Ron Clarke Quotations

When we got to the stadium, there were 5,000 people and it was a playoff-like atmosphere.

We have a situation where two of the three selectmen who weren't invited to the meeting go off and complain to the DA's office. Mrs. Pratt goes to a bazillion meetings and she doesn't invite me along.

More guys will see the field. It's kind of an audition. You want to play, you start battling.

Poor effort. Our second-half defense wasn't perfect, but boy, they showed a lot of effort. We found our fighters (in the second half), those who will fight for us on the field.

On our first day of driving as we were heading out of Massachusetts, it was great to see other vehicles on the road also carrying down relief supplies. There was a caravan of 12 to 15 ambulances heading south out of New York state.

But what we do already know is that it will reveal a very great deal about the anatomy and evolution of an early ape- man.

To compete, you have to run the football and stop them from running the football. They're a good, quality team, but they are also a beatable team.

Just a broken play where the quarterback scrambled around and found someone open. Other than that, hats goes off to our defense.

Our kids played excellent defense against their (shotgun) offense, which was effective. It was outstanding defense. The line put a lot of pressure on them. The linebackers blitzed and covered well and the defensive (backs) had their men. The effort was there tonight.

I'm hoping this is the right one they are coming in at, ... Otherwise, I may miss them.

We had opportunities, we had many of them, and River Ridge played outstanding defense. (And) I'm damned proud of our defense, they did an outstanding job.

We were able to run tonight, ... We controlled the line of scrimage, our O-line was outstanding and the runners did a great job.

The parking lots of the hotels around Jackson were jammed with various vehicles - power companies, county ambulances, relief trucks like ours, FEMA vehicles, fire and rescue trucks. FEMA was controlling all of the hotel rooms. It was kind of exciting, being at the center of the relief effort.

Visit the class to see what's going on. Offer to chaperone trips. The teacher may end up being more supportive because you're taking interest.

Anybody can sell you a press that prints, but it's the service after the sale, the follow-up, the way you're treated on questions, service calls and after-sale support that matters. That's when you really find out what the company is made of.

This is not meant to detract from their performance,

This gives everybody the opportunity to decide what's important to us as a community.

They're able to bring life to it. It makes Shakespeare seem a lot friendlier.

A lot of people in the temple had donated money to the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, but then they started asking what else can we do.

They are out on the curb waiting for me, and I am still down at the other baggage claim waiting for them,

I've got a little more pressure because there are a lot of fans out there rooting for me. But it'd be neat winning in your home town.

This is a very important project for us. We spent a heck of a lot of money. . . . My client has bent over backwards to do everything that the staff has requested, Vote Yes on Preservation Pointe.

BYU is the Disneyland of college campuses because of its attention to detail.

If I hear any of you were out there throwing eggs, you're not playing on Saturday. I'll tell you what, for the rest of the week, I don't want any of you going across Myrtle Street.

I am absolutely appalled by what went on and frankly our girls should never have accepted the gold medals.

For the future of this county, this is a development that needs to be approved.

I got tired of seeing otherwise innocent young kids from all walks of life getting criminal records for, in effect, doing nothing more than millions of other people in society were doing with alcohol.

Worry about him? I never even heard of him.

There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.

No one knows the fear in a front runner's mind more than me. When you set off at a cracking pace for four or five laps and find that your main rivals are still breathing down your neck, that's when you start to panic.

Love testing yourself more than fearing loosing

It makes me sick to see a superior runner wait behind the field until 200 meters to go and then sprint away. That is immoral. It's both an insult to the other runners and a denigration of his own ability.

In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me.

The hardest step for a runner to take is the first one out the door.