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I met with Pat this past weekend, I'll come down and we'll go from there.

If nothing else, it gives the officers a pat on the back for all they do.

If Klose had converted the cross in extra time I would have gotten the proverbial pat on the back. It was his kind of situation, but he didn't convert.

I have never made top 30 in my career. I hadn't done anything to feel confident enough that top 30 was attainable, ... It's a pat on the back for the guys who have played great. But this is all about a couple of years of hunkering down and doing better.

I named it the Zen Fencing Academy for my hero, a gentleman by the name of Joe Odom, who sadly passed away last year. He was my role model as a fencer and as an instructor. He founded a club in Pittsburgh, Fencers For Fun, as a method of keeping kids off the streets. He always came to (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) to help us out because we didn't have a coach. We always referred to him as the 'Zen master of fencing'. He was that wise old Pat Morita kind of character.

I'm happy Pat Riley is giving him a chance, that he didn't give me, to live his legacy out and play one more year. I'm waiting for that phone call just to do that.

If Pat wins one as a coach, with Shaq here, it'd be great. Both of their legacies would go to another level.

If Pat had gotten there earlier, I think he could have gotten something done. He didn't have much time.

If you look at talent alone, Pat shouldn't be doing what he's doing. But he has a different drive than most players in our program. He's a grinder.

In the fourth quarter, we were able to really establish Pat down low, which gave Ryan a couple of good looks. Ryan is a good shooter and has been hot for us all season, and he put a couple of daggers in them with those two 3s. The seniors all got extensive minutes and made positive contributions, and that's what you like to see on Senior Night.

In sports when you don't win, there have to be changes made. Ownership and management decided that was the move to make. Obviously I liked Pat and thought he was a great coach, but when you don't make the playoffs, changes have to be made.

In sports we have a tendency to overuse terms like courage and bravery and heroes, ... and then someone like Pat Tillman comes along and reminds us what those terms really mean.

In Pat's younger years, he was sporadic and he often would make the wrong moves at the wrong times to put himself in a bad position. Experience is one of the best teachers and Pat is a much wiser wrestler these days. He has become a very good technician and he makes much better decisions. Pat is now a much more consistent wrestler from one match to the next.

I really want to emphasize that we have good people here and we can never lose sight of that. Sometimes people focus on the things that went wrong and forget we have great players. I have told the players that I will be patient. ... I had a role model in my coach Pat Quinn when I was a player. He had a goal that he would never ruin anyone's outlook on the game.

In these situations that I've been involved in, people are going toward a common goal, which is to do good work. The crew will go out of their way to make you feel comfortable and give you an encouraging pat on the back. Everybody just works toward that objective, and it's really helpful in a performance. It's dire for me.

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

I have the ultimate respect for Pat Quinn. I see a coach go and I just don't agree with it.

I race to race; to feel the wind at my face and to feel the thrill of passing another passing competitor 10 feet from the finish. I don't race to give myself a pat on the back.

If you stand pat and don't evolve, I don't care if you're first place or third place, you're doomed to extinction, ... (Evening newscasts) play an incredibly important role in America, but we're talking about the No. 1 nightly newscast in America and pushing it into an important new realm.

I gave him a pat because I felt right there with him. It's tough watching those guys run around the bases and you can't do anything about it, especially after you pitch well. It's just sometimes the game comes down to one pitch. It's frustrating. We didn't have to say anything. We felt each other's pain.

If the linebackers are playing well, they're not running the football. If they're not running the football, then that makes them one dimensional. When we force them to throw, we have a couple good kids rushing the quarterback in Taylor and Pat (Burton), and we know we'll get after them.

I just try to go in there and bring some energy, play defense and rebound. I try to be more physical.... I do what I have to, pat someone on the butt if I have to.

Being able to host Florida downtown at the Jacksonville Baseball Grounds is big. I really appreciate ( Florida head coach) Pat McMahon agreeing to play us here. It's a great opportunity for our kids and our people to be able to host a team the caliber of Florida . It should be a great matchup. It will definitely be a measuring stick for our program.

His efforts over the past 10 years really helped with this round. He lobbied for bomber upgrades and all the things that made the bomber as important as it is in the nation's defense today. Pat had a big role in this.

His fastball was short (Friday), and his command was mediocre. That being said, you're normally not able to make that statement and have a pitcher only give up one run in five-plus innings at Coors Field. So he deserves a pat on the back for that.

He's still intense. He's still wanting to win. You could tell that when he's on the court and talking and being active, making sure everybody knows what they're doing out there. He's the same old Pat to me.

I didn't sleep very well. We got into the flow better and I feel fortunate to win. It wasn't good enough to pat ourselves on the back.

I don't yell at him near as bad as I used to. We yell at them a little bit, and then we pat them on the butt. We also tell them how good they're doing at times, too, so it's not all negative.

How in the heck did that happen? ... That gives Pat Robertson millions of extra dollars.

He really had a good performance today. But I was hard on Pat today. I am still not completely satisfied with the way he threw. Believe it or not, even though he shut them out. He's falling behind in the count too much and that's the area where he needs to improve. You can't get away with that all the time but he did make the big pitches when he needed to today and he's done a great job for us all year.

For openers, we've got to hire a counselor this year to replace an interim hire, who's retired. Then Pat Krause will be retire the next year. Counselors are normally teachers who have an extra master's degree. Those would probably not be new teachers.

This has happened for years. Guys aren't re-signed for whatever reason and are upset. That's part of the game. Obviously Pat had a lot of other things going on and we were still trying to make a decision on which way we wanted to go.

The empty suits at UAL world headquarters are dropping their bags of money only long enough to pat themselves on the back for a job well done. The fact is that United survived in spite of its current leadership, not because of it. The true heroes of this shameful bankruptcy ordeal are the IAM members and other front-line employees who work every day at reduced rates while delivering a first-rate product.

The guard play on both teams was, and is, extraordinary. The Nelson-West combination with Pat Carroll as a shooter was phenomenal. Villanova has great guard play, too. Neither one was a box of chocolates to play against. The knowledge of the game and the way they carry themselves is what you want to see.

Although financial markets have confidently priced-in a May rate hike, low core inflation implies that the case for risking growth by pushing rates higher is far from clear. If, as we expect, the economy were to show signs of a slowing by May, the Fed will want to give it the benefit of the doubt by standing pat at that point.

All three pitchers we threw (Monday) did a good job. Pat kept us in the game and Tommy got us out of a jam and Robby did a nice job of finishing up. Our young guys needed to step up and they did a nice job of getting us through the game.

The football players (including Gallagher and Pat Devlin) are trying to find their legs and conditioning. They are working their way through the physical part of it. We are not in sync offensively. There's no rhyme or reason, and that's put me in a quandary.

Pat was a different person. She asked about the children in the hospital, the food, their medical care, education. I liked her very much. She was always what I expected a president's wife to be. She was really down to earth, good to everyone in the Embassy, all the staff.