Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
early fact far focused given gone honor past players possible program ranked three tournament worrying
It's an honor for our players and our program to be ranked No. 1 by the coaches. Given the fact that we've gone out of the tournament early two times in the past three years, we're as focused on getting as far in the tournament as possible . . . and not worrying about rankings.
proud remember tried
I tried to get them to remember that. That's something we can be proud of.
boils openness
It really boils down to getting more accountability and more openness in the process.
best couple figure figuring good playing scenario stay time transition
It's a little transition time for me, going from playing every day to figuring out how to stay sharp. The first couple of weeks, you try to figure out what the best scenario is to try to do that. It's been good to find out some different things to stay sharp.
becoming bring finally leave needs odd opportunity popular proud quite
It's a little sad. I'm proud to have been able to bring something like that to the area. To leave it when it's finally becoming quite popular is a little odd and a little unusual. But it's something that needs to be done. The opportunity that has come about is just way too attractive.
public safety
It's all being done under a public safety concern.
almost division five games pitching threw
It's almost all games in our division now. Our pitching has been there all year. The way Derek threw was encouraging. He has five more starts. That could be fun.
environment fun kids next until wait
I told the kids that if you think that's a fun environment, wait until next month. I can't wait until (playoff) season.
beginning bite coast deep finally found looking map misery parties search sent weather wild winter
It is wild out there -- there's a lot of misery on the weather map from coast to coast to coast. We'd sent out search parties looking for winter and we finally found it, and it's here, and it's beginning to bite us deep and hard.
amount given possible territory time
It's not possible to do the job. There's no way inspectors can do that many inspections to get all that territory accomplished in the amount of time given to do it.
anticipate
It's not only what we have here today, but it's what we anticipate we're going to have,
beat
For it to be a rivalry, you have to be able to beat them so we haven't done our part.
buildings consider library size stadium
For instance, we need to consider the size of other buildings such as the auditorium, the library and the stadium in the long-range plans, too.
blocks determine direction provide starting
For instance, for every 500 students, we need a new school; for every 700 students, we need a new school. The administration has to provide the direction and we have to determine the perimeters as the starting blocks to those long-range plans.