Tom Wilson Quotations

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.

If I ever had an out-of-body experience - I'd try to come back to a different one.

Many of us are more capable than some of us... but none of us is as capable as all of us!

I try not to worry about the future - so I take each day just one anxiety attack at a time.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

There's no future in spending our present worrying about our past.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

If I had a nickel for every time I said 'Why me?' I'd have probably said 'Why me?' more often.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.

What this country needs is a credit card for charging things to experience.

The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

We are set to make very bad history.

When we were big, we were big. But there wasn't anything else. Now there are a thousand other things for people to get into. And this is by far, by far, the biggest I can remember us being.

uniquely qualified to discuss an out-of-control culture of corruption.

We're seeing a very clear indicator that the people of New Jersey have had it.

The only people they know are folks who bought the TV time, and neither of these guys yet has bought any TV time before. ... The fact that he's his father's son was never going to be a liability. It was always going to be an asset.

Many of us are more capable than some of us . . . but none of us is as capable as all of us!

Mr. Chen's views are about as far from ... the mainstream as you can get.

no one goes down on the floor, and no one leaves the floor.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think

Obviously most people don't want to be here at any given time, ... But it's a little worse, a little more noticeable at Christmas.

Right now it's just general maintenance. We're trying to stabilize them so they don't melt away into the ground when it rains. This time last year, it was raining like mad and there was erosion.

If we give up 20 spots in the pro-am to celebrities, that costs us over $100,000.

If we get half, it'll still be catastrophic.

I don't buy into where they've got this many kids and things like that,

Go back to the greens and practice, putting greens and chip.

I respect their program. I grew up only 14 miles away in Monroe.

Our strategy right now is to be as flexible as possible, to be as ready as possible, so that if we get a call saying we need people this evening, that we respond to that in a meaningful and helpful way.

Rock Financial has a presence in most everything we do, ... We have a highly collaborative relationship with an incredibly enthusiastic partner who constantly challenges us to be better. We are constantly trying to one-up each other to see who can come up with the better way to make the experience that much more enjoyable. A relationship like that is healthy and there are great benefits for each of us. In the end, however, the real benefactors are our fans.

Our relationship with Sterling Bank & Trust has been active for many years. They have steadily increased their involvement with us and have shared in our successes. This naming rights agreement puts the Sterling name and brand identity on a club that will set the standard for luxurious, upscale hospitality in Detroit and, for that matter, all of professional sports. Sterling has made a substantial investment in our new addition and we are confident that they are going to receive a great return.

Some of them, quite frankly, are nothing more than a driveway.

Marge Ackerman played piano and organ at the Broadview from the 1930s into the 1960s, ... The hotel restaurant was a hangout for Knox students and faculty, and that was probably the reason for making the Knox record.

Lincoln came out with some things we weren't used to seeing. We overcame some adversity and we were able to make adjustments.

It is downright dishonest to tell taxpayers that there will be deep, painful and meaningful cuts in spending and then deliver a budget that balloons state spending by almost $3 billion.

We've had far more positive comments than negative. The girls look beautiful. They don't look sleazy or cheap.

Valley doesn't change tremendously from year to year because they do things so well. I think the one thing they do well is just coach the heck out of the kids. We've tried to prepare in a lot of different ways, and a lot of it is anticipation of what you think they will do.

We couldn't be more thrilled that Callaway Golf has extended its support of the Junior World Championships. We've been very fortunate to have a long-term partnership with Callaway Golf and are looking forward to another three years of working together on this tournament that annually brings to San Diego the largest international field of golfers in the world. The history and prestige of the tournament has been a true measuring stick for junior golf around the world.

This would be a drastic worst-case scenario. Universities are so reliant on part-timers that it would be unlikely to happen. Anyway, part-timers would still be cheaper if universities were to pay them on the same rate as their full-time colleagues.

We learned that the impossible is possible, so we have to be prepared for the worst.

To say the traditional Scottish dress makes you look like a clown is a direct insult to people of Scottish heritage and those who live in Scotland.

When we play at home or whenever our bench is on the right, I put all the right side of my equipment on first. The other night I played at Florida for the first time and I asked somebody which side our bench was on.

We're talking about research that was conducted statewide without regard to geography, partisanship, gender or any other criteria, ... The only votes I'm trying to suppress are dead people, criminals and those who wish to corrupt the system.

This way, we can get things started ahead of time.

We want to get them all into school.

Bob Menendez has voted time and time again to throttle drivers with higher gas taxes.

I started to yell, 'Get down on the floor,' ... a couple of more shots. He could have shot a lot of people.

They all complement each other. They want to win games. Jeff was the focal point last year. That's changed a little bit.

Anybody could have got the bug; it's not her fault.

The building name itself is fairly sacred. We are, have been and plan on staying the Palace of Auburn Hills.

This blood drive has become an annual event which we look forward to supporting and hosting to help the community,

You can't make agreements with people then renege on them. The time to say it was a crummy deal was while it was getting done. As a Wall Streeter, he should have known that.

It's a swimsuit calendar. And you have girls in swimsuits in the calendars. There might be somebody who looks at it and says, 'My son is 12, and it's not right.' We just didn't want to take a chance. We are not trying to offend anyone or upset anyone.

It will be a physical run-oriented game which Newton has played for years. We have to force them in situations that they don't want to be in. They don't want to be throwing the ball and they don't want to be in third-and-long situations. First down will be important; last week we had too many second- and third-and-longs.

Then when you replace your old unit, you can actually downsize that new unit -- meaning you can put in a smaller furnace than the one you had before -- both saving money on the initial cost of the replacement furnace and assuring that it will be running at maximum efficiency, since it will not be oversized.

Everybody looks at the football part and that's what they are going to read about in the paper, but we try to get these kids to be solid people and teach them lifelong skills. I have to give the credit to the kids because they have responded.

The Attorney General's Office has been, charitably speaking, lax in their enforcement

It was ahead of its time. It was a full-fledged, elaborate department store. It was not just your average retail outlet.

These past two years, we have built a strong and solid relationship and our presenting sponsorship agreement has set the gold standard for teams in every league.

I know this is going to be a close election, and I'm deeply concerned about the process, ... If you believe that there isn't voter fraud going on, you probably also believe in Martians.

In the first year of our relationship with Rock Financial, we set the bar for what a presenting sponsorship is all about,

Inspired by Girls and Boys Town itself, Character Matters is helping to create an awareness campaign that presents the true character of this very special place.

I really think everybody else has to work to that level if there is ever going to be any changes. They run the heck out of the ball and they coach it up so well. Obviously they have talent, but it's a combination of a lot of things.

I have watched Valley for many years, and it's been more out of admiration than anything else of how they go about their business,

His hands-off approach is what got us into this mess, and it's not what we need to fix the problem,

If I ever had an out-of-body experience -- I'd try to come back to a different one.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy . . . But how much you enjoy what you have.

You can see there are very few days down below that line so we exceeded the average for last year almost every day in 2005.

All that's missing are the patches on his elbow.