Mike Downs Quotations

Of course I'm going to say I'm the best player.

I still tell them they can't beat me. It's just not as true.

I thought Overlake had a great game plan. They outplayed us in many aspects of the game.

Three go to states. Do we run from these people? No. We go and wrestle.

We wrote several key words on the blackboard before the game, but the most important one was 'confidence. It's confidence in their shooting. I told the kids that they're the best shooting team in the state of Washington. They showed that in the first half.

Andy was at 145 until two weeks ago. He's still adjusting to that weight. It should benefit him to stay at 140.

Companies are looking for the best deal they can get. If we didn't have (abatements) we'd be at a competitive disadvantage with other states. And we're not just talking about competing with Illinois and Kansas. We're competing with India and China.

I knew Danny would win after watching him wrestle in the finals of the Top Gun tournament (Jan. 13-14 at Alliance, Ohio). Danny lost, 3-2, to a kid who also won at the Ironman tournament. That kid was dominating everybody until he wrestled Danny.

I've known him since he was 6 years old. He's a really good kid. No one works harder than him.

It's so much harder to repeat. That's why this is such a gratifying accomplishment.