From each month this year, The Daily Gazette sports department is compiling the 10 quotes from our interview subjects that stuck out the most for us, based on how they either made us think or laugh \u2014 or some combination of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selected quotes come both from reporting for stories that appeared in The Daily Gazette and interviews associated with episodes of \u201cThe Parting Schotts Podcast.\u201d Not all quotes used were previously published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI get a chance to do it and they pay me for it. It\u2019s crazy. I\u2019m a lucky guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Dwayne Killings, on Nov. 4, regarding his status as a first-year head coach with the UAlbany men\u2019s basketball<\/strong><\/a> program before the club\u2019s first game of the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJust to watch what they were going through, my wife and I kept looking at each other, and we were like, \u2018Please, get this done tonight so we don\u2019t have to be like that tomorrow night.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Bob Anderson, on Nov. 4, recalling watching the emotions experienced by the family of Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Max Fried during Game 6 of this year\u2019s World Series \u2014 and knowing his son, Shenendehowa High School graduate Ian Anderson, would start the if-necessary Game 7. The Braves won the series in six games; Ian Anderson was the winning pitcher in Game 3. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI could write a book about this season, about all the things that\u2019ve gone wrong, or not gone the way we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Fonda-Fultonville football coach Sean Thompson, on Nov. 9, described a season in which his team had more than half of its regular-season games either rescheduled or canceled, only for the Braves to make their way to the Section II Class C Super Bowl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI had a tryout [Monday], and we\u2019re here now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 RPI placekicker Trevor Bisson, on Nov. 13, who joined the football team five days earlier after finishing his men\u2019s soccer season for the Engineers, then hit the game-winning 36-yard field goal as time expired against Union to give RPI a 19-17 win to claim the Dutchman Shoes Trophy, the Liberty League<\/strong><\/a> championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve run these roads a thousand times, so it\u2019s cool that there\u2019s a race that runs up Grand [Boulevard] and through Central Park. Yeah, it\u2019s just like being back in high school and running with teammates again, just being on the roads.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Niskayuna native Lou Serafini, after winning the MVP Health Care Stockade-athon in Schenectady on Nov. 14<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery single player got better every single practice and every single game. It was a team. We didn\u2019t rely on one player.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake field hockey coach Kelly Vrooman, on Nov. 14, after her team won the program\u2019s first state championship since 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s huge. I was very lucky to grow up where I grew up [in Oakville, Ontario]. Those resources were so easily available to me. But not every kid has that opportunity, and especially in this area. Even though I\u2019m not from the area, I want to give those kids that opportunity where they can fulfill their dreams, and feel important and better themselves if those opportunities aren\u2019t there.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Union hockey senior forward Josh Kosack on his fundraiser for the COCOA House in Schenectady, on Nov. 15<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA few people mentioned [the 300-win milestone] to me, but I didn\u2019t do it for me. The kids do it. The players do it. That\u2019s their record.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 Lise Williams, on Nov. 18, on why concluding her coaching career with the Scotia-Glenville girls\u2019 soccer program just a few wins shy of 300 didn\u2019t bother her. A Scotia-Glenville graduate, Williams coached the Tartans for 21 seasons; the program finished 297-76-23 with her at the helm and won three Section II championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe lights are brighter, but that\u2019s about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n