I was so nervous to go out to practice because I was competing every day. I swear to God, I would lose sleep, ... I'd wake up and check the weather to see how windy it was going to be because I knew I was going out there and throwing. You'd learn valuable lessons about competition, and I approached every day in practice like it really was the game. |
I was trying to get that one down quicker [in the first], and he made that play and you're like, 'OK,' and you try to regroup and have a good second at-bat -- that's why it's the big leagues. It's a straight mental battle. It's tough enough to square the ball up, and if you're doing it and not getting any hits, you don't have anywhere else to turn. |
I went out full and the LORD hath brought me home again empty: why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the LORD hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me? / So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest. |
I will text-message recruits. It's a great way to stay in contact with them. Everybody has a cell phone. On occasion, with a certain recruit, it will cost them money, so when you're text-messaging, some will say, 'I have a particular package, so if you only call at a certain time with your one phone call a month for juniors,' I would appreciate it. |
I would like to think I would rise to the occasion, but it's just interesting to me how powerful human beings can be when pushed to their limit and I really wanted to find it realistically that she could fight back, that she could take the skills she had learned just from being a hotel manager and turn them around and actually escape the situation. |
I would prefer history tell itself, rather than have Hollywood tell it. There's so much we just don't know. Unfortunately, they're taking artistic license with history and people will believe it's accurate. Speculation is okay for drama, but it's less okay when it's purporting to tell history. If they didn't know, why didn't they just leave it out? |
I'd like him to be better. I told him that. He knows that. He feels the same way that I do. He feels the same way that we all do. He would like to be more productive. Some things have to come from him. Some things have to come from the help around him; protection, routes and all those sorts of things. We've had this conversation before, haven't we? |
I'd love to say I'm sorry. It is obviously a very tragic and unfortunate incident. This is not what music is supposed to be about. After 25 years of being in show business, nothing like this has ever happened. What do you say? Gee, I'm sorry. That doesn't cut it. There are no words that can possibly express the way I feel right now. I'm devastated. |
I'll never forget the fact that he was in our locker room after that game, ... Never. That's a highlight of my life. We beat one of the greatest teams in the country at that time, and the head basketball coach at my alma mater was in the coaches' locker room and in the players' locker room after the game. It doesn't get any better than that for me. |
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I'm more confident because of what we did in the latter end of the last World Cup qualifying campaign when we got some very good results away. That's what gives us a little bit more optimism going into this one. It'll be about getting off to the right kind of start. That will be so important because we were always playing catch-up last time around. |
I'm not saying we're not trying to get the big names, but we worry less about the name-recognition value or the number of stars behind a name. We look at films, and we look at people that can fit into what we're doing. These guys, offensively and defensively, will fit into the scheme of what we perceive we need to do in the future to be successful. |
I'm not sure if we were able to find a second gear, but everyone understood that these could have been our last few minutes, and we had to build on whatever we had left. We came back out in overtime and pressured the ball and got some turnovers, and that helped us get our energy back. There wasn't enough time to get tired. If you lose, you go home. |
I'm not trying to turn the J. Garcia brand into something you find at Target, but I am trying to broaden it. There are J. Garcia carpets that my mother would be happy to have in her house, and she's not a Deadhead. If you were to position it only for people who were fans of Jerry's music, it would be a much smaller market than what we're going for. |
I'm pleased. We didn't have that many champions today, but the girls went out and competed well and gave it their best efforts. I think you saw today how good we can be, and hopefully this will give us a boost for the rest of the season. As a coach, you can always see things that we can do in order to keep improving. There is time. It's only April. |