Sam Johnson
Sam Johnson
Samuel Robert "Sam" Johnsonis the U.S. Representative for Texas's 3rd congressional district serving in Congress since 1991. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes much of Collin County, including Plano, where he lives. In October–November 2015, he was the acting Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means, where he also serves as chairman of the Social Security Subcommittee...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 October 1930
CitySan Antonio, TX
help team
Having my team there to help me with everything and being able to help them, that was amazing.
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My goal was to wait to the end, play it out and hopefully bring home the state title. I needed to help my team.
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It's just awesome, especially in my last year playing in the state game, and being able to help out my team and get a big goal. It's just all I wanted to do. Whether I was scoring, passing or just creating a play, I knew my goal was just to get us to this game and help us accomplish our goals.
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All three of us had phenomenal seasons, put up big points and really helped (our) teams out. Just to be included in that group is an honor in itself.
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I thank him for the gift he has blessed me with.
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I talked to Coach Lowry, and he (told me he) wants me to do what I think is best for me.
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We just couldn't get over the hump. We got beat on ground balls, made a couple of bad decisions but overall, we played a nice game. I said that I wanted to leave this field with no regrets and that's what we did.
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We were friends for 40 years. He was quite a character.
We were just told. We don't know why. We were not in on the decision. That's up to corporate.
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We feel that the referendum as stated is not supporting the troops and hurting their morale.
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Going in, I wanted to improve, but I wanted to mature as a person. I wanted to set an example. I knew coming into the season people would come to me, especially underclassmen. I knew as a captain that I had to strive to be someone to look up to.
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He had a passion for sports. He was a huge basketball fan, and he played freshman football at Duke.
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We wanted to end it there and that felt good. Our defense was shaky in Game 1, but we kept up in Game 2.
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Bill was an enormous Duke fan. You weren't with Bill very long before Duke sports came up.