John Thompson Time Quotations

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

When you get into teaching, not being what you studied in college the first time around, unless you drop what you're doing and go back to school full-time, it's kinda hard to get into.

Except for a couple of possessions, we played well at West Virginia. It was a tough loss, but we don?t have the time to regroup. We have to just move on.

No set time limit is in place since the actual decision to build isn't in place.

It was beautiful, because it was the first time everyone got together to discuss the situation. I'll be honest, we really didn't have any answers. There were some things we discussed, but I don't know what the solution is.

It was supposed to be such a big moment for integration, but that's all just BS. The game was in College Park, Md., and I was here at the time and nobody was talking about it as a big deal. Sure, in the Black community, we quietly said, 'Good,' but nobody was running around saying how great it was.

Any time you add additional duties, teachers expect to be paid, which is reasonable. But with pension and health care costs going through the roof, we can't afford things like higher pay for more work.

At this time a year, you need every game,

In this day and age, you have to understand if you have good players -- and your team has success -- then guys may leave early, ... We haven't gone into it that way, that Jeff's not going to be here, but at the same time you have to plan accordingly.