S. Walker Until Quotations

She's absolutely the smartest player I've had the privilege to coach. You almost don't notice what she does until you look at the stats at the end of the game. She is what has made us the king we have become.

We expect to post an operating loss here in the fourth quarter and do not anticipate a significant improvement in this business until 2001.

Our intensity level went down and that made our defense go down. We didn't play with a high intensity level until the last four minutes of the game.

I think it really (threw us off). Some of the girls didn't know whether to play on them or play off. It slowed the pace down a lot and that's what kept the score close until we went on our run, and that forced them to play a faster game.

Until our kids start believing in the potential they have, that's exactly what it will be - just potential, ... We're getting some good individual efforts from a handful of guys but we're not getting it from a lot of others. Everyone, including us coaches, expected big things from this bunch. But if the players don't realize the opportunity they have, we might end up being just another better-than-average Hilliard football team that wins seven games or so.

We all listen to the same music; we all came from the same place, standing on the shoulders of the same giants. I'd be willing to bet that The Rolling Stones are more envious of our lifestyle, living here in Kentucky, playing loads of different Americana music. That's what they were going for. We're closer to the source than they are, really. I think they would love to come down and stay in Covington with us and stay up until 5 in the morning, playing guitar and singing Townes Van Zandt songs and Leadbelly songs. It'd be right up their alley. It's no mistake that we have the same kind of thing going on.

In some ways, it doesn't feel real until you can say, 'Here I have this record,' and play the songs. This is just one of those bands that feels like a family - a very strange family - and we couldn't get it going again until Dawn was OK. Really, we weren't apart during that time. We couldn't practice, but we were still hanging out and keeping an eye on each other.

They have a pretty big vision. Even if they put it all together, they can't move forward until we have permission to build something out there. But it makes sense to agree to sit down and talk about it now because it's something that really has potential.