Seniors Quotations | Page 3

I would only hope the we would have enough seniors wanting to use it that we need additional days or to add another bus. I'd like to see the citizens take advantage of it.

I was pleased with the team's performance this year and very proud, and wish the seniors well in their future.

If we find that instead of a legitimate sales seminar and a free meal, seniors are being exposed to pitches for unsuitable products, with high-pressure sales tactics and wild claims about projected returns, and no disclosure of the actual risks of the investment, we'll move in hard and fast.

If we play like we did today, we could have won the last two games. This was the first time that the seniors stepped up and never gave up.

If we have seniors like this and I'm yelling and screaming at halftime, we're in a lot of trouble. They've got to take responsibility and they did.

I have great group of four seniors who have made it easy for me to implement what we want to do. Hopefully, (their attitude) has filtered down into the junior and sophomore classes. Every day they bring it in practice and that only makes my job easier.

I'd like to give the seniors another opportunity to prove that we're better than we performed tonight.

I'd love to see a seniors event at U.S. Open in singles, not just hit-and-giggle doubles.

I don't care about all that stuff. I don't believe in voodoo or jinxes or the curse of the Bambino. Quite frankly, Ball State has outplayed us. Our mental attitude has not been quite right and they've played hard. We need to make sure we're emotionally ready. We called on our seniors this week to make sure our preparation is done right and that we execute and play with emotion in the game.

I am concerned, frankly, about the size and last-minute nature of this year's congressional spending spree, where they seem to be loading up the spending bills with special projects for special interests, but can't seem to find the time to raise the minimum wage, or pass a patients' bill of rights, or drug benefits for our seniors through Medicare, or tax cuts for long-term care, child care, or college education,

I am disappointed but not discouraged. I wish the seniors could go one game further. You always want another game, but only one team in our Division won't end with a loss. This group created a whole bunch of memories and that is what high school athletics are all about.

I am extremely disappointed for our seniors that weren't able to get this game and extend their season. Our kids competed hard and played hard, but playing hard doesn't get you what you want. And what we wanted was a win.

I believe that the senior citizens of today have been overlooked as sources of strength, stability and vitality in our communities. And by too often discounting the value of seniors and the wisdom they offer, programs have been developed to assist seniors that do not truly address their very real needs and desires.

I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold.

I am real happy with where we are. These seniors are winners. There was a lot of pressure on this team to get back to the championship game.

I am so proud of our girls. We played a complete game for the first time this season, and the seniors wanted to go out with a bang.

Carling and Dana will add a lot to our team. Dana has more experience then Carling but they're both good players. I think we're going to be leaning on them as well as our seniors for leadership this year.

(Career Services) has about 20 to 30 percent of seniors who wait till the last minute (for help). Half of them are well prepared and half are not.

Bryce and Chris are among the seven seniors that are pretty special to me because I coached them two years with the high school and two years with Bantams. So it was hard to see Bryce and Chris in street clothes for the playoffs.

But give Advance credit. They have a good basketball team out there they have a lot of seniors and a lot of leadership. They held their poise out there and they did the things they needed to to win the game.

But after that game, I knew it was up to the seniors to make sure no one was looking past New Mexico State - especially with the type of team Miami has been the last few years. I know that everyone on our team is very excited to get this opportunity to play them at their place.

Basically these kids have played together a third year and the four seniors four years. This is third year Scott was part of the group. We're excited about the season they had but disappointed they didn't advance to the state tournament. They were successful in almost everything they did except that. I think they will be more focused then ever to accomplish that goal.

Because we had the nucleus of our team win that tournament two years ago -- the juniors and seniors right now were freshmen and sophomores -- I worry about that being more of a negative than a positive. These kids have recognized that they've already done that.

Because seniors have the differences with metabolism changing, bone density, decreasing muscle tone, these (informative talks) are all different things that center around keeping the bones and muscles healthy.

Because of those three seniors last year, the climate, the atmosphere around here has really changed. We have a chance to contend for league championships for the next several years.

I have a group of seniors who played for a regional title last year and won 20 games and they know what to do.

I have a lot of confidence in our seniors right now, ... The two seniors I've been around for a long time. So I know what they're capable of doing.

I have a lot of seniors and I'm very happy that, in their senior year, they were able to pull out a victory. That really means a lot to them.

I had a step on their goalie because he was trying to make a save. We?re excited to be playing at home. Our seniors wanted to play a couple more games here.

I have addressed the seniors ... I am here to work with them to provide their best year. I give the students support for many activities unless of course they are dangerous or create health-related issues. This year we may change some processes, but the changes will be gradual.

I hate to say to the seniors that we're rebuilding. But we are.

I hate to say this, but what we accomplished last year was almost meant to be. Those seniors had to go through so much, helping us build this program. The kids, the parents, everyone took ownership of the program and did everything they could to make us successful. We had a relationship with those seniors that is very rare.

If I had to say the one reason I think we will be all right it would be our experience. We have some great seniors that will provide the type of leadership we need to succeed.

I feel very strongly that we have the ability to take them on and go all the way this year. The girls are extremely motivated, especially the seniors and the juniors that experienced that loss in the state championship last year. That gives them an edge.

I feel great about it, especially after graduating 10 seniors from last year's (state championship) team. We have a young team and it is an honor to win the section.

I feel good about our team this year. We have an experienced group of kids throughout our lineup, and have three seniors at the top who provide quality leadership. Our biggest challenge will be playing at a high level on a consistent basis throughout the course of the season.

I feel pretty good if we just go play hard and compete. They're beatable. But we'll need some players to step up. Our seniors will have to lead us.

I feel like we played our best defense (against Cal). It?s something we have worked on and it?s more a matter of being unified. We have good skill players 1-on-1 and we have to play together. I was please with the way the seniors led the way with a lot of resolve.

I can't say enough about the way we played tonight. I am very, very proud of our guys. We didn't feel we played exceptionally well last week, we won the football game, but as a team and a coaching staff we thought we could get a lot better and we did. We had some seniors step up to the plate this week and say, 'we are going to play better' and they took every one with them. That's what it takes.

I can't remember the last time that we didn't have an All-Conference player returning. We've also lost the middle of our lineup. But the good news is that our defense will be solid. We have some returning seniors to provide leadership and we have good freshman players who will push the regulars for playing time.

If only 20 percent or even 30 percent of seniors sign up, that is every negative for the future of the program because the people most likely to sign up are the people with high drug expenses, and you don't have insurance if you don't spread the risk among people who are healthy.

Grove City is good. It will be a battle. They match up with us relatively well. They graduated a lot of seniors last year, but it will be a good match.

Give my kids an A for effort. We could have rolled over and quit there in the second half. We battled back well, but couldn't get the three (-pointers) to fall. It is heartbreaking for our seniors to lose this way.

For seniors on a fixed income, this rate increase is just more than they can bear.

I don't think a lot of people expected us to have the kind of season we've had. For this young group to grow up as quickly as they have says a lot for them as well as the seniors and juniors who have helped pull them along all season.

I don't think we shot well (38.7 percent), but I think we played well and yet it took us 30 minutes to shake them, maybe 35 minutes to shake them. That's just by their tenacity and how hard they played. Providence has a young team. The three guys who I think played really well for us happened to be seniors and that makes a difference in college basketball.

I don't think we're that young. We have strong leadership from seniors like Jen Gardner and Katie Dean, and some of the freshmen are contributing already. We have a nice mix of youth and veterans.

I don't want those seniors to get left out.

I expect these four seniors will do a very fine job of leading the team back to the state tournament, and a strong finish once we get there. But we have some talented sophomores, and it's common for one of four guys to have an off day. What we're looking for now is to see who will be that 'fifth' ? the guy who can fill in and take up the slack at that fourth spot.

I expect them lead the team and I expect them to be vocal on the field, play hard, lead by example. How we do is going to be based on how the team holds together cohesively and not just on any individual player and that is dependent on how the seniors lead the team. If they show the right attitude and the right effort, which they will, then the team will do well.

I expected more people to try out, but I think since seniors couldn't play, it lowered the number.

I don't think it's right. Seniors enjoy themselves here instead of staying home and dying.

For us, this was our Super Bowl. And we had a lot of fun out there. The seniors will never forget this.

For us this means a lot, because we have some seniors who have never beaten this team the whole time they were here. We were doing it for them and for ourselves so we could say that Manatee will do it again.

For the seniors it's a tough farewell. They were looking to go a bit further. But they've got nothing to be ashamed of. They came ready to play and played hard. It's not what we wanted, but we had a great season. We have a lot to be proud of, but we also know we could have been there in Glens Falls just as easily.

For the seniors I know this win meant a lot. But we still have more we want to accomplish. We wrestle Fortuna on Tuesday and judging by their performances in prior tournaments it's going to come down to a few swing matches just like tonight.

For more than 20 years we have known that black Americans receive a different level of care than whites. Despite concerted efforts to address these disparities, this study shows that black seniors continue to receive fewer surgical procedures than whites. On a fundamental level, these differences in care are not acceptable.

I give their guy credit. If you can't hit, you don't deserve to be here. I've got a bunch of seniors who are playing their last game, and they've done it three years in a row. I tell you I'd rather lose by 10 than get beat by one three years in a row.

He has a done a great job. They're getting great leadership from their seniors Copeland and Whitney. They've really turned things around. They have great direction and great cohesiveness.

He had a pretty impressive day. He is seeing the ball well and really drove it today. He is one of the seniors on the team that we look for good things from.

(Hedges) did a great job. That?s what we need, especially from the seniors that have the experience.

Greg played a great game. Our seniors have done a great job this year.

We've been thinking about it all season. I think all five of the seniors will make the state tournament. I'm almost positive. We all worked really hard together, and we practiced hard. I'm confident.

We just have to get another streak going. We also need to have a great crowd to come out and say goodbye to our seniors on Wednesday. That's a very important night.

We're pretty young, but we had a good year. I was pleased with the effort our young guys put forward. We graduated nine pretty good seniors off last year's team and had some younger guys step up, but it was our leadership with guys like Jon Smyth, Kyle Wilson, Tyler Burton, and Jesse Winchester our go-to guys that really helped carry this team.

We're pretty happy with that. We've gotten a couple of seniors back in Conte and Stover. They've only wrestled about 10 matches each.

We're on spring break and are missing a couple of seniors because of that. It took us a while to get used to playing without them, and it always seems a little tougher to play when you're not in school that day. ... It definitely took us some time to get going this afternoon.

What I saw started three years ago, when I coached the varsity and the junior varsity. I have eight seniors and they know my system inside and out. They know what I want and they know how to work for it.

With Medicare premiums having increased by over 50 percent in the past three years, do we really want hundreds of thousands of seniors no longer able to afford to see their doctors?

We suggested they only count kids who started as a freshman at the school and stayed until they were seniors to graduate.

We think by the time the senior citizen population learns about this bill, the fact that there is no cost containment and the $300 billion that the seniors will receive over the next ten years will actually probably be dissipated in higher drug costs, and the fact that ultimately this will lead to the privatization of Medicare will undoubtedly create a situation where seniors will be very unhappy.

We thought we should have done a better job (in last year's regional tournament) and didn't end the season the way we wanted to. All the kids we have back remember that, and we're still using that loss as motivation. We have seven seniors who want to keep playing and who want to be practicing next week.

What you saw tonight was the result of some seniors determined to go out competing at the highest level.

What you have to try to do is put yourself in as good a position as you can put yourself into. Probably, we didn't get into a real good position this year with some of the things that happened. Hopefully, the younger guys on the team benefit from that and the seniors get a little different resolve as they leave.

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

What we had trouble with in the first half was the little things. What we did in the second half was the little things. Credit the seniors and their experience. We are firm believers that when we go on a run, that it will be greater than the other team's run.

(Hawley) has a great ball club. They started four seniors and they're rated third in the section. We came out and played hard and we stayed as close as we could with them. I thought our girls put in a good effort.

He's a great football player and I hate to see these seniors who have worked so hard get hurt.

He's a senior -- you expect your seniors to rise to the occasion when asked to do something. That's the job of the seniors and he came through for us.

HMOs and insurers pumping up their coffers at the detriment to seniors is a blight on the Medicare prescription drug benefit and is the last straw of their looting and pillaging of health care.

He's been with me three years, through all the championships. He doesn't know what losing means because we win all of them that he plays. So it means a lot to all the seniors over here.

Under current Medicaid, if (recipients) need any more care than a couple of home visits, there's nothing between that and an institution. And the whole purpose of this reform is to give Florida's seniors the choices that I think everyone realizes they want.

We may be open limited hours, we're open because of the community. We have a number of people that are calling us and supporting us, we have a number of people that are saying thank you for being open, seniors included. We're here to help the community in the best way we can.

We look for our seniors to be leaders.

We lost three seniors from last year. Two seniors this year decided not to play and we lost a transfer. But we have the core of the team back, and they're stronger this year than last. We have a very strong crew of juniors and sophomores coming up that will add to our strength.

We lost three seniors from last year's squad and we've got a good nucleus back.

We lost three seniors and we'll miss them. We have new guys who can step in and take over where the old guys left off.

We lost three seniors and have some big shoes to fill.

We lost six seniors from last year's team that won 20 games, and that hurt us in the early part of the season. We played our hearts out, but we came out on the short end.

We made sure we sent our seniors off with a win. It was real important to win it for them. Some of them might pursue their careers in the NFL. Some of them might not. We just wanted to get them a memory before they left the Orange Bowl.

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He was our main man. Coming into the season, he knew and all the guys knew. Everyone around knew it also. I got rid of nine seniors last year. Coming in, he was the guy.

He was fiercely loyal to Bill, just as he was to Joe Moore after he came in the following year, ... We only had seven or eight seniors on the team our senior year, but we played good defense and played that tough brand of football that Joe liked. When I listen to Kirk speak, I still hear a lot of the words and phrases that Joe used to tell us.

He was electrifying to me. He's exciting. He excites people around him, and he tried to get people excited around him. That's what you try to get your seniors to do. Some of them do it, but they do it in a quieter way. But this guy, he can't hold back.

He was guarded, he pulled it, and the senior made a big shot. That's what seniors do this time of year.

I addressed the team after the game and told the sophomores that this experience was something that you can't replace. I told the seniors they laid great groundwork, and we're really going to miss Jason Square. Our future's bright.

He is so knowledgeable about issues relating to seniors and about poverty issues. He is going to have the best insight on vulnerable populations in the state.

He knows where those are going, and drops them right in there. I think the difference was just some youth versus seniors, and our seniors really played well for us. Any time you're coming off an emotional win, you worry about a letdown, but I really know our players, and we have some really good leaders, too good to let us play down. There's too much on the line at this point of the season.

(Hansen) has made some crucial plays for us. That's what seniors do. He picked it up.

Harkin's good with organized labor, teachers, seniors and environmentalists. And when he endorses, he doesn't just endorse, he actively works for you.