Mark Wilson Quotes (50 Quotes)


    The farmer then has an incentive not to sell his land, ... And society has what it wants - open space.

    None of those teams got to play in the fall. Now, they're back. Gulf Coast United has boys teams in every age group. That's awesome, and big news for them.

    It's going to be a tough game. They've got a lot of pace. They're a good, solid team and it will be a real test for us. But we're more than up to the job.

    There are lots of planning opportunities in the timing of withdrawals to pay for college. For high school juniors, we're rebalancing to prepare for payout. For seniors, we may not plan payouts until the family has gotten their financial-aid package.

    They ran together just about the whole race and there was only a two second difference between them. They've been doing that all year long, going back and forth. This time they kind of partnered up and had some good competition between them, ... Looking ahead we'd like to see both of them contend for one of those top two places at districts. We just need our middle and back end to move up more and we've been moving up. We were in the 20s and now we're in the teens, so we're starting to see some improvement there.


    It's a mess out there with health-insurance costs.

    The big thing with Lars was that he was keenly interested, and he had a good, bright mind. And then you tie in his athletic ability. That's the recipe for success in billiards.

    Let's not cheat our children out of an education.

    It's not hard to accumulate a million dollars if you start early enough, that's the big trick.

    (Finding lodging) has been a disaster. There just isn't any place for people to stay. We've tried to accommodate teams that are coming from far off with late games, either noon or 4 o'clock, so they can drive in.

    This is the first time the NRA does not get what it wanted.

    We have 26 girls out and that's as many as I can remember in a long time. I can remember just a few years ago going to meets and not being able to fill all the events. It's going to be fun this year.

    The thing about her is that she is probably about as consistent as any golfer we have on this team. If you look at her numbers from start to finish, she doesn't have bad holes, she avoid big numbers really well and she's getting better each week. She has a great demeanor and I'm just real happy with how she's played.

    We felt like we had a chance to win that game but we helped them out a lot in the fourth quarter and good teams take advantage of things like that. You can't make mistakes against them because they don't usually beat themselves.

    The legislation we're most eager to have happen is the extension of this tax benefit. But if it does go back to being taxed at child's level, it's not exactly the end of the world.

    We allow guns at the Florida Chamber in our parking lot, we appreciate that you let us make that decision. Leave the decision about what's best for someone's property in the hands of the property owner.

    This is is significant. The city has been working for about three years to get the water permitted, so this is a welcome reprieve.

    If the voters knew we were going to spend more money on bricks and mortar than we spend on the entire education system today ... these things don't look so rosy.

    To sit there after last year's success and make that this year's goal sometimes leads to disappointment. First thing's first - you have to qualify. Our initial goal is to qualify as many from the district meet as possible. It can be a goal, but right now

    Even if we had not saved anyone, we would still have been helping the local community deal with it by trying.

    A lot of credit goes to our offensive line. I told them at halftime to give the running backs a second to get into the holes and that's what happened in the second half. It was a team effort.

    Nobody was real thrilled with their scores today. Renee expects better, Mara expects better, but we are 9-1 and we have some real tests coming up. I told them it's a win. It's one thing to play poorly and lose, but we played poorly and won, it just shows our overall strength.

    We still don't know about that. Come the middle of April, who knows She's been training real hard, doing some minor jogging. We'll just have to be patient and see what the trainers say.

    Megan had a great day and I could see that coming. She's been playing well and her game is coming together right now, and this is what she did as a sophomore and as a junior. It takes her a while to get going and once she gets her confidence, it all comes together for her.

    We're still really young on the boys' side, ... We just have to be patient and we'll eventually get better. We're running a lot of first-year juniors and sophomores and we've got to get the experience and understand how to run those races.

    Now it's time to just go kill this bill the way it should have been done today. The NRA in Florida, as far as I know, never lost a bill before. ... We're in uncharted territory. They're unpredictable.

    We were surprised when NRA stepped out and called for bigger government. We ought to be leaving this decision up to property owners and leaving the government out of it.

    If I could have rolled in some of the birdie putts early and not made the silly bogey from the fairway on 18, I could have something real special today. I'm still happy with what it is, though.

    This is a new direction in wealth management.

    We have experienced all too often that our wounded troops suffering from severe head trauma have had to be flown to hospitals such as Brook Army Medical Center in Texas to receive specialized head and brain trauma treatment. We are proposing the privately funded construction and donation of a specialized brain trauma unit on the west coast at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, California. The Freedom Is Not Free Foundation has garnered massive support from the civilian and corporate communities for such a site and we will be presenting our proposal for a Private SectorGovernment funded partnership to make sure this project comes to fruition.

    I was really bummed at three-putting twice. My caddie reminded me many times that you have more than half the tournament left.

    There are already many producers who are doing better than the national average but that is not to say they can't do exceptionally well. Our average born alive is just 10.7 when our major competitors in Europe are at least 1.5 pigs per litter better than that. It is not impossible to achieve significant improvement. Just four years ago the French were sixth in the European league table and now they are at the top. If they can do it, so can we.

    I don't expect this will pass. If this gets to another committee, we will try to run the same amendment. This is a huge win for the business community. There's no other way to look at it.

    I thought it would be a lot more obtrusive than it was. I think maybe the next time it happens, that uncertainty will be gone.

    No-till in and of itself is a carbon credit. If someone is willing to pay you to do what you've been doing, then why not get involved You are just leaving money on the land if you don't.

    I think the problems are to be worked out themselves in the dressing room. And we will do that. It's a great bunch of lads - plenty of ability in there, plenty of talent - we'll kick, scrap and fight our way out of this.

    I've got to enjoy it and tomorrow will be a struggle because, you know, maybe they're not going to be going in. You always try to compare yourself with how you were doing the day before.

    I suggest that you may purchase the moderate-yield cartridge for home printing. However, if you are a small-business owner, you may purchase the standard- or the high-yield cartridges.

    Nobody on the committee could even define what it means. So how can an employer

    Psychologically, going into the next two games against (the Galaxy), it's a great big boost for the boys. We performed great tonight and it's a fantastic win that sets us up now for the next two or three games.

    We've got talent in every area of the field. The first 11 and the next seven or eight guys who sit on the bench are all plenty good enough to come in and do the job every week as well. That ups the tempo in practice every day and that's why we're working so hard and playing so well.

    The costs of an annuity are a humongous drag on a portfolio. You add in the ordinary income tax rate on withdrawals, and it's very hard to make it work out.

    There's no rush for it. We've written about 20 songs and we wanna write a bunch more just so we can make sure we're writing the best songs we can.

    I had no idea about all of this, so I was kind of honored that he came here to talk to us..

    It's a matter of somebody who killed six other people, ... Chai Vang happens to be Hmong. The hunters who were killed were Caucasian. It's what Chai Vang did, not who he is.

    Some people want to call me the snowball's-chance-in-hell candidate, ... I tell people that as a former Marine and a former fisherman in Alaska, I've done both hell and snowballs.

    We have plenty of employees at the Florida Chamber who have guns in their car in our parking lot right now. What's wrong with this current legislation is that it takes the decision out of the hands of employees and employers and puts it in the hands of bigger government and more legislation.

    We're going to see a bill that the chamber doesn't like and the NRA doesn't like. And that will be compromise.

    Our kids played hard, ... The ball just didn't bounce our way this week. We had some things happen that just kill you in a close ball game.

    Everything comes down to economics. The incentive is to sell the land to non-ag buyers,


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