Jim Kelly Quotations

What we really wanted was to request a dialog with the sisters. What they told us is that we should pursue changing the mind of the ... board, and that was the structure that's in place.

We have refocused the organization on delivering more to the membership. Today we are less about being an engine for revenue for events and more about increased value for our members through services that respond to our members' needs.

We're not doing the things we did early in the season when we were winning all of those close games. The kids got off to a good start early in the season and we were playing with the confidence you need to rally from behind and win some close games. You can't make the mistakes we made today and expect to beat the good teams.

If they don't come back, it is not the same school. It's a different Queen of Peace High School. It's the whole leadership. This woman is inspiring. This woman is a wonderful leader. Almost the entire faculty supports her.

I don't know why a journalist in that position would not talk.

Barring further economic slowing, we expect to achieve the targets we set for 2001 -- 10 percent revenue growth and earnings-per-share growth in the mid-teens,

He showed the way out of our despair, and gave us the emotional armor to get up every day and get on with our lives. He led by emotion, not just by words and actions.

Looking at what we've managed to publish since then, it is very hard for me to point to any damage that was done to Time magazine with its sources.

The arts and heritage community is very supportive of this bill.

We played a strong game until the seventh inning when we made a couple of critical mistakes.

We were getting blown out and for him to do that ... it sends chills down my body every time I see it, because Don Beebe reflected the Buffalo Bills, the whole attitude of the team, in just one play.

We haven't hit the second roll yet -- the people who will run out of money for the hotel and are now out of a job. I don't know if anyone can estimate their numbers. It could be 100,000. They will be a quiet group. They won't be a dramatic group.

We definitely wanted to be next to Home Depot. The fact that Lowe's is not far from us either is a home run.

The fact that approximately one-third of the eligible Class A-1 shares were not tendered demonstrates that UPS employees, retirees and founding families have great confidence in the company's long-term prospects,

We don't want to hurt ourselves. We want to make sure that the kids who have been accepted and are there now have as wonderful an education as those there now. On the other hand, we have to look at all our options to sway the decision of the board.

We were pleased that UPS maintained its growth across all product segments, particularly our international and domestic express businesses, ... However, the economy did slow much faster than we expected and we were not satisfied with our earnings performance.

At this point I don't see this as a big looming health threat, but it certainly bears more investigation.

And who is proving most effective in figuring out how to eradicate those calamities? In different ways, it is Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of the world's wealthiest charitable foundation, and Bono, the Irish rocker who has made debt reduction sexy.

The strike by the Teamsters union this summer was responsible for a swing of nearly $350 million in profits vs. last year's quarter and caused a lot of damage and hardship both to UPS people and our customers, ... However our managers, drivers and all of our people are working very hard to rebuild our service and restore the confidence of our customers.

You're really concentrating on what your job is.

This event is a celebration of the blessing of children in our lives. Parents and kids have a lot of fun at all the activities, but the whole idea is to stress the importance of loving and valuing children.

This bunch really swings the bats, so you've got to keep it down against them. We got hurt when we got a couple of pitches up and they hit it out.

They're trying to get us off their back about doing a good job and opening themselves up to discussing how they could resolve the current situation. Instead, they are just plowing forward and ignoring us even more.

They gave us all we wanted. When you win on the road in this league, you are very fortunate.

It's tricky because you want to look smart, but you also don't want to look like you're completely just of that moment. You don't want to put someone on the cover and have people say, 'Huh?

It's a new concept in general. It's been around the country for at least 10 years in some bigger areas, but it's gaining popularity throughout the country. It's becoming more and more accepted. It's taken up very well here, and people see the benefits of it.

Not only did we have a house on fire, we had multiple brush fires.

I hope he is. God, I hope he is.