Miner Quotations

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

Miner pitched well, and the guys in the bullpen have thrown strikes and gone after guys. They're making some pitches when they have to. I'm really feeling good right now about the way the bullpen has pitched in these first two games.

Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfathers were miners.

This was a good way to make a living until we could find something different. It's just a way of life. Unless you're a coal miner or you have a college degree, you don't make any money.

Unless you're a coal miner or you have a .college degree, you don't make any money.

We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two consecutive years.

You can mine 4 tons of coal in a couple of minutes. It's cheaper to exceed the dust limits, expose a miner to black lung and pay the fine than it is to do the right thing.

We want to ensure that every miner has the equipment and training to get out.

We want to ensure every miner has the equipment and training to safely evacuate.

Every game is still important. It's always tough on the road. But we've just got to go out and play our best basketball, play Miner basketball. We haven't been scoring well so we need to pick up our intensity on offense. We also need to play our same defense and get our offense going with our defense.

It would inhibit the miner from being able to speak freely.

They see tomorrow, they don't see the future. They don't think they're getting their money's worth ... if a guy can't operate a continuous miner or a roof-bolting machine tomorrow.

The miner that survived thus far is younger than everyone else, and his body might be more resistant to that oxygen deprivation if it did occur.

If you have a foreman who is not doing pre-shift examinations properly, you should discharge that person, because every miner working there is relying on that person.

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

The more government takes in taxes, the less incentive people have to work. What coal miner or assembly-line worker jumps at the offer of overtime when he knows Uncle Sam is going to take 60 percent or more of his extra pay?