I was like, “Hey, you know, they’re little, we can’t be out here screaming and all of that kind of stuff.” But when it comes to derby, I think once I really got the whole gist of derby-which, I like to tell the new people, it takes years before you get everything, before you understand. I didn’t have to do it in my other sports because I had my parents to do it for me! They were the voices, and I was just the player, you know? But as I’ve-even when I was coaching a sport for my daughters, I was (between me and the other coach) I was the calm one. How long do you think it took you to develop that sort of mindset? Was it strictly a derby thing, or did it come from those other sports that you just mentioned? It’s nice to know that I do put off that I’m very calm and collected, even though in my brain I’m probably screaming inside, like “Oh my god!” It’s just something I think that I got from playing sports before that, you know, you are a reflection of your team, so if you are doing something that is not a good reflection of your team, then it doesn’t just look bad on you, it looks bad on everybody. I mean, of course I get a penalty and sometimes I look at the refs and put my hands up like, “Really?” But when I’m not on the track and I’m on the bench though, I do not feel like I’m very calm, because I’ll be the first one to say something about something. So I stay as calm as I can in the situations on the track. So one thing I do not want to do is make my team look bad for any reason whatsoever. If you are running at the mouth, or if you’re yelling at referees and stuff like that, it doesn’t just look bad on you, it looks bad on the team. But I think on the track because of the fact that, when you are on the track, you are a figure of your team.

I’ve really thought about this for awhile, because I’ve always felt that I am out of control, but I have had a lot of people say when things are getting really tough on the track and everything, you’re always the one that’s like, “It’s alright, let’s get together, calm down, small movements” (is what everybody likes to make fun of me about).

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