24 Quotes by John Grammer

We played three good quarters. We had a good first half. We had 40 at halftime and only 46 for the whole game (against Ray) last Friday night. We executed well.

We hit that dry spell to start the third quarter. That's happened to us before. We always talk about that being the most important segment of the game. It seemed like we went 41/2 to 51/2 minutes there with two points. You can't do that against a good team.

I've been a member of the Kentucky Thumb Pickers Hall of Fame for some time now,

Ruth did an excellent job bringing up our kids. I say that because she did the lion's share of raising them. They were all great kids, never sassed us, and they've turned out real good. I sometimes joke that it's a good thing we didn't have a fourth child or that one might have been a maverick,

Ruth and I knew we would come back to live here some day, ... When my eyes got too bad for me to drive in 1988, and my not being able to see made it harder to perform on a regular basis, we decided it was time to come home. I pulled in my horns and we moved up here because of my eye condition. I didn't exactly retire; I'm still a member of the Opry and still do an occasional concert now and then.

As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver.

All my friends were in the Army. Everyone wanted to do their part, and I had thought I could pull it off without anyone realizing I had a problem seeing in the dark, ... but it wasn't meant to be.

A bunch of us who are members get together every year at Eddie Pennington's Campground, in Crofton, Kentucky. We call it the Goat Ropin' Festival. It began 10 years ago on my 70th birthday, and this year they plan to celebrate my turning eighty. I've been blessed with good friends.

It's a milestone. But it's not near as important as winning the game. That would make us district champions and make it extra special.