tall and very quick.

I've spoken to him. A couple of other clubs are also interested, so it's up to him now

It was the tale of two halves. We couldn't get anything going in the first half, but the defense played well and in the second half, we were able to move the ball down the field, but we couldn't find a way to stop them.

It was tough to practice the day after we found out that we didn't make it the NCAA Tournament. But as we practiced and practiced, though, guys' spirits got up and we were just happy to be able to wear this jersey again and to be able to compete.

These will be computer related courses taught by departments in the College, not by computer science. So an example of that kind of course would be a digital music course or a certain mathematics course.

The softening U.S. economy has driven a sharp reduction in demand for business travel, ... At the same time, fuel prices remain persistently high. We don't foresee a near-term recovery in demand so we expect the balance of the year to be very challenging.

The thing to understand is the demand today has increased substantially ... 15,000 people are being evacuated from the Superdome itself. I mean, that's Natchitoches; that's a ton of people.

I've always been a decent free-throw shooter, but I've never been a 90 percent free-throw shooter. So, this is new territory for me. I've always been in the high 70's to mid-70's and that's pretty decent, but I've never been a great free-throw shooter.

I wanted the ball in my hands down the stretch, not necessarily to score but to make plays and I was able to do that.

Some units have taken it down to the battalion level, that's how critical they see it,

Rain or snow, no fail, we'll be here.

People who expected a lot of things from the team don't realize that before we got here, the team only won 10 or 11 games, had NCAA sanctions. And people wanted national championship success right away. We knew it wasn't going to be like that. We knew it was going to be a long grind and a process. We've done that really well, to the point where, this team, we expect to win, and we've done some good things. It's been a great ride.

Our concern is always for our employees and trying to do things right. We've stepped up training in every area we can think of and used outside consultants.

The old Highlander was great. It served us really well, ... We just needed something that was more functional.

Some teams don't practice hard and do great in games. We're the opposite.

Somebody out there knows this man. I know his face is covered, but if it were my husband and I saw him, I would still recognize his movements and his body.

Someone would have to say, 'Hey, we have somebody that is still out there. Go get them,' and that dedicated force would go do it,

Coach called a play for me at the end and I was ready to knock it down.

Coach asked me to be our best worker and best player a long time ago. I've done my best to try and be that. These guys have really bought into practicing hard every day. That's not something we've always done.

Anthony Davis knew who Dennis Winston was, ... When he tackled Anthony Davis, he went backwards. I always said he dropped him like a dead bird.

As a manager you're always disappointed to see good players leave but Jon is going to a good club and it really is a brilliant move for him.

The business we're in is filling our airplanes, and we're going to fill as many of those seats we can.

A year ago he was just trying to play and not make mistakes. This year you've seen not just his improvement on the football field but in the other intangible things also.

As long as I'm working hard and doing other stuff, I feel good about myself, I don't get down.

That was 1988, and this is 2005. I don't think about it every day, but every Super Bowl week that comes up you start thinking about that, or, if you see something on TV or ESPN or read something. It's part of history.

That's what we need from Courtney. Especially when teams try to take him out of the game by double-teaming him. He has to find other ways to be a factor.

That's nine games now without a loss, we go to Wycombe on Monday and again three points is the main thing. We're having a good spell.

Zach will eventually have to win it (a world title) on the road, likely in Las Vegas, but when he's successful, we plan to defend the title here in Duluth. No matter how successful Zach is, we should be able to control where he fights. Why should Vegas get all the big money for their town?

You see him in the huddle really challenging the guys on the short yardage situations, the third downs, and you see him go up and down the sidelines on the offensive side, encouraging when we need to be encouraged.