Bob Wilson Quotations

One evening, cannon balls dropped on the floor,

I had tremendous family support, and I had the drive to say, 'I don't want to be strapped in a wheelchair all my life.' I lost my legs in February and played my first nine holes of golf that June.

We may move Dustin and Cory around next year. I don't know if they'll still be able to specialize because numbers will still be a problem.

He scores a lot of points. But he scores them so quietly that you don't realize exactly how many he has. I honestly thought he had about 20.

He's just worked tremendously hard in the four years he's been at the high school. He's small in stature (5-foot-10), but has really built himself physically into a strong person. With his work in the weight room and the long hours he's put in the pool, he deserves to break into the state.

He loved what he did for the Navy. His unit recovered over four tractor-trailer loads of explosives.

He never just hung out. He was always tinkering. He loved living life.

We just have to bounce back from this and come out a lot stronger next game.

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

That was so depressing because I love that track and I was still feeling out my car so there was plenty left,

We aren't selling the program, ... This group will have time to hear and talk about it and decide if they want to go to the next level.

We've got some physical ailments right now. Hopefully we'll get everybody back for region play. The 10 that were dressed and were able to go all contributed in a big way. That's a nice luxury to have.

We don't go on a search-and-destroy mission looking for these. If it isn't a traffic hazard, we tend to let these things go. It is a very emotional type of situation.

When (Gen.) Douglas MacArthur said, on board the Battleship Missouri, 'These proceedings are closed,' it was the end of one of the bloodiest conflicts of modern times. The celebrations of course were enormous. It marked the end of the Pacific war.

We're comfortable playing everyone we've got on the bench. One of our keys all year is getting contributions on offense and defense from a lot of different players.

There has to be some methodology about who comes off that register to be interviewed. There is no standardized process.

We were a mess for the first week or two.

Diego Maradona - a flawed genius who has now become a genius who is flawed.

When I talked to the investigating officer, there didn't appear to be anything to indicate why it occurred,

The student athletes are the ones the kids look up to. The younger kids really look to them for guidance. We have to have high expectations of these kids. Participating in athletics is a privilege and with that privilege comes certain requirements.

(The student) came over to my office a week later and didn't know who this girl was, ... I opened the yearbook to that year with 20 girls' pictures, and she picked her out.

It was an outstanding day and great way for them to finish up the season.

What Brookhaven has going for it is way ahead of what a lot of other communities had when they started their journey,

I wanted a combination of footballers and cricketers, and we've had fantastic support from them all. It started with a tremendous dinner and it's gone on from there.

With the caliber of the competition so high among the established programs in the area, nothing can be taken for granted.

A lot of buyers think that 'If I call the listing agent, I'll get a better deal.' That's not true.

They're very strong and they're very fast and they were winning all the battles. As a coach and someone who loves soccer, you're disappointed but you have to love watching a great team.

Some people say this may have saved thousands of lives and many American soldiers. If the Japanese were going to defend their homeland like they did the outlining islands like Okinawa, it would have really been a bloody invasion. No one was looking forward to that.

Everybody's got to come to the table to make a program like this work,

In the run up to the national launch, we are particularly in need of volunteers with computer skills. In addition there are many other opportunities for those who would like to get involved.

He (Stewart) told him I could run his IPS car the final four races and all I had to bring was my helmet, ... But he said I only had an hour to make a decision.

He's put on muscle, which has made him faster, and is just beginning to hit his stride.

I told the team not to worry about Dewitt's shot. We were still up by two and we still had one more quarter to play.

We got off to a good start, and we're a little deeper than (Lakewood) is. When we built a big enough lead, we had the luxury of running five players in and out.

It was a remarkably quick turn around with our relationships with Japan. Within two to three years we were rebuilding landing strips at airports that we had bombed a few months before. We forged what has been an enduring alliance with Japan. We went from them going from being one of our bitterest enemies to them being our ally. It was interesting how that was accomplished in almost no time at all.

This is way of telling everybody about Main Street Mississippi and how it works,

If everything works right and the night is dark and the moon is out, it can be a fun evening to go out and be scared a little bit,

I don't think we came out real strong; we were a little flat and fell asleep on a couple of their goals. We gave them a lot of opportunities to score, and a good team is going to score on you.

All of the AMC cars that we had were good, long-lasting cars. I've gotten thousands--tens of thousands at this point--of great e-mails with AMC stories from people over the years, and only two were negative so far.