11 Quotes by Jim Schmidt

Today everybody played well. Buck and Randy have both been struggling with parts of their games, but they shot great today.

I think it was more nerve-racking for me than for Ellie. She put together 11 real solid dives.

Rockford has been hit pretty hard in the last four or five years. I think as the economy pulls up, the community will do better, and we'll see the unemployment rate go down.

I think she's pleased. It was a great experience for both girls.

Winning the conference is certainly one of our goals. The guys are working hard and their scores have come down in the past week since it got warm. Hopefully they will just keep improving and we can make a run at the end of the season.

We are seeing stuff that hasn't happened in the last decade. We are seeing cedar trees ... igniting 40 feet in front of our fire trucks - exploding with no moisture in it.

We feel like it needs to be done now. It means a lot to our part of the state.

The whole ramp up has been a pretty exciting time, so we've moved right from the first and second shifts, into the third shift. It seems like we haven't missed a beat thus far, so it's a pretty amazing time.

Now it looks like nature is reversing the process. I wouldn't be surprised if we have an island again.