Charles Thomas
Charles Thomas
US Army sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the Indian Campaigns in the Dakota Territory.
ProfessionWar Hero
Date of Birth12 February 1843
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I won?t have to brush my teeth or floss tonight. Any food trapped in my teeth got knocked out.
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Whenever they lack. I have to pick it up. I?m an energy guy. So that?s what I have to do.
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We let them get back in the game a little bit, but I think we grew up because we stretched the lead right back out.
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We really wanted to focus on just executing on defense and really not backing down.
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We need to keeping going and take care of business. We've gotten closer. It's us against the world and that is the mindset we are going to take the rest of the way.
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They were a lot of physical play, a lot of pushing (and) a lot of unnecessary stuff. But they came out with a 'W' tonight. I guess they wanted it more.
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Every good team's going to make their runs. It's up to us to withstand it.
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They knew that she had a potentially terminal illness, she would have been out for a while and they didn't want to deal with it.
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Absolutely. That never gets old no matter what game it is. Honestly I just put in play what we do every day during the second round of batting practice: With guys in, you try to stay up the middle. I just made sure not do too much.
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It makes life a lot easier to ride your bike when you have to park way down at the Coliseum like I do.
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We can't take anybody lightly right now. They have a really good shooting team and once they get going, it's hard to stop them.
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She was a remarkable woman. She was very outgoing and would talk to anybody, to the point that she'd recruit kids out of some of the worst areas in Los Angeles to go on these backpacking trips.
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Mrs. Williams agreed to take care of me when all the other teachers abandoned me.
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We were all kind of taking side bets about if he was going to go (to the NBA) or not. We kind of figured that he was. When you have people in your ear, telling you you're in the first round, why not (leave)?