I was a lot worse off,

I thought, ‘He’s done.’ If he survives at all he will probably be in a vegetative state.

I don’t have anything against any of them, … They are volunteers, and I appreciate what they did. My job is to do what’s best for the city.

It’s important enough that we should take another look at it, … We’ve hired (engineering firm) HMG to take a look at the rates. There’s still going to be a sewer rate increase, but it...

By law we have to have so much money in reserves, … (Illinois Environmental Protection Agency) was saying our reserves weren’t enough.

One of the things I get a lot of grief on is the amount of money I spend on planning, … In the long run, it’s money well spent.

We were kind of the black eye of the league because players weren’t very disciplined, we weren’t winning many games and nobody’s cared much about Snider hockey.

We had the first pick in the draft and there were kids and parents telling me not to pick their kid because they wouldn’t play for Snider.

I certainly saw a lot of things that we need to work on. I do think fatigue was a factor at the end, which is not a good thing when you are in the same...

Carroll loves to put pucks at the net, and there’s definitely going to be a lot of pressure on our defense. The goaltending and the defensemen really stepped up tonight.

Defensively, we played pretty hard and our net defense wasn’t bad. But we didn’t have the opportunity to put the ball away on them as much as we liked.

I’m appalled at your inability to work with the community.

It was close all the way. It was a good match for everybody. We just happened to prevail tonight.