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beginning believed bottom expected finish good group knew ourselves picked proud putting tournament year
At the beginning of the year no one really expected us to do very much, being picked to finish at the bottom of our conference. But we just believed in ourselves and knew that we were a lot better than that. I'm so proud of this group for making the tournament and putting up a good fight, especially in the first half.
beginning four happy nobody season talking
At the beginning of the year, nobody was talking about us at all. With the season we've had, we're happy to get a four seed. Brian Smith
beginning either grand porsche program reduced seat
At the beginning of the year, my program with Porsche was reduced to the minimum. I did not have either a seat in Grand Prix. In brief, I had time. Jacky Ickx
beginning decent helping pitching team wins
At the beginning of the year, I was pitching pretty decent but I wasn't getting the wins. Now, I'm getting the wins and helping the team win games. Jose Contreras
beginning feels job leading motivated pushed spot step
At the beginning of the year, I was in the No. 1 spot and I got pushed down to No. 2 because I wasn't doing my job (getting on base). It motivated me to step it up. I am back to leading off now, and it feels pretty good.
beginning games lose special teams win
At the beginning of the year, I wanted to be realistic. I didn't think special teams was going to win games for us, but I didn't want to let it lose games for us, either.
beginning economy help technology
At the beginning of the year, it was what will technology do to help the economy and now it's what will the economy do to help technology.
beginning believe excited fact girls gone good rest saw supposed taken
At the beginning of the year, I think the girls saw the fact that everyone was gone and thought they were supposed to lose. It's taken some work, but now they really believe that they can be a good team. We're all really excited about the rest of the year.
beginning match won
At the beginning of the year, I probably wouldn't have won a match like this. James Blake
beginning gave heart talent team trapped win
At the beginning of the year, I never thought this could happen. To tell you the truth, we can't win on talent alone. We have to win on heart and on being a family. (Being trapped on the elevator) gave us more team unity.
beginning grown leaders people player point stepped stuff sure time tough
At the beginning of the year, I'm not sure how many people thought he'd do the stuff he's done for us. But he's really grown as a player and point guard. He's become one of the leaders on this team, even at such a young age. He's stepped up for us time after time in tough situations.
beginning cup davis earn heart help hoped onto spot team year
At the beginning of the year I had a little spot in my heart that hoped I could earn my way back onto the Davis Cup team and show I can help this team.
beginning creates defense focused frustrated hanging heads kept looking open people plan scoring stick struggled tried
At the beginning of the year, if we would have struggled like that, we would have had a lot of people hanging their heads and it would have just escalated. They just bounced back, kept looking for what was open and kept focused on the target. I wasn't too concerned. I tell them, 'If we're not scoring that's OK, we just need to get stops.' Defense creates some offense. I tried to stick with the plan and not get too frustrated with them.
beginning compete create district hunter move offense stepped year
At the beginning of the year I didn't want to move Hunter to sweeper because I didn't think we'd create enough offense to compete in our district without him. But the way those two have played, and the way everyone has stepped up really, has enabled us to move Hunter back and still have an offense that can compete with anyone.
beginning gone handle playing
At the beginning of the year, I didn't know how to handle it because I had never gone through anything like this before. At the end of the year, they were playing phenomenal, I wanted to be with them, be part of the team.
beginning gotten guy knocked lost maturity next reminds shown since top
At the beginning of the year, he knocked off a guy that was top 20 and then he lost the very next match. So it reminds me he's a freshman, but I think since then he's really shown a lot of maturity and progressively gotten better.
beginning blowing everybody learn people stop year
At the beginning of the year everybody was blowing by her. She's had to learn how to play people and how to stop people. She's done that.
beginning guys lose
At the beginning of the week, we had two objectives. Don't get hurt, and don't lose your shape. Our guys are ready.
beginning dreamed
At the beginning of the week, I couldn't have dreamed it up any better,
beginning building canada carried playing sat since talked
At the beginning of the tournament, we weren't playing as a team. We weren't satisfied, but just before the Canada game, we sat down and talked about just going out and playing our game. Since then, we've been building momentum, and it carried over.
beginning bringing france proud tournament trophy win worked
At the beginning of the tournament we didn't think we would win the trophy. But we worked a lot but we are bringing the trophy to France and I am very proud of my players.
beginning team third
At the beginning of the third overtime, my whole team was exhausted; I was exasperated.
beginning free good grades guys hall lightly players reason semester study took twice week
At the beginning of the semester I told the players that at mid-semester if the grades weren't good then there were going to be punishments. There's no reason for this to happen. We have study hall twice a week and a free tutoring service. I think a lot of the guys took it lightly and they got surprised.
beginning front season straight sure
At the beginning of the season you look at the front of the script, then you go straight to the back to make sure you're still on the show. Steve Schirripa
beginning excited pittsburgh team
At the beginning of the season, when you thought of Pittsburgh you thought about a team that was regrouping. I didn't think they would be 17-3 at this point. I'm excited to do this game. Dick Vitale
beginning building came kept knew numbers threw throw yards
At the beginning of the season, we knew we were going to throw the ball. We didn't know we were going to put up the numbers we did, ... We came out and threw for (413) yards and from there it kept snowballing and kept building and building.
beginning closing matches season tough trouble
At the beginning of the season we had a tough set of matches - we had trouble closing out matches. I think that's really made us a lot tougher.
beginning closer good saying team
At the beginning of the season, we didn't know how good we'd be. But as we got closer (as a team), I think we were all saying this team is special. We can make big things happen. Darren Collison
beginning season
At the beginning of the season this was one of our goals. This is one more step, but we still have a lot more things to accomplish.
beginning best guard nation people post saying trying
At the beginning of the season, people were saying we had one of the best young backcourts in the nation or whatever, and we kind of got away from our big men. We are really just trying to do too much in the guard play and not enough in the post play and really the post play is what makes the guard play.
beginning goal
At the beginning of the season, our goal was to make the NCAA. Anthony Tolliver
beginning conference goals invite number receive season second win
At the beginning of the season our goals were to, number one, win our conference - the MDCHA. Our second goal is to receive an invite to nationals.
beginning season
At the beginning of the season it was nerve-racking. I couldn't get open.