Mitch Dorger quote: "You know, there were five different teams that had it all locked up, and they all lost within the last week. And so Nebraska sort of backed in, and Oregon was the consensus No. 2, and the computer polls didn't like them, so then ended up the Fiesta Bowl. And then it was a rotten game."

There were a number of factors that combined to make that less an optimum situation. Those are all r...
MITCH DORGER

It puts us back to a four-year cycle with eight potential visits by Pac-10 and Big Ten teams.
MITCH DORGER

We will be taking a hard look at (weather conditions) and whether we need to specify specific standa...
MITCH DORGER

You can do the math. Supply and demand.
MITCH DORGER

We had the tickets available, and it was a way to increase revenues for the game. It was also an opp...
MITCH DORGER

We're fortunate that the game always generates a lot of interest. But with these two universities, a...
MITCH DORGER

We feel this is an exciting new way for fans that otherwise cannot get access to the national champi...
MITCH DORGER

the best plan is changeable
MITCH

I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that... day.
MITCH HEDBERG

Dogs are forever in the push up postion.
MITCH HEDBERG

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.
MITCH HEDBERG

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
MITCH HEDBERG

I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was proli...
MITCH HEDBERG

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
MITCH HEDBERG

I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.
MITCH HEDBERG

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.
MITCH HEDBERG

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has...
MITCH HEDBERG

This shirt is dry clean only. Which means... it's dirty.
MITCH HEDBERG

When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.
MITCH HEDBERG

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
MITCH HEDBERG

I had a stick of CareFree gum, but it didn't work. I felt pretty good while I was blowing that b...
MITCH HEDBERG

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a w...
MITCH HEDBERG

Do you think I am standing here, making this up as I go? I am sorry to disillusion you. I am not Rob...
MITCH HEDBERG

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
MITCH HEDBERG

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.
MITCH HEDBERG

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, s...
MITCH HEDBERG

People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on ...
MITCH KAPOR

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make ...
MITCH DANIELS

I think we need to respect the wishes of voters. They have been busily at work making these decision...
MITCH MCCONNELL

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant...
MITCH KAPOR

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in Augu...
MITCH MCCONNELL

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're g...
MITCH HEDBERG

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
MITCH HEDBERG

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything...
MITCH MCCONNELL

My funeral," the Blue Man said. "Look at the mourners. Some did not even know me well, yet they came...
MITCH ALBOM

We're living under the Obama economy. Any CEO in America with a record like this after three yea...
MITCH MCCONNELL

People come down for baseball or football or hockey and drive by the refurbished Fox and State theat...
MITCH ALBOM

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's goi...
MITCH ALBOM

My jaw dropped, ... I felt shame that I had to find out over the television, then felt sorrow and a ...
MITCH ALBOM

Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? ... He could be research. A huma...
MITCH ALBOM

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.
MITCH ALBOM

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions ...
MITCH RATCLIFFE

Learn this from me. Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a we...
MITCH ALBOM

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
MITCH ALBOM

Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of th...
MITCH ALBOM

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.
MITCH ALBOM

You see, you closed your eyes. That was the difference. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, y...
MITCH ALBOM

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of goin...
MITCH ALBOM

I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toug...
MITCH ALBOM

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy do...
MITCH ALBOM

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prin...
MITCH ALBOM

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Som...
MITCH ALBOM

Death ends a life, not a relationship.
MITCH ALBOM

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that's all. You can't see their smile or bring t...
MITCH ALBOM

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.
MITCH MILLER

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATLIFFE

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that
MITCH ALBOM

Time is not what you think. Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on ea...
MITCH ALBOM

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our econ...
MITCH ALBOM

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks th...
MITCH ALBOM

My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got h...
MITCH HEDBERG

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possibl...
MITCH RATCLIFFE

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, wit...
MITCH RATCLIFFE

My friend asked me if I wanted a frozen banana. I said 'No, but I want a regular banana later, so......
MITCH HEDBERG

Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, yo...
MITCH HEDBERG

I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the...
MITCH HEDBERG

when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, ...
MITCH ALBOM

I got into an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, becau...
MITCH HEDBERG

I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the d...
MITCH HEDBERG

I mumble a lot off-stage, I'm a mumbler. If I'm walking with a friend and I say something, he won't ...
MITCH HEDBERG

I want to be a race car passenger: just a guy who bugs the driver. Say man, can I turn on the radio?...
MITCH HEDBERG

I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM

I realized when you look at your mother, you are looking at the purest love you will ever know.
MITCH ALBOM

I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that an...
MITCH ALBOM

Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna...
MITCH HEDBERG

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from inside. We think that hating is aweapon that attacks the...
MITCH ALBOM

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
MITCH HEDBERG

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to yo...
MITCH ALBOM

Fettucini alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.
MITCH HEDBERG

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are...
MITCH KAPOR

I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e...
MITCH HEWER

Political corruption is endemic all over this country, in some places worse than others, right? On c...
MITCH LANDRIEU

There's an admirable belief about the virtues of meritocracy - that the best ideas prove the bes...
MITCH KAPOR

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-ci...
MITCH HEDBERG

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.
MITCH HEDBERG

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfwa...
MITCH HEDBERG

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. Th...
MITCH HEDBERG

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won...
MITCH DANIELS

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have han...
MITCH HEDBERG

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and ...
MITCH DANIELS

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating...
MITCH KAPOR

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
MITCH HEDBERG

Is a hippopotamus a hippopotamus, or just a really cool Opotamus?
MITCH HEDBERG

I don't have a girlfriend. But I do know a woman who'd be mad at me for saying that.
MITCH HEDBERG

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
MITCH HEDBERG

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and...
MITCH HEDBERG

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporari...
MITCH HEDBERG

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
MITCH HEDBERG

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't...
MITCH HEDBERG

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, somethin...
MITCH ALBOM

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mort...
MITCH ALBOM

There's a great deal of suspicion and misunderstanding about IT among practicing doctors. One he...
MITCH KAPOR

Today, Democrats not only have the White House; they have the Senate too. So we have to be realistic...
MITCH MCCONNELL

I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters,...
MITCH ALBOM

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inver...
MITCH DANIELS

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
MITCH HEDBERG

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
MITCH ALBOM

A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. M...
MITCH ALBOM

Secrets tear you apart.
MITCH ALBOM

Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be ...
MITCH KAPOR

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of ...
MITCH ALBOM

It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just ...
MITCH ALBOM

Scenery without solace is meaningless.
MITCH ALBOM

That's because no one is born with anger. And when we die, the soul is freed from it. But now, here,...
MITCH ALBOM

Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
MITCH ALBOM

It is because the human spirit knows, deep down, that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just t...
MITCH ALBOM

That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
MITCH ALBOM

No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another comp...
MITCH ALBOM

It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their ...
MITCH ALBOM

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have...
MITCH ALBOM

Life has to end. Love doesn't.
MITCH ALBOM

Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
MITCH ALBOM

Every life has one true love snapshot.
MITCH ALBOM

People say they 'find' love, as if it were an object hidden by a rock. But love takes many forms, an...
MITCH ALBOM

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it exp...
MITCH ALBOM

Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the...
MITCH ALBOM

Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. T...
MITCH ALBOM

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
MITCH ALBOM

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the st...
MITCH ALBOM

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another tha...
MITCH ALBOM

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
MITCH ALBOM

Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to as...
MITCH ALBOM

Often, the disconnect between the marketing hype around a new product and what the product actually ...
MITCH KAPOR

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take...
MITCH MCCONNELL

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are...
MITCH DANIELS

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
MITCH HEDBERG

Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that pa...
MITCH KAPOR

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you ...
MITCH ALBOM

Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fe...
MITCH KAPOR

As a kid, I used to be equal parts drawn to and horrified of the circus. They would have these beaut...
MITCH GLAZER

I like refried beans. That's why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they're just as good...
MITCH HEDBERG

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Fr...
MITCH KAPOR

Before I started a company, I was an employee with a bad attitude. I was always felt like, bosses ar...
MITCH KAPOR

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a...
MITCH HEDBERG

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because ...
MITCH ALBOM

I've witnessed first hand the impact the Benchmark team has had on new ventures, and I believe t...
MITCH LASKY

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's ha...
MITCH HEDBERG

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental cha...
MITCH DANIELS

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other...
MITCH HEDBERG

Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, beca...
MITCH HEDBERG

I like vending machines, because snacks are better when they fall. If I buy a candy bar at the store...
MITCH HEDBERG

Some people are like Slinkies - not really good for anything, but you still can't help but smile whe...
MITCH HEDBERG

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word "divorce" came up. I always figured it cam...
MITCH ALBOM

Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being tak...
MITCH ALBOM

Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them.....
MITCH ALBOM

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
MITCH ALBOM

When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth...
MITCH ALBOM

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely...
MITCH ALBOM

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
MITCH ALBOM

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that un...
MITCH DANIELS

Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the cen...
MITCH MCCONNELL

She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.
MITCH ALBOM

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry ...
MITCH DANIELS

Life in cyberspace is often conducted in primitive frontier conditions, but it is a life which, at i...
MITCH KAPOR

I always think a debt ceiling is a good tool to carry something.
MITCH MCCONNELL

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a prod...
MITCH KAPOR

For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...
MITCH ALBOM

He had refused fancy clothes or makeup for this interview. His philosophy was that death should to b...
MITCH ALBOM

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you ca...
MITCH ALBOM

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.
MITCH ALBOM

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.
MITCH ALBOM

It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
MITCH ALBOM

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i ...
MITCH ALBOM

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those ...
MITCH DANIELS

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they'...
MITCH LASKY

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required read...
MITCH LEIGH

Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even befo...
MITCH KAPOR

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of...
MITCH ALBOM

And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fo...
MITCH MCCONNELL

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be...
MITCH GLAZER

Old ways of thinking die hard, particularly when they were weaned by legally enforced monopolies.
MITCH KAPOR

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided ...
MITCH MCCONNELL

Bologna is a deli meat for people with eyes.
MITCH HEDBERG

I've turned down soap and deodorant commercials - it wasn't my route.
MITCH GAYLORD

After adding trillions to the debt on big-government policies most Americans didn't ask for and ...
MITCH MCCONNELL

His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him ...
MITCH ALBOM

In the last 100 years, three presidents suffered big defeats in Congress in their first term and the...
MITCH MCCONNELL

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
MITCH ALBOM

I went to see a band in New York. The lead singer got on the microphone, and he said How many of you...
MITCH HEDBERG

I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally w...
MITCH HEDBERG

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was tryi...
MITCH HEDBERG

Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over...
MITCH HEDBERG

I want to get a job as someone who names kitchen appliances. Toaster, refrigerator, blender.... all ...
MITCH HEDBERG

But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
MITCH ALBOM

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.
MITCH ALBOM

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it...
MITCH ALBOM

Life has to end, love doesn't.
MITCH ALBOM

Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attack...
MITCH ALBOM

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a p...
MITCH ALBOM

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
MITCH ALBOM

You know, there were five different teams that had it all locked up, and they all lost within the last week. And so Nebraska sort of backed in, and Oregon was the consensus No. 2, and the computer polls didn't like them, so then ended up the Fiesta Bowl. And then it was a rotten game.

Mitch Dorger

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