Famous Quotes & Sayings

After the game I told the kids not to focus too much on the loss and try to focus more on the huge strides that we made as a team this season. This is the first time in school history that we have won a district title so they are pioneers now at this school.

After we lost to Grapevine in the first half of district play we got together and ironed out some things.

Bill Nelson

In district football, the first game sets the tone for the rest of the season. It's tough to get going if you lose that first game. It's going to be a tough game, it always is over there. They always have good teams and they are well?coached. This year will be no different.

Vito Fossella

In my district of Staten Island and Brooklyn, residents joined together and raised money to help military families send these packages over seas.

I knew she was a good player. None of the posts in our district are like that. She's a tough player.

I knew when these girls were freshmen that they'd be good and get better every year. They have higher goals of winning a (state) championship, so district is just like the first stop for them.

Michael Collins

I like the fast pace in district court. At least when you go home at night, you're done.

I just want to win every game that we play and keep improving. It want to get as many wins as possible before district starts next week.

I'm really happy, and I know the kids are happy. It would have been nice to win it, but in the long run, districts really starts what matters as far as kids trying to get to state.

I'm proud of what we have accomplished. Winning districts back-to-back is hard. This is a tribute to our guys, who have been ready to play in every game. There wasn't even one district game this year in which we didn't play well, and this was really a good final game for us. Hopefully, we'll go into the playoffs with some confidence.

I'm disappointed. We needed this work to get ready for our district games.

I'm really proud of the girls. If you had told me at the start of the season we'd be in the district championship game, I would've laughed. But these girls just work extremely hard.

I just want to keep playing well the rest of this district. We've got three district games left -- that's what I'm focusing on.

I hope we repeat last year and get into districts but do even better.

I'm sure the communities may feel that way. I have heard some about the rivalry. But I'm looking at it like we're trying to win another district football game.

It was a good test for our guys. It's the end of the season with districts only one week away. It gives them a good environment for a big tournament, so it should prep them for districts.

It's weird looking at this Trinity game as a district game. But all three of our district games are on the road this year, and we needed this.

It's wide-open this year. You never know what can happen come district time, especially this year.

It's very important. It's our first district game. It's always important to start off on the right track. For the team that loses, by no means is it over.

It's time to get ready for districts now.

I want to play them early. It's good for us, because I think they only get better and better as they season goes on. It's a great game for us to open district with.

It will be people I put together. It might be principals. It might be district office people. I really haven't stopped to think who will be on it yet.

Hector Herrera

It will probably be one of the last opportunities the district will have to purchase a large tract of land in an environmentally sensitive area.

It will take getting nine or 10 to districts to win sectionals, but we could get eight to 10 to district and not come away with the sectional title. Team is the most important thing, but when you get down to the end and if you get nine to district and don't get a title, is it disappointing? It's kind of a double-edged sword.

The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

They can now say they've had a first with Florence School District 1,

They are going to start at the two ends of the Valley and somebody in the middle district is going to have to do a little traveling.

Mike Johanns

I spent the morning in (U.S. Speaker of the House) Denny Hastert's district in northern Illinois. There's no question there is impact from the drought. Some ears have four or five kernels, others have nothing, and some are two-thirds filled,

We are moving all the services that support our entire district to the new modulars,

This is the most we've had out since I've been here. I just think the interest in football in our district is growing. I know we have 400 kids in our midget program. Football is a big part of Cumberland Valley.

They're going to have research-based principles, model programs to learn from. They're going to learn from one another. The Escondido district is going to be part of the larger PROMISE family.

I hope that he's happy here and will stay because we've laid the foundation now to do a lot of good things here. The Theater District is not the end, it's the beginning,

I hope so. It's hard to tell what everybody else in the district is going to be like. I think we have a shot. We're going to have to play our way in.