Mike Keen Quotations

Through his diligent teaching, we will reap what he sowed for many years to come.

We need people walking through the streets, not above the streets and living downtown where they work, and where they work and where they shop. We (can) bring all of those elements together.

Through this business he brought what he taught in the classroom out into real life with many of the young people who passed through his door.

I'm going to do my very best to keep it together.

I learned my first life lessons about how to treat a wife and family from Johnnie. When he would leave his house on Colonial Court, he would always give his wife (Margaret) a hug and a kiss, and he'd slap both boys (Matt and John) over the head to assure them he loved them.

If you let one of those thousand-pound buggers get a clean shot at the door, you don't get them stopped in a step or two.

In the classroom, he developed true relationships with those kids.