“There’s nothing like Friday night football games. I love football, and you can’t match the adrenaline rush on Friday nights with anything else.”

— Vance Honeycutt, who after suffering an injury last season will be the starting quarterback of the Salisbury High School Hornets as another season of high school football gets underway

“The quality of your life depends on the quality of your relationships — how you treated the people around you and how you made them feel.”

— Brien Lewis, president of Catawba College, speaking at the convocation Tuesday that welcomed the school’s largest ever group of freshman and transfer students

“A biking community is a healthy community.”

— Jackie Miller, who was among Salisbury residents applauding the City Council’s decision to assign its Greenway Committee to take up issues of bicycle and pedestrian safety on city streets

“We got snookered. Fifty years later, he’s still out, and there’s no doubt in my mind about it.”

— Perry Bernhardt, the catcher on the Rowan County American Legion team that won a state championship in 1969, recalling what he considers a botched “safe” call at home that gave Palm Beach a 1-0 win in the Southeast Regional in West Palm Beach

“Power to the people now.” — David Post, Salisbury’s mayor pro tem, after the City Council approved a referendum on the question of whether the mayor should be elected directly and separately from other council members

“Always is.” — Mayor Al Heggins, responding to Post’s comment

“I’m damn sure not going to steal from the town.”

— Roger Hosey, the new town manager in Landis, who was hired in the wake of the resignation of Reed Linn, a subject of an SBI embezzlement investigation.