Mike Mason Quotations

There is no nuclear- or radiation-monitoring program targeting mosques or other places of gathering by Muslim or any other particular group of citizens.

We've got four excellent receivers and two or three others behind them that are probably as good as many starters on some other teams. I've never had a receiving core this good. This is an outstanding core, one of the best groups of athletes I've ever had.

There are people out there who, when they took their desks, assumed they could remain in their position as long as they performed well in that position. That is no longer the case.

He (Hall) was trying to catch a punt and he sort of bumped into me. I said, 'There ain't no bumping here' and that, 'We've got something for you on the field.'

There is a strength in the system because it is not dependent on revenue from farmers to have money to lend to farmers. There's plenty of capital for new ventures.

I think this is what I've been building for,

Our linebackers are strong, just terrific. Martin is one of the best middle linebackers around. He has a smell for the ball, reads offenses real well and is extremely fast.

I was behind my guy, and he had inside coverage. So I didn't see the ball.

We came out in the second half and didn't score on that field goal. That changed the momentum. Then they were able to keep the ball the whole third quarter.

Wheeler is 5-11, 230 and just a monster. There will be very few people that can stop him.

We're not going to go on a wild goose chase.

We welcome that. Then it opens things up for our other talented receivers.

Both of them have been in the system for awhile, they run crisp routs and know how to adjust to the defense. Both have great hands and have height. Brown is only 5-11 or 6-foot, but he has a great vertical leap. He jumped over two players at a scrimmage and just took the ball from them. And, they know what to do with the ball when they get it.

I still don't think that we've played up to our potential. The last couple games, we've given up way too many points defensively.

You should know exactly what you want in order to negotiate the cost.

They put a lot of pressure on us from the outside and he started to bail out. They prepared well for us.

There's a huge need down there, and I think everybody realizes that.

They really have a great time and it is one of the outstanding programs on campus.

I took a gamble on the fake, but we were trying to get something going.

Once he started getting comfortable in the pocket, everything started working well for him - and us.

The key this year is, they won't be able to key on any particular person. They can't. Last year, if they stopped Cody, we had some problems, but they can't do it this year.

I have noticed that with the people who used to come in and get their hair colored to stay young that it now seems to be more accepted in the workspace that if you've got a little gray hair you've got a little more gray matter as well and I think that's quite true.

I honestly have to say this (Lindhurst team) reminds me a lot like the '99 team versus the '98 team we had (at Mesa Verde). The '98 team was good, but the '99 team was almost unstoppable. That's the difference and that's how I compare these two.

I think nowadays people accept people for what they are. I think it's quite nice to have a bit of gray. It goes back to the old idea of being slightly distinguished.

He's very quick, makes excellent fakes, and is just as scary if he runs the ball as he is throwing the ball. He can be on the run and still make a perfect pass.

I can walk away from this and be OK with it. The sun is going to come up tomorrow, and government is going to keep on running. And my life will go on, and hopefully, get a lot better as I move into obscurity.

He's more of a slashing runner. But he's as good if not better than Cody. We did not lose a step with Aaron in there.

come up with the cash to run against him.

How tragic that the very thing that could set us free-playing the fool-is the thing we will not do. When we're afraid to be fools, we end up being afraid to be anything.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

Love is an earthquake that relocates the center of the universe.

Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church; take away all opportunity for service; take away assurance of salvation; take away the peace and joy of the Holy Spirit... Yes! Take it all, all, far, far away. And what is left? Tragically, for many believers there would be nothing left. For does our faith really go that deep? Or do we, in the final analysis, have a cross-less Christianity?

True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.

It is easier to diminish God than it is to enlarge one's heart.

So the best marriages and the deepest relationships with God grow out of the startling discovery that there is nothing one can do to earn love, and even more startling, that there is also nothing one can do to unlearn it, or to keep oneself from being loved. This is a religious awakening that is utterly different from any other religious experience, no matter how profoundly spiritual it may seem.

To keep a vow, means not to keep from breaking it, but rather to devote the rest of one's life to discovering what the vow means, and to be willing to change and to grow accordingly.

The very fact that faith looks to a power beyond itself means that it is continually subject to loss of control. So if you're looking to get control of all your problems, forget Christianity. If you're looking for success, happiness, or freedom from pain, forget Christ. The way of Christ is the cross, and the cross spells weakness, poverty, failure, death.

Real love is always fated. It has been arranged before time. It is the most meticulously prepared of coincidences. And fate, of course, is simply a secular term for the will of God, and coincidence for His grace.

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.