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After the penalty of having to go out to qualify first and second here, to finish the weekend in seventh and eighth is pretty good,

As a club, I think we've gone from 15th in 2004 to about eighth or something in conversion from set shots.

Any time you see an eighth grader take it to a senior like that it always makes the other coaches cringe and it makes me smile.

Every year in football is icing on the cake. I'm a guy who was not supposed to make it. It's my passion for the game that drives me. I wasn't drafted. I went to Cleveland as a free agent, and was eighth on the depth chart among the eight tight ends in camp.

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I'm real happy with how the guys battled back in both games. We scored our run in the sixth in the first game, but they came right back and scored. We had the right guys up in the eighth and got one around. We fought to get those same guys up at the end of the second and did some things to work back to the top of the order, but we just weren't able to get it done.

I'm real excited for next year. We have some eighth grade potential. They are going to push kids right away.

I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.

I knew we had it at the wire. I was wondering why it took so long to put up the finish. Now, at the eighth pole I did not know I had it. But Dale's a great horseman. They're always ready and always have that little bit extra when you need it.

I knew he'd be good in the eighth grade. He had a big body. He had great hands. He was just physically ready.

I knew nobody would go with me on the outside, but it was the only chance we had to win. I'm not here to run fifth or eighth or whatever we finished.

I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'

I knew coming into this year that the difference between finishing third and finishing eighth was going to be a bad weekend. I think that's playing out.

I'm real proud of the eighth inning after what they did in the sixth. She mowed them down.

I'm kind of disappointed that we let them score at the end. That's why I think that we ought to do better defensively and hopefully continue this success. It's four games in -- when we get to the eighth or 10th game, we'll see how everything compares. It's still early. We are playing great defensively.

I never saw more trouble catching fly balls. First we had some issues with it, then they had issues with it in the eighth inning. It appeared the wind wasn't blowing all that hard, but it must have got above the grandstand and created more issues.

I'm happy where I'm at right now pitching the seventh, eighth inning ... doing my job and then watching Francisco (Rodriguez) come in and do his job. I'll be his setup man for the rest of my career. That's fine with me. I'm perfectly fine where I am.

In the eighth inning, we missed our location three times, twice when we were ahead in the count. We almost caught a break -- Cabrera's ball was tagged, but it fooled Walker. That would have been an important break to catch. Matt got the ball up with a 1-2 count, and the pitch that Delgado tripled on wasn't where Ray was trying to throw it. Against good clubs in key situations, either you do or you don't, and if you don't, you get penalized most of the time.

I really think the race before (an allowance victory) was when he the light bulb went on, where he actually showed a middle-move acceleration, like he was getting it all figured out. I said six weeks ago I didn't feel like I could get to a mile and an eighth fast enough. Our main goal is still the Arkansas Derby and beyond.

In the seventh and eighth grade, I kind of narrowed it down. I wanted to be pretty good at one, rather than mediocre at all of them.

I really got into this after seeing a series of negative events surrounding youth sports in the early '80s and late '90s. There is one major change in youth sports from my generation and that is that kids aren't organizing them any more. It's done by adults. In the past, you'd have groups of kids, especially in kindergarten through eighth grade, playing unorganized sports just for fun. Things are becoming too organized and too competitive. Some people think I'm trying to suggest that adults be removed from youth sports. I'm not. I'm suggesting the adult ego be removed from youth sports.

In the beginning, I wasn't thinking about it. But in the eighth inning, I threw like five pitches, and I started thinking about it. It's good ... I saved the bullpen.

In the back of my mind, when I was playing the eighth I was thinking of 62, which was my lowest round ever. But it was not to be.

In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects.

I quit in eighth grade 'cause this one pitcher had no control, hit me dead in the side.

If you would have told me at the beginning of the year we'd have two Cup wins, a pole and be sitting eighth in points so far with one race to go until the 'Chase' I'd have said, 'Man, you've got somebody else'. I just didn't expect our year to go this well. Our primary goal this week is to make the 'Chase'. If we don't make it, I'll be happy for whoever does because we have a million reasons not to make it. But we really want to make it and I think we can.

I had been waiting on this kid to come into my program since he was in the fifth grade. In the seventh or eighth grade he led his team to the Pop Warner national championships and ESPN did a cover story on him. He's always been good.

I guess the last time I was in the Budweiser Shootout was 1992. I finished third in the first segment and eighth in the second. It's just a chance for your team to have some fun. It's a lot like the All-Star race where you get the chance to take the gloves off and fight for first. I'm real proud that I was able to win a pole last year and get my new NAPA team into the Shootout. And now we get to go out and try to win it.

I thing they're really rolling well right now. They've been putting in a lot of hard work and it shows. I'm very happy. We moved from 16th place to eighth place (in Berks). Here we had a tougher division than we had last year, and we wound up with the same record at 3-2.

Before, I considered myself a power pitcher. I wanted to strike everybody out. Now I want to stay in until the seventh or eighth inning. If I only strike out one or two guys but I?m still in there in the seventh inning, that?s fine with me.

His campaign sounded a note of the bogusly grand. Hart is Kennedy typed on the eighth carbon.

But he was nervous again in the eighth frame and I took the game easily.

I don't know. It's tough. I would think we'd want Atlanta to win so we can get close to the eighth spot.

I didn't know what to expect going in. But nothing gets by these fans. Bernie didn't know whether to take a bow (in the eighth inning). He looked over at me and I gave him a nod.

By staying back I was able to get the arm angle I need for my fastball and my slider, and I haven't had it consistently. To be able to throw 96 and 97 in the eighth inning after throwing 100 pitches is ... is ... me.

Honestly, we know that we're fighting for a playoff position. I just don't want to settle for the eighth spot. If we play these games out and win most of them, we can get up to the seventh, or maybe even the sixth spot.

He struggled with the track a little bit, he's still a little green, and his first start was a long time ago. About the eighth pole I'd asked him, and he wasn't picking up ground. I asked him harder, and he got up.

He throws a very heavy ball and it's hard to pick up. He has a lot of velocity and his split-finger is fantastic. It's great to know ... that when we have a lead in the eighth or ninth inning, we're going to get that win.

If I was a member of Congress I'd try to press him on is there a light at the end of the tunnel on measured rate hikes, and at what point the Fed decides enough is enough. You have to think after the August move we probably are in the eighth inning, but I doubt he'll be that explicit.

If I do The Eighth Voyage of Sinbad I'll definitely be coming back to Australia for all the interior work, ... I'd do the exteriors in southern China. Frankly, the Stealth experience merely proved that if you do run into problems in Australia, you can solve them.

I don't think there has been a better year for basketball. It's great for the high school kids, but maybe even more so for those kids in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. They see how much fun those section and state games are.

I don't think about how many goals I'm going to score. I don't care. I would give up all my goals for the eighth playoff spot.

I don't think Ellen Davis lost an event as an eighth grader. She's in our top three to throw (today).

I am on top of the world. If I took third, I wouldn't be any more excited. It doesn't matter to me from eighth to third. The finals would be something else.

I don't want to push the eighth graders too much because I know how much golf is a mental game and there can be a lot of pressure. I want to make this experience positive - I want them on the team four years from now.

I came about something of what no sportsman can be insured of. This is a trauma. On Thursday evening, when I was in the sparring at the Pound-4-Pound Gym in LA, I injured my right knee in the eighth round. After careful examinations it turned out to be a trauma of the meniscus in the right knee.

I can see some eighth graders getting a chance to play and start on the ninth grade team.

I don't mind him coming home. We're going to get one out, but he rushed it. We made some great defensive plays. It's a shame that the little things we didn't do in the eighth cost us.

He played fullback for me one year at Hart, ... He was a 240-pound fullback in eighth grade. But that shows that he has great feet. He really moves well.

He really didn't get serious until the eighth grade. I was afraid of some burnout. I'm so involved in it. I wanted him to do it because he wanted to.

The major difference is it extends the types of food and beverages to be sold in high schools using the same criteria as K-8. The state a year or so ago passed these guidelines through eighth grade, and this would extend those to high school.

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The key to the whole game was getting a lead early. We've been playing from behind in a lot of games. It's tough when you go into the seventh, eighth and ninth innings every night knowing that every at bat is do-or-die.

The key for me to actually getting a win was getting out of that eighth inning. We did a good job of using all 27 of our outs this game.

The trip worked out great. Once he got covered up, he relaxed really nice. Going into the second turn, he drug me up to where I wanted to be. I got after him about the eighth pole, and he must have heard horses coming up on him after that, because he found another gear.

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This is my eighth year as a pro, and I've yet to play in a playoff game. That eats at me a lot. You never know how many years you have left. I want to make the most of them.

This is my eighth Worlds and she is 16 and I am almost 26. I feel young but compared to her I feel old.

This is my eighth hurricane, but I've never understood the force of water until I saw this on Sunday. The storm surge was like Sherman going through Georgia.

This is a great win, especially coming against a team that came in here 11-0. And for it to be our eighth win, it was definitely a positive.

And Kansas is at Chicago tonight or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas leads in the eighth four-to-four.

The eighth inning was when I really started to think about it. The hardest part is trying to eliminate the thoughts from your mind. Things change so quickly in this game.

The eighth inning is what really earned me the win,

The eighth inning is tough, man. Some days it can go by smoothly. But you're going to have ups and downs. Hopefully, it does go smooth.

The eighth inning in New York is like the ninth inning anywhere else. Tommy will be fine in the ninth. He's done it before. What he did for us was remarkable.

The eighth and ninth aren't exactly the way that we drew up our game plan. Hopefully it will be a learning experience for those guys.

The market is taking this to mean they're on the verge of pausing. Other officials have been saying this for some time, 'we're close, we're close, this is the eighth inning,' but when it comes right from the horse's mouth, there's a lot more credibility.

The last two weeks, I think I've been as hot as ever since I've been in pro hockey. It's nice to reach that total. Hopefully I can beat it in the next couple of days and, in doing so, get us some more wins and maybe sneak into that eighth spot.

My father was one eighth Cherokee and my mother one fourth Cherokee, which I figure makes me about an eighth cigar-store Injun.