J. Horton Quotations

We are prepared to respond to any natural disaster and to support the war on terrorism, ... We just have to deal with both missions.

We didn't defend again. We have to find a way to buckle down. This game it wasn't so much effort and hustle. It was more mental lapses.

We've always believed. We feel we have the pieces to be a really good basketball team, and it's just a matter of us going out and doing it.

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

When we have those three things, it allows us to be a better team. We've also been sharing the ball a lot these last three games. That's why things have gone well for us.

We're going to have to have labor costs that are competitive, as well.

Work is definitely her passion. She stayed excited about it by always finding new ways for the agency to grow and help people. Lots of times after 30 years on a job, you might be burned out, but she remained very excited.

We're getting our chemistry back. We had a lot of injuries during the Big Ten season but now we're getting healthy.

We're hopeful what we have done to this point is enough.

With this team, it makes a difference because we've been there and we have a lot of older guys. We're going to have to take advantage of that.

We have to go in there and be tough. Playing an IU team you have to be mentally tough. Those guys play really hard and they take pride in playing at home. We have to go in there and be tough, execute and value the ball.

We were a young team, ... I remember going out there, we were a young team and (the coaches) we were scared to death of just getting beat bad.

We were tough at the end, tougher than we've been late in games. We've been through the struggles, and we feel we have the experience to battle through it now.

We did everything we could to try and prevent it. But in that situation, it's tough when a person challenges you. It's an iffy situation.

We did clay art. We did chalk drawings.

We've been here before. We've had winning streaks, we've had losing streaks, and we've had blowout wins and blowout losses, so we've run the gauntlet of emotions. With this team I don't think it will be a problem for us responding to the way we played Saturday.

When I called him I asked if he had heard about my brothers and my daddy. He said: 'Your cousins lied to you because your dad and them are right here with me.' I didn't know what to say.

When you come some place like this, you have to keep it in your mind that you're here on business. There's opportunities to see the sights and do fun things, but the whole purpose of the trip, what brings us here, is to win this tournament.

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a research and marketing tool we can start using immediately once we get it.

Last year, we ended up getting some matches out of it (hosting the Small College Championships) some teams wanted to come back down here and play.

Lester was big - he's one of our best offensive guys. Today he was aggressive and finishing, so that gave us a big boost.

She is very devoted to her mother's care. She coordinates the caregivers and visits every three months.

Matt shows what work and perseverance can do. When he was a sophomore, we didn't think too much of him as a player. He's made improvements to where I think he is all-state caliber.

Obviously, we're glad they're here and looking at us. We hope they find that we are a good fit for their conference. Joining a conference, that's obviously our goal.

Obviously, we've got more (expenses) here than we've got money.

No one saw it except that little guy. We'd ripped them to pieces and that got them back in the game.

Maybe it's stage fright. I ask myself, 'How do we play like this?' We do great in practice. Then in games, we don't do anything well.

Right now it's up to us to maintain our level of play and stay in first place. Winning these two games this week gives us a lot more confidence because these are teams that people outside our program don't expect us to beat.

People were expecting a lot of things from this team, and they don't realize, before we got here, they were winning 11 games and facing NCAA sanctions. They wanted national championship success right away, and we knew it wasn't going to be like that. It was going to be a long grind and process. We've done that really well, to the point where we expect to win.

On one hand it makes it even more special to accomplish something like this competing against your mentor and somebody who laid the foundation for such a great program at Cal State-Fullerton, ... But my heart goes out to him and his club because they are 180 degrees in the opposite of what me and my players are feeling.

I would say every team in the NFL and 75 percent of college teams run some form of it on third down.

If we don't get up and be ready to play when we step on this court, I'll be very disappointed. I don't think we'll have that problem.

If we keep winning, our destiny is in our own hands.

If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it.

I don't know and I don't really care, as long as they're OK.

I didn't want to just stand there and get hit out of nowhere, so I dropped my gloves. I was protecting myself, I guess.

I don't know why people keep asking us. We're in the tournament. If we don't make it, something's wrong.

(Cermak) did a great job. I'm proud of the way he played. He was solid and consistent across the whole tournament.

but at an enormous and unacceptable risk to the team of interviewers.

I'm always pretty optimistic. I have a lot of confidence in modern medicine, but after one minor surgery and two major ones, you start to wonder if the kid will ever come back.

I have a very strong belief in what Gerard is trying to do here.

I feel like I can create shots for myself and other people in situations like that because of my size, strength and quickness. I just try to get the ball and make a play.

I feel fortunate to get a job at a place where you've got a chance to contend.

If Chicago takes our account, we go take an account from Chicago. We have to not believe these big Fortune 500 companies are going to give us work simply because we are here.

I don't think anybody in the country has had to face the adversity we've faced. Coming here as freshmen, going through the sanctions and the injuries and everything. People have said things we've done good as well. But we've faced more adversity than anybody in the country and to still be standing here able to play for a championship at the end says a lot about who we are as people.

I got a good look at it. It felt good when I released it.

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, mail it to your enemy... he'll know what to do with it.

He understands what it takes to succeed at that level. And knowing Albert, he is only going to get better.

He's basically responsible for history. He had some talented kids, but his ability to get the superstars to buy into my system was absolutely paramount.

He has outstanding ability. He's played in the Premiership and can go past people. Fans love to see players take people on and that's what he does - he's a real handful.

There is hope out here for victims of family violence, but I can help someone who doesn't call. I urge anyone who feels they are a victim of family violence to contact me, immediately.

We just have to be ready to take care of business Thursday in the Big Ten tournament. We're not worried about the NCAA tournament.

We talked at halftime about a couple of things. First thing we fixed is that we weren't playing a physical game in the first half, and secondly we moved Matt Mikhail to midfield to get more possessions on the ball.

We're in the midst of a very difficult time in the telecom industry. Demand has been very week, particularly among the telecom-intensive sectors such as travel and financial services, ... We think 2003 will be another tough year in the telecom industry.

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Going through a tough time a lot of people turn to God and Jesus for salvation, ... I feel like football is the salvation the Lord blessed me with to take my mind off a lot of things. It helps me a whole lot when I'm out there. I don't think about anything but football.

He's just got to keep playing hard. I think his effort has been there but he hasn't been able to get shots to go down for him. But if he keeps playing hard and keeps being himself, the shots will start to go down for him.

He's been there and done that. He won some big games, he lost some tough games. He made some big plays, he missed some plays.

He?s a very serious, hard-working young man. The players almost kid him because sometimes he can be a little too serious. He?s just a blue-collar guy who brings his lunch pail to work every day and is as complete of a player as we have here.

He's given me all the passes in the world. The least I could do is give him one once in a while.

I actually didn't think my floor routine was that good. It was pretty shaky to me but some other guys made some mistakes. I stuck most of my passes, a small step on my dismount. On rings, my strength was hard. I was breathing hard through the whole thing and I lost my lower back muscles it felt like during my handstands. I was able to stick my dismount and I came out with two first-place finishes.

I almost started crying, to be honest with you. I know on a personal basis what he was going through. It was a very difficult time for him.

Just little things that I'm really going to miss,

It causes severe illness and high mortality rates.

It bothers me, because it's not on him. The team didn't perform like we should have. And to read articles about him like that makes me mad. I can't say the things I think when I read those things, but it really hurts me. It's gut-wrenching sometimes.

I think it's a smack in the face to us. I feel like they basically tried to pull the plug on our season, but we're not going to let that happen.

It hurt, but I've sprained my ankle like that, I've stepped on people's feet a lot of times playing. It didn't hurt as bad as it did in the past.

I think you'll see them in more of a flow this game. We'll have better chemistry. As far as working those guys in, hopefully, it can do wonders for our team as far as taking care of the ball with two seniors back and then get good shots on offense and be a better defensive team as well.

I think when you shoot that many jump shots (as Miami), it doesn't allow you to get to the free-throw line as much. Getting to the free-throw line is a point of emphasis for our program.

I was delighted to get the first win,

I think we're getting it, then we get into a game.

I think we were more determined today, and we just fed off the momentum. I'm just happy we got this win before we go to Dallas. Now, everyone's equal again. This gets a huge monkey off our back.

I think that they're going to run out of gas if they're not careful. It would be worse to run out than it would be to have plenty of high-priced gas.

It is important to help the troops stay healthy as they help others,

I was just trying to get guys involved and work against their zone. Dion and Ronnie were really knocking down shots, and we wanted to get them the ball.

I was just trying to run our stuff. But it was hard without Dion.

It is an industry that probably has too much capacity. It's probably too fragmented.

I think there is a sense that, sooner or later, this will happen.

I saw Brother Dave in that three-piece suit with the watch and chain in the old Armory before it burned down. Hilarious.

I scrambled around, got everything together, and applied. Then it was like a waiting game.

Peer review is a great system for detecting badly done research, but if you have an investigator determined to fabricate an entire study, it is not possible to pick it up.

Pacific has really impressed us. When Quincy Noble was there, they played what I thought was a pretty soft schedule. They would come into league with a glittering record and then not do so well. Coach Sprague has scheduled some really good teams, and they've fared very well, so I think Pacific looks like one of the most improved teams in the conference.

Our Soldiers need to know that we're not going to leave them out there, that we are coming for them,

Places where folks can run for the weekend, I think we're benefiting from that. We like to travel. If we can't afford to go the long distances, we'll find something a little closer. I think the future for tourism is still bright.

Regardless of what you all were told, when you basically tell somebody with six games left that they?re not going to be here next year, I think it?s pretty tough to finish the year out.

Some of the larger-ticket items needed to be looked at by the insurance company.

My whole motivation to get to this point was because I didn't want my little brothers to live the life that I lived,

Look for signs, be aware. Don't think because you know someone, they wouldn't abuse. Some of the ones you think are the nicest people in the world are child abusers.

I was very happy with the finish. We followed our game plan to the tee. It was the best team effort of the season. Everybody contributed their best throughout all three rounds.

I was hoping he'd just shoot it before the horn went off. In that situation, you've got to give it a chance to go in. It was a great way to finish off the night.

It feels good when people recognize the efforts that we're working for, but at the same time it's not something I say, that I want to be Big Ten player of the week. I just go out there and play and try to win and whatever happens happens.

It felt more natural to me. You come off the ball, make plays, run and hit. That's one thing I like to do. This is a real good move.

It feels amazing. The reason we won is because our team has more heart than anyone. We train hard.

It feels like we got the monkey off our backs. We had been losing so many close games, but we finally pulled one through.

I think from the point where Jason was 1-4 to this point, I've never seen anybody Mark Prior, Jered Weaver, you name it have the numbers he has, ... They are mind-boggling. The only thing I was worried about was whether we would go to the well too many times with a thin pitching staff and wear him down.

It'd be great to develop fan buses when we play at Stetson or go to Jacksonville. They can make a weekend out of it.

I thought he had a fantastic season. Probably the two quietest records that have been broken this year is him breaking the season passing record and tying the touchdown record.

I think the strategy of engaging labor is really the only strategy there is.

I'm hurt. We lost in a championship game of a tournament that was very important for us. We left it all out on the court. We came up short but like I've always said, everything doesn't always go your way in life.

The '04 version is one of the greatest comeback seasons in Cal State Fullerton history.