Will Carroll
Will Carroll
Will Carroll is a sportswriter specializing in the coverage of medical issues, including injuries and performance-enhancing drugs. Carroll's "Under the Knife" column appeared on Baseball Prospectus for eight years during his stint there as a senior writer, and he also contributed to the site's radio efforts as well as the Puck Prospectus spin-off site. He is the author of two books on sports-related medical topics. Carroll has no formal medical training...
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When you looked in his eyes, and you talked about Palmetto High School football and about what we wanted to do here, you could see clear down into his soul how bad he wanted to be a part of this and what it meant to him. That impressed me.
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What was I thinking? I was coming in after the coach of the decade.
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We tell recruits we're going to a nice, quiet, homey place. We're going to talk about your future and stuff like that. The next thing they know, John's unbuttoning his shirt and dancing in front of everybody.
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We have to come out, especially at home and not let the other team get a jump on us like that. This is the second or third game that's happened. Battling back is hard, especially when you play a team like Nevada.
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This was a night of champions. Two teams went out and battled to the final seconds and Texas did a great job.
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This was a night for championships. Texas did a great job, wonderful job, all night. We had to keep scoring all night to outscore them. They were great champions tonight. If you have to step aside for somebody tonight, they're the team to do that for.
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The only thing the Olympics can do pretty consistently is raise awareness of a new project, and you can usually elicit sampling. Once you've done that, it really comes down to whether the shows deliver at that point.
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There are going to be some bumps to get over. Hopefully I can get over them and get better.
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There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.
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When you first look at their team, you can't see anything but him. He's a fantastic player. Your eyes are drawn to him.
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There are long quiet periods in life that are very much like waiting for a bus on a nice day. You don't mind being there so much because the weather is sunny and nice, and you're in no hurry. But after a while you start looking at your watch because there are more interesting things you could be doing, and it really is time the bus came.
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While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made
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Without question, that was a phenomenal night by one guy. That's an extraordinary player.
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When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical.