[The theme for this year, according to the Web site of the National Network of Youth Ministries, is] Pray: Call to Me, ... Call to me, and I will answer and show you great and mighty things.

God is not in the business of using the military to bring His vengeance on individuals.

We feel very much disturbed that we find ourselves in this dilemma, because we have not experienced this in the past, ... We grew up in a community where the young people lived until they got to their old age and there were very, very few deaths.

The church is always going to build back.

You need to go to church!

This is a big team effort, ... We've been hustling a lot.

Everybody's really close in this (heavyweight) division. My goal is pretty much to get into position to place. If I keep on winning, I'm just going to go for the title.

Basically, the keyword in fishing is tight line.

Everybody's a family now, and we're trying to get out of this together.

Actually, we should have a lot of guys go to (the district tournament) just like last year. The guys are improving so much from week to week. Every practice we're working on things and just trying to get better.

God, this day, right now, this place, with this foolishness going on, we need you.

That's going to help us out next year when I'm a senior. It's going to be me, Shane and Ryan, and these younger guys are going to be a lot better because of their experience this year.