Scott Long Quotes (26 Quotes)

To live his greatest day as a coach, Scott Long would have to relive his worst day as a player. The defensive ends coach of those 1-AA Missouri State Bears stepping up to play 1-A Arkansas in Saturdays 6 p.m. season opener at Reynolds Razorback Stadium, Long was a starting Arkansas senior defensive tackle in 1992 when The Citadel of 1-AA stunned Jack Crowes Razorbacks, 10-3 in the season opener in Fayetteville. I talked to somebody about that yesterday, ... A reporter brought up that you are a I-AA school going to a 1-A and you have no chance. You can look at it all on paper like that. But it comes down to a group of 18 to 23-yearolds from Arkansas versus a group of 18 to 23-year olds from Missouri. Thats why we have to play it out and see how it comes. Every year things do happen.

Lobbying is the next step. I would say that the four organizations who organized the letter to Rice will be monitoring this very closely.... We want them to change their votes. We're going to put our efforts into embarrassing them.... These countries stand up and say gay people don't exist. Then they arrest them. There need to be gay people in the U.N. to say we do exist.

United Families International is very active in the U.N.. You'll see they have several diplomats from the Mid-East on their advisory board.

Until about four years ago, the Chinese medical profession was still following a version of the diagnostic manual that still listed homosexuality as an illness. That has also changed, but that may not have filtered down into how individual doctors or just ordinary people perceive it. Things have certainly gotten better, though, but this latest raid shows that the government can still step back, as well as forward.

Sending the (asylum seekers) back would result in certain torture, and the threat of death is very real.

They sure did in 92. The Citadel came in that day, ... and had a great plan. They didnt make any mistakes. At least I dont remember them making any because it seems we made all of them. It just shows you thats its possible.

As mayor of Warsaw, President Kaczynski opposed the right of lesbian and gay people to basic freedoms and equal respect. As president, he will determine whether Poland protects rights or chips away at them. Europe is waiting for the answer.

Long will deliver that message more often this week than Cliff Clavan delivered mail to Cheers. I can tell my players, ... Yes, we can go in there and win. Lets not just get our guarantee and go to the house. Thats why they just didnt take the win and send us a check. There is a chance we can win the football game.

The legal machinery of persecution is oiled, ready, and operating in Iran, and the Netherlands has a binding and absolute legal obligation not to send people back to face it.

Now its Long doing the punishing if one of his Bears behaves unbearably. Theyll say, ... Coach, you dont understand. Yes, I do understand. I was there once. I shouldnt have done it then and you dont need to now.

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Iran kills gay people. They have no business trying to export that kind of attitude to the floor of the U. N.

Sexual orientation and religious belief are deeply felt parts of the human personality. Silencing oneself is not an acceptable price for staying alive.

We are the experts, ... We run it, we operate it, we live it, we breathe it.

Mayor Luzhkov is giving prejudice a veto over the rights to peaceful expression and assembly. The freedom to speak out and demonstrate publicly is not just a reflection of diversity. It is essential to democracy.

The consequences are what the U.S. government makes of them.

Equality and respect for all are central to Europe's democratic tradition. Bans on gay pride marches and thinly veiled calls for censorship send a message that minority rights are at the mercy of the majority. They violate Poland's European and international obligations.

One of the primary reasons for improving wireless support is to give companies the tools to put FreeBSD into their wireless devices. The guy at FreeBSD who is adding wireless support is under contract from wireless companies to do the work.

The majority of the management team, and I emphasize team, that was here when we built it up is still here,

This vote is an aggressive assault by the U. S. government on the right of sexual minorities to be heard. It is astonishing that the Bush administration would align itself with Sudan, China, Iran and Zimbabwe in a coalition of the homophobic.

There's a sense of outrage at seeing the United States ally itself with governments like this. We're critical of most of these governments. Yet, when it comes to an issue like LGBT rights -- basically of our right to live -- we're willing to side with them.

I wouldn't be doing my job as a coach here, ... if I said,'I don't think we could.' I think we have enough talent to win the ballgame if breaks go our way. Now if breaks go their way, they have plenty of talent to make sure we don't win the ballgame.

If Missouri State (formerly Southwest Missouri State) makes good on that chance, well, Long might not make it back to Springfield that night with the rest of the team. If we pull off an upset, ... I might hang around the field a little while.

I would like to know what's changed in the United States' position in the past four years. It's clearly not an issue of pedophilia. It's an issue of homophobia.

Our bid of more ambulances and response times 1 12 minutes faster than our competitor would have a direct impact on the safety of Scottsdale residents.

Human rights are not a popularity contest. Letting this march proceed is an international obligation. If prejudice is allowed to trump the rights that all citizens should enjoy, then everyone's freedoms are ultimately endangered.