Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's exciting to be in the championship. I won six districts in a row. I had at least one Division 1 player. This year I don't. I have a hard hustling and working team. They just work, work, work.

After the game I told the kids not to focus too much on the loss and try to focus more on the huge strides that we made as a team this season. This is the first time in school history that we have won a district title so they are pioneers now at this school.

After we lost to Grapevine in the first half of district play we got together and ironed out some things.

So far, every district match we've played in has been a great match. That's our district for you. As long as we have one more goal than the other team, that's all that matters.

That's been the story all year. In the district playoffs, we wanted to drop on people early, play with sound principles, and try not to look too far ahead.

The kids, including adults, just feel helpless about what to do. This is a positive way they can help support students in another district and feel like they are doing something.

Students love it and they're excited weeks prior to the project. As far as I know we're the only school in the district that has a program like this.

Bob Johnson

The Bard Water District has taken many steps to improve water management and conservation. Through application of conservation measures and collaboration, Bard has implemented system improvements and better management practices to enhance water distribution efficiencies within its irrigation distribution system.

Teachers and textbooks... those are the two most costly items our districts will incur. That's what they're hoping the federal government will pick up the tab for.

Switzer got us off to a good start. We're always telling our kids they have to wrestle the full six minutes, especially at the district duals where everyone is out to win.

Janet Reno

SWAT team members who went into that school with short notice to save lives. I've met victims' advocates. The district attorney's office has been magnificent here.

It's important when you come into a new school district that you spend time listening and learning.

It's important we get Rocco back into our rotation and into a good rhythm before we start district play.

Susan Gordon

It's important for the district to hear from all of its constituents the students, the students' parents and everyone else who lives in the district.

It's prevalent in many urban neighborhoods and we understand from district attorney's that intimidating witnesses happens frequently.

It speaks to the level of district play. Whoever is standing when it's over will feel like they survived a 15-round heavyweight fight. For our tournament, it will be who is standing after 12 quarters.

Considering this is our first match of the season, it's just a lot of young kids thrown in right away. Going straight into our first match and having it be a district match sets up a lot of pressure.

Everybody has an idea of where they're going to be. With the exception of North Port, Venice and some of the Booker kids, this a good half of (the district field).

I told the guys before the game that we had already won the district championship, but this is a different game. We couldn't let them manhandle us. We had to play like district champs.

I told the team we needed to come out and play a good game. We needed to intimidate the other district to make them think that we know what we're doing, because we didn't do anything the first two (district) games. We were lucky we won both.

It's tremendous for our district to be able to do something like this.

For many districts who are planning a high school, it will be the only new high school they are going to see in their lifetime.

For a district that doesn't quite follow the established pattern, there's a way for them to still meet the regulations.

It's the will of the people of that district to decide.

It's one of the largest earthworks projects that our district has ever undertaken.

I'm going up to win. I'm not going into this looking to settle with home-field advantage. We want to win this last regular season game and go into the district tournament on high note.

I'm disappointed. We needed this work to get ready for our district games.

I'm really proud of the girls. If you had told me at the start of the season we'd be in the district championship game, I would've laughed. But these girls just work extremely hard.

I just want to keep playing well the rest of this district. We've got three district games left -- that's what I'm focusing on.

I hope we repeat last year and get into districts but do even better.

It was just one of those things, the district canceling after-school sports out there that day.

John Shimkus

Nothing raised the ire of the people in my district more than the indecent use of the public airwaves, and finally we are doing something about it.

Not knowing what he'd be like - because I've only worked with these kids about a month - it's good to see that. When we get in those situations down the road in district games we want to be able to say, 'OK, what pitches can we throw.' He's doing it all for us.