Steve Smith Quotations | Page 2

You had everything against you,'' I reminded him Monday.

The opportunities we missed last season and the run we made contributed to all the hard work the guys put in during the off-season.

We've had people advertising for dinner dates. We've had ads including how to stretch you limbs to become a marshall arts expert.

Everything that team did today was superb. They overall just flat-out beat us.

We have department heads that should be doing grant writing. Maybe we should keep Jodie and get rid of these department heads.

We went through that last time, I'm done with that. I mean Moose was a very intricate part of me playing, still is. But I'm not going to go through all that. It's old.

We went to our friends' room, our friends who had asked for T-shirts and we set them down on the bed. We made sure not to do any hand-to-hand distribution, because that is a campaign violation. Furthermore, the door to Maxcy is unlocked during the day with people constantly walking in and out.

After a number of sites were considered, we decided it was the best place to put the new building. It fits with the campus development master plan.

The one observation is that they're overlooking or not giving sufficient attention to the other public values that these oil and gas leases have.

The thing about their defense is that there is no trick about it. We know how they are. We saw how hard they hit and how hard they play.

The thing that makes this difficult is that this project needs to be done, ... Our job is to minimize inconvenience to you. We have not finished the study on the traffic lights - we don't feel like there's any reason at this point to postpone the project.

Realizing I wouldn't be coming back, about six weeks in, that was the hardest part. Just waking up and smelling the coffee, knowing I wasn't coming back.

Officers saturated the area and eventually found these three guys. This was certainly an exercise in stupidity.

Experience only gets you so far. We were in the playoffs two years ago without any experience at all, and we ended up in the Super Bowl. Playoff experience is overrated.

The reason union members are doing this is Charlie Wilson has done more for workers as a state senator than anyone could have hoped for, and now we're helping him back.

Some people think I'm getting upset when I'm not getting the ball. I get upset when we're not moving the ball, when we're not operating as an efficient unit as an offense. This is a team effort and whenever a team is not moving the ball they way we like to, everybody's frustrated.

Some days we have ten different customers who all want their labels urgently. The second press will allow us to handle these peak demand periods with ease.

Once you get in, it's a whole new game. Everybody is 0-0 and you go from there. Once you get in, anything can happen.

A year ago our natural gas bill for December was $14,000 for the elementary and JH-HS buildings and the greenhouse. This year it was $16,284 just for the high school!

The models to some extent have gotten a bad rap this season. They'll tell you which risk is riskier than the other.

Although, the ULDB launch and ascent were very close to normal, the balloon's internal pressure was less -- but within acceptable margins -- than we expected on Saturday afternoon and evening.

People don't realize how big an effect the group had on people and how die-hard their fans are.

There's no light at the end of the tunnel right now.

We balanced their ass. You can pump them up all you want. They lost.

This will put us in pretty good shape. But, we'll have to start watching the elementary since it's been over 15 years since one section of roof was completed there.

This is an annual event sponsored to help students realize the preparation and skills needed to obtain a job, and an opportunity to bring the community into the schools.

This is going to be a close one.

I keep stressing that last year put everything in perspective. I felt like football was my whole life. When it was taken away from me, I felt the Lord was teaching me a lesson to not put all my eggs in one basket. ... That's why I am enjoying playing.

I'm not a very tall guy, but I can jump. (Tillman) did catch the ball, but, you know, I wanted it a little bit more than him.

I'm just really utilizing my talents. They throw me the ball, my job is to catch it. If I don't catch the ball, they will get somebody in here who will.

I'm frustrated we weren't doing things right, but that's football.

Instead of taking the money that is ear marked for each individual, it is now going into a big pot that will be distributed to the different entities.

Size was the difference, especially early in the game.

I hope we are fortunate enough to be able to charter a ship and do some configuration changes to the route and make it work.

I'm excited every week, with all the things that happened to me last year. I'm happy just to be playing.

It was a day to remember. It was a mess.

All of us in small banking consider us helping each other a positive. It's sort of like a David and Goliath mentality. We can help each other compete against the Goliaths of the industry.

The next year is normally a lot better than that rookie year, and I see it that way for Cedric.

I still believe that we're awfully close. We've tried to get them back to the negotiating table.

It's definitely something in the back of our minds. What are they doing? They're messing us up. We just have to show them on the field.

I just tried to focus on dealing one play at a time. I just try to make plays, however they want to give me the ball.

It helped us, it gave us a little boost.

Clearly, we want the technology to be adopted, ... we think it's superior. We're not getting royalties from the technology... We're not doing this to make money with the technology. We're doing it to get this market standardized and going.

I just sit there and look at the place. I remember what it was like to be there. I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew that I was going to need a lot of determination and a lot of persistence to do something else.

I just think it's a thing where the corner may think he's good enough, but the defensive coordinator obviously doesn't think he's good enough.

In the second half, I thought our press bothered them a lot and we got some easy baskets and that made the difference. We got them in some traps where we didn't get them trapped in the first half. When we trap guys -- we have pretty good size for a high school team -- that causes problems.

If you send them home tired, they're not going to cause trouble in the facility.

I just think we're playing good football now. I think we understand our mistakes. We acknowledged our mistakes amongst each other and within the coaching staff. So everyone is accountable. No one is throwing anyone under the bus, and we've just kept moving forward.

Because the sales are so big, surely as a state we can afford to stay out of some unique, sensitive and useful places and still have a big volume of gas leasing.

He surprised me with the power he has. He's strong. He's put together well. He really does have some pop, especially for a guy his size.

I probably will be hitting 100 (mph) on I-85 and I won't be stopping until I hit my driveway.

By making this a weekly must-see 'event', MIDNIGHT MADNESS will carry the tradition to bring live country music and its hit makers closer to its fans.

It was great to see how excited people were about this.

They won, we lost. You can't take that away from them.

They were trying to evade a member of this department that is trained to teach police officers emergency vehicle operation. It was an exercise in stupidity that ended up as an exercise in futility.

They beat on the door. They took me outside in my underwear and cuffed me and then searched the house.

They were saying everything, calling us all kinds of stuff.

It just takes care of a couple of little areas and moves us a little closer together.

It wasn't as loud as most gyms. This was not a tough place to play.

I really would like to get them off the street because it's going to happen to somebody else.

The impetus for the structured activity program was really an effort to get all students moving in a structured way every day.

All we've got to do is keep plugging.

All we've got to do is keep plugging. Guys got to step it up, and I think they will. We will play it by ear after that.

All I heard all week long was what I didn't do. I was real motivated.

A good teacher can meet the needs of their students and that has to be first and foremost in your mind, not just the content knowledge.

The competition is the best in the country.

It's time to raise your game. There's no 'We'll get 'em next time' in the playoffs. You have to win.

It's not a 9-11, it's not a Katrina, it's an inconvenience.

It really comes down to supply and demand. There are certain opponents that fans seek out more than others.

It's all about Scottish civilian and military life in Colonial Georgia.

Everyone may say we're a Super Bowl team. We're not. We're a one-win playoff team.

Education has always been a sacred cow in state budgets. There's a constitutional responsibility to provide all students a decent one.

That revision really talked a lot about how we get kids with disabilities back into the mainstream.

There will be no indication of where the fees are going; they are just going to show per credit hour cost.

It's exciting to be out there, but we're missing a special guy, Stephen Davis. Once he gets back out there, we'll be complete.

It's just a win. That's it. Everybody's making a fuss like it's the Super Bowl. ... It's a football game, and we closed out what we needed to close out.

We don't think it's a fair deal right now.

We expect rapid transition to 65 nm. That allows delivery of dual core at appropriate price point.

We expect single-core processors to exist for quite some time in our value-processor line.

It wasn't until the voters really started to pay attention and to look at what was in the measure and what the real outcomes would be that the vote began to swing.

It's a good confidence builder, but it doesn't mean too much because it's early. We have eight games left.

We got ahead, and I don't think they've been down like that all year. They have two players as good as any we've played, but there have been teams we've seen with more talent overall.

We weren't surprised by any of them. We were just surprised by so many of them. In my recollection, that's the most anomalies that's ever come up.

We want to get several ideas on energy efficiency before we make a decision.

It's fun. It's another opportunity to showcase what I can do with the ball. I'm in complete control. I can see the whole field. I think I'm the best guy to make the best possible decisions back there, and it's just another opportunity for me to make plays.

It's funny how we were thinking maybe outfield, this and that. When they talk about first basemen now, Tex is in the first two guys they're talking about.

It's good for the environment because wood chips are a renewable source of energy. They also cost a lot less than gas.

There were a lot of shortcomings last time we were here. Things didn't work out offensively. All week, we heard about the mistakes they were able to expose the first time. What we had to do was come in here and not talk about it, but eliminate the mistakes they caused us to make in November.

I don't make excuses. If you lined my mama up out there, I'd have to catch it over her, too.

I don't think bonds have much value. The chances of zero to 1 percent inflation seem lower than 2 to 3 percent (inflation). I'm not sure the market is set for that.

For the people on the Queen Charlotte Islands, it's their only conduit to the mainland for groceries, medical supplies and goods and services. A lot of stuff moves on the water.

He pulled up alright and trained well this morning, hopefully we can turn the tables on Saturday. We just had about every bit of bad luck happen to us last week. He had the bad start and losing a shoe at the 600 was the finishing touch to what ended up a bad day.

He (Rao) feels it is important to invest work in elevating the profile of public universities, not only in Michigan, but everywhere. A national report of this nature helps us in our communication with the legislature in Michigan.

He actually dismissed the whole team and he showed us he wasn't playing. We haven't had a problem since.

He actually ran me over when I was blocking for him. That just shows you how hard he was running.

He came and told us what the best fields would be.

The last three years, they've been great, but they're better now than they've ever been. The biggest thing is their continuity and chemistry.

All of the employees will be placed. That's one of the reasons we're doing that at this time of year.