Famous Quotes & Sayings

If God created a football team, Pastor Hawkins would be the quarterback. When he was on God?s field, he always ran the play the coach told him to. Northwest Arkansas lost a difference-maker when Pastor Hawkins went home. I lost a good friend.

If I had to leave Vermont in February, there's no place I'd rather be than mucking around a swamp in Arkansas searching for these birds.

I'd say Arkansas is every bit as good as Illinois, the best team we've played. Illinois is a little more savvy, but Arkansas is as athletic, or more athletic than Illinois.

I'd think that any federal property in Arkansas that's high and dry will be in use before this is over, but that's a guess.

Bela Karolyi

I am very impressed with what I have seen here. I could not imagine arriving in northwest Arkansas to see a facility with the magnitude, with the beauty, and with the arrangement of whatever is in there that goes beyond the imagination.

He's obviously a nice colt. But I can't see them having him all cranked up to win. Their objective is the Arkansas Derby and the Kentucky Derby, so I think they're using it for what it is a prep.

I'm hoping it's in Little Rock. If not in Little Rock, somewhere close, so my Arkansas fans can come.

Pete Carroll

It was really a unique experience. I had been at the University of Pacific for my first three years coaching. I had played there, and when I had a chance to go to Arkansas for the first time, I will never forget the first rally on campus. It was crazy, and the energy was awesome, and the band was playing and the students went nuts. It was the first sense of what big-time college football was like, to be on the inside of it. That year at Arkansas was the year that really energized me about being a college coach and liking it and coaching on the big level. I got captured by it.

Billy Donovan

It was a back-and-forth basketball game. Both teams had a chance to win, but give Arkansas credit. They were able to find a way to come out with a victory.

They'll be a typical North Arkansas team, well-coached and fundamentally sound. I did hear they have a 5-7 guard who can really shoot the eyes out of it.

John Edward

It was heartbreaking to see people, pregnant women, elderly in wheelchairs, in those cramped, squalid conditions without food, water and toilets. We had no problems from the people at the convention center and that's more people than are in most Arkansas towns.

Gary Pinkel

They've played our offense in the past and they'll also have a game to see exactly what we're doing, and maybe Arkansas State didn't. They maybe guessed on a few things based on reading articles.

Billy Donovan

It's hard to win on the road when it's 42-20 (Arkansas' favor) in free throws shot. That's a big discrepancy. But Arkansas made only 5 of 12 free throws in the first half and that kept us in it.

Chelsea Clinton

For all the tornadoes Arkansas has, and the ones that have hit around Little Rock, we never had one just basically come down Main Street,

It's also in our favor that Arkansas and Vanderbilt have tougher schedules.

It means a lot. I'm starting to get letters from Arkansas and Coach Nutt is up here. Arkansas, Arkansas State, Ole Miss and Indiana are schools I'm interested in. Most of my films are at free safety, but I plan to go to camp at Arkansas to show them I can play linebacker.

Mike Huckabee

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Mike Huckabee

First governor in Arkansas history to ever lower taxes.

Mike Huckabee

Raised Arkansas taxes 5 times, but lowered taxes 94 times.

Pat Paulsen

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

If Mr. Reed or Mr. Hutchinson wants to pick this fight, they should tell us which murderer or rapist they would let out of prison, which Arkansas child shouldn't be educated and which Arkansas senior should be thrown out of the nursing home.

Kyle Williams

I'm very impressed by McFadden. He's a big guy who runs fast. They have an experienced offensive line. Year in and year out, Arkansas has the biggest, most physical line we face.

The Coliseum is a historical place. Hopefully, it will be a historical night for Arkansas when we play there.

The heyday was Reconstruction, really. And then, starting about 1890, Arkansas imposed statutes that forced black people out of public office and made it impossible to vote -- Jim Crow laws -- and I just started to be amazed.

This is a great opportunity for Denise and Kelly. Both have worked extremely hard since they came to Arkansas and this is a reward for that hard work. I really believe that they have an opportunity to make the World Cross Country team and travel to Japan in April. Currently we are preparing for the SEC Indoor Championships and are training to be prepared for that meet, but this race couldn't come at a better time.

Vanderbilt's got two Top-25 RPI wins, over Old Dominion and Western Kentucky. That's more than a lot of teams. But Arkansas is a bad loss. All the teams that have beaten Vanderbilt are pretty good except Arkansas.

These guys have been bringing dope in from Mexico for a while. They have been one of the main distribution hubs in northwest Arkansas for pot.

John Brady

It's been unfortunate for them. They lost a few close games, but I don't look at a team as a good team or a bad team based on two or three points that could have gone either way. I've always thought Arkansas was as good and as talented a team as there is in the league.