James Devlin Quotations

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.

I didn't like basketball because I thought it was boring.

I don't know what it was. The ball just wasn't going in.

I would see everybody outside playing one-on-one, so I went out and started playing. I've been playing ever since.

Over the past three summers, I stay in the gym and just shoot. Usually about 200 to 300 shots a day.

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We don't know how long he's going to be here. But he may not get another chance so we have to do what we do.

I've come here often and I've never seen anything like this,

It's taken a lot of pressure off me. Instead of other teams looking for me to score, they have to deal with everyone else.

I'm not convinced it's going to happen yet, ... We've been a longtime contractor in the city of Petaluma and we're not folding up our tent yet.

I'm lucky I didn't get squashed. I felt like an ant out there a couple of times.

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He's surfed this beach many times, ... But he said, 'I don't want to be famous for drowning out there today.'

I don't think they were getting nervous. We put more pressure on them than we did in the first half and it changed things.

The first half was offense, the second half was defense.