23 Quotes by Joe Thompson

When I was born in the 40's this was one of the prime African American neighborhoods in Lufkin. At that time all of the people who lived on that street were professionals.

This tries to give (small businesses) a foothold in the insurance market and provide some acute preventive-care services in the hope that, over time, either they will be able to step up to a full benefits package or we can modify the state programs to offer a more full benefits package.

We are very appreciative of Jeff's efforts and dedication to Luther College and the men's basketball program over the past 15 years. Under Jeff's leadership, the men's basketball program has been competitive, continually displayed a high level of integrity, and enriched the lives of our student-athletes both on and off the basketball court.

I've seen it before in my coaching career, but it's certainly unique to this area,

Defensively, you have four or five guys who have played together at least three years as starters, ... These are highly experienced players who have played with each other since they were freshmen. Defensively, we take a team approach.

As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

This game is important for us in terms of respect and in terms of establishing ourselves in AAA, ... We understand that.

It's terrible being here, ... But it's even worse being away.

It's frustrating to play a game with that kind of stoppage of play, ... We couldn't get anything going without someone throwing a flag for something. The amount of yards we had called back was just disgusting.