Dave Cook Quotations

Bad people drink bad beer. You almost never see an empty bottle of Rochefort tossed onto the side of the road.

He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world...

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie about what had happened. To my addled brain, this was plausible. Then I came to my senses and woke Eric up and told him that either he had to retreat or I'd throw him off. We went down and I never climbed again for a quarter of a century.

Both of those guys have a lot of confidence. And we as a team have a lot of confidence in them. They were missing early but I tell them all the time a shooter's job is to shoot. Luckily, they warmed up in the fourth quarter.

Because of the dam, the water was so calm you could paddle up and down. The rest of the river is a one-way river.

We respectfully call on Jill's captors to exercise justice and mercy and let our innocent colleague go free.

It's a topic the gold industry in Nevada takes serious.

I'm already here and I already have my businesses. I can stay here one way or another.

West Virginia was a wake-up call for everyone. We're trying to get employees to realize they're No. 1 for protecting themselves.

It's just a great feeling to be going to the final four.