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    He brings grit, and he gets very involved in the game. You saw what he did at the Olympics with Finland, and he plays very well in the playoffs. He just has that energy that you need. Every team that he goes to, he makes them better.

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    At first we played a little scared. In the second half, we had nothing to lose. We wanted to play with our hearts and finish strong. To battle them and not give up.

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    Usually when one guy does something big, everyone else follows. That's kind of where we went downhill the second game. Obviously no one really jumped out, stepped up. It's just kind of my role this year to get everyone fired up and ready to go.

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    We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

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    Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level.

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    It was hard to hit that putt soft enough. I hit it on the right line, but I shouldn't have chipped it where I did. And, yeah, the greens were definitely getting a lot drier by then.

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    I was so full of nerves over the last three stages, ... I heard everything and I felt everything, but the car was absolutely fine. I was really quite hopeful this morning. Mark only took 8 seconds out of me on this first one this morning and I thought, 'that's only half a second a mile, I can live with that' and then he only took half a second out of me on the next one. But when he spun on the third one that really allowed me to relax a bit.

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