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We've got about four more games to finish that. I really think our kids believe and if you've got the belief and you've got the confidence, you're going to finish the job. We've got a ton of talent. Hopefully we can just finish the job.

This season, we have a lot of talent and leadership in our upper classmen and a ton of talent in our newcomers. I am really excited about what this year has to hold.

Ton just has a knack for hitting big shots. We wouldn't be here without him.

The Orlando parks and Six Flags have raised their prices. At a time when families are low on cash, we have them come here and not spend a ton of money as they would going to a vacation farther away.

This way, no farmer has to invest a ton of money in machinery.

What separates Brandon from so many other kids is his discipline. His training habits, his eating habits, his school life ... he puts in a ton of extra time. He basically does three workouts a day. His work ethic is above and beyond other kids.

We got a fifth year back for him and he took full advantage of it. He had a ton of heart and got his national championship. I just couldn't be happier. That goes along with his sixth-place finish in the long jump which was unexpected. It was just awesome.

We gained a ton of fan support this year in Richland and in Idaho. We're a family-oriented race team. The kids have really come on board with the Piranha boat with everybody has been standing up and cheering us on. That brings them to the pits, too.

Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.

You have to have a great handling car and a ton of horsepower and durability. It's a track that usually doesn't have many cautions, and that's what produces the fuel mileage races that the place in known for.

What can I say about that kid. She gets a ton of rebounds and hit some huge shots (tonight).

We missed a ton of tackles. I don't think we're pressing. But we didn't give the offense enough opportunities.

We missed a ton of shots, easy shots.

The Purple Cow had a barber shop. There's just a ton of history here. It's kind of reliving itself again.

We got that prayer answered tonight. Actually, I thought we played well enough during most of the game to win pretty easily. We missed a ton of easy shots, but that's been the story of this team. We've been inconsistent. We look like a million bucks one night and not so good the next.

You look at it, you've got to take one game at a time and play good baseball. Yes, we started hot, but there have been a ton of teams that start hot, then they go into a drought after that. So we have to stay focused and continue doing what we're doing.

We shot very well, but turned the ball over too much and gave up a ton of offensive rebounds. Now we're kind of at the mercy of the (NAIA) selection committee. Hopefully we can sneak in.

There have been a ton of penalties called, so special teams is going to dictate a lot of games. Whoever has good special teams can go far in the playoffs, and I think we have good special teams play when we want to.

There have been a ton of guys who start off the year great and go down from there. I want to be one of those guys who continues to get better and better and makes those adjustments.

We are sure that there is going to be a ton of work to do. And we expect that all the contractors, including us, are going to be a part of that process, ... We were looking for people before the storm who had the skills needed to do what we do. We definitely have an interest in someone who's qualified. I think (the approach) is very effective.

We had solid passing and I was impressed with our blocking discipline. We need a ton of work on our offensive rhythm, but that comes with experience.

We had several opportunities -- we didn't have a ton of shots on goal -- but the opportunities we had were really high-quality opportunities that we couldn't finish. I think this game really easily could have been a 3-, 4-, 5-nothing game.

We wanted a place that was on campus, even though this is a community church, we wanted to be right in the heart of campus because it's easy for the college (students) to get here, ... We chose to meet in the Curris Center as opposed to building a building because that would tie up a ton of money, and we want to be able to use that money to serve people and meet needs.

We crossed our 40, and at that point, I feel our percentages go up a ton because of Mason. We've got tremendous confidence in him.

Both defenses played with a ton of intensity, especially early on. So far the 'D' has been pretty consistent for our guys.

Brick and I should have a ton of repetitions early on to get everything straightened out while much of the area will be preoccupied by the Red Sox in the playoffs.

Even if your goalie's having a so-so night, you should still win handily with that much of a shot advantage. Tonight, we had a ton of absolute naked opportunities where all you have to do is finish, but we didn't.

Besides missing their leadership, our biggest kids are our seniors. With them being gone, it means we have to change our style a little bit. We have got skill players moving up from the lower levels, but not a ton of size.

(Blocking shots) was kind of her forte. She had a ton of them every game.

Every game for us is going to be a challenge. We can drop a game to every team. We're not going to score a ton of runs. We got to play if we're going to win.

a ton of research -- more than I've ever done before for anything. I've hit this point in my career where I just love doing research. It's what feeds me -- going and living the life of my character -- so for this I went to Ecuador a month or two ahead to work on my Spanish and get the feel for the place. I also traveled around with this local TV reporter who was doing the same thing Manolo does, and every morning we'd go to the morgue to cover murders.

A ton of people are taking off, as you can tell. It's dead around here.

A ton of emotions will be running through them from tip to buzzer. We've just got to try and get those guys to keep that in check, channel it the right way on the floor and recognize that the ultimate goal is for them to have a win.

A ton of chemical weapons put into a city can probably cover an area of around a kilometer or more, in the right conditions,

A ton better, ... Just a ton better. I don't sense a lot of me. I haven't sensed a lot of selfishness. More importantly, they're working together.

At this point in the season, I really think we could use more depth. We have a ton of energy, but we need the bench really coming together, focusing on the task at hand and what needs to be done. If one of the starters doesn't have that drive, energy or spark, it's going to be our job to give it to them.

Cowboys weren't allowed to kiss girls in pictures, so one time I gave Dale a little peck on the forehead and we got a ton of letters to leave that mushy stuff out, ... So I had to kiss Trigger instead.

Eliza has a ton of potential. She is still a little raw but is very fast and athletic. Eliza is a player who you like more and more each time you see her. She is someone we always knew had the ability, but she will continue to improve. I believe the sky is the limit for her. She's an athlete that has split time between track and soccer, and when she gets the chance to have all the eggs in one basket at Memphis, she will continue to excel.

First of all, Tualatin is an excellent football team. We came out and made a ton of mistakes. We fumbled the ball a bit.

Far too many mines receive the minimum assessment of $60, which is less than what a ton of coal goes for these days.

Every year we have made it to the finals, it's like a ton of bricks have been lifted off my shoulders. But I am so at ease with this bunch. It reminds me of when my kids played all-stars (at Southeastern). Everybody is involved and that's what makes it special.

There's strong character in our dressing room. Right now, it's just a matter of execution. If everybody shows up and does their job, I think there's a ton of confidence.

There's no question he's one of the better players in the Big 12. He has unbelievable quickness off the ball. He would have had a ton of sacks if we could have contained the quarterback.

There's not a ton of new housing going up, and there are a lot of people who like the Downtown experience, who like high-rise living. And unless you go to the Wilshire Corridor there's not a lot of places to buy. It's becoming a real neighborhood.

The time we got beat we blitzed a whole ton and we weren't even in the ballgame. We got ripped. The best we've played them was when we were completely conservative defensively. That's our style.

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

I've been seeing the ball well for a couple of weeks now. I don't know what else to say, he gave me something I could handle and I swung as hard as I could. We came out with a ton of intensity. That's the challenge coach (Ryan) Roberts gave us to come out and have good solid at-bats. Once we got started it was hard to stop.

I've been training a lot in Colorado, and I've actually been riding a ton on the mountain bike. I've been climbing up the steepest things I could possibly find in Durango, which is not hard to do. It's good training because it's really hard on the arms.

The worst part is my brother (Scott) goes to Ohio State. He doesn't play there, but he actually just graduated this past summer. When we play them, I get a ton of grief from him and a lot of people when I go home.

They absolutely crushed us on the boards. They had a ton of second chance points and that's what I look at. You can't go into Morgan and give them 12 or 16 extra possessions.

I've worked with Steve for more than 10 years and we already communicate extremely well, both on and off the track. The team has a ton of confidence in his abilities, so we're looking forward to the last 10 races of 2005 and getting an early jump on next year.

I've talked to her and encouraged her to do it. She's got a ton of energy. She's bright. She's articulate. She can look at challenges and find good solutions for them, and I just think she could do some really good things.

I've seen no change, ... Everything we're selling is three-quarter ton pickup trucks, Denalis Yukons. I just think that people in this area have money and three bucks a gallon hasn't fazed them.

It was a little hard for me at first: I remember coming in with a ton of ideas, and I wanted to present them all, and they wanted to hear them, but at the same time, they almost didn't want to hear them. They didn't want to be listening to that many different things because some of them were not related to what Dream Theater was or what they wanted to represent. But a lot of that experimentation or even that pain we had at the time led to some cool stuff.

These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.

The still image continues to have a ton of strength. An image taken out of context from one fraction of a second to the next can tell a story, and if photographers are looking to tell a certain story, they can curate those slices of time to their advantage.

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

The team understands and knows how difficult the next two weeks will be. We're very honest about how difficult the next five games. But we got a ton of confidence last night that we haven't had.

The thing to understand is the demand today has increased substantially ... 15,000 people are being evacuated from the Superdome itself. I mean, that's Natchitoches; that's a ton of people.

I've never bought into the theory of you have to have a ton of experience to get it done.

sees a ton of potential in every single guy.

Sacks are one of those great stats. But you also have to look outside those numbers. If a person has a lot of sacks, you're going to have a ton of quarterback pressures. That changes their offensive line. It changes schemes. It makes quarterbacks rush their throws more and that's a big reason why we were second in the nation in interceptions last year.

Right now, we've got a pretty good-sized gap between Triple-A and the rest of the system pitching-wise. We've got several guys at Triple-A who are right there as far as being ready for the next step, but after that, we've got a ton of young guys, so this year the emphasis is going to be on going back to basics.

Right now, they're getting a ton of publicity because the focus is on the guys that are battling for the Chase.

Sandy played great. We let him make that first save and he made a ton of them tonight.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Non performance can always be explained away.

Personally, I don't put a ton of stock in seedlings. My feeling is that Saint Basil is the best team. But is there a huge difference between the No. 1 and No. 2? Probably not. As the tournament plays out, we'll see who the best AAA team is.

Our defense played great, just like we expected. Offensively we did just what I expected as well. We made a ton of mistakes, but we did what we had to.

The Olympics has been a life-long dream. I know that I have a ton of work ahead of me, but it is work I have been waiting my entire life to do.

After Plano went up on us 5-2 we got hot and started hitting on all cylinders defensively and offensively. Of course Garrett was hot, and any time he is hot he hits a ton and he sets up so many other players, too.

Spectators need to be very aware of that. The horses can weigh half a ton and are as strong as a truck so you can imagine what could happen.

Coming off shoulder surgery, I needed at-bats and I got a ton of them. I led off every day during the summer and regained some of the confidence I had lost.

Any coach that graduated 11 kids isn't going to tell you they are ready to win the whole thing. If they do, they are crazy. We had a ton of holes to fill. We lost a lot of good players. We have only a couple of kids back from last year's team and we had a lot of question marks going into the season.

Are they going to sell used copies of Microsoft Office -- and if not, why not?, ... Why is that Microsoft ( Research ) has no objections to you reselling a copy of 'Halo,' but if you try it with Office, they'll come down on you like a ton on bricks?

Anytime a kid goes through the back door it takes a ton of heart.

Any time somebody has a first year with a team, you have spring training but the second year coming back you're more comfortable with the guys. We didn't have a ton of turnover. We have some new guys but we pretty much have the same guys as last year.

As a team, I think we're coming around now, and that's the important thing. I didn't expect to score a ton of goals in my first year, but we have guys who can put the ball where they want it. And if you know they're coming in and you know where to be, you've just got to finish them when they get there.

As a center fielder, Antone can play with anybody. He gets great jumps and covers a ton of ground out there. It's a luxury for us because we can play him out of position, but he has such great speed he can make up for it.

As a minimum we have to get to the second round. After that, a ton of other goals will open up. This is what we want the people to understand.

That game was just what we needed to start the season. Epping was the fourth seed last year and they returned a ton of starters. They're greatly improved and it was a terrific game.

You're not going to get a ton of opportunities against a team this good, so the ones you get, you've got to try to put away. We didn't -- their goalie made a couple of good saves, and that's the way the game moves.

You're not going to do that to her too often. We played Tully (Bevilaqua) on her this time. She's a little stronger than Kelly Miller. And we played zone. She didn't get a ton of shots against the zone.

This can get to anybody if you let it, because it seems to be endless and you get bombarded from all sides. But it goes with the territory, and if you are one of the two teams fortunate enough to make it to the Super Bowl, you had better be prepared to deal with a ton of distractions.

They shot a ton (of free throws) and that didn't help our foul situation any.

They were just flying. A game like this suits them well. The (Olympic) break did them a world of good. They have a ton of confidence and they put a lot of pressure on people.

They were going to make him work for everything in the second half. We missed a ton of free throws and a lot of lay-ups. We have to make shots when they take two guys to guard one.

This is a first step. There are still a ton of regulations.

They showed a ton of confidence in me, and I never lost my faith, ... Everything happens for a reason, and I trusted in that. Things came around and I was able to contribute and help us get to this point.

They're using a ton of computers to do their jobs. These require more power. A more densely populated employee base in the space also drives up your power use per sf.

They're the person that we put out there to promote rodeo. They're expected to have a huge knowledge of rodeo (and) to attend a ton of community events. It's a big responsibility. It's not just being a beauty queen. They're an ambassador.

They've been putting a ton of money into their marketing and we're starting to see the fruits of that spending.

They thought up a ton of favorite places.

They've been a big-play team and they showed that with the halfback pass (intercepted by McRae) on the first play. They had scored a ton (and) the defense shut them down and gave us great field position all night.

They've always been tough to beat at home. You have to play well against them because they get into this rhythm running their offense and set a ton of screens. Once they get on a roll, they seem to have more energy on defense.

A lot of the point mags are going out of business. They dropped the pay tremendously and it's all because of the internet. I used to go out once a month to LA and shoot for one week. I'd make a ton of money then come back to New York and do whatever I wanted.

They have great relationships, and we have a ton we can learn.

They have a ton of team speed and it really jumps out at you on tape. (Coach Bill Snyder) obviously targets speed when he recruits and he has done it again.

They have a ton of college kids watching the game, grilling out and cheering. There are no excuses now, we are getting used to playing with each other and are getting in a normal flow of game series.

They have a good basketball team and they play with a ton of fire. We had to up our level of energy to match theirs.

They don't need a ton of space. I know people are talking about the great backs in the state, but I think we've got a pretty good one in Ray.