Jim Johnstone Quotations

He's blossomed into a great athlete in the last couple of years. He's one of the top jumpers in the state.

Our group includes people who are either non-exercisers or who have fallen off the exercise wagon. I think many of them volunteered because they felt they needed someone to teach them a program.

While there are no stats, no ribbons, we can still see how they compete in an environment other than practice. Especially for the young kids, this gives them experience in a meet that isn't critical.

The problem is the people we don't know of. Maybe they don't know the service is available. We certainly don't know they're there.

If you're first to the market, you capture that market. You can always follow other companies and take their breadcrumbs. But I'd rather be out there.

I would say certainly at this point ... there's nothing the producers and networks are going to do.

We've never been threatened to the extent that Katrina and Rita did, ... Unfortunately we're not going to have a true test of the system until that occurs.

We can't build an 8,000-seat basketball arena in Mitchell to be used once or twice every year. But we as a committee believe that we can build a multipurpose event center that can be turned into an 8,000-seat basketball arena.

Staying in someone's home is a wonderful way to experience a different city. It's like stepping into someone else's life. Some people are funny about sleeping in a stranger's bed or having a stranger sleep in theirs, but I'm not against wearing someone else's shirt if he's my size. Several of the people we've exchanged with have become friends.

The volunteers need to be put on a schedule otherwise everything else, work, home, the kids, gets in the way. I think these volunteers are excited to be here seeing the value of working with a trainer. No-one's quit yet which I think is very encouraging.