Jim Gray Quotations

We're still looking for volunteers. The good shifts go fast so those that are interested need to get down here and pick out a time.

We've been hovering right around 70-75 teams the past few years.

We're an energy city. In my lifetime, it doesn't get better than $60 oil and $11 gas.

We have people that do scorekeeping and a challenge line, if one team wants to challenge another team to do something else. There are also runners going all over town to pick up food. There are a lot of opportunities.

If we had a little more snow, it would have been nicer.

Basically we do about nine questions an hour over the air on KVSC.

We're preparing for something a little bit bigger this year.

He certainly has accomplished that. The faculty has been transformed into a much larger and world-class faculty under Doug Breeden.

is a man of very high integrity, high conscience, a strong work ethic and a pragmatic guy.

We have some of these teams that are made up entirely of professors. We have two teams that are made up almost entirely of high school teachers. We had a team that was all police and court workers. It's a time to get together with your friends and that's typically the people that you work with so we have these weird little bunches of people.

We need to enforce the laws that are existing. But I am acknowledging the big influence workers have on our economy.

When a good month is just breaking even, there is no making up for the bad.

Did they pull the plug on us in a way that I just think is despicable? Absolutely.

The team that won last year prides itself on being the last team to register. So they usually register around 4:30 p.m. on the Friday of the competition and they have won the last four or five years that they've been playing.

Some people find it equally as entertaining to come down here and volunteer on this end because you're the person picking up the phone answering. It gets to be kind of frenzied and it's fun.

This is an appointment which is so right, and I just know that Gary will make an outstanding political editor. He's a razor sharp political journalist whose judgement and insights are utterly sure-footed, as demonstrated in his masterful handling of some of the most charged political stories of recent times - for example, our scoops on the Attorney-General's advice on Iraq, the Hutton and Butler Inquiries.

There is the question of safety in doing some of those other things. We have done a few things like that in the past. There have been some team challenges to do things. There's the famous guy running across Lake George, this is like 20 below, running across Lake George with nothing but a jockstrap. That's been done, but as far as the competition it's question based.

They compile it and in August, when we announce the theme, they start looking for some theme-related stuff. So this year there will be some nautical questions and pirate questions.

In December 2004, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma won its battle in Congress to determine our own laws and citizenship, ... It was the end of a long road to independence for our tribe, but the beginning of what we feel is most precious: our sovereignty. I am often asked if gaming has taken over the national debate on Indians in America. But gaming is an extension of our sovereignty, not the other way around and we cannot allow others to frame our issues for us. As Indian people, sovereignty comes first.

I don't want to lose the property rights I have in the county. We have horses and we shoot out here. We didn't necessarily buy the land because it is in the county, but it does have more benefits.