Eric Sorensen Quotations

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

It all boils down to mistakes, and he had some today. He's beaten half of the kids ahead of him, but he just didn't wrestle his best today.

Mercury has worked hard to focus on improving its product quality and customer service, and it shows. Mercury's success this year in these two engine segments shows that positive change happens when companies are serious about both listening and decisively responding to their customers.

With a lot of freshman and first-time wrestlers, you generally don't expect to get medals. The kids are all a little bit green, and they'll learn from this. It was sure tough on our seniors, though. We expected them all to take home medals.

There's no obvious reason why (Bobby) can't take state. If he just wrestles his best, I don't know why anyone would beat him.

Again this kind of thing has happened all the time, according to this official, so the Canadian vehicle now carried on down the road after the convoy had pulled all the way over and off to the side.

This is a special dividend and is in addition to the normal quarterly dividend previously announced.

In a number of ways, manufacturers have to dig deeper into their engineering toolboxes to find ways to make gains in customer satisfaction. The industry has peaked, at least temporarily, and it will take renewed efforts to again move the competitive bar higher. With the percentage of first-time boat buyers now declining, it's very important to first attract and then keep people in boating, and part of the solution is producing the finest possible engines.

Highlights of 2005 included launching of the Fruit Plus line of juice and juice combinations and obtaining distribution of a few select juice products in Central and Eastern Canada.

He's really like a different wrestler out there now. You can really just see that confidence in him. It's really been amazing to watch, and I hope he does well.

He's never come in as mentally strong as he has this year. And his strength and conditioning has all come together, but just with how he has shown up with his mental makeup to this point makes him a champion in my book. I really don't care how he places Saturday.

The EFI four-stroke segment is still the benchmark of the outboard industry in terms of quality and satisfaction. From top to bottom, there are some outstanding engines being produced in this segment. However, the brands in the DI two-stroke segment have made some substantial improvements in 2005 and they are clearly producing some of the best engines in the industry. We also see a change in that carbureted four-strokes no longer outperform EFI two-stroke outboards as a result of EFI two-strokes improving and carbureted four-stroke engines declining. The gap between the two four-stroke technologies is now the widest we have seen.