Mike Long Quotations

The only question was whether she'd be able to play inside at the college level.

The creation of the committees are moving forward and led by competent individuals. This will be seen through.

Oh, we're trying to catch fish. How'd it go? Well, it was a fun trip but it didn't pan out too well. Little high, little muddy.

My job is to recruit athletes, and Nashville makes it very easy to do that. Not because we have the most prize money. Definitely not because we have the easiest course. It's because of the hospitality.

If we get the rains, the water will be stirred up and it will be tough, but without the rains the sight fishing will be great. It's just all about the weather.

If they held an election tomorrow in Ethiopia, they'd have a new prime minister.

He is excited about the challenge and looking forward to it. He's been training very hard. He wanted to run here. He had heard about the course from other Ethiopians who have run here.

I talked to pros like Shaw Grigsby and Roland Martin after John won that year, and they all agreed that it probably was the first time a guy who fished in his first pro tournament ever won over $100,000 at it. I wasn't surprised John won at Mead, though, because he always fishes well there. We always say it's tougher to fish in San Diego tournaments because you end up fishing the clock, people and in such a small area of fish that we're lucky to get our spots. At Mead, unless someone is following you, you get big parts of the lake to yourself.

I think we are going to have a pretty active few months until we start into the summer rain patterns.

You can actually start to see some work done.

We will add a grade each year until that class reaches the 12th grade.

We are in this to make money. It's not a science fair project.

The real money in this sport is in the marathon.

We only have two seniors. One of them was on a school trip today.

We're not looking at the numbers. We're just looking to get established because we believe it will grow. We want to get it started right.

There's fire danger from one end of the state to another.

I've seen some big fish at Dixon. I go up there on my lunch hour and just sit and watch and I've seen several up to 18 or maybe 20 pounds.

Ron is on contract, as I said to the paper a while ago, and he does a lot of different projects for us, but we have assigned nothing to him regarding the Young Conservatives.

Some people who weren't able to run for more than a couple minutes at once have finished a marathon and they did that within a year starting out in this group.

This is not the real Woodstock. They messed up. They messed up the whole name of Woodstock.

This focus on consumer needs is the next step in our evolution.

They are putting a lot more trout in there and this is feeding the bass. The ones I'm seeing now are really big with huge bellies, maybe up to 10 pounds.

It's one of those balancing acts, those judgment calls where you want to provide your constituents with information that may be useful to them, but you try to do that without being criticized as being too political.

The next two months could bring extremely active fire conditions. It is drier than people think it is.

I joke that if Donna doesn't know the answer, there probably isn't one. And that's not far from wrong. Donna's extra special to L.A. Reynolds and to her customers.

I had the fish on a rope at the end of the dock, and I told John to pull the rope up because at the end was a fish we've been fishing for since we were kids, the one we've been dreaming of catching. When he pulled that rope up, he pulled it ever so slowly, like an inch at a time. And there on the end was that 20-pounder, and it no longer was a dream, but something we both could see and touch.

If you're going to play, you might as well play the best. I'd rather jump in the fire right away and go from there.

You can pay once a year, twice a year or monthly.