Quotes by Curtis White

“Coach told us to keep our heads up and keep fighting. We did that, we came back and were fortunate to win.”

“I think we should have won by more (against Muncie Central), but weve been off (from competition) for a bit, and were kind of rusty.”

“My shooting is coming around much better now (than) from the beginning of the season. I just want to keep rebounding at a high level. Im averaging about seven rebounds a game.”

“Theyre bigger than us. So we figured wed beat them down the court, get some easy buckets and jump on them early.”

“Weve been playing much better in practice. Were doing a better job of moving the ball. Our turnovers are down. Thats something we definitely improved on.”

“We should have played much better. Missing shots messed up our focus and we had some lapses. We cant do that (Saturday) if we expect to win the regional.”

“Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.”

...This is the arena in which a spiritualized disobedience means most. It doesnt mean a second New Deal, another massive bureaucratic attack on our problems. It doesnt mean taking to the streets, throwing bricks through the window at the Bank of America, or driving a tractor through the local McDonalds. It means living differently. It means taking responsibility for the character of the human world. Thats a real confrontation with the problem of value. In short, refusal of the present is a return to what Thoreau and Ruskin called human fundamentals, valuable things, and it is a movement into the future. This movement into the future is also a powerful expression of that most human spiritual emotion, Hope.p.124

Like characters in Greek tragedy, we seem fated to push technology towards its ultimate degree as if we were possessed by malignant gods. We call these gods curiosity and creativity and reason and progress, but when these words are perverted by technocrats, they are more like the four horsemen of the apocalypse.