H. Hart Everybody Quotations

You would think by now everybody in the area would know about the festival but I run into people sometimes even in the neighborhood who aren't aware of it and yet we have people who come from almost all of the surrounding counties and even out of state.

It's nice staying in your own bed, that's for sure, and it's nice having family and friends come out and watch you. But I think, if anything, it can be more of a distraction than anything, with trying to make sure everybody has tickets and things like that. It can be a little hectic.

The Bushes in office now have asked that everybody respect the privacy of their twin girls. We're laying back because they asked for that.

Everybody had a feeling. It just wasn't there. ..We put it to pasture, righteously as it should be.

At first, I had to talk my wife into having this at the farm. I think now everybody looks forward to it. We're a lot more relaxed now about the festival. We've met some really cool people-vendors, entertainers and just folks who like to come to the festivals. A lot of people have been here since the beginning. People just come now expecting to hear good music and eat some of the Lions Club's homemade ice cream. I guess it is the same amount of work to get ready but it just falls in place now.

We'll make it be known that it's time to focus and pay attention to details. Alan usually says something in the huddle and makes sure everybody understands what we need to do. When you hear things from a five-time Pro Bowler like Alan, you listen.

Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.

Nobody has the perfect locker room. Everybody has their problems. The difference is that good teams take care of their own problems before they get out of control.

The profile has to change. We can't spin our wheels with resources potentially not being maximized and people's time not being maximized. ... Everybody is looking at that, and we're no exception.

Johnny Carson, when he and Joanna split after many years of marriage, everybody had it on news. That's big news when big stars have a problem.

We have to go out there and prove ourselves to where they can't say we're not a top-five team. You don't want everybody out there saying, 'Oh, you're the No. 1 team.' We want to come out and prove to ourselves that we can be a top team.