11 Quotes by Jim Pollard

Friction calls are some of the most realistic calls there are.

What I'm authorized to say now is we expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before.

When you get up on that stage, you're nervous. Your hands are shaking, your palms are sweaty. It's hard to keep control.

When you get up on that stage, you're nervous.

We expect the death toll to be higher than anything we've ever seen before.

It's almost a storybook kind of rescue. I wish all were like that.

It's going to be much higher than anything we've ever seen.

I know if I'd played somewhere else, I would've scored many more points, ... but George was such a dominant player, you just had to take advantage of a force like that. And he played his heart out. In my lifetime I've seen only two centers who could just take charge of a game, who could put so much fear in other players that they stayed away from the middle. One was Bill Russell. The other, and he was even more dominant, was George Mikan.

The damage is catastrophic and widespread. There's virtually not a building here in Gulfport that's not substantially damaged.