It's obviously a concern. Reagan National has and will be a target. The system works because the person was caught. That didn't happen on Sept. 11. That is a good sign. If we are still getting box cutters through screening, that is a problem.
Quotes about cutters (15 Quotes)
Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutters slowly attempting to demolish the rock from the outside with hammer and chisel. The later mathematicians resemble expert miners who seek vulnerable veins, drill into these strategic places, and then blast the rock apart with well placed internal charges.
All I can say is, I hope that everyone sends as much money as they humanly can to the United States Red Cross. We're rebuilding Iraq right now. I don't know if four guys with box cutters are ever going to fly a plane into a building again, probably not. But I do know that if we don't take care of these millions of people, America will be destroyed.
After my first two at bats, I had to make a little adjustment. He was throwing me nasty cutters and I just came out and laid off of it. I got to 2-0 and tried to go the other way and play my game. He made a mistake with a fastball up, but I'll take it.
It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 911 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.
I felt I had to be strong and make the best pitches possible, ... It's been a while. I was just a little bit nervous and I had to concentrate. I threw a lot of cutters and splitters.
Everything TSA does is reactionary - first they ban the box cutters, then of course you have to take your shoes off, then you have to take the liquids out, now we have to be patted down in our private areas because of the diaper bomber.
We had to control Richland's 3-point shooting. I thought our girls did a good job of jamming their cutters. Houston County ran a similar half-court offense, so we were not taken by surprise.
I bought a weed whacker last fall, and it took me 20 minutes to get it out. I had to use box cutters to cut plastic and slice through thick cardboard, and pliers to take out the huge staples. I had to unbolt things and untwist things and unscrew things. By the time I got it out of the package I was too tired to use it.
My stuff is better now than it was in the first half. I think I've been getting stronger. I wonder if I'm not staying within myself to execute. Maybe I'm jumping out there and just not making my pitch. Today, I purposely came out to be aggressive and use my fastball. And two batters later I'm throwing cutters and curveballs. I should've stuck with my game plan.
I had pretty good command today. I got ahead with the fastball a lot. After I was ahead I was able to mix in some cutters and the breaking ball came back whenever I needed it.
We know he is unstoppable once he gets a right-hand drive. We allowed one early in the game and a couple of others that we shouldn't have allowed. I thought we paid him too much attention in his isolation, not necessarily his drives or his pick and rolls. So he found people in the open floor with cutters, skip passes. We have to do a better job on that.
We were throwing a lot of curveballs and cutters. When you have a left-handed-dominated lineup and I throw backdoor cutters, that's a pitch that for the most part, if they don't hit it for a base hit, it's probably going to be a flyball out. ... I work so hard on the inside part of the plate with my cutter that when I do throw it on the backside, they have a tendency to hit that ball in the air, and not with authority.
These are the people who took plastic knives and box cutters and flew airplanes filled with themselves, as well as American citizens, into the World Trade Center and this building you're sitting in (the Pentagon), ... Why would one be surprised that they're determined, well-trained, clever, capable of using modern technology ... to kill people.
He's throwing cutters. He's throwing into left-handers, throwing changeups to left-handers, and it used to be just sinkers and changeups away for effect and go back out there. He's pitching in a lot more and he's manipulating the baseball off his fastball.