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It won't take much of a switch to change the result, ... There's also the precedent of the other labor groups approving it, including the mechanics, who were thought to be toughest sell. I don't think even those who voted against it are eager to go into bankruptcy.

The turn (for the second baseman) is definitely the toughest because your back is to the runner, and you don't really see what's going on.

They came in with the mentality that they (Villanova) are the toughest team in the Big East and we came in with the same one. It was just a matter of us matching that same intensity and giving it right back to them.

They'll be out there tomorrow. They have a killer instinct. They know how to play in these tournaments. When it comes down to one game, they're the toughest team in the world to beat. It doesn't mean they're going to win. The Japanese team's the same way. But they play a similar style of baseball. It ought to be a really interesting game.

They'll be one of the toughest teams we see. They don't do any thing harder than us. They're just really clean. If we hit our routines, we'll be right there with them.

They have the toughest job. They have their market cap, and now they have to prove they are worth it by staying on track with revenue growth. There is less upside for new hires because the big boost has already gone by.

They just shot extremely well. And they were the toughest half-court defensive team we faced all year. It wasn't us. Skowhegan's defense took us out of what we wanted to do. Give them all the credit.

It was hell, the toughest thing in my life. My rib was cracked open, I could not play basketball; I could not do anything by myself for months.

It was great for Ross to make it to the finals. His weight class is the toughest that I have seen in a long time.

It was just one of those days for the Red Devils. When it comes down to crunch time, it's about who's most prepared. West had the same things happen to them. We just ran into a couple meat-grinders. We had probably one of the toughest districts in the state.

They will look at how we are playing and show us respect as well. They will look at this fixture and probably think it is the toughest game they have left.

These three teams are among the five toughest in our league. Coming in off of these wins (the other being a 6-1 victory over West Haven last Wednesday) should give us the boost that we need.

This is a very big rivalry. I think these are the two toughest teams, high school level, in Tennessee. It's always very close with two goals.

This is clearly the toughest weight class in the WPIAL tournament. There are eight guys who can go with anybody in the WPIAL. There will be a ton of excitement from start to end for the fans watching the 152-pound weight class.

I want to make Idaho the toughest state in the union for these guys to live.

It's not a burden you want the current players to carry. We know what we're trying to do. We made our decision. By most accounts, we're playing one of the toughest I-AA schedules in the country and we're playing with a half deck of cards because we're at half of the scholarships and loaded with lots of young players.

It?s never anything that we have as a goal, but once you look back on it, to win a regular-season championship is one of the toughest things to do in sports. Coaches and players know that. Fans usually get into tournaments and things like that. And that?s OK. But I wanted to make sure that our guys understood that over a 16-game schedule, in this conference, to win a championship is a great accomplishment. If we would have lost today and been 13-3 in this conference, that?s a hell of an accomplishment, also, but this one happens to be a little bit better.

It's no contest. It's the two toughest holes under these conditions that we have on the Tour.

Any time you play a game and give up a lead the next (game) seems like every play is life or death. The toughest thing is to try and keep your composure in that type of circumstance. We knew we really needed it. We didn't want to put too much pressure on it but this was a huge game for us.

Any time we did any of those running exercises, it was obviously the toughest part for me. Simulated games later on got a little tough.

That (semifinal) loss had to be the toughest they had to endure. It took us a while to get into it but we pulled it out.

That's a slap in your face. It's a slap in our program's face. I guess it's my fault for putting together the toughest schedule in the country year in and year out. But as far as I'm concerned we got no respect and I don't understand it.

Every time you score it's an assist now. But when I played you had to be going to the basket on the dribble. So it's easy to get the assists, but the rebounds are the toughest things to get night in and night out.

Arizona has played the toughest schedule by far in our conference, playing some of the top teams in the country. (Olson) had done a good job of what works best.

Arizona has lost some good people, and they play a tough schedule ? probably the toughest in the (conference). They have to dip. With the rest of the (conference) being a bit better, it's understandable to lose a few more games.

The last six weeks have been the toughest of my life and it's the hardest decision I have ever had to make,

Their power play is pretty deadly, one of the toughest to play against.

The FDA will be asking the toughest questions you can imagine and the investment community will be on pins and needles to find out what the agency wants.

I'm not sure how many people would have picked us to win either road game. We played at the two toughest road places.

I'm really proud of the way we played today. These were the toughest conditions we've dealt with all year, yet we scored our best.

I'm really excited about it. I think it's the toughest schedule in the short history of UAB football. It's a fantastic home schedule. Our fans should be really excited about it.

I knew 'Almost Famous' wasn't playing in theaters at that long length. And really, it wasn't one of those terrible squabbles that you read about, where people want to change their name or anything. Our toughest discussion was, did Kate Hudson dance too long? It wasn't that big of a deal.

I'm a firm believer that things happen for a reason, and maybe somebody didn't want us to win that game. It was a tough loss, possibly the toughest since I've been here.

I love writing songs. One of the toughest things is structure; it just works when you use verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. And as soon as you become aware of that formula, you start to have a bad conscience when you write with that particular structure.

In my 17 years of coaching, Ryan is the toughest kid I have been around. He has a heart of a lion. When you take into consideration all of the health issues and what he is doing on the court, you realize how tough he really is.

In a number of major markets, 1998 saw the toughest economic conditions for many years.

I knew right before we went to that last yellow caution that Spencer didn't really have a lot of rear tire left. So I gave him room on the restart so as not to be on top of him and have the other competition right behind me. I opened on the guy behind me, and when I got to 'Spence' his tires were already off a lap or two and I could make my move. Today was one of the toughest races mentally because it was such a good race; plus we needed to get points for the championship lead. I'm really glad we did it, though.

I knew Loyola would be out toughest match.

I knew King Hussein, and I know King Abdullah, ... When the king was on his way to die, he chose Abdullah to succeed him not because he was more intelligent than the other princes but because he knew Prince Abdullah would be the toughest of them all if the moment arrived when the Hashemite Kingdom was in danger.

I'm just excited to see our team's confidence growing. To go 72-72-72-73 on the toughest scoring day of the tournament is impressive and an indication of where we are going as a team.

I haven't been past this, you know. But these were the two toughest games of my life.

I'm very impressed with the way Mo is progressing. He's been terrific. He's very poised with the puck and physical. Other than goaltender, defense is the toughest position. And it seems he's made the jump.

I never like to think that we can't win a game, but this was certainly our toughest challenge of the season. We match up well with them, but we needed to have a big second half -- and we did.

I'm very happy with four-under, ... I mean yesterday after the Pro-Am or the practice rounds, I would have taken even par in a heartbeat and not even gone out today. This is probably the toughest course we've played all year. You have to hit it in the fairway.

I'm very happy that our players have been rewarded for what they've accomplished this season. We won 20 games overall and finished tied for second in the Western Athletic Conference, which is the ninth toughest conference in the country. I'm thrilled that our program and these kids have been rewarded.

I'll be glad when we're down across the mountain range. That's usually the toughest part.

I'm anxious to get over there and do my part. Being away from my family, that's probably going to be the toughest part.

I'm anxious to get over there and do my part, ... Being away from my family, that's probably going to be the toughest part of the deployment.

If you get that type of lead, the toughest thing is to maintain it. But we did which shows that as a team we're going in the right direction.

If you look at our last four to six games, everybody knew it was going to be the toughest part and stretch of our schedule. Our basketball team, when we had all that early success, I don't know if we've played against teams as talented as we're playing against now.

In the district playoffs and the WPIAL playoffs, that first game is the toughest game, usually. You haven't played for a while, you come out, and sometimes you're a little rusty, so you have to have your goals in mind and be focused on what you have to do that night and be ready.

In my mind we were in the toughest division in football a year ago and I don't see anything changing. There's a new staff in Miami so it's just a matter of time before they get things rolling, and you have three other teams that are playoff-caliber teams, so I don't know if you can find a tougher division.

In our league, we want to be the toughest team for anyone to play against, ... My hope is certainly to have this team continue to get better so we will be playing our best hockey come the month of February and lead us into the playoffs.

In reality, I'm pleased with where the program's at. At the beginning, I seriously wondered if we'd win two, four games. These kids had one of the toughest adjustments of any team in the state. They've done a good job adjusting to a new style and system.

Illinois is a good team. They are one of the toughest competitors in the Big Ten and nation. The Ohio State team has improved over the past two weeks. If we have an incredible improvement on pommel horse we will win this dual meet.

I really feel like our sectional was one of the toughest with great teams like Marysville, Reynoldsburg and Westerville Central. We definitely are peaking at the right time. We saw some great wrestling from our team from top to bottom.

In the past days I had to come to the toughest decision in my life, which was to follow my doctors' urgent advice to step down from my position as the leader of the Social Democrat Party in Germany.

In that situation, I was able to get back to the wall in time to gauge where the ball was going. It wasn't the toughest catch I've ever made, but it was the kind of thing where we're putting our foot down right there.

If you were to look at our schedule, this is the toughest seven-day stretch of our year, ... They are two places we have not played well. We really have to buckle down and play well.

In my (three seasons) at William and Mary, they are the toughest team to guard. They've got a lot of weapons.

In my opinion, this was the toughest region in the state.

In 34 years of coaching, this may have been the toughest loss ever. We played hard and hit as hard as we've hit all year. This game was impossible to lose. But we found a way.

I just couldn't wait to start another game. That was probably, to me, one of the toughest losses I've gone through. I'm glad they responded.

I read somewhere that we had, next to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, the toughest non-conference schedule in our league. It felt like it was tough, and whether it's going to pay off for us we'll see. That's only one game.

Clay will be the toughest surface for Roger. If things go right, if the weather's right, I think he can win it.

Chillicothe is the toughest opponent we've faced all year. Everybody can talk about this and that, but there is no way they should have been a four-seed in this tournament. They have a lot of weapons, and it's going to be a huge challenge.

California is noted for having some of the toughest standards, laws, protecting farm workers' rights. But the law enforcement is very lax on it, and I think nothing is going to change until the employers are held responsible for insuring these workers are being transported in safe vehicles.

But he made it a little farther this time, so he's getting closer. It's just about the toughest thing you can do in sport. It's like making the Final Four - or the World Series.

(Beck's) one of the toughest guys in the conference. We ran up his pitch count to over 100 and had some opportunities, but our defense let us down.

Hicks is inch-for-inch, pound-for-pound the toughest player in basketball. We played really good defense against a good ball club.

He's the toughest guy, pound-for-pound, in the league.

He's just a sophomore, and that's a tough situation with the game on the line and all that. But I was thrilled when he got it. And I told him this is something you can build on. He's gotten through the toughest pressure situation he'll have to face.

He's probably the toughest football player around. He'll make play after play after play. He took some of their best shots and bounced up and was still out there playing.

He's probably one of the toughest kids to guard off the dribble.

He's one of those guys who any night can explode for 40 or 50 or -- you certainly hope not -- 60 points against you. He's so tough because he's constantly attacking and he never really gives your defense a chance to relax. And pound for pound he's probably the toughest guy in the league.

He's one of the toughest wide receivers in the league. He gets it done catching, route running, throwing the blocks and everything. He's an all-around player. He goes out and works at it every year and has the ability to be even better than he's been. It goes back to being steady, being focused and every year having to prove a point.

He's one of the toughest players I've ever played with.

He's one of the toughest I've ever been involved with - I know that much,

He's one of the toughest I've been involved with. He's played under some horrific injuries.

I don't know if it was more the 4-3 or what. But as the game progressed, we started feeling them out. That first series was the toughest series of the ball game. Just going in and seeing what they were going to do, what we were going to do. We went to 4-3 and that's when we really shut them down.

Chelmsford could be the toughest of the bunch this year.

By a long ways, this is the toughest regional to get through. The guys are pretty psyched up. It would be a great way to get to state by going through this field.

Hopefully, he just tweaked it. He's the toughest kid. If he can go, he'll go.

He's an amazing individual with great strength and integrity, even in the toughest times. He told us to carry on as usual.

He's an amazing horse. No horse I've ever seen in any race stumbled like that. And I don't know any horse stayed up after going that close to the ground. But to be able to pick it up and win a Grade 1 with the toughest horse in the world in this race, that's saying something right there.

George is one of the toughest guys I've ever been around. He has that tough look, but mentally he's as tough as they get. To have him go through what he had to deal with last year ... it's probably worse now with his son.

If I break the silence, maybe others will, too. I think that's the toughest thing as a survivor. You're told to feel guilty. You're told it's your fault. When I realized it wasn't my fault, that's when the healing really began. For 20 years, I believed it was my fault. If you're a kid who is out there and this has happened, the adult knew better. You were taken advantage of. It's okay to talk about it.

I don't think there's any question about it. This is going to be our toughest challenge yet that we've had recently. I'm not the least bit pessimistic, but I think we have a struggle.

I'd say the toughest audience to get right now in news is the 18-to-34 year olds -- almost all of the network and cable news programs skew older than 50.

I don't see where it's going to get any more glaring than it's been from the minute he signed. How much more hype does a player have than him? So it's not going to get any tougher, it's only going to get easier. The toughest thing to do is to get to the big leagues and produce.

I considered it a pretty big accomplishment personally, because for me Bristol is probably the toughest track on the circuit.

I can speak for everybody on the team. This is probably one of the toughest losses. We're going to miss him a lot. He's a great guy, a great teammate. I know everything is going to work out for him, but we're certainly going to miss him here.

I do feel more comfortable over there. I go there and feel like, 'I can win this week.' I want to feel like that over here, too. There's no doubt, this is the toughest tour to win on, and the fields at the top are always much more bunched.

I believe 2006 will be the toughest year for the Republican majority since they came to power in 1994,

He battles hard. Pound for pound he might be the toughest guy in the league.

Grandville's an outstanding football team. In my opinion, they're probably the toughest team we'll face in the regular season.

You know me, I've handled the toughest cases and never backed down from anything.

You chose the toughest song to sing tonight . . . and you worked it out.

You can see a team that believes it's going to win. They had no doubt they were going to win. None. Therefore, that's the toughest guy to face all the time, the guy who believes he's going to win.

The two toughest things in high school basketball are handling backcourt pressure and getting the offense started. If you don't have a good point guard, you're going to have trouble with both.