Bob Beatty Quotations

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

We sure as heck had our chances. I felt like we could coach harder and the older kids could do a better job of playing at game speed. That's what the first game of the year teaches you. It's a hard lesson.

It is pretty bizarre to see that many girls from the same class choose to go to the same college, ... especially when you consider the size of the school and the (high) academic standards. I think all of the girls will be happy with the choice. It looks like a great school. We're very happy Sam got in there.

I think too often we sit back and wonder whatever happens to those cases we hear about in the paper, and really those cases aren't going anywhere because of the backup. Right now we are all losing on this, so I whole-heartedly support a third court.

I was very flattered ... but as long as the Trinity community will have me, I'll consider this my home.

Manual has a tremendous amount of speed, and we have a great deal of respect for that. We're looking forward to the challenge.

We opened the tournament to teams in recreational and pickup leagues and raised the age from 19 to 23, so we could keep competitive junior players out of the tournament.

Those other states are not as easy to caricature. They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.

Those other states are not as easy to caricature, ... They pick Kansas to represent the bumpkin.

Teams come back year after year because we hold it at the same time of the year. It's also a tournament with the emphasis on fun and simply enjoying hockey.

It's certainly a good indication that this race may be more interesting than anybody thought.

They were a better football team than we were in every phase of the game tonight. I don't know what else to tell you. Competition is very simple: You either get better or you get worse. We don't have a choice. We will get better. We'll get back to work tomorrow, and the young kids filling in for injuries will get better. We're undefeated in the district, and we just have to move on.

It's no good for us to have a tournament earlier in the year and Barrie couldn't accommodate us, so in 2005, we went to Alcona. But we need a two ice surfaces to run the tournament, so we decided to talk to the staff in Midland and see what they could come up with.