Mike Forest Quotations

We know we're here to win now, and that's actually great to hear when you're a player who's been around. Everybody in this clubhouse will be disappointed if we're not in the World Series, because we're not rebuilding. We're here to win now, and that's an urgency that feels great.

I would say since the Second World War, it was the most interesting time to be the foreign editor.

I thought we played well offensively for a while, but we got tired and that hurt us on both ends. Each time we play in these environments, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and now Duke, we play a little better. So hopefully we will improve again the next time out.

Law enforcement is a glaring example. We have separate booking, separate road patrols. We have two crime labs.

Our labor costs have moved from 18 percent of a part to 2.5 percent. We've watched this eliminate the supposed benefits of taking work overseas and it's allowed us to win work back from offshore competition. Our work orders have increased steadily enough that our work force has attained constant growth. Our employees today have higher levels of job security, receive more advanced training, and are better compensated than ever before. If we hadn't shifted, the work they're doing today would most likely be done overseas.

It feels like we played seven league games. It was a great college basketball game. We gave ourselves a chance to win, but Pitt made plays when they had to.

We can play power football with him down after down, ... He can take that punishment.

Today's facilities more closely resemble private apartments in their configuration and amenity packages. Suites and efficiency apartments are more prevalent, as are amenities such as vending, ATMs and technology infrastructure.

This team . . . probably does represent the Big Ten's best chance to go to the Final Four this season.

With Gerell, you have to make him find you, ... He likes to scramble a lot, and he is on the run and has to find you. With Mark, he is more of the drop-back passer who will sit and go through all of his reads to find you.

The thing that he is, that probably sticks out a little bit on our team, he's really quick. He moves to a spot really quickly, he can get off his feet quickly, get into a shot quickly. He makes a back cut, he separates from people. We don't have a lot of people who can do that.

That 11 points is a joke. That's no indication of how tough the game was.

Your loyalty is more naturally to your teammates and coaches. If you've been around a few years like me, you develop a bond with the city and the whole concept of a franchise. But that's hard for a lot of guys to do these days.

You never feel comfortable. You're constantly making adjustments anyhow, ... It's such a day-to-day thing because you never know who's going to be there struggling each day, especially when you've got new guys coming in. I'm sure they'll be new guys (next spring). There will be turnover.

It wasn't the best game of baseball that we have played, but we played with energy and were able to get the win. Maine deserves a lot of credit for the way they played. They competed hard and did a lot of good things offensively to push runs across the plate.

It might be a little tougher to get a seat, but not a lot because you can always book in advance.

The New London GOP has to start branching out to the ethnic communities in the city.

Ike was going to have to work his way into the rotation with the guys we've got back. Any rookie needs experience. It's not something you step in and dominate. The best place for that would have been exhibitions, but that's not available to us, so we have to go to Plan B.

If oil prices had stayed where they were in 2004 we would be talking about how profitable the airlines are.

I like what he's doing, and I really like his work ethic. He has good baseball instincts and he's made a very good impression.

It has the potential to revolutionize health care. It's going to change the way we do things. Information will go from care setting to care setting and from doctor to doctor.

I don't think they're going to see anything early, to be honest. The guys are going out there and getting their work in. There's competition going on. ... I'm just looking for a healthy competition. We're going to go on past history as well. But somebody's going to have to rise up and get it.

Their kids did a better job of making adjustments than ours did. It's baseball in Maine this time of the year and you have to deal with it.