Tony Clark Quotations

We want to redo the whole fence to make it more secure to protect her from the crazies out there.

We have a routine we go through, ... and without question, there's a comfort level there.

Shocked. Shocked more than anything else. We had heard when we were coming off the field that he had the stroke. Which you always just think -- especially with someone as strong as Kirby was -- that he was still going to be OK. So when we got the word yesterday that he had passed, it was a shock. It was a shock.

Simplifying rates, making folks who are in similar circumstances pay similar amounts, and doing it in such a way that it seems to be fair to both business and residential customers ... gives me assurance that it's the right thing to do.

my job is not to send a message.

One at a time, ... Let's not put any more merit in it other than we won two days ago, we won yesterday and we were fortunate to win today. We're going to have our hands full again tomorrow.

Oddly enough, there hasn't been a lot of commentary one way or the other about Barry among us. I don't know if that means the guys are indifferent or just tired of it all. In general, I just think everyone is going to be very relieved when the page is turned.

When he's passionate about something, he's going to fight for it.

That would be funny. That would be interesting,

We've got some new faces and it might lend itself to a different brand of baseball. But until we get a chance to see it on a regular basis, we're not sure what we've got.

We are not doing anything specific. A doctor moving here would have to go through the normal licensing process.

We're to the point where a lot of decisions have to be made, ... one way or the other.

You are never going to stop weather events like this from happening. From a public policy perspective, really what I care about is that utility companies have a plan in place to deal with it.

The Orlando parks and Six Flags have raised their prices. At a time when families are low on cash, we have them come here and not spend a ton of money as they would going to a vacation farther away.

What's been disturbing to me, over the last few years (the price) has been high and consistently high, ... There hasn't been a low to offset the high.

Because I know I'm not that good, ... I know I'm not. No matter how well I swing, I don't think I'll ever be as good as I think I should be. So my commitment is to the journey, not the end result.

There's still work that needs to be done. You want to throw in the towel? Then go home and we'll get somebody else that's willing to work, but I refuse to believe the guys in the clubhouse are going to do so.

Telephone customers in Devils Lake will see more competition sooner, rather than later.

The older you get, the harder you have to work. So be it. If it means getting up early, you go to bed early.

You take the time to take an interest in someone else. It's an opportunity to tell him I'm on his team. He's not fighting against me or anyone else.

It's a bit of a headache, but we know it's got to happen. Capitol fires certainly aren't unheard of in North Dakota.

It just gives him another weapon. If they look the same coming out of his hand, hitters are going to be in trouble.

It's better than last year because last year we didn't get started till this weekend.

It was prime property. It just wasn't hers.

Once the bases were loaded, you simply try to pick out a pitch, something up that you can get into the outfield to try to get a run across, but nothing more than that. He was throwing the ball too well to try to do anything else. I was fortunate to work the count well enough to get a walk.

I'm concerned less about myself and more about others. My concern is about him being the best big-leaguer he could be.

I have to plead the fifth on that one. Technically, I never saw the ball after it went over the fence.

You can see pretty graphically the need for probably some updating of lines in Minnesota. It's a regional issue, so to the extent any of our companies are investing, we're going to be asked to chip in for it.

What we project, we get back.

To simplify things down to their real essence, whenever things go wrong in our lives, whenever our plans go awry and the things we took for granted suddenly disappear, we have a very simple choice. We can either succumb to despair and assume the attitude of the put upon victim, powerless to change our fate, or we can decide to turn the tragedy into an opportunity.

When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance to talk to him every time we came into town. Even my first couple of years - when I was still wet behind the ears - he was more than willing to come over and say, 'Hi.' Obviously, he didn't have to introduce himself, but he spent a little time and asked me how I was doing. And it always meant a lot. Anytime you have somebody of that stature on and off the field to take time and be willing to come talk to you, it means a lot.

Social media reaches farther than we can physically reach with advertising.

But at the end of the day, I refuse to believe there arent more qualified African-Americans, women, people of color in general for a role from the janitor all the way up to the owner of the club. I refuse to believe there arent more out there that can positively affect any of our games or any of our industries.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

On January 27, 2001, the focus of my career and the process of changing the desires of my heart all began. It was no longer about me but rather how I could impact others for the Kingdom. I officially was in the people business. That philosophy, combined with a warrior mentality, I believe, has endeared me to being labeled a positive clubhouse influence.

A life lived at less than its full potential is a life half wasted.

Instead of being a person to whom things happened, I became a person who made things happen.