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The first time I saw a poll in this election, they had me at 4 percent. That's the good news. The bad news was that the margin of error was 5 percent. I'd like to think that meant I was at 9 percent.
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And it isn't always talent. There are lots of talented guys outside these walls who can't get in. It ain't just talent. Guys want to say it is, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. They learn that or they do something else for a living.
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You've got those two guys, and both of them want to be the other one, but it's fun. That's the thing. Those guys know what they do and how they really make their money. They get the chance to go on the other side of the ball and mess around a little bit.
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This is all you work for, to be in this situation and win. And we didn't get it done.
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He's in the classification of Bundy or Wuornos. He will forever have a certain infamous notoriety.
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I don't think that's something the governor makes decisions about. I'm going to let local government decide whether a dog gets to go in. I hope they do.
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He's in total control. He's the guy that you see when he leaves every week he's got a bag of tapes with him. The rest of us get DVDs, Jake gets a bag of tapes that he takes home to study to make sure that he can put all of us in the right position.
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It heats up a week before, then two days before. Then it gets ridiculous during the last couple of minutes. Sometimes the phone rings at the last minute with some crazy ideas, but I don't like operating that way.
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It helps us physically and mentally because we play well at home. And you want other teams to come to your place with that doubt that 'They play well at home.' It doesn't mean everything. I've been in the playoffs where we've lost at home against Jacksonville (in the 1996 season) and I didn't get off the couch for three months.
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If you want to fix the schools, pay the teachers better, recruit the best and the brightest back into the classroom, give them the authority to run the classes, educate them so that we're doing something besides becoming just an FCAT test center.
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