“I don't know how many teams down (16) in the state championship game would have put out their lips, but that wasn't going to happen to this team. Until the last foul, they had no doubts they were going to win. I'm proud of them for that.”
“I was in Japan in 2000 and it is an experience you just don't forget. The host people were extraordinary. You get to see so much of the various cultures and you stay in homes wherever you go. There are vocational days when people get to see business operations in that country. Someone (in the field of journalism) would go to see printing operations and things of that nature. Each person would see something from their own field.”
“Haywood Builders, Danny Wingate and their sales staff and everybody associated with that company has been nothing but upright and professional. Everything about the company is top notch. This community couldn't survive without them.”
“What if somebody decided to name you Hortense, and you always hated that name? The name isn't you. It's something somebody else picked for you. We were named arbitrarily by a committee in 1951.”
