Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walter Brown

I think it's time we as a school district say no. I think it's time we put some teeth into what we say to them.

It goes without saying, ... But they have goals and winning district is the first one.

He was trying to stick the landing, and that's what you want. He had just watched two teammates in front of him stick their landings, and he was going for it. He's a competitor, and he's been in this position before. What I'm most pleased is the way the team improved from district to this meet, and hopefully that will continue.

He got sick right before districts (Feb. 11), and he did a nice job of being able to drop in the 500. His IM was not his lifetime best, which was disappointing to him because he feels he's an all-around swimmer.

For me, to get to the other side of the district is about an hour and 15 minute drive.

I got a laptop over the last two weeks, which helps me monitor any district or school needs that arise.

I would have loved to put an offender from each specific district and not obscured their name. But we'd have put ourselves at liability to do so.

I would have felt better if our girls had scored more runs after the third inning, but it turns out they didn't need to. This will help us enter the district tournament next week on the upbeat. I really wasn't sure it would go our way, but I am glad it did.

I worked with the school district treasurer (Brian Wilson) on this more than maybe any other project. He realized the magnitude of it.

I guess I stopped being nervous about shooting during the end of district play. I just figured that I'm a senior. I shouldn't be nervous to shoot. I should be a leader.

If they can duplicate the time they had at the YMCA district meet last week, they'll finish near the Top 10.

If we can get the 16 other districts to do it, we've accomplished something.

If we can turn it around and start doing a better job of finishing then we can make some things happen with a big run in the district tournament.

If we come out and are ready to play, we'll have just as good an opportunity in our district to win it. It's all about the kids working hard. We're giving them the tools and strategies and getting them to work hard, but it comes down to them. We're not where we want to be.

We're trying to just stay focused on this game and play this game. We'd like to have a district championship.

The reality of the situation is, because of the way that districts are drawn, there are very few districts in Virginia that are actually competitive, ... Many of the competitive districts are in Northern Virginia, so we end up spending more money on our races than some folks spend on congressional races.

There are seven teams in our district that have five losses or fewer.

There are school districts that show a ton of success with demographics just like ours. Let's go see what the heck they're doing.

There are school districts that are trying to find minorities because of the populations they serve, and our staff works to make those connections.

Bob Latta

To give you some background, I represent the largest manufacturing district and the largest agricultural district in Ohio.

We have to come back, get better, get ready and get focused for Grove City, and sectional, district and state and see how many guys we can get out.

Karen Carney

The past has been well intentioned, but it didn't work. It is going to be as hard to find Hispanic parents willing to give time to the district as it is with any other group.

Mahmoud Abbas

The parliamentary election will take place in all of the homeland districts on Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006,

We're talking about potentially blighting one of the most historic districts in Buffalo.

G. H. Hardy

We've been as patient as we could, but the district has not given any indication that they are willing to settle this.

We were focusing on winning at district but we are resting them and getting them ready for state. I was happy with the way they swam.

We were excited going into district because our forwards are gelling so well. We're on the same page right now.

We want to win the district tournament. We want to put a trophy in our case.

When you face good pitching, when you get to the district tournament, it can help.

When you have pitching, hitting and defense, you will win. And today we had two of the three with some timely hits. Today was extremely important to us with a big district win.

We always set that as one of our goals. Our first goal was to get the No.1 seed, even though when you get into the district tournament, it's a completely new season.

Michael Gross

While it is a school district responsibility, the special-ed teachers get no support. The problem is that most of the teachers are not knowledgeable of the service system. And the teachers are not given time to learn the service system.

With only two weeks left before the district tournament, there's not a whole lot you can teach kids now. You're too far down the road to be teaching kids how to shoot and how to execute. If we can't do it now, we have a problem. The only way we can find out what's going on is to get back out here on the floor.