What was once one student's private record of quirky phrases has become something of a team icon. Unfortunatly, as the original team members have graduated and moved on, we have recorded our funny sayings less diligently, but we hope you sill enjoy them!

2011 Team Quotes:

  • Sierra: I'll make people be funny.

  • Sarah: I like FIRST--things work sometimes!

  • Coach Streeter to Coach Poore: Do you have any CAN-cerns?

  • Elizabeth: Are you in a buzzing mood?
    Amelia: Well.. I'm doing this right now, but I guess I could buzz if you wanted me to.

  • DavidJ: Dude, what is our problem?
    DavidG: Do you want me to list them alphabetically or in order of importance?

  • AmeliaJ: It seems only proper to spend Valentine's Day working on Chairman's: FIRST is a true love indeed.

  • SarahB to KailebO: Can I borrow the minibot?
    ElizabethP: Only if you give me co-opertition points.

  • SarahB: I just can't fit my head in that space!
    AmeliaJ: That's because you're not a kangaroo.

  • SarahB: It gives the appearance of disappearing.

  • EthanJ: Would it be too much to ask for you to cut the other one for me?
    AmeliaJ: No, I was planning to do it, I was just taking a hug break.

2010 Team Quotes:

  • Benji P: We have it in BrainCAD.

  • Tim P: How much does the kicker weigh?
    Mr. Nair: 30lbs. It needs to go on Jenny Craig

  • As Meera was dangerously waving a pipe around...
    Coach Streeter: It was Meera, in the CATpit(Computers And Technology), with the lead pipe!

  • Sarah B: Oh friends, Your FRC team is your family, that comes before friends.

  • Meera N: The white outline is like makeup for bumpers.

  • Coach Poore: We made good progress at drive practice tonight.
    Coach Streeter: Yes, we might have fixed as many things as we broke!

2009 Team Quotes:

  • Coach Streeter: (to Brittany and Sarah) Wow! you two have been sitting here for a long time! like ... two hours!
    BrittanyF: We're girls; we can sit still for a long time.

  • Tim: With the Archimedes screw, you have to run the wires on the outside.
    MicahE: But it gives us lots of room for sponsor stickers.

  • When talking about how to clean the dust off of polycord belts:
    DavidG: You turn it on [and stick out your tongue]

  • Mrs. Hammes: Are you doing FRC?
    MicahE: Yeah.
    Mrs. Hammes: Oh, you're so good...

  • Coach Gray: And if it gets too heavy, you can get rid of some mechanism...
    MicahE: ...Like the crab drive.

  • Coach Streeter: We also have to make a list of the buts and nolts.

  • MicahE: Wait... we could make the robot out of depleted uranium?

  • Coach Streeter: No one will be able to control where they are going...except us.

  • Mrs. Streeter: You should eat lunch when you come to a stopping point.
    NathanS: So...after ship date?!

  • TimP: Draw a line where it should be cut, not *roughly* where it should be cut!

  • MicahE: I could just call my mother and ask her to bring me dinner and a sawzaw. ...dinner and an angle grinder. ...dinner and a milling machine. ...dinner and a CNC machine.

  • MicahE: You misunderestimated him.

  • CoachStreeter: So, I had an email from another FLL coach that said, "Congratulations on getting a rule named after you!"
    CoachPoore: What are we aiming for now?
    CoachChamberland: To make the balls go up.

  • CoachJennings: Are we aiming for a another rule named after us?
    CoachPoore: How many rules does it take to get into the Hall of Fame

  • Coach Streeter:I came here earlier than the later I expected.

  • NathanS: So Micah, what do you think of FRC so far?
    MicahE: It's all work and all play, and it makes Jack a tired boy.

  • DavidB:I can't explain your train of thought.

2007 Team Quotes:

  • If you guys are saying enough stupid things to fill up a notebook...that's bad.
    - Brittany

  • This robot would stay in the endzone...we could add some wheels for looks.
    - David S

  • You need to consider the prons and co's.
    - Brittany

  • [Mr. Chamberland] "Did you discuss the arm?" [Matt] "Yes, we digusted it."
    - Mr. Chamberland and Matt C

  • We're a rookie team. This is our first year being a 3rd year team.
    - Tim C

  • [Brian J] "They should make locktite popsicles." [Tom P] "Yeah, one lick and you're hooked."
    - Brian J and Tom P

  • Did you know that this chair actually creates pencils when you tip it sideways?
    - Nathan G

  • There's nothing going on in my head, I'm just not listening to you guys.
    - Coach Streeter

  • [Chrissy U] "What time is it?" [Brittany J] "He's in on the whiteboard."
    - Chrissy U and Brittany J

  • [Matt C] "Brittany, are you spying on my email? Tom, make her stop!" [Brittany J] "Why is it his problem?" [Matt C] "Becuase as a concerned citizen..." [Brittany J] "How about I "concerned citizen" your face?"
    - Matt C and Brittany J

  • [Steven B] "Does anyone want a light?" [Brian J] "We don't smoke!"
    - Steven B and Brian J

  • These smoles are haller though.
    - Brian J

  • [Mrs. Streeter] "Tim, shouldn't you have safety glasses on?" [Tim C] "But I'm not looking at it."
    - Mrs. Streeter and Tim C

  • If the problem was easy, it wouldn't be so hard.
    - Coach Streeter

  • We could use bamboo and just grow it into the right shape but we don't have that kind of time.
    - Nathan G

  • Would you like to buy a vowel? No, thanks, I brought my own. Hey it's BYOV, Bring Your Own Vowels!
    - Nathan G and Brian J

  • Don't put too much pwn on it, Benjy, there'll be nothing left.
    - Brian J

  • Quick! Smell the victors...Smell the motors...Smell the robot!"
    - Brian J

  • We could warm you up with the de"brrrr"ing tool.
    - Benjy P

  • This is the second one we're making first.
    - Mr. Streeter

2006 Team Quotes:

  • There's no other way to change the... spinny...motion.
    - Christopher J

  • If you don't know how to make a mistake by yourself, I can help you.
    - Coach G

  • If it blows up, you know you did something wrong, unless it's a bomb.
    - Brian J

  • Hopefully the wheels move.
    - Ben S

  • Make a flatness on this.
    - Christopher J

  • YOU hold this and pull the trigger.
    - Coach S

  • Let's hope we're not intentionally making a mistake.
    - Brittany J

  • It's approximately exact.
    - Christopher J

  • Well, we may not know that we know that.
    - Coach P

  • [Ben S] "People in the shop..." [Zach D] "Stop having fun!"
    - Ben S, Zach D

  • This battery tastes funny.
    - Nathan G

  • I can make all kinds of wrong assumptions in five minutes.
    - Coach G

  • I have a potential quote for the quote book...
    - Nathan S

  • Do you concur or disacur?
    - Matt C

  • Have you seen anyone as big a a continent, other than me?
    - Ben S

  • Hey! who spilled the robot all over the floor?
    - Brian J

  • Chris, why do you have to make things easier?
    - Zach D

2005 Team Quotes:

  • What's that funny town we're in now?
    - Matt C

  • The Lexan stuff is cool, it makes a cool noise...wooba, wooba, wooba!
    - Ben S

  • We're a wookie team!
    - Coach Gray

  • Switch that to untighten
    - Matthew C

  • No Spinny things?
    - Ben S

  • Hopefully the FRC team members won't have to do much during the build season.
    - Coach Gray (He was actually refering to fundraising, but who knew that?)

  • It would slide up an inclane
    - Coach Jennings

  • [Zach] "It's not any kind of fabric I've ever seen...[Lauren] "that's cause you're reading it in Spanish!
    - Zach D and Lauren G

  • I can make it work awesomely or I can blow it up...I'm trying to decide which
    - Matt R

  • Here are some goggles to fit your masculine propensity
    - Brittany J

  • I don't know what I'm trying to say but I know that I'm not trying to say what you are saying you think I'm trying to say
    - Brian J

  • There's something very broke with this
    - Steven B

  • You can convert feet to grams
    - Coach Jennings

  • It's a lot a bit more difficult
    - Nathan G

  • Bad nut...Bad nut
    - Coach Jennings

  • I grabbed half of a stack of 100, it was like 50 or 30 or 70.
    - Coach Streeter

  • Happy tommorow everybody!
    - Bridget R

  • I was thinking, and that's a scary thing.
    - Coach Jennings

  • Hey! Lets build a robot tonight guys!
    - Nathan G (3 days before ship date)

  • Get that speed holded.
    - Coach Renda

  • All of a sudden... we made a little progress.
    - Coach Gray

  • I think all we need now is a robot.
    - David G (2 days before ship date)

  • This is very troubling
    - Brittany J

  • We got the Bubbles goin on
    - Brian J

  • We get to have fun watching the chain go woo, woo, woo.
    - Coach Gray