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It’s next to impossible to process it right now, it will be a hard couple of weeks after this tournament thinking about it. I think that’s part of our process as athletes and what we’re forced to do when something means this much to you. It’s going to hurt. It takes time to process that and move on. – Matt Anderson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Australians’s like a family away from your family, so I’ve got a great relationship with Fav and know his kids and he knows my kids and stuff like that, so The Australians’s more than just being a teammate, he’s a really good friend. So The Australians obviously sucks to see a close friend getting traded but I also think on the flip side of that we understand the business of this. – Joe Ingles	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The one area that we were n’t able to deal with was schedule, we have nine days. We needed to start at 11 at the start of the competition in order to make sure that we got through those initial 96 matches. We had a forecast of a typhoon coming through as well. – Kris Dent	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think they’re just sort of working out some kinks, we trust the technology they have. At least you know the correct answer, and you work from there. – Heather Bansley	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We were under the very realistic possibility that once it comes out and goes back in, there’s a very good chance that could repeat and continue to happen, we certainly understand the risk and with the understanding that certainly with the slide yesterday, he just ended up in an awkward position like that, there was a chance of that possibly happening. – Jayce Tingler	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The perception has always been that swimming isn’t for Black people; my mom doesn’t swim, Michael’s mom doesn’t swim, none of our friends swim. – Toks Ahmed	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think it's testament that if there was more representation at that level, and more representation at the approval process, someone might have said ‘Hey, let’s consider this because there are people out there who want to swim competitively, but don't want to cut their hair down short and maybe don't want to compromise,' it's just about giving people an option. – Toks Ahmed	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We both wondered why there wasn’t swim caps made to accommodate that more voluminous hair and afro textures and bigger hair, we spoke to our moms and our sisters and they both all said, to be fair, a big barrier to swimming is the fact our hair gets soaked, we haven’t got a swimming cap that works. – Toks Ahmed	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It doesn’t do the best for inclusivity in the sport. – Simone Manuel	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Due to the discriminatory and segregated past of swimming, Black families have been taught to fear swimming instead of embrace it. – Shontel Cargill	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Raven has been through hell and back, i’m so happy to see her thrive and win. I’ll tell you a little secret, about two months ago she called me on the phone crying. She’s been through a lot. So I’m happy for her. – Gwen Berry	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
To be me. To not apologize, to show younger people that no matter how many boxes they try to fit you in, you can be you and you can accept it. People tried to tell me not to do tattoos and piercings and all that. But look at me now, and I’m poppin’. – Simone Biles	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
His last 50 is much faster than my 50, so I tried to hold the speed at a high level, it didn't work. He did a really good job on the last meters. – Florian Wellbrock	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Who knows ? Only God knows, the first step now is done. We are ready for the second step. – The Qataris	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
But a game is a game, it is a pleasure for me to play against them. But also, at the end, I want to win. It is my main goal. – Said Dalhausser	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We molded Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan up in Florida, and now we’re letting Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan loose. – Nick Lucena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We had no business doing what we’ve been doing for the past 18 years, we were 23 years old, two knuckleheads, kicking around not doing anything. – Nick Lucena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
For 20 years, I’ve used my body to make a living. Now I want to use my head, use my brain, and I have something that I like to do. Hopefully, that turns into a living. – Nick Lucena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I mean, we have no real-world skills, substitute teachers, and we’re like, hey, we ’ll give this volleyball a shot. – Nick Lucena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They’re playing the best in the world at this point, it’s pretty impressive. – Nick Lucena	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That doesn’t carry through when you can’t pan through to Mom in the crowd, mom isn’t there. She’s still in the same place that she was before. I think that makes the crowd aspect of the Olympics even more influential than a major league baseball game. – Jennifer Talarico	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We’re not only in the best seats; we’re in seats that don’t even exist. – Robert Thompson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The audience in the venue is no longer the economics. The media is the economics. – Robert Thompson	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
There’s a reason sitcoms have laugh tracks. Seeing and hearing other people enjoy a thing leads us to enjoy that thing. – Jennifer Talarico	Found on FOX News 3 years ago

It’s next to impossible to process it right now, it will be a hard couple of weeks after this tournament thinking about it. I think that’s part of our process as athletes and what we’re forced to do when something means this much to you. It’s going to hurt. It takes time to process that and move on.

– Matt Anderson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Australians’s like a family away from your family, so I’ve got a great relationship with Fav and know his kids and he knows my kids and stuff like that, so The Australians’s more than just being a teammate, he’s a really good friend. So The Australians obviously sucks to see a close friend getting traded but I also think on the flip side of that we understand the business of this.

– Joe Ingles

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The one area that we were n’t able to deal with was schedule, we have nine days. We needed to start at 11 at the start of the competition in order to make sure that we got through those initial 96 matches. We had a forecast of a typhoon coming through as well.

– Kris Dent

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think they’re just sort of working out some kinks, we trust the technology they have. At least you know the correct answer, and you work from there.

– Heather Bansley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We were under the very realistic possibility that once it comes out and goes back in, there’s a very good chance that could repeat and continue to happen, we certainly understand the risk and with the understanding that certainly with the slide yesterday, he just ended up in an awkward position like that, there was a chance of that possibly happening.

– Jayce Tingler

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The perception has always been that swimming isn’t for Black people; my mom doesn’t swim, Michael’s mom doesn’t swim, none of our friends swim.

– Toks Ahmed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I think it's testament that if there was more representation at that level, and more representation at the approval process, someone might have said ‘Hey, let’s consider this because there are people out there who want to swim competitively, but don't want to cut their hair down short and maybe don't want to compromise,' it's just about giving people an option.

– Toks Ahmed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We both wondered why there wasn’t swim caps made to accommodate that more voluminous hair and afro textures and bigger hair, we spoke to our moms and our sisters and they both all said, to be fair, a big barrier to swimming is the fact our hair gets soaked, we haven’t got a swimming cap that works.

– Toks Ahmed

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It doesn’t do the best for inclusivity in the sport.

– Simone Manuel

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Due to the discriminatory and segregated past of swimming, Black families have been taught to fear swimming instead of embrace it.

– Shontel Cargill

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Raven has been through hell and back, i’m so happy to see her thrive and win. I’ll tell you a little secret, about two months ago she called me on the phone crying. She’s been through a lot. So I’m happy for her.

– Gwen Berry

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

To be me. To not apologize, to show younger people that no matter how many boxes they try to fit you in, you can be you and you can accept it. People tried to tell me not to do tattoos and piercings and all that. But look at me now, and I’m poppin’.

– Simone Biles

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

His last 50 is much faster than my 50, so I tried to hold the speed at a high level, it didn't work. He did a really good job on the last meters.

– Florian Wellbrock

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Who knows ? Only God knows, the first step now is done. We are ready for the second step.

– The Qataris

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

But a game is a game, it is a pleasure for me to play against them. But also, at the end, I want to win. It is my main goal.

– Said Dalhausser

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We molded Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan up in Florida, and now we’re letting Cherif Samba and Ahmed Tijan loose.

– Nick Lucena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We had no business doing what we’ve been doing for the past 18 years, we were 23 years old, two knuckleheads, kicking around not doing anything.

– Nick Lucena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

For 20 years, I’ve used my body to make a living. Now I want to use my head, use my brain, and I have something that I like to do. Hopefully, that turns into a living.

– Nick Lucena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I mean, we have no real-world skills, substitute teachers, and we’re like, hey, we ’ll give this volleyball a shot.

– Nick Lucena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

They’re playing the best in the world at this point, it’s pretty impressive.

– Nick Lucena

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

That doesn’t carry through when you can’t pan through to Mom in the crowd, mom isn’t there. She’s still in the same place that she was before. I think that makes the crowd aspect of the Olympics even more influential than a major league baseball game.

– Jennifer Talarico

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We’re not only in the best seats; we’re in seats that don’t even exist.

– Robert Thompson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The audience in the venue is no longer the economics. The media is the economics.

– Robert Thompson

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

There’s a reason sitcoms have laugh tracks. Seeing and hearing other people enjoy a thing leads us to enjoy that thing.

– Jennifer Talarico

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

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