Al Jones Quotations

He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his area.

That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more and not reading as much. Students are getting to the point now that if it's not on the Internet, they don't trust the information.

We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field goal until the last second of the first quarter. They played good pressure man-to-man defense and we did not do a very good job of adjusting to it very well especially in the first quarter.

The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents read, they will set a good example.

We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to do. They do roller coaster stuff where they play good for awhile, then not so good for awhile but they never gave up and that's a credit to them.

Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.

It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.