Mike Downs
Mike Downs
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Companies are looking for the best deal they can get. If we didn't have (abatements) we'd be at a competitive disadvantage with other states. And we're not just talking about competing with Illinois and Kansas. We're competing with India and China.
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Andy was at 145 until two weeks ago. He's still adjusting to that weight. It should benefit him to stay at 140.
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I still tell them they can't beat me. It's just not as true.
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It's so much harder to repeat. That's why this is such a gratifying accomplishment.
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I thought Overlake had a great game plan. They outplayed us in many aspects of the game.
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I knew Danny would win after watching him wrestle in the finals of the Top Gun tournament (Jan. 13-14 at Alliance, Ohio). Danny lost, 3-2, to a kid who also won at the Ironman tournament. That kid was dominating everybody until he wrestled Danny.
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Three go to states. Do we run from these people? No. We go and wrestle.
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We wrote several key words on the blackboard before the game, but the most important one was 'confidence. It's confidence in their shooting. I told the kids that they're the best shooting team in the state of Washington. They showed that in the first half.