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
beat defense great hold job points team
Our defense didn't give up enough points to beat us. If you can hold a team to 35 points, you've done a great job defensively.
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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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We want to go down to Charlotte and win, make no mistake about it. We expect to win three games, but at the same time we want to learn about ourselves as a team. But ultimately, it's all about winning.
builders confidence games lost prep three
We need to have better situational hitting. We could have lost all three of those games, so we need to use these mid-week games as prep and confidence builders for this weekend.
faith
Faith is the only thing we have right now.
excuse games overcome tough
We can't use it as an excuse. We have to be tough enough to overcome that (the games are on the road).
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One thing that we do more now than we used to is to call each other every day. Every once in a while, someone will have a meltdown, and we'll have to console them. Since Feb. 3, it's been devastating, but we try to keep pressing forward. Sometimes I'm in the grocery store and I see people that look like Ali, with their stature and their build, and I follow them into the store to see if it's her.
care
If we don't take care of the baseball, we're a long way away (from where we need to be).
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I was hoping for just a note or a phone call. Once Scott found out, this is just the type of guy he is, he just asked, 'Would he mind if I came down and spent the afternoon with him?' I didn't ask Scott for that, he just volunteered.
atmosphere created
It created an atmosphere and got things going.
guys played time trying
It couldn't have started any worse. It was our first time out and guys were trying too hard. We played tight.
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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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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.
conference focus mentality ready record
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.