Famous quotes by Mike Rutherford:

"I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime."

"We have arrested several people over the last several years that had pistol permits or weapons in their possession when we arrested them for the abuse or the sexual assault."

"That (home run) was a backbreaker. It just deflated us."

"That (home run) was a backbreaker, ... It just deflated us."

"I'm proud of you, ... I really appreciate you volunteering your time. Be very careful down there. You're the best in the state."

"I didn't want to send anyone down there on secondhand information,"

"Their officers are working 20 hours a day, and they were just worn out, ... They wanted to have some relief for their officers."

"They're the class of the tournament."

"I'll tell you what ... this Connecticut team is the best hitting team we've faced and we knocked off the defending national champions (Nova Seafood). And they didn't hit bad pitching. They did the damage against two of my top guys (Ryan Arsenault and Malcolm Cone-Coleman). So you tip your cap."

"We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can."

"I'm completely hooked on polo."

"Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration."

"When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next."

"Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit."

"I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated."

"When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing."

"I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one."

"Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell."