Brad Jones Quotations

I don't know what to say. They have a good team, and I give them a lot of credit ... I thought we would play better than we did. I thought we would have a little more offense than that.

I feel like I'm finally going to get the opportunity to show what I can do.

He's a great, great player. He just didn't make shots (on Wednesday). They didn't do anything to take him out of his game. Sometimes it just goes like that. He just didn't make shots . but he'll bounce back.

I think we probably had better time drops than anyone else there. Our focus is now for two weeks down the road. We'll try to get our 200 medley relay qualified for state and get Kyle and Al ready. Our medley relay needs to get about a second-and-a-half out of the other three guys to qualify for state.

Our work was awarded based on performance, certainly not political connections. We went through the process with -FEMA, the agency awarding the contracts, and we have always followed the scope of the work and done it to the best of our abilities.

We got the lead, kind of got relaxed and got out of the game plan.

We don't add a huge new tax to an economy that's already struggling.

Without the meet being limited entries, second place in the league is pretty good. It's what we could've expected. Really we thought outright second in the league was where we would end up because we did not anticipate losing to Brandon. We didn't swim like we were supposed to that day but we felt pretty good about coming out front in the Metro Meet.

This should support the dollar. Rate expectations have been the driving force in currency markets this year.

We got out of sync; we got out of our offensive game plan. They (UW-Milwaukee) played good defensive pressure, but it was on us. We turned the ball over ourselves. I think it was more of us trying to move too fast.

We should have started putting more pressure (on their pitchers) in the first six innings. If we would have carried that momentum over from the seventh, that would have been huge.

We went into the season wanting to win the Metro but we knew a big goal was to get our two seniors to state and to get them prepared to do well at state. I was very happy with both of them. It was a real nice showing for both of them.

That shows you what kind of team we can be if we come out and play hard from the get-go. I think we shot 29 percent, we had a lot of turnovers but we still had a chance to win the game at the end. That shows what we can be if we just put a solid game together.

The yen's got some way to run before Japanese officials are going to start to express any concern. This year's sell yen trade is still alive and well.

It's like we've got new guys out there every games. It's tough, because you'd like to have some kind of order in the lineup. But, there are no excuses and each of us has to carry our own load and get through it.

I'm trying to get my timing down. It's feeling a little bit better now.

I don't really feel like I need to fill his shoes in that sense. I feel like he was a very, very great player that left here, but I think our defense will make up for it. I don't think there will be a hitch in our defense at all.

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The franchise tax is probably one of the stupidest taxes that we've ever come up with. It's nothing more than a tax in order to do business in Missouri. It runs counter to every economic development initiative that's been used to try to attract businesses to Missouri.