He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and said I'd do it. I didn't even finish it. You look for a part that you can score in. If I like this character and I can play it, the people are going to laugh or be interested, that's what you look for. They send me things that I wonder why they would send to anybody. |
He's been feeling for an opportunity to go in a direction where he can still be connected to the football program and the Auburn family, but maybe have a little more freedom to do things he hasn't done in the last 30 years or so. This was his decision. We wish Joe the best, but he's going to be around. He'll be part of that program, and he'll be part of our program. |
He's following right in his brother's footsteps. There is a similarity in the fact that their work ethics are the same and any time you get somebody with a little talent that wants to work as hard as they do, then they're going to be successful. The fact that his time has continued to drop every meet shows the commitment that he's got. He's working hard in practice. |
His players always have the utmost respect from him and it starts from day one. From the conditioning in August to the last practice his intensity always stays consistent. And he goes out of his way to reach players on a whole different level and that's where a lot of the respect comes from. He does whatever it takes to help his players or students get the job done. |
His speech was nothing more than a series of irrational and inconsistent political attacks cobbled together by his Republican handlers, ... And though three years ago, he called John Kerry a friend, one of the greatest leaders of our time and an authentic hero, tonight, for political and personal gain, he adopted the smear tactic refrains of the Bush administration. |
Honestly, I think don't be rushed. That would only make him worse. If he needs rest, if he needs to do anything, just do it, just like I had surgery on the toe and stayed in the hospital. I wanted to go back to the court to help the team. But at that time, the only thing I could do to help the team was (to understand) it's how hard you work on it to rehab your body. |
Honestly, when Bill and I visit, we don't talk about football as much as we do about our families. He tells me about his three daughters, I tell him about my four daughters. We're both very proud of our daughters. We've both been married to our wives since college. What it shows to me is, even though this business can be difficult on families, we've got strong ones. |
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I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled? / But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! / Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division: / For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three. |
I am really not pleased with the improvement that we are making. I think our guys are having a very difficult time putting together 40 minutes of basketball. Yes we are playing a lot of different players. Our fours and fives have to play bigger, they play too small. They have the size to play big, but they don't play big with their intimidation of challenging shots. |
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I believe I did lose the (first) round, but it was a competitive one, not one-sided. He will remember our fight for the rest of his life and he still believes that if the referee had continued the fight it would have been a different result. Yes, I was caught in the middle of the (first) round but I came back in the latter part and I was always in control of myself. |
I came in and we had a pretty good club when we got there, and our payroll was not going to keep pace with everyone else's, ... So we were given choices of letting guys become free agents or trading them at some point where you felt you could get some pretty decent players in return. It was a very tough decision. I remember calling [Martinez] the night I traded him. |
I can tell in the motion, ... Sometimes you can double fault and miss serve, but hit it really well. I just feel like it's just a rhythm thing. Hopefully, the more I serve and the more I practice it and the more I do it in matches it'll come back. It's one of my biggest weapons. I'm not scared that it's gone away. It just is a matter of me being able to hit it more. |
I don't know if all the talk the past two years has gotten into his head, ... But I think he's been probably stronger than a lot of us, a lot of his backers. A lot of people that he maybe expected to hold the line with him maybe caved in a little bit. If everybody was as strong about the commitment as Eddie is, then none of these questions would have ever popped up. |