Quotes by Dave Martin

“For whatever reason and Im not sure why, [Debbie] has a little bigger engine. Put it in friendly terms, Amy has a 2-liter and Debbie has a 2.8-liter engine. As a physiologist, I wonder why. The size of muscles is the same, height is the same, and weight is the same. They both have guts. Both want to win. Both try hard. Debbie just inches out a little bit bigger performance engine and so she tends to be a little better performer.”

“Everyone is saying it is the Olympic [marathon] trials and were picking our team, but that may not be true. Were going to have a race and then we may have a bunch of indecisiveness.”

“It really looks like there should be no excuse for not having a medal.”

“The nice thing about section games is that you get to play them again. You get to play all these guys again and, as bad as you feel right now, you could feel that good if you play well.”

“We came down and took quick shots, and we dont want to play that game with them. Up and down the court, thats their game, and I know that. We want the game in the 40s, low 50s max, and I think that put us in a tough spot.”

“Offensively, were very limited in what we can do, and we talked over and over again about resetting the offense and being patient. Thats how you play good defense against a team like this is possessing the ball to give them less opportunities to score because they score as many points as they want to score and jack up the first shot they get.”

“Thats an insane amount of money to be investing in these old and severely challenged reactors. This is a bad investment.”

“I think people understand the difference between capital improvements and operating money. Its a concern that people might not vote for something because they just passed something else. I dont think its a significant number of people that would not vote for the levy for that reason.”

“Given how close to the margin weve been operating, I think it would be prudent to avoid the expense and conduct the search ourselves.”

“The construction manager . . . is the fulcrum of managing the money and managing the personnel and the resources. Were having a shortage of that individual.”