Mike Shirley Quotations

We let them do stuff that kids typically do at a playground -- push ups, pull ups -- they're basically playing on monkey bars. We're not trying to put them in a squat rack and have them squat 200 pounds.

Kids don't go out and play like they used to. When I was a kid, I would come home from school and go outside and do God knows what till the sun came down and dinner was ready. For some reason or another, that really doesn't happen anymore.

We were rocking along just fine, paying off a million bucks worth of debt a year and servicing the debt. But if you don't have the cash flow, it's tough to do that.

We've got about $5.7 million in lease obligations and long term debt.

The significance of this 5.8 acres that we own, among the 640 acres that we also own, is it does not have to be held open for public use. It can be privately held, privately occupied.