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With how good our league is, we still might be able to get a bye in the first round of the state tournament, and at least a home game.


Bill Whitehead

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CLIFF THOMPSON Now the records are done and we're back to 0-0. The bottom line is that you want to get to the state...
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KYLE HINES Now our second season starts. Fortunately we have a first-round bye, so we can heal up a little bit ...
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MARK SHARPLEY I think (Mason County) tried to be deliberate the first half and that was good for them. When you ar...
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C. JOYBELL C. We came here and won our first game ever at the state tournament. We're just tickled to death to hav...
BILL FETTERS It just legitimizes our conference. We always want to bark about how good our league is, yet at some...
MARK GOTTFRIED Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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IAN BRIDGE That's one of the reasons we didn't qualify for the (state) tournament. We're in a tremendously comp...
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JARED DUDLEY I think one of the big keys was our ability to control the basketball and get good shots. We were ab...
DAN BOYD We have earned enough points to be at least fourth in the league and qualify for the state champions...
GENE SOOLEY It's a great tournament for us to get our feet wet and have the kids get some work against good ball...
JOE ARCHULETA I am happy the first game in the group stages is at home. Everybody will be up for it with us not ha...
BARRY FERGUSON The people here at Nationwide and Ohio State run a first class tournament. We envisioned a Miami-Ohi...
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CHAD LATCH It's tough to try to come back from 0-2 in Class D. It would definitely be a struggle. We have a pre...
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C. JOYBELL C. From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name o...
JIM MORRIS This puts us in a good position to get that league title. In the past it's almost been a gimme that ...
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ALEX HERTENSTEIN We kept saying that losing is not an option, especially in front of the home crowd. And (Lyndon) kno...
DYLAN BAKER This pretty much is a must-win. We have to at least go into the bye week 2-2. We should have won thi...
NNAMDI ASOMUGHA Every one of those matches was a state-caliber match. That's what helps you get better. We are not c...
RYLAND WAGNER It was a good start to the tournament. We played sloppy defensively at different times of the game, ...
JEFF SNYDER This year, the win and loss record (7-9 league, 8-17 over all) doesn't really show a true picture of...
DAN SCHREIBER I told the guys if we could get past Polk, we have a good shot at surprising West Wilkes (22-1) in t...
JEFF RICE I know we didn't win the regular season, but I don't know how finishing second was all that great wh...
GENO AURIEMMA We know that it's an honor to be here and we worked extremely hard to be able to say that we made it...
MCKENSEY LONG They'll have a tough time repeating that. We sure hope (they will). It's so much the luck of the dra...
BOB ORR We just need to get a little more match-tough. Everybody's going to get stronger, and hopefully next...
WILLIE LAGER I'm really excited for the seniors. This will be their second state tournament in a row and its nice...
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TEKOA MANNING The proximity is still close, and it's still a draw from a tourism aspect. And being at the home of ...
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GREG ELLIS We made a lot of mistakes when we went to their place. We had 29 turnovers and didn't shoot well fro...
AMBER DAULBAUGH You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES We realized that this was quite a thing for a school like ours to be in the state tournament. We jus...
BERNIE KUBALE We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.
DREW DIPIPPO I had a tough match in the first round and sometimes that puts you in good stead for the tournament.
LLEYTON HEWITT The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th...
JUSTIN HARE One game in this region could be the matter of going to the state tournament or sitting home and wat...
JAROD INGERSOLL Even last year, when we were 12-4, we didn't get the bye week, and we had to beat Denver in the play...
TONY DUNGY I thought the first half defense was very good. I wish we could have scored some points there to get...
KRIS KLEEMAN We won our pool, then lost in the first round of the playoffs to Plum. It was a bit disappointing, b...
JACK ZEBO She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Sometimes the trap game for us is the Saturday game. We're going to go to Whitehall on Saturday, and...
RANDY KORTOKRAX The goal all along was to get to the playoffs and hopefully put ourselves in position to win a round...
LARRY HARRIS If we looked at how many guys had the 36-hole lead and won the tournament last year, it probably wou...
BRANDT JOBE Our goal is to win a state title. We're playing teams in higher classifications to get ready for the...
JEF FLOURNOY Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The league is going to be tough, but, if you look at last year, the league helped prepare us for wha...
ED YATES I told our kids (the win) wouldn't be as big as a district game, because district games get you to t...
BOB MCINTYRE The number one goal is still being league champ. We will worry about the tournament when we get ther...
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KAREN ROTH I never went down there [to watch a state tournament game] so I don't know what that will be like, b...
KADERO TERRELL We're pretty excited to be in this position. We used to play in the old Parochial League and we won ...
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuse...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Spoken language is merely a series of squeaks.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into th...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nigh...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emer...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Philosophy is the product of wonder.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Common sense is genius in homespun.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. . . . Civilisation is the maintenance of...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth whil...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodim...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Necessity is the mother of invention is a silly proverb. Necessity is the mother of futile dodges is...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that,...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Other nations of different habits are not enemies: they are godsends. Men require of their neighbour...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Seek simplicity but distrust it.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice ...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation ar...
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