I've beaten people in better shape all this year. (Shelton) was in great shape and stronger than me.

I felt like I had a good chance, but when you get up here, the competition is the best in the state.

We wanted to make sure the businesses and people who also have made significant investments on Dickson were the first to see the changes. One hundred percent of the people there seemed to support it. They all seemed to be excited to see what it could do for their businesses.

It was a battle every inning, ... I didn't have a 1-2-3 inning. There were people on base every inning. But I was able to make pitches when I had to.

You learn a whole lot about people when you're on set for 16 hours. ... This year it's been cool to see everyone get into the project.

People need to understand we knew and we told everybody we were going to have some lean years.