Though Quotations | Page 6

We knew we were going to have to do it through the back door because we knew we didn't have enough through the front door. It just kept building. We won 10 of 12 matches Saturday morning and that was key right there. We won the three matches in consolations and we knew then no one could catch us - although we had to keep double-checking just to make sure.

I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the spirit, and though so fleeting, it is recognized by the spirit as a soul-speech fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being, regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life.

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.

One of my few childhood memories is as an eight-year-old, refused permission to watch the Hitchcock season on Irish television, sneakily viewing 'The Birds' though a crack in the living-room door. It transformed my hitherto perfectly enjoyable half-mile walk to school, down a country lane patrolled by watchful birds, into a terrifying ordeal.

Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

We're still playing Spanish Fork twice this season. Even though the games won't be for region championships, the rivalry is always going to be there.

We're still not real athletic. And even though we've got three or four guys at 6-5, we're still not great leapers. And we've got other weaknesses that I hope other people don't find out about unless they scout well. But we've got a lot of strengths, too.

We're still champions, even though I was not on the team that won last year. It says Vermont on my jersey, and we're trying to carry that tradition on.