Greg Williams Quotations

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

We're real close to getting all the pieces in place - still working on that team chemistry. It's not a real long season, but there's still some time to get things together.

We want reform to pass. We've worked very hard to come up with reform that works, that reforms the abuses that have happened.

We're looking forward to it after they beat us in the first game. We're expecting a big, loud crowd. It should be fun.

There are very few nights that go by when I'm watching a sporting event and I don't see the O'Reilly name.

When you're a championship team, you just have to play over whatever is thrown at you. The bottom line is we didn't shoot the ball well enough to win.

She was really huge. We've been watching her make 3s all year in practice, but we haven't been able to get her to look for her shot in the games.

None of these courses should have been presented without teachers being totally aware of what the final exam was going to be like.

Baylor has done extremely well in their inaugural season. They have won every head to head competition they've been in and done well in their IHSA format.

I don't sense any real tension in terms of direction. They are all pretty much aligned.

For two years, UT fans called our show complaining that Mack can't win the big game. Now they're comparing him to Darrell Royal.

I get goose bumps just thinking about it. I never envisioned that.

He hasn't played in about a week and the way this league is set up, you're really not able to practice together much during the week. We're still working on developing a chemistry. It will come, but it's something that takes time. I don't think it will take very long for Bobby to get back in the flow of the game here.

He was pretty much a victim of my lack of success. He has an extremely intelligent basketball mind. He's constantly studying the game, and he never has let the game bypass him in any way.

I think they should leave the place just the way it is. This town needs a beer and peanut joint. If they want martinis, they can go down the street.

Opening nights are special and this was a real special opening night with the guys receiving their rings and seeing the banners come down.

Suzanne grew up an African-American girl in Harlem. She told me about how there were mixed races in her family and I think my story was one that seriously interested her.

That balances our talent and our class size, and down the road that could really be the hidden blessing for the entire program.

Just ? I hate to say it ? but just the prestige of having the corporate headquarters of a $2 billion company in Springfield, that's nothing to sneeze at.

We nipped right there at it every week. This will help turn it around.

That was the difference in the game. We couldn't get any offensive flow.

That won't take anything away from the game. This week is all about tradition and bragging rights for a whole year.

Winning the national championship is obviously huge. To win the national championship, you have to be a complete team. ... Our girls deserved it.

We'll be well rested for Vancouver for when they come. We'll practice Friday and be ready to go Saturday.

We've got seven or eight guys on this team from last year's championship team. They're used to winning and they have a lot of pride. We're starting to come together as a team. It takes time, but we're getting there.

We've lost some like that, so I guess it's OK to win one like that. I don't feel like with the focus and the intensity, the lack of on our part, I don't feel like we deserved to win. But we're not going to turn it back over.

Utilities used to provide reliable service in return for higher rates, ... But with the restructuring of the industry, it moved from almost a 100 percent emphasis on reliability to a greater emphasis on economy -- on cheaper rates.

We have to win the tournament because our RPI is not where it needs to be.

Trucking specifically has been a very strong growth sector. I think we quit counting, but at one point there were more than 35 over-the-road truck terminals based in Springfield.

We got the lead early and were able to hold on. We didn't get many hits in the game, but the hits we got came at the right time. We did some little things and that helped get us a win.

We had some guys step up big in that second half. We're still working on team chemistry and any time you can pull out wins like this, that only helps that process along.

We were able to piece together some hits in the sixth inning. I thought the biggest hit was the triple by Bennett. Then after that we had a few hits that had some eyes.

We're trying to help our shooting percentage - get some shooters in here. To lose by three and shoot around 50 percent from the free-throw line - that's not going to get it.

We've had (slow) spells like that, and that SMU team, you didn't want to do that with. Val cranked it. She got us going, scoring and rebounding.

We've got about 9,700 people working in transportation and about 9,800 in the wholesale trade sector. Manufacturing currently stands at about 18,400. There's a very close relationship between those sectors.

You have to give Amber credit. She got off a good shot that was just a little bit short. She did a great job under those circumstances.

We were our own worst enemy. It was a difficult hill to climb out of against a real solid team. Our turnovers were the difference in the game.

Drew was living on the edge in a couple of innings during the game. But he stayed around the plate and let the defense play behind him, and that's all we could ask.

The scoring punch from both of those guys will make us a little bit different team.

Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This, combined with the slowing PC market, will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter,

Definitely we have the momentum going in. Our kids are confident.

That's kind of what we like to do, control the ball in the Wing T, ... It's hard to stop. Nobody has stopped it all year.

That Murphy is everything we thought he would be, ... does a good job, but in the end, we came out on top.

They have their own ZIP code. They fly multiple aircraft out of Springfield-Branson National Airport every day with catalog-ordered merchandise.

As we started winning games, it definitely sunk in. I'm just really proud of the team and the way they hung in there.

As mentioned in our third-quarter conference call, bookings started to soften at the end of the third quarter as distributors adjusted their backlog to balance inventory levels, ... Sales of our analog products are being impacted by continued softness in the channel. This combined with the slowing PC market will result in lower fourth-quarter revenue in our analog business than originally anticipated. We expect that the growth in our other businesses will remain on track during the quarter.

It's just one game. I would've loved to come away with a victory, but we missed too many free throws and open shots for that to happen. That will come, though.

It will be a homecoming for those two. They both have their championship rings already and now they'll be coming back with something to prove, I'm sure.

It's a big weekend for us with three big games. And we'll have a different look with Bobby back. We're still building this team as we go and we're still trying to get to a position where we will bring a championship back to Battle Creek.

It is so wonderful to come up the sidewalk and have that feeling of seeing so many people here. Some of the things that were really important to us were the comments of other athletes, other coaches and other parents about our girls at the championship. With their hard work and their positive attitude, they were a perfect example of what a team should be like.

It's all part of it. You always have bumps and bruises.

It's going to be a tough task. West Jones swings the bats well and East Central is a tough club. I know Wayne County has a good team also, so nothing is going to be easy.

It's pure spite, pure retaliation. That's all it is.

Everyone in this league can play. We're just hoping that one of these nights we have one of our guys shoot like that. He was really shooting the ball well.

Stone County has a good team and we are fortunate to get a pair of wins against them. They are going to create some problems for teams in this division.

It was good to see Steve Reynolds and Brian Snider back in action. You saw how we threw them into the fire in that second game and they responded.

It was just a good ballgame and it fell our way, ... We had a couple of games earlier that didn't, but this one fell our way. It was our night.

I'm not really familiar with it because I have just heard of it from my mom watching the news. It sounds interesting, and I want to learn more.

I'm disappointed that we started the game so flat. I don't know why we did. We were running uphill all day.

I like to run a lot of backs, ... and we've got a lot of kids that are capable of running the football.

I asked Darby if she knew where her children were. She stated yes and directed me to her vehicle. Darby opened the vehicle, which had only one child inside.

The hunt seat riders rode extremely well. We had new riders that performed well and there is no doubt that they had the momentum. There were some girls that we were unsure on how they would perform, but they pulled through. It was more of a pleasant reassurance than anything.

Andrew was really in control from the beginning. I tell our pitchers, the best pitch in baseball is strike one. I haven't had a chance to look, but I think Andrew was 0-1 on a lot of batters in the game.

The girls have won on the road this year and they're an upset-minded team as they have been in years past. The guys are excited to be (in the playoffs) for the first time in a while so there's no telling what they'll do.

The chancellor gave the plaintiffs every shot they wanted.

The first one is the big one. If you lose the first game, then you have to play four or five games in a row. Not many teams have that kind of pitching, so winning the first game is the biggest task.

All the seniors will be competing and they are great leaders. We will miss their riding and their consistency.

The league is better all around this year, the competition is better. There's a lot of people with great talent that we'll see every night. We are the champions and everybody is gunning for us every night - teams are all bringing more intensity.