Scott Maddox Quotations

Phillip did a great job to keep his composure out there. With the kind of luck he's had this year, he could've lost it, but he didn't. Still it looked like we'd wrapped the game up and put a bow on it for West Davidson. But then the freshman hits a bomb.

Polls right now are meaningless, ... None of us have spent enough money to communicate to the voters.

We're number two in the polls and the number one candidate, Jim Davis, has more money and a better chance of winning if we unite behind him,

we've gone a long way to eliminating a primary, and that's what we need to do to win.

Haven't you ever looked a the trophy case in the hall?

It becomes clear to me that in order for us to compete, we don't need a contested primary,

I thought we responded well to our first conference loss. We knew a fast start was important and the guys did exactly what we needed by jumping them early.

I think a lot has changed since 2000, and it's changed for the worse. The bottom line: We can't let it be close, because if they can cheat, they will.

I think they came in and were ready to play. And we kind of tightened up on the defensive side. We're not hitting, so we know we can't make any mistakes.

Our pitching wasn't that bad. You give up only four runs in a high school game and you should be able to compete.

We were 5-0, but we never thought we'd roll through the league undefeated. Thursday's game (at East Davidson) is just as big as this one.

We dug ourselves a little hole. But we battled back.

Well, Price, that was the school for black kids in Salisbury, when the white students went to Boyden. Hall Gym was their gym.

We just took too many strikes and swung at too many balls. Give Keegan credit. Once, they got three runs, I knew it would be an uphill battle.

East Davidson was good. Lee walked a few, gave up some line drives. He was down. It was like life as we know it was over.

blatant partisanship to use the Elections Division to their advantage.

Florida is wide open, ... With Bob Graham being in the race, virtually every one of the movers and shakers were committed to him. Now that he's out of the race, the race is wide open and the convention will basically be the kickoff for anyone of them who wants to compete here.

The stakes in this election are simply too high ... I have increasingly come to believe we cannot prevail if we are divided.

You don't want to campaign in areas that have been hit by a natural disaster. There's no place in Florida that has been unaffected.

I'm going to do whatever I can to help the Democratic Party,

I'm thinking, 'Is this gonna be the same old, same old?' because we need our 3-4-5 guys to hit. Then he hits that bomb. You could tell it breathed life in the whole team.

I hoped we'd respond this way. I told them that they've got to come out tonight and prove that they still want to win the conference, and they've got to come out and swing the bats.

His ball had so much movement. You just knew someday it might happen for him.

Hopefully, Jeanne will be the last hurricane for a while. It's quite a balancing act, but we're just a handful of days from the election.

How many extra pitches did Phillip have to throw because we didn't make some plays? It's disheartening to play as well as we did at East Rowan (a 4-1 win on Monday) and then turn around and not play with any intensity today. We need to be pushing forward, but we're playing one good game, then taking a step back.

For the good of the Democratic Party, we must put aside our differences and personal ambitions and unite behind one candidate,

The guys hit the ball hard, especially in that first inning. They really ripped it. We haven't batted around like that before.

A great catch. Lane is a streak of lightning.