"That's right, be bold.
Think about the possibilities.
Think about the
opportunities. When we
see the timing is right,
we need to seize the
moment and step up."
"I was extremely grateful
for the mercy I got.
No matter how excited
you may be, you still
have to obey the rules.
Regardless of whatever
other factors go
into it, you still have to
obey the law."
—Ryan Stanley ("Rowdy Ryan"),
one of eight students
arrested after rushing
the Alamodome
football field after
the Roadrunners'
inaugural game, as
quoted in the Sept. 13
The Paisano
"[Texas] can seat maybe
100,000, and you
got to be a pretty big
donor to get any kind
of good seat. So we're
fine. My daughter grew
up in Boerne, which is
a middle-class, uppermiddle-class area, and
very few of those kids
or families ever go to a
game at Texas or A&M.
We're the answer to
that. We're the team for
this community."
—Lynn Hickey, athletics director, as quoted by the
Associated Press on Aug. 28
"San Antonio has the opportunity to seize a
mantle that no city in
the U.S. holds today—to be the recognized
leader in clean energy
technology. By building
a critical mass around
research and development
that will grow
and attract the brainpower
of the 21st century,
San Antonio can
be for the new energy
economy what Silicon
Valley is to software
and what Boston is to
biotech."
—Mayor Julian Castro, at a
June 22 City of San Antonio and
CPS Energy joint announcement
of five clean-energy companies
moving to San Antonio
"I want to make sure
that we're not only a
part of the university,
but a part of the city,
part of the culture. We
really want to celebrate
the school and where
it's at and where it's
come from and where
it's going."
—Ron Ellis, director of
athletics bands, in the Aug. 31
San Antonio Express-News
"For all the smelliness,
do I at least look a little
bit happy? Because
I am. That should be
the No. 1 question that
you ask yourself in the
morning. Am I happy
about what I get to do
today? Experience has
taught me that your
journey will be more
successful in the real
world if it's fun for you."
—Doug Fine, author of
Farewell, My Subaru, the
Freshman Common Reading,
in his keynote address at the
Aug. 22 Fall Convocation
"Perhaps the boldest
move we could make
in the race to Tier One
is to simply believe. To
believe that we are going
to achieve this goal;
to not let the hurdles
stop us. We have an extraordinary
opportunity
to forever change the
university, our city and
our state."
"This whole notion
of how do you marry
technology and people
in a meaningful, significant way so that
people feel that their
destiny, their bill at the
end of the month, is really
in their control and
they can influence it, is
critically important."
—Les Shephard, director
of The UTSA Texas Sustainable Energy Research
Institute, on the July 8 taping
of NPR's Science Friday
"This is a new Libya;
we're starting from
scratch. Not like
the Egyptian and
Tunisian revolutions
where the bureaucracy
is still there.
What you write on
this piece of paper,
this empty white
piece of paper, will be
the revolution. It will
be our country going
forward."
—Mansour El-Kikhia, Libyan-born professor
and chairman of the Department of Political Science and Geography,
quoted in the Aug. 31
San Antonio Current
