Bill Smith Quotations

We're going to pay it one way or another. We think paying based on what the actual costs are over a 5 percent difference is a good way to do this. It's not that we're unconcerned; it's just the price of doing business.

We decided to stay an extra day and play a game that we could give some relief to the groups.

We have a pretty big house, so we didn't mind all the company. They had no place to go and we are all family, so we enjoyed each other's company for a while.

Seasonal is the first thing. And then seasonal Southern. The backbone of it is traditional Southern cooking.

Mr. Ross moves in different circles than coal miners. That's been evident since he formed ICG, and it remains evident today.

I am elated. We are starting immediately on the design phase. ... We've got a lot to do ahead of us.

I had to zigzag around trees and power lines ... I had no access to maps, and there were no street signs. It was a little challenging for an out-of-towner.

If it is necessary for us to help share the law enforcement costs, we should be willing to do that.

If the game takes off and we can draw 7,000 people, we?re hoping to leave $100,000 here in the community on our way out of town.

There are still some outages, there's no question, but I think we're making good progress in getting the outages repaired.

I think sometimes we overly rely on (test scores), and we think it is the only indicator of a healthy school system, and it's not.

Most recently, it's above that. We budget a contingency fund to deal with those extraordinary differences.

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It's a silly fool who thinks killing an animal with one tool is different than killing him with another.

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

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When I looked in his eyes, I just kept on walking.

Life's too short for a funeral.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

I would love it, it would be ideal. Everything is right here. Everything is within walking distance. That's ideal. People would love that.

My biggest concern is that we just play the kind of game we have been playing. We've gone 11-0 in the conference and we've played some really tough non-conference opponents. We just want to bring the same level of play that we have all season long.

Most buildings were pretty much gutted out if they were still standing.

When the city has a good budget, we can plant a lot of trees, but when times are tight, you don't plant anymore than you have to.

Whether he didn't see him or doesn't want to say, I don't know.

We'll digest what we talked about and I'll be speaking to Bob again next week. No offer is on the table and no offer has been made, but we think he's a great candidate.

We do what the law directs us to do.

We had to redo the entrance. It went soft for some reason.

We'll have a system that really works. We'll have a system that people enjoy using. There's a lot of votes down here in the three counties.

We are really comparing apples to oranges when we do this. The state tests, they show how much a child learned based on instruction. ... The federal test focuses on a testing achievement using a norm scale.

We are making steady progress as we gain access. Most customers will be restored within 30 days. However, some communities may take longer to rebuild in certain cases depending on when residents and businesses are able to return to these most affected areas and the time it takes to rebuild needed local infrastructure. New Orleans is an atypical situation given the floodwaters and access issues, and because of this, we will track restoration activity in New Orleans separately.

There are a lot of parents wanting to know how this is going to work. It's important for parents to have a good understanding. Our intent is to provide a full educational program during the transitional period.

We got it back, ... I compliment the quick work of everybody on this. ... The good news is it not only came back, it came back intact.

We've got to get people back in the mode of parking here.

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We will probably concentrate more on those people who are on vacation and tailor those offerings to them.

We just never got going. We were missing some shots and they were hitting them.

When costs are being driven into an equation, they have to be recovered somewhere. Why do fundamental business economics not apply to the Internet?

We did a market study, but we did not know somebody else was building another club near us. We just felt it would be better to go ahead and take the losses that we had already invested.

It was a nice chat. We talked about what he was doing now and what his thoughts were about the Renegades.

People get really angry if I take that off the menu now.

Normally at a new club, we get 700 to 800 people.

The bottom line is that young people need comprehensive information to protect their health, and Best Friends does not do that.

That's not our job - to twist some kid's arm to go be a teacher.

This is a way for the voters to speak directly to their representatives. Voting is not just a right; it's a privilege.

The whole design is to get them back in school. It's really designed to help kids get back on track.

This case is a good example of what police can do if we learn about crimes quickly and witnesses are alert enough to provide some pretty detailed suspect information.

They might be down, but by no means out.

It's a feeling of saying 'this is mine,' of being able to create my own hours, my own revenue.

It's always been in the air, since the day it opened.

It's hard under the circumstances to see this disaster in that light. But if you were bound and determined to find a silver lining to this catastrophe, one could say that there is the potential here to rebuild a state-of-the-art network in every respect.

It's not a question of importance. This is a financial issue, and it's a regulatory issue.

It was great to see all of the alumni and family members out to visit our new home. It's a new beginning for a team rich in winning tradition.

Nothing was decided one way or the other. We talked generalities and about his background, and I spoke about my thoughts on what we needed to get done in Ottawa.

Their present charter is not livable. It's onerous. If they were willing to work with us, maybe we could join in a charter change with just a minimal inflation provision.

I'm actually kind of surprised Churchill took on a sponsor like that, to be honest with you. Just because of tradition. It seems like Churchill's built around tradition.

In high school, maybe they'll take a lab class that's difficult to replicate at home.

If there are no significant agreements reached on Wednesday morning, we should proceed with a vote on Wednesday night.

I heard a loud sound. I sensed it might be a line because I knew the line was there. My television turned on, turned blue, and my alarm went off. So I was really busy answering the alarm so they wouldn't call the police. But when I came out here, I could see the wire was down.

In the last three or four years we've been working with our guys. More talent has been coming to our school. We have better quality athletes. Our basketball program is our top program.

I don't see anything in the drainage that tells me how this whole thing is going to work up there,

The trucks are ready and we've got plenty of salt.

A lot of major-league stadiums didn't have them. In the last 16 years, obviously, the game has changed dramatically. I guess baseball has become much more of a year-round program for players.

The clientele here is very sophisticated. About half don't want things to ever change. The other half don't want to ever see the same things twice.

The concept was that we would start working to help people from diverse cultures see the value of teaching.

The lesson I learned from this one is not so much in the details of the network design or preparedness, but the issues we dealt with in facing a situation with civil unrest and security issues for our employees.

The main reason we changed our mind was because the initial response was not strong enough, and secondly, we found out a competitor was building a club from the ground up just a few miles away.