89 Quotes by John Thompson

He was one of the guys who helped make tournaments like this famous. He had to go through it when it was tough, really tough.

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

I yelled at them. We peeled a little paint.

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

I think they had about 1,200 inquiries into the program and they had 225 completed applications. It took three to four weeks to complete the application to get in. Everything came together pretty quickly.

I'm sick of us having to be perfect to get the job.

that you're only as good in business as your last response to an attack. You always have to be one step ahead of the bad guys.