Sam Taylor Quotations

With the new design center we are building loyalty, a community and tying it in to our multi-channel strategy.

We're right where we want to be. We've just got to keep playing good baseball.

I don't think anyone looked at Mt. Pleasant as an easy game. It's been that way all year for us. We lost a couple of tough games that we need to learn how to close out, but I think we proved that we can play with anyone.

If a reseller has a pressing technical issue, they can find the solution in just a few minutes at our DTE. It's an invaluable opportunity that we're thrilled to provide to resellers free of charge.

He's a great player and probably struggled a little bit tonight, but I would also like to think our defense had something to do with it. I've watched him put up some big numbers but our defense was totally focused on stopping him.

Going inside to our big kid was something we focused on. He came up big tonight. We knew they (Trojans) were not a real big team and that we might be able to get inside. It worked out for us.

I said this after the game, that it really does take all of us to win and play well.

We had a lot of young guys playing tonight and hopefully they learned something. We will try and build on that for next year. We had a nice run and beat three quality teams.

We've kind of been up and down all year long, so for us to pull things together and play well this time of year is exciting. It would be huge if we could make this next step as a basketball program. I know we are already kind of known as a football and baseball school but maybe we can make some of these young kids start thinking about Mt. Pleasant basketball too.

We haven't played anyone quicker than Rhode along the way. With him in the lineup, there is always a chance that he will come up with a big steal or find some way to kick the ball away.

We don't light up the score boards very often, so it is important for us to get out early with a lot of energy and really set the tone early. In previous games where we did that, we obviously did much better than we did tonight.

We've carefully chosen the best instructors for our DTE who are industry leaders. Not only is there technical training for those who do hands-on work at the installation, we're also providing business building sessions to help our resellers plan their growth strategies for 2006 and beyond.

Now, e-commerce reports to the head of retail.

They are a scrappy team that shoots the ball pretty well. Harman will put it up from anywhere and they don't back down. At this point of the season you know you are going to face a good team.

There was no energy. For whatever reason, we just didn't bring any energy on the floor. It was disappointing.

The more vendors you add, the less money there is.

The big win is leveraging the strength of one channel across another. So how do we get our store-only customers to buy across both channels? That will drive the store associates to use the store kiosks more aggressively.

They can custom build a room and see how the room and the appliances look in different colors or in two or three dimensions.

It was just a momentum shift that we really couldn't recover from. We needed to step up at the beginning of the second half and we just couldn't. I think their pressure kind of got to us a little bit and they are just such a good team that we made too many mistakes against them to win.

Anytime your 6-foot-8 kid is catching the ball five or six feet way from the basket it's a good thing.

If you can do it yourself, you should. The goal is to build up your base of customers.

In the second half we had a lot more energy and did a much better job on the boards. We had just dug ourselves too deep of a hole in the first half.