Dave Parker Quotations

When I wasn't selected for an interview for council, I kind of thought this might be coming,

I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.

Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

I did think it a little ironic that we can have two task force meetings and a public hearing and have a half-cent sales tax within six months but we still don't have a clear direction on a nonsmoking ordinance,

He is 50-50 right now for the Masters but we should know more after the operation.

Out of 500 deals I've done, this is how I've done all of them, ... Ours is a straight deal. I just finished a similar deal with a national church organization. I'm really surprised.

It'd be tough not to say that it was just a great year, given all that TECO had to control. It ought to set the table for an OK 2006 and improving results in 2007 and beyond.

My comments at that time were based upon some projects that were coming forward that, when you read the projects and read the proposals and the staff reports, it made you wonder who was driving the long-range planning, ... Were we waiting for developers to come forward with a plan or were we stepping forward with a vision of our own?

The good news is it's confined to the building of origin.

This was my goal to reach this point. But we were thankful to have that building, too.

This is great for you and great for our city.

There's a suggestion that the roof in that part of the building is acting in very strange ways, and tension now comes into it. I hear the roof is completely safe because it has so much reserve strength, but towards the sides of the chamber will be bits that are not behaving as expected.

It's a different type of contest. I think people like the unpredictable part of this ... the lure of winning some money ... but the excitement, also, of when that ice goes out, they know they're going to be getting a boat out in a month or so.

It's pretty big. It's got 41 buildings which contain 468 apartment units, and it sits on 21 acres.

The bank continues to be under pressure with the very difficult yield environment they find themselves in. But things are moving in the right direction (for the company) after four or five quarters of dismal earnings.

I really love the hills there -- short, sharp and twisty. But not until they have some decent snow on them. It's really good now, and I bet it will be even better by the weekend.

The economic expansion in Hawaii over the last five or six years has put a lot of pressure on infrastructure and is driving costs up. Interim rate relief is a step in the right direction, but more probably will be needed as Hawaiian Electric continues to add infrastructure to keep up with expanding needs.