I think it gave him some confidence and he got to see where he stacked up. He had a great year this year, and he's improved every year he's been here.
I think I stack up well. We're all bunched up right now, but this is a chance for me to separate myself from the pack. I'm working out today, I'm doing everything, and hopefully I'll be able to pull myself away from the pack.
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
Together, we created the STACKED brand and have really taken the product up two or three notches.
As the words of my book, 'The Bloodless Revolution,' accumulated, I envisaged a parallel growth: the stack of pages they would have to be printed on, thousands of times over; every page representing a slice of forest, a belch of fumes and a squirt of toxic ink.
We do a lot of reading. I've got a stack of old Irish cookbooks from my mom, and basically you tweak it from there.
We used those markers to ensure we had the genes required for multi-race resistance and focused our field-testing efforts on identifying superior yield performance. We stacked the deck and were able to come up with all face cards.
We're focused on our program, making our stuff as good as we can make it and then we'll find out how we stack up against the competition.
To come within three-tenths of a point to the No. 2 team in the country is something to be very proud of. Florida is a great team, and now we know where we stack up.
Just being out there and playing with the pros is an honor. It's a great way to measure your game and see how you stack up with the pros.