"Gordie is a tough guy to stop," Smith joked after the game.

"I will pay for their hotel rooms," Maier joked after the race.

Players were laughing and joking with one another five minutes after the game.

And then he wondered whether he was joking after all.

"I don't know what I was thinking," she joked after the show.

And Ariela suddenly realized that her father was not joking after all.

"It hasn't yet," he joked 30 minutes after the match.

"Yeah, Carolina fans've always been good to me," he joked after the opening game.

"I guess I better learn some languages," he joked in the press room after the show.

"We did better than anyone else," Smith joked after the game.