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Quotable from Austin
June 8, 2009Here are some random things I heard hanging around the track over the weekend and during interviews that I didn't print:
"This heat sucks the life out of you." -- Quanah's Tara Riley after winning a gold in the discus (I agree with her totally. And neither of us had to run lengthy distances in it).
"It's not that big of a deal to me." -- Rochelle's Bonnie Richardson about the quest of repeating a state title.
As an aside, this was said after her last race and at the time, a chance of a second individual title looked slim. In fact, Cayuga wins the girls title if its mile relay would have placed fifth or better, and ties with a sixth-place performance. It took seventh.
"I'm going to start jumping now." -- Hirschi's Richard Ross to Coach Anderson after he cleared 6-4 easily. Anderson didn't think he was going as high as he could early on, and Ross let her know it was time to get down to business.
"I hope so. I don't know. I don't really care about it." -- Rider's James Chambers, when asked if he had medal expectations in the shot put.
Chambers is a different type of guy. He's very soft spoken, and while he tried hard in track, I got the feeling that he was glad track is over because practicing was getting in the way of his football workouts.
I'm sure there are many others (plus some journalistic humor that's probably not printable), but my brain is still a little fried a day later, so this is all I got.
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