David Gaines Quotations

I didn't want to let my coach down. I knew I had to step up and be a leader ... it was a fastball on the outside corner and I just went with it. It was a big win for him.

We've had a late start to the West Nile virus season partially because of the unseasonably cool spring.

A lot of horses have become resistant to the virus and the owners have improved their vaccinating habits.

It's stuff you've got to do when you are a soldier. I just hope the next year goes fast.

The airport is a tremendous asset to the community.

This is like a pilgrimage for us every year. If they go to a home-and-home series, it will eventually feel like just a football game.

I want to see how we've progressed and how we'll react to playing against Oak Hill, particularly our guards. It's obviously a daunting task. But we had very little team chemistry when we played them in November. I'm expecting our effort to be much-improved.

If you want to control mosquitoes, you have to hit them where they're breeding. You have to control the larvae.

The disease is no longer a novelty to people, and sometimes owners take it upon themselves to diagnose their horse with West Nile and put him down before ever confirming it, ... It may be a true decline, but the numbers may not be as true as we are seeing.