Dan Walker Quotations

This win is huge for our football program. To know that we could knock off a team of this caliber is so big.

Now, we have to come back next week and be ready to play. I think we'll be a hunted team now ... and I am OK with that.

No governor in the history of Illinois has ever . . . taken the kinds of steps that I did to bring ethics, transparency and accountability to state government,

Having had that experience, why my heart goes out to him and even more so if he should be found guilty. ... I hope for the sake of his family that he is not -- but I don't know anything about the evidence.

It broke him mentally. It absolutely broke him.

Our subs came in and did a great job tonight. The free throws were all part of a routine, nothing more, nothing less.

We have two kids who came out for football their senior, ... Both kids, Josh Light and Chris Caranante, made some third-down receptions that turned out to be huge first downs.

Put it this way, speaking for myself, I'm a proud man, ... I'm very proud of what I did as governor.

They kind of walked in with a swagger, ... We showed some people on the opposite sideline that we won't back down we'll come after them.

It will hit him hard, no question about it.

It's a nice touch. From the professionals' standpoint, builders and contractors and unions, I think they just want to do their part for the community. It's their way of giving back.

I told them not to make the application.

Even when he was in there, we were ready for him and we stopped him. Missing him was a big influence on their plays.

Everyone is trying to do something. This is just a little thing, but we felt like if we got a bunch of us together that we could do something.

It's a matter of who do you trust, ... I trust the governor.

The two situations are not even remotely related -- except to the extent that both of us got hit over the head, ... But he got hit over the head for things he did while he was in office. I got hit in the head by some things that happened when I was running a business.

I had a double whammy there because not only did I have the downfall that we've just been talking about, but my wife divorced me, which was a blow, ... I seriously considered suicide.

If you are out with say five of your friends and four of you smoke, and you are driving around town looking for a place to go on a Saturday night, where are you going to go? A bar where you can all smoke or a restaurant-bar where you can't smoke? So that is a concern.

I could tell when people recognized me by the look in their eyes, often -- not always -- but often,

And his words came back to me repeatedly.