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James Lewis and those other kids in '78, '79 and '80 laid the groundwork for our state championship teams. But especially James. The kids that followed learned from him. We all did. He always came to practice prepared, practiced like it was game night and was better in the fourth quarter than he was in the first. He left an impression.

Kyle practiced some and threw the ball pretty well. I feel like he'll be fine. I was encouraged by what I saw today.

Kyle is kind of the flip side of what's been going on with Travis. He hasn't practiced well lately.

Penalty kicks are certainly something we've practiced and we've made them in practice. I think the pressure of the moment had something to do with it.

Our kids played hard and stepped up. We practiced hard the last two weeks. It was one of those hard fought battles,

Our kids have been playing pretty good basketball. They have practiced well and their attitude has been great. It seems to be every day in practice they are hungry to get better.

Our guys have practiced hard all season. And they were really up for the game. It was the first district-championship game for the Golden Gate boys soccer team.

Our fans are really good, and that last group of guys practiced and earned their opportunity, too. They did a good job.

Overall, it's been what we expected, not really what we had wished. The fact that some sports are not practiced in the country, you have to live with.

Renaldo knew going into today that he wasn't going to start but when the opening came, he was ready. He was ready because he practiced hard the past two days. Starting or not starting doesn't matter to Renaldo. He was ready regardless.

Organizational improvisation ... Research on jazz musicians shows that people don't just pull stuff out of the air when they're improvising. These are people with an extremely wide knowledge of musical genres. They have always practiced and practiced and practiced. Similarly, improvising involves a deep understanding of the resources you have at hand in your community.

Sure. You would have liked (more production). Rickey has practiced well and is getting in shape. That comes from playing and not being in the system. It is difficult for junior college players to come in and make a huge impact early on.

My shot was bad until the eighth grade, when my coach showed me how to shoot a jump shot. From there I practiced my shot every day in the driveway.

Naive or commercial or merely utilitarian photography is no different in kind from photography as practiced by the most gifted professionals,

Looking at his background, there was an incident that happened in '97. A lot of people have made mistakes. Our research and talking with people in the last three years, every organization said he's a guy who practiced hard, plays hard and does a lot of the right things. Mistakes do happen.

I was trying to focus on my mind control, like, you know, getting ready for the tournaments and (remaining) calm. I practiced on my shots also, but I was more focusing on controlling my mind and all of that. It helps all of my game, but mostly putting was helpful with the mind control.

I was happy with the results. We haven't practiced that much this week because of rain.

I was glad we won and hopefully we win (today) and go to the finals. We practiced hard on Saturday, but we had to prepare for another team. It was hard.

I think if it is Garcia, having practiced against him every day would help a lot, but I wouldn't go into the game expecting seven turnovers just because you know the guy. It works both ways. We know him, but he knows us from practicing against us. We both do film study. It will come down to who is more prepared and who executes better." ()

I think he's adjusting very well. I know he's had two solid practices, and I think today was the third solid practice. I think that's been a good move for our football team, and it will be a good move for him. It was probably good that we practiced him there some during the bowl practices. That's helped him make the adjustment.

I think Luke will be ready. He has practiced every day this week. He took the majority of the snaps, too. He says he feels good.

I thought it was going to take us awhile to get going offensively, and really it did on both ends of the floor. We hadn't practiced since Wednesday.

I thought it was exciting. I thought it was neat how he practiced three days and then was in there getting rebounds.

I thought his defensive effort locking up on dribble penetration was the key to getting us going and getting us easy baskets. He had a great week of practice. He practiced harder this last week than he has all year and he really worked hard on his defense.

That was huge. We spent a lot of time in spring training working on two-strike counts. We practiced that, as far as putting the ball in play and cutting down your swing a little bit, and it paid off.

That was the week of spring break, and we hadn't practiced in a week. The girls are more focused right now than they were that day.

That was a play we practiced every day in practice, just about. I got a good look at it. They did a good job of contesting the play.

That's the way it looks now. The best way to describe Jake is to say he's day-to-day. We hope he can play, but he hasn't practiced in a week.

I wasn't sure about the pitch or the tone at first, but I practiced with it, and it really is beautiful.

We just went back and practiced after the Virginia Tech game and worked on some of the mistakes that we made in running our inside zones and stuff like that. Cleaned up a little blocking and stuff that we might have messed up in the first game.

We played like we practiced all week, with no sense of urgency,

We proved to people we can throw the football. We'd practiced it, but we hadn't shown it as much. If people try to gang up on us and stop the run, they're going to give up big plays.

We really went at it. I thought it was going to be hard for us to get back into team things. ... We played today how we practiced all week. We got in the mode of competing all the time, and it carried over into today.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

We played today exactly like we practiced yesterday and we can't get away with playing at anything other than the top of our game the next three games. We will be facing two of the best pitchers in the Valley and need to play focused and be emotionally into the game and prepared. When we play focused and disciplined, we can beat anyone.

We played real physical with a lot of intensity. We left practice bleeding a lot. If there was a loose ball on the floor, we went after it. And if a ball went up in the stands, we went after it up there. There was just the attitude that we practiced with the attitude that we played with.

We had nine first-year players against Montreal. We practiced with 15 players today. Everybody knows our situation. We're limping. Still, we're only one point out of first place.

We had to. We had no place else to go. You kind of practiced on spots you literally walked around and found a place that didn't have a ditch in it.

We had not practiced well until this week and that has me more optimistic. The kids understand the offense and defense and our long-term goals. They realize it is more of a journey than a short trip. We may get beat, but we can still move forward from there. If we win we have a better shot at the conference, but either way we can move on.

Today, the third-graders tasted Asian food, and they loved it. The performers for Thursday's shows practiced in their costumes, which made them glow, and we loved watching them.

You know, we practice with it (noise). We practiced it out there today (Wednesday). I scream at the top of my lungs so that they can hear the snap count in practice. We work at it, but I think the biggest thing is just concentration.

We needed to get another center in here. Now we have two proven centers in (Antoine) Murphy and Lacey. He practiced (Wednesday) morning. He looks good.

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

We haven't played in 10 days. We've been inside a lot and practiced our hitting. Defensively, we're a better team than that. It was nice to get out. We were rusty.

We haven't even practiced yet, but all of our positions are wide open.

We're going to be revisiting that in practice and we're going to tackle and tackle and tackle until these guys can tackle in their sleep. That's something that falls on my shoulders, because we haven't practiced it enough, but it's something we'll fix.

When the war ends, it will be found that there was an equal amount of 'thuggery' practiced on both sides, that terrible things were done to force the final victory.

When guys get to be seniors, they know it's time to step up. He has practiced hard. Sometimes he wasn't the most consistent pass catcher, but he's got a little confidence and he's really going to play a bunch.

When guys get to be seniors, they know it's time to step up, ... He has practiced hard. Sometimes he wasn't the most consistent pass catcher, but he's got a little confidence and he's really going to play a bunch.

We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to call what they were doing and we played well as a team.

We practiced well all week and played well the past week. They really keyed on Eric and that opened things up for Doug.

We practiced very well for that game, but I wasn't aware of the hangover from the BCS thing until the night before the game. This year, we've told everybody that the game on Thursday is the only thing that matters. That's where you get a chance to make a stand.

We practiced this morning at the University of Dallas.

We practiced that next Monday (Sept. 5). We got the word out as best we could that if they could make it, we were going to practice. I think it helped the kids a lot to get back around their friends.

We practiced really hard and our coaches really got us prepared. We felt like we could get any shot we wanted by working the ball around.

We practiced outside on (Wednesday), and it went well.

We practiced our free throws for an hour and a half after school. I guess it helped.

We practiced on them attacking us, staying in that man-to-man.

We practiced on Monday, but we didn't practice very long because I think it's important that we have fresh legs because this game, going over there, is going to be so emotional.

We practiced most of two-a-days without him. It would have been worse if he would have practiced this whole time and then lose him now. Guys got valuable reps and you have to count on them.

We practiced lots and lots of tasks, we were prepared to do a lot things that we'd never done before, and that theory was sort of tested on this, and that's sort of the whole idea of going into space. You don't really know what your challenges are going to be ahead of time, so you practice everything you can think of.

We practiced horribly this week. We had it coming. We had some of our worst practices of the year this week and we got outplayed today because of it.

We practiced hard last week. We got after it. We had to get the intensity back and not accept losing." ()

We practiced hard and played hard ... but they played better.

We practiced for two months over the summer every day, and we had games. It keeps you in shape. You play against top competition, probably the best in the world. That gives you an idea of how good of a player you are.

We practiced for everything we thought they were going to do. Obviously once the game starts you get 60 minutes to get it done and we just didn't get it done in certain crucial areas against a good football team on the road.

We practiced defending the last two days and the boys executed exactly the way we planned. We really haven't been playing that well lately but this definitely makes us legit.

We practiced covering the option all week. The defense did a great job of staying with their assignments.

We practiced a lot and sometimes it really got long, but today it paid off. I've got a lot of talent around me and I just try to get guys the ball.

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

We practiced against their full-court pressure. We knew that if we got the ball to the middle we could break their press, but we had too many mental lapses in the first quarter and we couldn't get back in the game after that.

We practiced against the 3-2 but we were passive. We didn't attack it.

We practiced against (the 2-3 zone) in practice over and over again. All the teams usually run zone against us since we're so big inside with Jack. So we worked on the 2-3 zone in practice to find a way around it and find what works.

We practiced against that play during the week. They do a lot of different things with him. He's a marvelous athlete. He's got speed.

We practiced against six guys all week, but you can?t simulate their speed. So we knew we were going to have turnovers. But, we wanted to defend well and get the ball in the paint and we did that really well.

We practiced against Juninho's free-kicks, ... But not enough to stop him.

We practiced against each other for several years so it was great to see him tonight and get to play against him. He's a great player and great friend.

We have made a concerted effort to make sure the kids remember to have fun. We practiced Christmas Eve morning between 9 and 11 a.m. and we had some of the coaches and ex players playing a little. We want to get them back into the mode of having fun. Nobody has their heads down.

We actually put heart-rate monitors on the kids and they practiced with them. That way, I could tell who was working hard and who was not. That was just tremendous for us.

We actually prepared for them today. We knew this was a possibility and we knew they were in the game. We watched tape of the game two years ago, and we practiced and prepared as if we were in this game. So we already got a head start.

Yeah, I had some wrecks before the HANS that really hurt me. This past year, I had a right-front tire blow out at Michigan, and I probably hit harder than I did at Atlanta. And I went and practiced my Cup car 15 minutes later.

This would be against the grain with the way Islam is practiced in this region. I think Malaysian Muslims, like Indonesian Muslims and elsewhere in Southeast Asia, are not comfortable with this sort of very rigid, dogmatic approach to religion.

Today was the first day we practiced in here, ... So I think, you know, it was more of an unfamiliar facility for us, and we'll get more reps in the O'Connell Center, and it will be good for us.

We worked and practiced hard all season to allow us to compete. I was real proud of our effort all year.

We basically practiced it at our house for a week. And my sister, who is a dancer, helped choreograph it for our live show, ... We taped us doing it in the backyard not to use as our own video, but because we wanted to show the dance to a video director for this other idea we had that involved choreography to prove to him we were the band to do it. It turns out the director never even got it.

When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a business approach to the whole thing. It was basically our two-minute drill and we practiced that week in and week out. We knew we had a lot of time.

When I was first offered the book deal, I was like, 'I am not a writer. I haven't practiced this.' My approach has been completely stream-of-consciousness, and then edit down, because that's been YouTube for me forever.

This summer I just practiced real hard. I was real dedicated. I don't think I missed two or three workouts this whole summer.

Women enjoyed rights in Egypt they would not again enjoy for more than 2,000 years. They owned ships, ran vineyards, filed lawsuits, practiced medicine. Their husbands supported them after divorce. Their power was unprecedented.

Thomas faked a late steal and the pitcher bit by throwing to first. It's actually a play we practiced on for about a half hour the day before the game.

This yoga should be practiced with firm determination and perseverance, without any mental reservation or doubts.

Torture is practiced systematically by the security forces, ... This was admitted by high officials of both the army and police.

Torture and ill treatment are systematically practiced in Nepal by the police, armed police and the Royal Nepal Army in order to extract confessions and to obtain intelligence, among others things,

We didn't execute they way we had been preparing to. Basketball is about effort and execution. The effort was there at times, the execution wasn't. I just felt like we were playing not to lose instead of playing to win. We didn't stick to our game plan. We didn't play like we practiced the last week.

We always start at Page 1. Everyone that?s returning knew exactly what to do and practiced really well. And everyone?s that?s new was struggling, to put it mildly.

With special teams it's the first time we've practiced with lines - ever. Now we practice wide side of the field, short side of the field. With hash marks you can run full-blown practices without getting out cones and saying, 'This is a hash mark.' You can do situations a lot easier.

We'll work him out, just because he's a vet who has been in a lot of big games before. We've tried to rest him as much as we can, but we feel good about the guys that have practiced all week long. If we can get him, that's a bonus.

We've only practiced not even a handful of times yet. It's just nice seeing him back there. It's been a long time since we've played together, so it's nice to pick up where we left off.

We had so much confidence, ... I expected this. I expected to win. We had so much confidence and practiced so hard, we knew it. We have the 'it' factor. We have the heart. Slowly but surely, we noticed them losing their heart.

But the kids have practiced well the past couple of days and were looking forward to Orland this Friday.