Joe Nickel Quotations

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

I don't know them, ... I wasn't there.

I had one proprietor of a struggling bed and breakfast tell me, 'People want a ghost. I have to pay my bills. I'll give them a ghost'.

Our No. 1 goal is to keep this athletic department from having to consider pay-to-play for 10 to 15 years. Our community cannot afford that.

That was a difficult issue. We were looking to find competition that would help us get better. Our league stepped in and helped us. It's still a learning process.

We were looking to find competition that would help us get better.

You have ignorant people on these shows misleading the public,

Bill did not come tonight because he knew there would be reporters here, and he said he's tired of dealing with the media.

There's no end to these stories being out there, because they sell,

There's never been scientific evidence of ghosts. Science has never authenticated a ghost.

Sooner or later the money (from the Mayo-Walker boom) is going to run out. Our school administration feels that it's important that we take care of not only today's kids, but our future kids, and that's what this is about. And I agree with them.

People survive an accident and say, 'God spared us.' Well, what about the other 136 people who died miserably and in flames? It's a selective use of data and is not only not scientific, it's really anti-scientific. It's superstition.

That turned out to be mistake. We had (too many) people outside trying to get in and (others) outside scalping tickets.

That somebody (a promoter) would fly us to California (for a game) and pay all our expenses and give us that money - and the fact that they were able to sell out court-side seats at $50 apiece.

All I can tell you is he will not be playing today.