11 Quotes by Bob Orr

Nobody really thought this mine accident would have a happy ending, but no one could have envisioned how much pain the families would suffer.

I don't think you can sell democracy at the point of an M-16. We're just trying to force it down their throats.

Our No. 2 (Hiroki Takagi) has been hurt so I kept him out of the lineup today. Our big match is Wednesday at Lewis & Clark and they're in our region. We hope that he is better for that.

I think he's improved quite a bit. He only lost two matches all year. One of those was in the national tournament.

This will be a very time-consuming and expensive undertaking if owners are to salvage the vintage planes. As a practical matter, it's a good bet that many of these seaplanes will not fly again.

At this level, the more they play with very good players they're going to improve quite a bit. Now I'm not saying that Mattoon didn't have good players. But they were all about the same. Really our practice sessions sometimes are going to be a lot harder than some of our matches.

A call is developing to ban this out-of-control game of virtual economic extortion.

It was nice to get the match in, for one, and it was obviously nice to get the win. This gives us a legitimate trip to the national tournament.

They'll have a tough time repeating that. We sure hope (they will). It's so much the luck of the draw. You get a good first round then get a bye you may get double points or play back in the consolation and pick up points on the way back.