Tracy Smith
Tracy Smith
Tracy K. Smithis an American poet and educator. She has published three collections of poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for a 2011 collection, Life on Mars. About this collection, Joel Brouwer wrote in 2011: "Smith shows herself to be a poet of extraordinary range and ambition. ... As all the best poetry does, Life on Mars first sends us out into the magnificent chill of the imagination and then returns us to ourselves, both changed and consoled."...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1972
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To me there is no solace in one-run losses. Good teams win close games, and we have go to start winning them.
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Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.
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A lot of teams would kill to pound out 13 hits like we did tonight. It's a shame it went to waste because we can't catch the ball.
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There's always an element of surprise associated with it.
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Of course we want to beat in-state teams, but we try to de-emphasize the opponent, because the real opponent is us. I do caution the guys that the other in-state schools will be gunning for us because of who we are.
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I think the most amazing thing was that Ryan has done so tremendously well academically. Most people wouldn't be able to do that. What he has done has been flat-out remarkable.
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Our opponent really is ourselves. We need to take care of our game and our own business and focus on playing hard and playing well. If we do that, the wins will take care of themselves.
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It's real depressing knowing your loved one's out there. Nobody knows anything, nobody saw anything, no information, no leads.
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He reached to tag him with the ball and he was a foot away from the guy. But umpires don't win and lose the game. If we do what we're supposed to do, we're not in that situation.
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I don't want to say that it's just another game, because the team is excited and I'm excited as well. But our focus is to do whatever is necessary to get ready for the Big Ten season.
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He's not Superman, so we're going to treat him like any other guy. Hopefully we can do a good job of keeping him off the bases. When he gets on there, he makes it happen.