Mark Smith Quotations

We are a team trying to find our way. We've got off the beaten path and have to find our way back. We've got to find the right five to play together and click as a team.

We grew up in the Clear Lake area. We have seen the communities fight to keep high-rises out, especially in Nassau Bay, but the market is very strong because of the waterfront property.

Unfortunately, I was hauling a piano on that one.

The only way you manage wildlife since we take away their natural habitat is by hunting.

Most trials have a clear outcome, guilty or innocent, so the chances of this happening are pretty small to begin with.

Moving people out of the shelters and into temporary housing has been a source of frustration for us. It is a monumental effort that FEMA has undertaken, and we understand that effort is going to take time, but we had hoped it would come about quicker than it has.

O'Dell's shot at the end of the third quarter really hurt us.

New Orleans as we know it does not exist.

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On offense we executed well and because of it we got off some quality shots.

I was pleased with the way that we fought back after our bad start. The kids didn't give up and worked their way back into the game.

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God help me if this costs me my job.

If it's fully funded, we can quit looking for alternative funding sources. It's very exciting.

There is no consistency at all from town to town.

I think it's a good idea. Just because you retain them for consulting doesn't mean you will get good advice.

I think it was unfortunate for the institution to believe it can be handled by students. The fear is the ultimate crisis could occur, and we don't want to see that.

I think the sense is he is going to be the strongest candidate to take it to (Rep. Jim) Nussle this fall.

Our kids battled and our leaders rose to the top. They're tenacious and hungry for the ball.

Living in the country like that, you keep an eye on your neighbors. I know everyone who lives around me.

That would be the ultimate ideal of utilizing Louisiana music.

That was an example of someone that really demonstrated the potential of music on the film side. They utilized Louisiana music from a record company out of New Orleans.

Wiltshire remains one of the safety places to live in the country.

We are just inconsistent now. To me, we are past the point of being a young team. We should not be saying that anymore, but we are having a hard time putting 32 minutes together. They went to the boards and we didn't.

We want to continue the effort and the energy that we're playing with. I'd like to see some consistency with this kind of effort because we're playing better.

We were a little sluggish tonight. We didn't have the legs we wanted to, but we had the character to find a way to get the two points.

We'll take it any time. We haven't had a big win in terms of points like this all year.

We have found 10 guys that want to play together and because of it we are turning things around. Cote Bona had a great floor game for us. He had eight assists and nine rebounds.

We had some students with offers in the fall who are shopping around. That's a great position to be in when you're 22-years old.

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We kind of modeled it after Holland & Holland in New York, and the Beretta galleries in New York, and another place we like in New Hampshire. We took components from each of them and kind of crafted our own gallery/gun shop/museum.

The puck was right there on the goal line and I just tried to bat it out of there with my hand, and I guess that's illegal.

We identified the fact that Louisiana citizens would be facing a night on the streets, and that is not acceptable.

We're going so into computers and technology today that I think we're losing the human touch on a lot of things. And as far as I'm concerned, police work still requires the human touch. You still have to be one-on-one with people. I'm going to continue to try to maintain our one-on-one, person-to-person thing with our dispatcher. If you call our police department 24 hours a day, you still get a human being. I'm a firm believer that every dark cloud has a silver lining, even if you just learn a little bit along the way from it. And if that brings morale up, then I'm glad it did. I'm sure glad I was given the opportunity.

We're very concerned about the possible damage to New Orleans and to the entire southern region.

We could still be OK if things start to dry up soon. But the length of this rainy season is definitely disrupting some planting.

As the field stands, viewing pathology as anything other than pathogenic is controversial. Saying it is protective is heretical.

Could it be 'cosmic karma' that 20-plus soldiers from Ohio have just now been killed? Could it be the same 'cosmic karma' that has punished Florida with unprecedented hurricanes since they rigged the first Bush election?

I see our students immensely involved as undergraduates. They are taking overloads of classes, double majors, and then they are very involved in extracurricular life. A lot of them are coming out and they are just kind of worn out.

I've worked with police departments both with the narcotics enforcement team and with the S.W.A.T. team all around the county, and I've gotten to see how other police departments operate. You pick little ideas up here and there. It helps you manage certain situations and it makes you aware of the resources that are out there and the things that you can do.

It was the technology, and NASA was the attraction. The reason NASA the technology were here, if you want to go one step further, it was due to Wernher von Braun.

Pretty much all year, we've been given the green light to be offensive if it's there, that's why we've been able to get the odd goal here and there. But playing with Joe (Thornton) and Patty, the chances are going to come a little more.

That's not stopping people from being involved in elective termination.

The weather was beautiful and we had some great golf.

They were in this case to try and get help for the situation they face. It leaves the parents in the position of having nowhere to go for help.

They've all been tight games all year long. I think they're going to be tight for the rest of the series. We've just got to find a way to win those one-goal games.

A lot of people ask, why did you pick my name? It's a lot of fun. They're always in a good mood when they stop. Obviously, they should be.

It's a disappointment. It's been a Pan Am sport since 1979 and Canada was gold in every quadrennial.

I tried to knock it out of there with my hand. I guess that was illegal. I'll take responsibility for that. It should never have been in front of the net in the first place.

It's great to see Nick and Rod return home to support this tournament after achieving such outstanding results this year.

It's personal to me. That's one reason I do it.

It sounds like they've got a captive audience; they're not going to lose any money. What's wrong with that?

That's something we would hope for, but something that probably is not going to be practical. That's a lot of housing to come up with in a month.

Oh they're just stealing them to cash it in for dope money or whatever ... all it is is young kids, they don't have anything better to do but steal from people.

It was a great win for our program. The kids deserve a lot of credit for that.

They better go up and count again. I can find 25 real quick.

They defended us well, obviously. I thought we had a few shots that were good shots that didn't go in and they were primed and ready to go in the third quarter.

They work the dinners and picnics for the local parties, put money into various state legislative campaigns and build grassroots support that way.

Apart from a couple of stoppages with Christian's car, this has been another productive day.

I haven't slept for the last couple of days because it's been really tough on me. It's tough to leave the teammates. It's like a family, and we've been doing well lately, and it was a really hard decision for me.

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

Clear Lake is ranked as one of the Top 3 best places for a boat community. Most people have two- and three-car garages, but here they will also have a two- or three-slip marina for their boats.

Before the gas crunch really hit two or three years ago, we would probably sell maybe eight scooters a year,

He's our captain, and it just goes to show that he's been doing it and we've been following him all season long. The bigger the game, the bigger he is as a player.

I felt sick to my stomach actually. It kinda makes you feel awful bad that to think somebody could actually do it. To drive it off the wharf.

I called my wife and had her bring my pistol down, then I backed up to where they couldn't get out.

This is a lot better than playing out in the streets. It's structured, but they get the freedom.