Steve Burns Quotes (30 Quotes)


    I thought we carried the run of play and had more dangerous chances. (Massachusetts) finished their chances early out in the beginning of the game, (and we didn't).

    It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).

    It's a transition from where we were last year as a team, and, with that, it unfortunately takes some time for a team that plays that way to find its form. Early in the season, you can make a couple of mistakes and lose games like this. We don't want to make anymore, that's for sure.

    We pressed them and stepped up a lot higher. St. Louis struggled to put their combinations together. Going into this game, I didn't think we were a good pressing team, but the guys showed me a lot of character. I learned something about our team more than anything that we can be a team that steps up and denies a lot of space for the opponent to play. In hindsight, had we put two halves together like the second half, we may have gotten the win.

    I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.


    (Massachusetts) scored its goals on a couple of breakdowns and lack of discipline with our overall team shape early. They did the smart thing-they tried to sit on a two-goal lead and they did it, and we weren't able to crack them.

    It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

    Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it.

    I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.

    Most of the time, forwards are the players that say, 'Look at my name. I'm a forward, Coach. Let everyone else defend and you just get me the ball, and I'll do my thing.' But Steve loves defending, and he's good at it. He works hard and covers a tremendous amount of ground.

    The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

    I always, always liked children... I was very afraid of them before. Because I never really grew up, I mean, with a lot of little kids around. Even though I am from a kind of Italian family, I never really grew up with a lot of little kids around.

    The debate is important to show people that the war is a local issue.

    We don't have money for a big media campaign to influence public opinion, so I think what we're going to see is basically public opinion in its raw form.

    Our intention is after April 4 to assess where we're at. In places that weren't able to get it on the ballot in time for April, we will really push and see if they can get this on the ballot in November, regardless of how the election turns out.

    Bonnell was our first verbal commitment of the freshman class a year ago. He knew he wanted to come here.

    Those guys put together a presentation to show that, if we were to charge for games, when the break-even point would happen (where we could) pay for lights in the stadium. Planting those seeds helped our administration recognize that we do have a viable product to have a nighttime environment that kids can come out and watch.

    That's an impossible requirement to meet.

    It was a good game. I admitted to the guys that I thought, unfortunately, we came out with the wrong tactical plan. We tried to sit up on the ball and absorb their pressure. That was where St. Louis had an advantage. It wasn't the right thing to do, especially on the road in front of a big crowd.

    It used to be that we had the enviable lifestyle, but wages lagged behind,

    There wasn't any panic on our side. We don't like going down a goal, but there wasn't any panic. And after that goal a lot of the energy came out of the game, and we started to call on the bench players to see if we could get it back. That was really the overall tactic that we thought Indiana couldn't last through.

    We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.

    The plan is to win these referendums in diverse areas of the state so they are not just coming from liberal Madison. We all remember the 2004 presidential election when they spent more time talking about the Vietnam War than they did talking about the Iraq war. We don't want that to happen again.

    And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

    I'm not supposed to talk about the snail. The snail is, well, congratulations to whoever noticed it. It's supposed to be a thing where you gotta look for it in every episode, and it's there three times in every episode.

    It's really hard to say how long the show will last and will continue. I hope it lasts for a very long time. As long as kids watch it, anyway. But beyond this, sure, I would love to be doing film. I'd love to be doing more theater and perhaps even writing.

    This is absolutely what the comprehensive plan calls for in the beach, to get some reinvestment in these old buildings,

    This is a great place to live, and the numbers show it,

    Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

    With the addition of lights and a new student section, we expect there will be an energy rarely seen on our field, ... This energy will undoubtedly translate to our players and create a fantastic environment to watch Michigan Soccer.


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