Ponen Quotes

Zoning has become a bad word again, but (justices of the peace) need to realize that they've been spending a lot of time this past year taking on all these small component problems with development instead of seeking a big-picture solution. - Larry Kelly

ZANU-PF leaders seemed to sanction the use of violence and intimidation against political opponents and contributed significantly to the climate of fear so evident during the election campaign. - Pierre Schori

Zach and Ryan really didn't have much problem with their opponents. - Eric Lyons

You've got to play, so you might as well play a great opponent to open with. You don't want to find out halfway through the second quarter of your first league game where your weaknesses are. - Rich Mannello

You've got to hand it to Redwood. They never quit. We didn't either, but we didn't play four quarters. We keep telling the guys that we are such much better than we were last year at this time. We are still growing, but this is not a good feeling. I hope we remember this feeling and take it out on our next opponent. - Bill Glenn

You've got to figure out a way to keep the heat on your opponents and always try to be on the offense instead of defense. That's what happened to us a lot at (last year's Ryder Cup). - Fred Funk

Youth innovation is the second step in which we must cultivate a culture of innovation and risk taking among our youth. This requires us as employers, educators, and mentors to reward risk taking by not punishing individuals for failures. In fact we must celebrate failure as a necessary component of the creative process. - Sam Hamdan

You're playing a great champion, someone that's obviously achieved a lot in her career. And she's still young. Any opponent that I see across the net, I cannot think about whether they're terrible or they're great. I can't put that in my mind. - Maria Sharapova

You're not going to beat that quality of an opponent by making those kind of mental mistakes that we made. At this stage of the year, it's very disappointing to see we would make some of those errors. - Jerry Slocum