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We really got it going later on and we played like warriors. It was a real team effort. We just want to keep playing with intensity and heart and keep riding this wave.

We ran into a really good basketball team. They played at a level that our girls are not accustomed to playing against. Our girls didn't know how to handle it until it was late in the third and fourth. Our intensity level picked up, but it was too little, too late.

(We're) as prepared as we should be given the lack of frequency of earthquakes and the lack of intensity of earthquakes.

We held them there a couple of times then we were able to score and things started to click from there. We had a great intensity level and the girls really played well as a team.

We hope we can keep the intensity going and hopefully earn a trip to the state tournament.

We hit the ball well, and I was extremely happy with our intensity at the plate. Playing good defense and not making any errors was a real big thing for us.

We had no intensity whatsoever. We didn't bring very much to the table.

We had no intensity on defense to start and they just ran up and down the floor on us but we came back a little in the second half. We needed to get our shooters better looks when we got it back to six or eight, but we ended up turning the ball over and then they get easy baskets the other way. We need to be more patient on offense.

We've seen this team this year with the same level of intensity that they had, but we just couldn't match it tonight.

We've seen how hard they play. They compete so hard, they're up and down the ice, they skate well and they're physical. If we can match their intensity and play as hard as they do, that gives us a chance to be successful.

The fact that it could enter the Gulf as a Category 4 is not good news for Florida because, when it was forecast to be a Category 3, the thinking was it would weaken to a Category 2. Now we may have a Category 3, or worse, at landfall. But we have to remember this is the intensity forecast, and it has a lot of uncertainty.

We have small girls, and they get pounded, but they play hard, man. It's all about defense. Our intensity was there from the start. We told them, 'If you guys have it from the start, we'll be fine.' That's what we need to win.

There is a little disappointment but we have lots of hope and intensity for Wednesday,

There is definitely an intensity change. You have to treat every play like it's the last one because it is. The losers go home.

When I walked into the locker room, everybody said I had to stop sliding headfirst. Before I even got in there, they were telling me, 'Would you please stop?' Even American League guys were saying that. Vernon Wells said, 'Please stop sliding headfirst.' They all love the enthusiasm and intensity I show.

We're just trying to get our timing back and trying to get in a rhythm and a flow on the offensive end. If we continue to play like the way we did in St. Louis, in terms of intensity and defense, and our offense is a little bit smoother, we'll be in good shape.

We're good at forecasting paths of hurricanes, but we're not as good at predicting intensity and the impact. Take Katrina. There was a massive migration of human capital out of a region. What are the long-term effects?

This win was really big. This was huge. The girls started the game with a high intensity level and really put in a lot of effort in this game.

We've said winning is contagious just as much as losing. This year it seems we've got the contagious side of winning. So as long as we keep with our momentum and intensity up, we should be good. If we want to come on strong, this is a great time to do it.

We had awesome focus and intensity. If we could do that for 40 minutes, we could beat any team in the country. Cal?s freshmen are amazing, but our focus and intensity made the difference.

We needed a little time to warm up, ... After the first game, we warmed up. We were a lot more intense and we were on our game and we were moving. We just got warmed up and got going, and the intensity was beautiful.

We won't change much from what we've been doing. We're getting good intensity on defense and showing patience on offense.

We need to pick up our intensity in practices, now, to get ready. We've hit a plateau right now, so we've got to reach another peak.

We made a lot of mistakes, but the hustle and the intensity was the best I've seen all year. We were down 13 (late in the third quarter) and for us to come back on that team and actually take a lead is a testimony to our desire.

We're glad to be back in the playoffs. I've noticed a great intensity in them and a lot smiles too. They want to compete and they're ready.

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

We're not coming out at halftime with the intensity we need.

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Love is a component of many different things - the baggage you bring, the moment, what you need in your life, seeing someone as a portal for understanding everything, and all the intensity that brings. It's not something to count on and act like it's a stable thing.

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Many people may be expecting a walking-talking clone of Arnold but I believe I've done my homework to the extent that the difference between us will be obvious. I'm playing a machine without emotion, but there's an intensity I'm really working hard at hitting that I hope will come through to the audience and scare the crap out of them.

She took it right at those big girls and wasn't scared of them. She gave us the intensity that we needed at that time. She is too young to even think about doing it. She just did it.

She's got the whole game. She usually drew the main offensive threat on the other team, and that defensive intensity was her trademark. She's not a flashy player, but she does a lot of good things.

She's careless and when you're careless all of a sudden it starts to chip away at your confidence because you start making just enough mistakes that are just careless mistakes. Some of it is just that you've got to be more attentive and your intensity level's got to be a lot higher. We need Renee to play at a real high level in order for this team to move forward.

Some nights she's on and she can win you a ballgame, and sometimes she's not on and she can lose you a ballgame. Tonight she was on. Tonight she played with extreme emotion and intensity and passion for the game, and I was very proud of her effort.

She can get us going both ways with her intensity and high level of play. She does a lot of good things.

She has chosen to concentrate on basketball, and she has given it 110 percent of her interest, effort and intensity 24/7, and that's really what has made her such a great player.

Shane had a great match and beat a guy whose style was totally different than what Shane tries to do. I have been pleased with Shane?s focus and his ability to take his intensity to a new level every match, every session.

Since the losses, the intensity has picked up a little more. I guess we're not getting away with as much now. She's gone back to the old ways of being tough, really.

Sixteen and oh is definitely a possibility. But our focus is on the next game. We've picked up our intensity on the defensive end.

(Sioux Falls) picked up their intensity on defense, caused some turnovers, and we just didn't get anything out of our offense.

She played with a little more intensity tonight. She felt a little more comfortable on the court and got a lot of open looks at the basket.

She is really starting to make her mark on the national scene. She is a very determined person. Her intensity can be her strength and her weakness sometimes. Intensity is a great thing, but it doesn't have to be 24-7. I try to help her keep everything in perspective.

She just makes other kids shoot the ball differently. She leaves her feet a lot, so we thought we could pump fake and go by her. But you know with that big body coming at you and when you're 16-years-old, it's hard to remember sometimes. They came out with a little more intensity that we anticipated.

She might be a freshman in class but not on the basketball floor. She plays with the same intensity that any upperclassmen does.

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

Maybe we just weren't prepared for the intensity they were going to bring. But we'll be ready for them (tonight). We'll be a different team.

My intensity level and my mindset was at a different level tonight, ... That's where I've been trying to get to the entire season and I finally made it.

One reason to come to Port Elizabeth was because it was nice to come to a so-called quieter place. To prepare at our own pace without people looking over our shoulder and instead to build intensity from within our own camp.

One of the things Bode is really exceptional at is bringing intensity to big events. They bring out his best. I think that's what you're going to see. He'll bring something special and extraordinary, based on what he's done in the past.

No one ever saw it from that point of view. Jerry says Michael works with the intensity of a bomb squad. That's absolutely true.

Murray definitely called us out. So, we played with more intensity tonight.

More than anything, the defensive intensity has been there. We've had a couple of games where it hasn't been there, but we learned a lesson from those games versus the ones it has been there. We've seen the difference in what we're able to accomplish when we play good defense.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up. Guys are a week into spring training basically, so I think it's going to be a little more exciting, a little more fun.

Now that the second round is here, I think the intensity is going to pick up.

Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other night. I thought we were really active defensively in the first half. If we had been flying around and having that intensity last Wednesday, the outcome would have been a lot better.

Never in my wildest imagination would I have figured this, but we played every game to this intensity level.

Obviously, this is a very disappointing loss. We felt we had a chance to win this game, but they executed better than we did down the stretch. We battled, we fought, this was a playoff atmosphere. We wish we would have been able to match their intensity down the stretch, but we didn't. They were in the bounce-back mode and they bounced back.

Obviously I'm a little biased but I think he's the best player in the conference. He's been so important because he brings such intensity and work ethic, and he automatically draws a double.

Nobody works harder than him, that's for sure. Just the way he prepares for the game. His intensity level is above and beyond what everybody else's is. He really puts everything into it.

Nobody was concerned with the intensity of ... We're used to hurricanes.

Right now, he'd be the favorite for that job. He's done that job before. Defensively, he can play all three positions. His professionalism and intensity fit the makeup and personality of our team.

Peter is all business. At this time of year, the emotion is all in the players. It's all in your locker room. It doesn't come from the coach. The intensity and the emotion all come from the players.

Noah is incredible. Usually kids that are that big, even if they're that athletic, they don't have the ability to play every possession at the intensity level that he does. I don't know many guards that can do that, but he does that at his size. That's what makes him unique.

No. 1, we knew we didn't come out of the dressing room Friday night the way we needed to. We didn't match Mankato's intensity Friday. I thought we did that tonight.

NCAR is now embarking on a focused series of computer experiments capable of resolving thunderstorms and the details of tropical cyclones, ... The results will help explain the observed intensity changes and extend them to realistic climate change scenarios.

Navy is a very physical team that is extremely well-coached. We knew they were going to go at us hard for the full seven minutes. Our guys didn't match their intensity and effort.

On the floor and the vault, I think we're performing at a championship level, not only in terms of performance but in our enthusiasm and intensity as well. We just need to do the same on the bars and beam.

I was fired up. I told them to go out and play with intensity and that's what they did.

I was still pleased with our guys. Mount Pleasant comes in with an intensity our guys don't normally see. We played hard despite the score and we learned a lot tonight.

I was really proud of our intensity on the defensive end. We talked about three things: playing with intensity, playing with passion and playing with heart.

I was really pleased with the way we played. I was glad to see that our intensity was there for the whole game.

I was surprised by their defensive intensity and how fast they brought the ball up. But this was one of our best seasons. I'm blessed to have such a good team. These young ladies, win, lose or draw, are friends. The chemistry is unbelievable. Whether they play or not, they're the same. We're a tight group.

I would be surprised if there are no discussions. But the intensity and fruitfulness of the talks will depend on how Jackson writes his findings of fact. He would have to give each side something to worry about.

I was pleased with how we played. We handled them. We played hard; most everybody that got in played hard. That's two games in a row with that intensity - that's good.

If we don?t match their intensity and how hard they play, it?s going to be very tough to win the game.

If we play with the same intensity we have been, it should be a good game Saturday night.

If we play like this the rest of the way, we'll be in good shape. We had good intensity and were physical. It wasn't easy. The guys worked their butts off.

If we keep our intensity up in the next month, I think you will see some really good things from them.

If they lose the game, they run a lot of sprints. Most of the time they come back and win. It's an intensity thing for our first group.

I did see a lot of good things in the game. Everybody grew up a little bit, and we played at a higher level than we have been, both in intensity and execution. We just got wore out and lost our cool in the fourth quarter. Other than that, I thought we hung in there pretty well.

I didn't want to do the runny noses and hot ears. What I really liked was neonatology -- the little preemies and the intensity of their care. I loved intensive care, really sick people.

I didn't like our lack of intensity in the first half. We can't let other teams get that far ahead on us. We've got to play with intensity the whole way.

I did not think our intensity level was what it should be.

I'd like to hope so. But in order for that to happen, we have to continue to come out here every day and play with the same type of intensity that we have played with. And we will get to that point.

I'd like to hope so. But for that to happen, we've got to continue to come out with the intensity we've shown so far. And I believe we will.

I'd like to keep up my intensity and technique a little better. Today, I felt like I kind of took a step backwards.

I don't know what happened. We needed to pick up the intensity on defense. I was pretty upset when I had to call that timeout early in the third because we had four people standing there watching the ball go down the court. I had no idea that at this time in the season conditioning would be a problem. It was a matter of desire and intimidation that decided this game.

I don't know where we were defensively. I don't think we've given up 75 points to anyone all year. I think the girls were a little bit nervous and shell-shocked. They were prepared to defend everything we saw tonight, but I was disappointed with our defensive intensity and our offensive execution.

I don't know why it should increase intensity. Our intensity should be increased to the limit right now, with where we're at. I'm not a big believer in statement games, measuring sticks, four-point games. I think every game is important.

I can just feel the team has a stronger intensity level. All of us went out to the start-finish line at Richmond and kissed that start-finish line and kissed that race track . . . We all felt very complete by that win and now we want some more.

building up all week. The intensity has definitely picked up quite a bit.

Basically, it will allow us to increase the intensity of the air campaign over Kosovo and Yugoslavia.

I'm always going to look to be aggressive and take those shots, but we let this one get away because we lacked defensive intensity in the fourth quarter.

I'm a great believer in the difference between winning and losing is intensity. Our intensity has picked up lately. This is a great group of kids who make it enjoyable to come to practice every day. We are getting better all the time.

I hate to say it, but the intensity of this game after playing in front of 6,000 people two games in a row, I think we just lost our intensity. We just needed to pick it up.

I felt like we weren't at the intensity level we've been at lately.

I felt if there was a time for the Colts to be ripe for the picking, it was this game, and I said it before the game. It was almost a month since they played a meaningful game with all their starters, and you risk losing intensity going into the playoffs.

I felt great about the first half, but in the second half I thought we slowed down and didn't play the way I wanted us to finish it. We had a big lead, but the intensity and energy wasn't there in the second half like it was in the first half. You can work on things, but still have intensity. I felt like we didn't have any intensity.

I felt like our defensive focus and intensity for 40 minutes was the best it's been all year. I'm excited about our team's energy overall.