"I'm pretty disappointed right now, but I came here to qualify for the semi-finals so I'm really happy with that, " he said.
"I think one or two people suspected I had lost the plot after the semi-final when I said I wanted to get 20, 000 people from the Highlands behind the team for the final, " he said.
It started at 4:45 a.m. when the sound of a dying seal permeated my dreams, and I was still in a semi-sleep state when I realized the mortally wounded seal was in fact my six-year-old son, lying on the floor by my bed, unable to draw breath.
As I am so often reminded, I lost four semi-finals at Wimbledon and I can tell you, losing one never becomes easier.
On the marathon victory of his next opponent Verdasco, Nadal added: "Yes that was long but I played in Australia five hours, 15 minutes in semi-finals, and I had to play the final one day later, " Nadal said.
Opened the curtains this morning - FA Cup semi-final part II day - and what do I see?
I'm either cursing out Madden for my rating being too low, or I'm semi-happy because they raised it up a little bit.
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The first time I went backpacking, I feasted on semi-raw hot dogs cooked over a driftwood fire (we'd forgotten to bring the stove) and sipped tea laced with ashes as chilly Northern California winds blew the fog in.
It was the same guitar I had seen Alexis Korner playing, a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay, which at the time was a quite advanced instrument, although essentially, as I later learned, it was still only a copy of the best guitar of the day, the Gibson ES-335.
Almost as often as not, I now follow up my semi-regular scan of ESPN.com with a visit to Deadspin, for counterprogramming: the news and the dish.
In Phoenix, blowing dust obscured the mountains surrounding the city, and at least four people were injured in a pileup when two semi-trucks jackknifed in a dust storm on I-10 in southern Arizona.
"If I keep playing like that I can get through to the semi-finals, " he said.
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In the other semi-final South Africa take on Argentina, and I think the Pumas have run their course.
"The semi-final gave me a lot of confidence and I knew if I executed my race properly and made the first 250m hard, I should be able to hang on, " Greene said.
Tim Henman's great chance had come, I suggested, when he reached the semi-final in 2001 and took on Goran Ivanisevic, who was at the fag-end of his career.
As I discovered more than once, losing a semi-final does really hit you.
Like Andy, I came up against a seemingly immovable object like Nadal when I played Pete Sampras in my first two semi-finals.
The experience of reaching the semi-finals in 2009 will stand him in good stead and I don't see any reason why he can't make the last four again, or even advance to the final.
As near as I can make out, Andreas is a semi-personal site created and run by a man who has worked in Silicon Valley for about fifteen years, mostly in engineering, but for the last five years in technical writing.
But I believe I fall into the sweet spot of viewers who semi-watch with low expectations.
But I am not betting on any consistent Louisville-like semi-permanent residence there for such under-resourced programs.
As I say, any beach in Europe will give you more semi-naked women than all the British newspapers put together.
"I don't think the assault rifle ban, the semi-auto ban, has been the real objective, " said Gary Marbut of the Montana Shooting Sports Association.
"I wanted to go to Wembley but in the final not in the semi-final, " he stated.
"Personally, Ian might be different, but I just feel like the second leg of the play-offs or a semi-final, if you're at home there's a lot of pressure on you, " Cooper told BBC Tees.
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