Slump Quotations | Page 2

One thing anyone can go through is a slump. Unless you're Greg Maddux, it's going to happen to everybody.

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

While it's true that Sears is stuck in a sales slump for a long time, the retailer has also been in a restructuring mode, ... By getting rid of the credit business, it can finally devote all its resources to its core business. I'm convinced Sears will deliver impressive results in the next six to 12 months.

While improving consumer confidence probably suggests downside protection against a slump in spending, it does not suggest we will see spending take off. We still need a sustained improvement in the jobs market, including a significant decrease in unemployment with a solid increase in real wages.

With some surefire hits in November and December, the slump will be forgotten.

Because the event happened, people will tend to attribute the slump it to Greenspan, but the market had a bearish bias as it was and we're the middle of a big refunding week.

When a team has a group of guys who can shoot the ball like we do, it's just a matter of time before they start to go in. Throughout the course of a season, you're going to go through some slumps, and you just try to keep those slumps as short as possible. But we knew all along that it was just a matter of relaxing and making shots.

Aside from the unexpected slump in non-rural goods, we note that imports are still strong in capital, so the business investment theme is still alive and well.

They don't want a huge spike in December and then a slump in January and February, ... They're trying to avoid that.