Matt Johnson Quotations

Louis had a phenomenal final four defensively. It seemed like he fed on it as the game went on. He made it hard for Jon to get the ball.

If we're talking about Hartford and Rutland being like No. 15 seeds, I don't see anything easy.

Baseball has been a part of the history of Fort Myers.

From a macro standpoint, clearly we're looking for information regarding employment (data from the government) on Friday as the next catalyst. There's been no information that's been market-moving as of late. But in general, the environment for tech investing has been good.

We've been up and down this year, playing bad some weeks and pretty well other weeks,

What I liked was the way the kids stayed together and kept working throughout the entire game. What I didn't like was that we made some mental errors. But our kids tried hard, and it's one of those things. We capitalized on some mistakes by Nogales, and the kids got lucky. Between those things, we pulled out the win.

It certainly leads to a lot of late nights and hard work. There is a quality established with their brand and reputation and certainly we take personal responsibility for living up to that.

It is a fair trade of information to resolve any issues we all are having.

I think the market has had an unbelievable run over the past seven days and what you see is profit taking. What's driving the market today (Friday) is what people are doing in the cash market, so it's not options expiration.

I saw like a crowd gathered around and then like I could see like a white kid in the middle (be)cause he was kind of tall and I guess it was a whole bunch of Asian dudes who were getting ready to fight him. And maybe there were some other white kids, I'm not quite sure. But I just saw him get hit.

Rochester (Century) is probably the most dominant team in the conference by far. We swam well tonight. Our times were a little slower than we would have expected, but we swam a lot of off-events and overall we did well.

Matt earned every one of them. Louis came up big defensively.

That was a definite positive being able to finish like we did. We took care of what we didn't take care of over the past weekend.

We aren't one of the bigger teams so we try to get the ball down the floor.

We were just trying to wear on him a little and body him up when he came into the lane. He's got such good hands and nice touch around the hoop. He's going to get his points; we just tried to contain the rest of their players.

We are playing well, but we have to keep improving. All of us need to get better, including myself. We have to get better because there are some teams out there who are close to perfect and we have to be ready.

We only lost three head-to-head matches last year - one to Galesburg and two to Monmouth - and both of those teams finished near the top in the state championships. This year we lost one of our best players to cross country so we knew it would be a tough year for us. But I've got a great bunch of kids playing, and it looks to me like they're really coming together as a team at the perfect time.

We weren't coming from some other industry where we had some adjunct business.

We knew Spaulding was a real good team. We knew that for somebody to win the state championship they would have to beat them.

The play is pretty straightforward and the plot is pretty easy to follow. Someone doesn't have to be well-versed. This is the easiest Shakespeare we're doing this season.

While they are having fun and getting dirty, they are also learning something. But don't tell the kids that.

You can never really master it. There is so much on the page that can't be translated onto the stage, so all you can do is learn to ride it like a surfboard. But at the same time, you can't get the passion on the page that you can get on the stage.

To my knowledge, it's the first series of paintings in a modern style of Fort Myers.

We had a great season, and you can't really be that disappointed about it. But it would've been nice to win.

You have to really play at the top of your game to beat (Spaulding). You can tell this team has played together for a long time. You can't focus on just one person.

We wanted a place that was on campus, even though this is a community church, we wanted to be right in the heart of campus because it's easy for the college (students) to get here, ... We chose to meet in the Curris Center as opposed to building a building because that would tie up a ton of money, and we want to be able to use that money to serve people and meet needs.

Everyone who's going has already seen the meet, so it won't be an overwhelming experience. It won't just be a thrill to be there, it will be a thrill to compete.

Defensively he was huge for us. He's big in terms of being able to guard a lot of different people.

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

There were a lot of personal bests tonight. I think today was an indication that we have good things to come next week in state.

They're going to determine whether it's legitimate to continue the search.

It's so unreal, and so unpredictable. I'm at such a big loss for words and understanding. Zach was the kind of guy who lived on the edge. He'd call you one day and he'd be entering an Ultimate Fighting contest. Not only would he enter, but he'd win.

Every one of these games between Burlington and Rice that I've been in, except for maybe one or two, comes down to the end and with players making tough plays.

They came out really strong, and we weren't ready for it. It's just hard.

They were more afraid of his penetration and not afraid of his jump shot. He spent a lot of time improving. It has gotten to the point that he is one of the most reliable 3-point shooters.

It's really cool that people are really happy.

I'm disappointed. I love these guys. Next to the '85 Bears, this is my favorite team ever.

I'm just doing what I have for the past few years. Try and help my team win.

I had no idea that it went in.

I had to scramble that time to make a play. The line did a good job, and Kyle did a great job making the catch. It feels good to win in my first start. Too bad it couldn't have been in better conditions.

In the grand scheme of things, the total economic impact is relatively small. This is not a high employment industry. Therefore, even if the concern persists, there are likely to be few knock-on effects.

In order to get us over the hump we needed J.J. Holmes to knock down some shots, we needed Eric Lafayette to come in and play solid defense, and fortunately we were able to get that.

If he is making those mid-range jumpers, he is very difficult to guard. Fortunately tonight he was. He made some big ones in the second half so we kept our lead.

He's got all the confidence in the world.

These guys made a commitment that they wanted to get here, and once they got here they wanted to win a championship. They believed that's done on the defensive end of the floor. In the semis and the finals they showed that.

This is my favorite weather, ... I love it. Because we get dirty and we play football.

The dream of his was to always be as good as he could at whatever he did. If he was going to join the service, he was going to become part of the most elite warriors in the world. That's how he kind of looked at life. He wasn't going to back down from anything.