Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is a really big game for the kids but I told the kids that I hate this game because sometimes we try to be something we are not in this game. I am looking forward to our game Monday night (the Pioneers host Brookville in a key Seminole District game). That is the big one. That's the one where everything is on the line for us.

Jim Crawford at the district office had anticipated (the rise). It was good forethought on the district's part.

Jim Crawford at the district office had anticipated (the rise), ... It was good forethought on the district's part.

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Last year he won the OCC and was second in the sectional and a (Division I) district qualifier. He is one of the better wrestlers on our team and he is a leader.

I think each individual district is different and we are all being lumped together. What we need may not necessarily be what another school needs.

I think every team in the district is beatable on any given night. I told them to go home and get well. We've got next week.

Sure, we had talked about winning the conference, that it was something we wanted to do. It was important to get it once we knew we could, but it's not as important as our district games.

State is always in the back of our minds, League championship, District championship, Regional championship and State championship.

My personal opinion is this isn't even about what the district can afford. It's turned into a personal and petty battle. I think if the state would drive a dump truck full of money to the administration building, they still wouldn't budge on the offer.

Just because he lost, he's not going to stop doing things for the district he thinks are important.

Doug Scott

I'm so thankful the Park District is doing this, ... Rockford is such a great sports town and has a great golf history. It's a great idea to recognize some of the people who were so good in the game, and to have one of them be Ken is really neat.

I think this team could lose the district championship game. And, I think this team could go to the Final Four. That's how fine of line it is.

We've tried that with the local school district and the test scores still remain at the same level. We need to take a different statewide look at this to see what kind of resources we can pull from the entire state.

Scott Phillips

We've told (the players) since day one that our schedule gets harder each week. Our kids know that the district is a lot better than what we've seen in non-district.

We noticed the school district was getting hammered with children, so we devised a plan that is age-restrictive.

The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.

Williams is just as much of an unknown outside his district as Darden is,

We have one more shot to get in. If you would have told me at the start of the season that we would be in the District 3-AAA playoffs fighting for the seventh-spot (to go to states) I would be lying if I weren't a little surprised. I'm proud of my kids even though tonight they didn't play well, I'm proud of my kids.

Look at it like a job interview, tell us how your unique experience will round out the board. People should (also) know what the Health District is. Talk to staff, look at the Web site.

Like I've said all year, for the girls team I would love to win district. It would be incredible. I wish we would've gone head-to-head with New Albany during the season so I had a preview of what the district will be like.

Like I told our kids, these first few weeks are like NFL preseason games. They have prepared us to play our district schedule, ... Next week, we'll start playing some people that are our size.

It feels great. It's been up and down and to get a district win... It's great.

O. J. Simpson

It felt great to reach the championship two weeks in a row, so I know we are doing things right. We competed well, but we play New Caney this Friday in a district game that means more and we weren't going to show them everything that we had.

You always want to win a district championship and see what happens from there. Now we are in a 32-team tournament. We'll see how far we can go.

We dug a hole in the first quarter. It hurts to lose, but we had a real good run. These girls did a great job. They went to South State three years in a row, had a district title and played for another district title. They've done a great job in rebuilding the program.

We really want to take all three games, because we'll need that going into district next week.

Kelly Martin

We really needed this win. Not just in the district race, but also for our confidence.

We don't have 25,000 messengers to send our message out like the school district has .

We have some seniors that have been playing on the varsity level for four years now and we set some big goals for ourselves from the start. We wanted to get the district title back and we did that. Now we want to make some noise in the playoffs.

We have been to every shelter everyday giving samples, giving prescriptions, referring people back to the health district that need further care.

We can work with a district who is willing to annex us or do nothing and the state will end up telling us where our students will go.

Joseph Murphy

When you're in a district that's still short hundreds of teachers, I'll take 17 new ones any day,