Bill Ryan
Bill Ryan
looking middle
We are looking to be competitive with the middle of the league.
inches
We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.
dirty mess wood
Wood is dirty and nasty. I didn't want to mess with it in the house.
considered hard meat sort special
Historically, meat was considered a very special sort of thing, hard to come by.
aspect clearly dedicated himself involved life lives single somebody
He dedicated his life to making other people's lives better. He just wasn't a fundraiser, he was somebody who clearly got involved in every single aspect . . . Never did he dedicate himself to anything where he made very much money.
optimism plenty reason
It was a discouraging verdict, but we think there's plenty of reason for optimism on an appeal.
birthplace
This is the birthplace of it. Legitimately, this is where the thing was born.
against peaks played team valleys
We were better. We played competitively. There just were too many peaks and valleys against a team that good. We improved, but we still don't have everything ironed out yet.