Chuck D. Three Quotations

He was reluctant, obviously, at first. ... He has made a great sacrifice. That was a team thing that Dwayne did, because Dwayne played a lot of football in the last three years as a defensive tackle.

Our plan was to develop some physical toughness. The last three years, we've really had that, and we decided that we needed to start that today.

Keeping that promise this year made our job much more difficult, ... I don't see how you're going to be able to have that rule of thumb three years from now.

Unfortunately, we did not hear from Dr. Rice three important words: 'We made mistakes.' Of course we made mistakes,

I always remain optimistic. There are three levels of music production: the majors, indies, and what I call "inties," music distributed via the Internet. The Internet is one area that I have used pretty effectively to break free of corporate control.

We've turned a corner the last two weeks, and we almost did it three weeks ago. But you know what? That doesn't mean anything. There's another opportunity this week. There's another challenge this week, and it's a very big one.

With this group being so unstable, we have to just concentrate on making the playoffs. We can win three in a row and we can take it from there. We have the talent to do so.

We're going to have a tough road. If we get Knoxville, we have to play a team we have beaten twice this season. It is never easy to beat a team three times, especially a team as physical as Knoxville. And if we play them, it will be on their own floor.

Andy didn't throw an 11-4 game. It's a shame. I know it's an oversimplification but there are really three aspects to this game -- you have to hit the ball, throw it and catch it. And this week we haven't been able to put all of those together. Our consistency has to get better. They can be a really good team -- there's a lot of potential there. But when you don't do everything right, every little thing gets magnified. They have to realize how good they can be.

We had some big plays. This isn't the normal Vernon team you see with the three yards and a cloud of dust ? although we had clouds of dust today.

While he was playing during the summer, Dave landed on his shoulder and hurt his shoulder. He wasn't able to play at all for three months, so this year has almost been a waste for him. But he does everything we ask of him and he plays hard. He just needs to get a little stronger.

It's not about capacity, it's about processing ability. We still have, roughly, 12 million cubic yards of debris and that's all demolition debris. Again, I've done numbers; I've looked at the numbers. With one facility you're looking at three years of disposal time. With two facilities that cuts down to about one year. So we have a responsibility.

The next three weeks, pre-announcements are center stage. It's the next three weeks that we have to get through.

In this case, the law enforcement officers felt that the jury's verdict was insufficient to the cause justice. Three men, good, veteran officers were murdered in cold-blood by a coward who surrendered to the tactical unit that responded because he was afraid getting shot himself. The jury's sentencing recommendation was not good enough.

They were a third seed and they probably should have been a one seed. They were the best three seed in the tournament for sure.