Chuck D. Last Quotations

We've turned a corner the last two weeks, and we almost did it three weeks ago. But you know what? That doesn't mean anything. There's another opportunity this week. There's another challenge this week, and it's a very big one.

Last year's team was probably the first team I had that really played together as a complete team and believed that they were never out of a game.

He had quite a lot of catches last year. We put him out there in a spread (formation) and had him run routes. I think he's got some good hands and he's got some speed.

He was reluctant, obviously, at first. ... He has made a great sacrifice. That was a team thing that Dwayne did, because Dwayne played a lot of football in the last three years as a defensive tackle.

I think it's a great accomplishment for these guys. To match what last year's team did is a hard thing to do. I don't care what league you are in.

I think this is ridiculous. It's their responsibility. Last month they told us if we called immediately they would pick up the deer and now they're telling our residents it was only a courtesy.

Last time, the kids didn't practice well. They were looking at their press clippings a little too much. This time, they dug in.

Last season we kind of planned where guys were going to go. Guys followed through by lifting and using proper weight-cutting techniques. All of them have been good seniors this year. It's really been a true team effort.

Last night we passed the most extensive update to the Medicare program since the program's creation in 1965, ... The effort was bipartisan.

Our channel partners are critical to our success and we like to recognize and reward our top performers. Last week, at our annual Partner Summit, I had the privilege of recognizing our top channel partner performers for 2005. I would like to congratulate Nexus IS on an award-winning year.

Our plan was to develop some physical toughness. The last three years, we've really had that, and we decided that we needed to start that today.

We came out ready to play and played a solid game. We had better defensive pressure and shot the ball a lot better than in our last meeting.

The delta smelt last year was the lowest we'd ever seen, so this year is definitely the lowest.

We've been saying for the last month that it's our intention to be aggressive in this space. This is a fast-growing segment, and we've said we're going to compete across the board.

We saw last year, when he was a sophomore, that Beau had ability.

We had something to prove from last year. The best word to describe this team is perseverance.

We flashed last year at being athletic with big-play potential, but the youth showed itself, too. We were like riding a roller coaster, and that's the thing that drives a coach crazier than anything else. We were up-and-down, up-and-down.

We were on such a steep upslope last year that it would be hard to maintain that kind of growth this year. But still, we're coming off that strong year and still having these huge gains.

At that time, they voiced no negative displeasure. Obviously that changed between that last series and Monday.

Esko was really tough. They really ran the ball so well. I was afraid for a while they'd worn our players out... We had to hang on there in the last 18 minutes.

The consensus is that we don't want to do it; we don't want to leave Pueblo. We've had record attendance in Pueblo the last two years. But enough people have real concerns about the hotel industry down there, so much so that they said we should start looking elsewhere.

The kids are bouncing back. They left everything on the field the last two weeks, and they'll keep coming back.

All of the public works directors sat down with me last week and we talked about sand bag inventory, preparation, debris flow, all those kinds of things .