Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Reeves

When we were all kids, there was one particular trailer that I think we can all remember. That was the trailer for 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' There was an amazing teaser trailer with all this weird kind of documentary footage. We were like, 'What was that! I've got to see that! What the hell was that?'

Tish Lyons

When we went into overtime, I said 'Yes, we're going to win it. But things turned out differently. Still, I think it's amazing to do that.

Aliza Sherman

We're making money? We're also incurring amazing expenses -- huge -- as we hire more people, want more equipment,

Keisha Castle-Hughes

Thanks to a lot of people, not just myself, 'Whale Rider' had an amazing impact emotionally, and people remember it. I count myself very lucky that all those doors were unlocked, I just had to open them.

Kathryn Hahn

And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.

Katie Lowes

I went to NYU Tisch for undergrad, and it was amazing. My life then was extremely experimental with acting. I did crazy theater where we would be rolling around on the floor. I would be playing grandmothers, and clowns, and all this crazy stuff. Then I would be doing Shakespeare eight hours a day.

Sean Collins

When we came out and saw the entire crowd, it was absolutely packed, and it was an amazing site to walk out to that.

Channing Frye

When we have people coming off the bench like Andre and Hassan, guys who could start for any other team in the country, I think that's kind of amazing to some people,

Blair Taylor

When we get back, we'll have some amazing new recipes and wines to talk about.

Elizabeth Lonsdorf

We found that mothers showed no differential behavior toward their sons versus their daughters. They weren't being nasty to their sons or encouraging to their daughters.

Javier Solana

We're going to continue working politically ... the behavior (of the Russians) is completely unacceptable,

Al Ries

What should a brand leader advertise?Brand leadership, of course. Leadership is the single most important motivating factor in consumer behavior.

Chris Laramore

We want the kids to be physically fit and learn good behavior, sportsmanship, respect for themselves and for others.

Chen Shui-bian

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Charlize Theron

You can shave your head, but I've had to gain a lot of weight for movies, I've had to drop weight really fast for movies. I've had to learn accents or embody physical behaviors or twitches and things like that. And sometimes you take to some things easily and sometimes [not]. That's the challenge of the job.

Charlie Munger

Well in the history of the See's Candy Company they always say, "I never did it before, and I'm never going to do it again." And we cashier them. It would be evil not to, because terrible behavior spreads.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

John Bolton

We are prepared to talk directly with the North Koreans to explain what they have to do to come back into compliance with their international obligations, but we will not negotiate with them in a fashion that rewards bad behavior or that is submission to blackmail,

Jim Crumlish

When we were losing, going into practice every day was tough. You go in every day to practice knowing that it will be brutal. And when you are losing, it's that much worse. You don't get to see the benefits of all your hard work, as you do when you're winning.

Ned Walker

We remain deeply concerned about any interest rate relief that allows another carrier to artificially mask its obligations, potentially paying nothing at all for many years, receive all of the benefits and ultimately leave the taxpayer to foot the bill.

Greg Saunders

We respect their right to show unity, but our focus is on what's right for our Chicago employees and their wages and benefits packages.

John Kasich

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

Cheri Yecke

We would prefer that students in the earliest grades have the benefits of a smaller class taught by a qualified teacher, and we are striving to make this happen.

Peter Hall

We find in most of Western countries slow economic growth, which means that jobs are being created slowly and that generous social benefits systems developed in the 1960s and 1970s are often unaffordable. So in one way or another, all of these countries face this problem.

David Peterschmidt

We believe we have the management, products and financial focus to foster long-term benefits for our shareholders and customers worldwide.

Wan Kim

We believe today's lawsuit will help ensure that New York voters enjoy the benefits of these important reforms.

Michael Thun

What's interesting is that even without the potential benefits of early detection and treatment, at least one-third of cancer deaths are preventable.

Stephen Ward

We've always wanted to compete directly with Dell. Since we announced this merger, we have taken customers away from Dell in every geographic region. We have got the clearest channel practices of anyone in the industry. We have no change in our strategy, in our partners and our channel.

Mike Sponseller

We've always had our event in the second week of January, beginning on Monday. They're the ones who changed the date.

Franco Harris

We've always been very close. But right now I feel there needs to be a change in the direction from where our national administration has taken us and where the Republicans in state government want to take us.

Mike Vrabel

When we went to the 4-3, I thought we gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week on the fly. We've got a lot of different ways of being aggressive.

Mike Vrabel

When we went to a 4-3, it gave them some problems. We're going to make changes every week -- between series and on the fly.

Dave Tippett

When I was in the IHL there were a few teams that used to do that. Some goaltenders just have a knack for breakaways and it can give your team a little bit of a boost. You have to know your personnel before you can make those changes and obviously Craig thinks Morrison is the guy on breakaways.

Source Unknown

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Mary Roach

When I was a kid, I hated everything. I was really skinny, and I'd have a milkshake with an egg in it. Growing up, I ate, like, five different foods. I was not an adventurous eater. But as soon as I left home, that all changed and from that point on, I've been a pretty enthusiastic eater of new and strange food.

Nia Vardalos

Tom will play a man who is forced into a career change when he least expects it.

Brenda Davis

When I talk to Mark I have to constantly remind myself that he's just 13. And the Clearly family truly needs this blessing.

Richard Kaplan

We're standing out there for four days, and we're observing some runs that never came and some that were 20 to 50 minutes late, ... That is clearly unacceptable.

Kent Beck

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

Ricardo Sanchez

What we're seeing here is clearly a continued attempt and a more concentrated effort by the enemy to try to get all the Iraqis that are cooperating with the coalition to break away and not provide us that support that is so crucial to getting to economic progress and the transition to sovereignty,

Maret Traber

What this clearly shows is that to perform their vital roles, vitamins C and E work together. They have a synergistic effect that will not be gained just by intake of one or the other, and adequate levels of these nutrients is especially important for people who smoke.

Eric Jackson

What this clearly illustrates is that when Scotland's two tiers of government work together they are capable of delivering for the people of Scotland.

Lonnie Nasatir

When we got word she was placed on the commission as a representative of the Nation of Islam, we were clearly concerned. This is a body aimed at eradicating hate. In Mr. Farrakhan's words over the years, he's actually espoused hate.

Jeff Kleintop

What he's coming through very clearly and saying is we will probably pause soon but don't assume we're done because we pause. ... But I think the market is just reacting to 'Hey, hey, Ben said we might be done soon'. Whenever you take a little uncertainty out of the picture, well, the market is going to like that.

David Forst

We felt like he needed to get everyday at-bats to break out of his slump, and that's clearly not going to happen in the big leagues.

Howard Schultz

The point of entry for the Starbucks experience has been much more a social experience (in China) rather than competition between coffee and tea,

Gary Dilts

We strengthened our leadership position in key segments such as minivans and large cars with our sales in January. Our car business is up 20 percent, and our LX products are up 62 percent. The Dodge Caliber begins production today and gives us a strong entry into the small car segment with an attractive price starting at $13,985. We are now a full-time car player.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

LaRae Quy

We approached the residence and announced ourselves. The female occupant refused to open the door. After a brief verbal standoff we gained entry and Dow was arrested without incident.

Emraan Hashmi

I wanted to make money very fast, and I was completely confused after college. I didn't know what career options I had. And then I had this entry point in the film industry, and I thought, 'If this is where the fast money is going to come from, let's see how it goes.'

Bill Thomas

We did get an increase in our building aid picture but we in effect have planned some implementation of single point of entry that we were counting on that aid to actually reimburse an expenditure that we're having. So literally there is no increase in the state aid picture for the Rome City School District.

Terry Marshall

We developed this system to aid other workflows. If you don't have the right people reporting to the right people, the routing won't work. The great thing is that it reduces the data entry at the back end and empowers the managers and employees on the front end to make transactions.

John Karevoll

We knew this would happen, and it's happening later than we thought. We thought appreciation was going to come down. We definitely thought the entry and middle markets would be less strong than they are today.

David Talbot

We upgrade URZ to a Buy; we see an entry opportunity with investors.

Geoffrey Robertson

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

Paul Stamm

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Jonathan Mayers

We've always tried to reflect people's diverse music collections. We don't want to dismiss our core in any way, but . . . as great as Widespread Panic has been to us and has been a really big part of what we've done, we can't have Widespread Panic every single year.

Wayne Chrebet

We've always taken great pride in going to other people's stadiums and sticking it to them. We have a great opportunity this week to not only show ourselves, but show everybody with a national game, that were certainly better than a 2-4 team.

Joe Balogh

We've always said that you can't win the league in the first round of the season but you can lose it. I think that is the great part of playing in the NCC.

Jon Gruden

We've always said Chris is going to get better with opportunities to get better. He's got a pizzazz about him on game day that I'm real comfortable with. He's charismatic and clutch. He's shown great resolve and toughness.

Evan Lysacek

We've always had great depth in our men. Certainly we have it this year. And what I think is so wonderful about the top four is that each one has a completely different style.

Mike Browning

We've always had expectations that we were going to be a great football team. And I think we're on our way.

Josh Brown

When we were (warming up) at halftime ... he told me: 'I think it's like a horseshoe with you. Every time I'm around you, everything goes well.'

John Hoch

When we were up seven at halftime, coach told us to keep playing our game. We knew we had to keep rolling and in the second half we just shot lights out.

Tiger Woods

When we were taking the carts back to the tee, ... I couldn't hear anything. In my left ear, I'm half deaf, people whistling and screaming, and then my right ear, I'm half deaf. It was electric, it was loud, people were really into it. J. D. brings huge galleries everywhere he goes.

Mike Mastroianni

When we were down 11 at halftime, I wasn't happy; but I thought we still had a shot. We took them out of their rhythm in the second half and that was the difference.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Gary DiCamillo

We remain on plan to begin rolling out a number of new products, including our instant single-use camera in the second half of 1998. We are confident that 1999 will be one of the company's strongest in recent years.

Alex Yemenidjian

We remain confident of our growth outlook for the second half of 2001 and all of 2002.

Brian Butch

We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.

Dan Niles

We're getting to the latter half of the year. and typically, the industry sells close to 20 percent more PCs in the second half versus the first half. People are getting ready in anticipation of a much stronger second half of the year.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Tim Saunders

We've asked Matt to do some new things to help us get a couple more athletic bodies into the lineup,and he's more than held his own in left field. Most catchers don't run very well and couldn't make the switch to the outfield, but Matt dominates with his quickness when he's playing hockey, and I think that's helped him make the transition.

Rhea Wride

We've always made sure that we held date night -- that we went out on a date at least once a week.

Bethany Irwin

We've always had the offense, it's just defensively we had to turn it up a little bit better. We held them to 16 points at halftime, which I was pretty pleased about.

Geno Zamora

Tom said people in our country should not live like this. We filed law suits in Dona Ana County and it worked for two reasons. The developers knew they would be held accountable and there was some serious reform of the New Mexico Subdivision Act.

Kenneth Fisher

Fundamentally cheap stocks are often held in low regard by market participants. Something may be tainting their perception in investors' minds.

Loyd Baker

What this charge is saying is that if you commit a felony and during the course of that felony, you provoke a deadly confrontation and some is killed, you can be held liable.

Ludwig Mises

When we call a capitalist society a consumers' democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers' ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

Bill Kennedy

We would've liked to have taken those points and held on to them a little.

Rick Segal

When we were there, our influence on where things were going was dramatically higher because of the lack of an open-source community, standards bodies, and the inability of developers at-large to communicate. Those days are so over, it's frightening.

Rachel Elkins

When it came down to it, there were three teams in the running for second place. The percentage of individual wins for Matt and Josh were higher so they took second.

Ken Dey

We remain confident we will continue to see an increase in wages if we can successfully bring in more companies that pay higher wages. Our ultimate goal is to get ahead of inflation.

Mark Snyder

We're so much further ahead of the one practice that I had last year with the first one this year, it isn't even close. The comfort level is so much higher this year.

Bob Bandoni

We're going to tap into his maturity and interpersonal skills. What we are seeing right now are the younger players are comfortable playing with him. He actually brings them to a higher level by virtue of his own play, but also due to the respect he has for his players.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Shannon LaRocque

We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.

John Kosar

We're going to see a new, emerging period of higher long-term interest rates that are going to start now, and I believe they're going to carry on for some time.

Kenneth Fisher

Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than in houses, stocks and gold. The higher rates climb, the happier they are to invest. So if austerity plans drive rates up, it's music to Italian ears.

Peter Capaldi

When I was acting, I was always asking abut the mechanics of filmmaking. I decided I would learn what everyone on set was doing, so I would feel less threatened.

Ken Henderson

We're making less money now than we did 30 years ago. If they have to pay more, they're going to have to cut back somewhere else.

Richard Cook

We're sprouting new ideas as we go along, and the plan is more or less the same.

Augie Garrido

We responded really well to the three runs. As the game went on we played with less energy and effectiveness.

Lawrence Rita

We're going to take a look at the entire scope of our responsibilities in the Department of Defense and determine what is it that we can or should be doing better, differently, more of, less of.

Cody Acree

We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.

Kathleen Parker

It's probably fair to say that Obama's ideas were too big for America's appetite. It would have been nice had he made a few incremental repairs to the economy and left the transformative events for a less stressful time.

Katie Lowes

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

Keegan Bradley

It's such an advantage to be able to hit short irons low on command. When it's windy, you'll hit more greens. But low shots are a great strategy in calm conditions, too: The less time the ball hangs in the air, the less time it has to stray off line from the flagstick.

Kevin Stallings

We're more athletic, but again, I'm not saying that we're at the same athletic level of all of the teams in our conference. Our skill level also has improved. We've been able to compete a little bit more athletically and it's shown up in some areas of our play.

John McCullough

We're making progress, and my challenge to them was to play at this level the rest of the year and keep building on that," ()

Don Young

We remain concerned that Dell may push industry pricing levels lower, responding to actions by competitors, lowering everyone's operating profitability,

Pam Slaton

We're starting to achieve the status of a regional professional orchestra and that's attracting a different level of players.

Melindo Persi

We're spending at a level not supported by the tax base.

Brian Butch

We're so uptight half the darn time. And you can't blame us. We're playing at a level where we had three big games against three great teams and we needed to play hard. We played hard; we didn't make shots. The shots will come. We can't stress here and think we're not going to make any more shots for the rest of our lives.

Mark Snyder

We're so much further ahead of the one practice that I had last year with the first one this year, it isn't even close. The comfort level is so much higher this year.

Colin Lundgren

We're getting to levels now where to buy bonds you have to subscribe to the notion that the economy's going to experience a slowdown and the Fed may have to reverse course later in the year. We don't subscribe to that.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to try a few things to try to clean his mechanics up a little bit. He's capable of really banging it, and he's not doing bad. We're trying to get him to that next level of consistent distance, consistent hang (time) and consistent direction.

Sherry Cooper

We remain of the view that next week's rate hike will not be the Fed's last work this cycle. Indeed, they will likely eventually unwind all of last fall's crisis-induced easing.

David Resler

We're going to get some extra employment growth as people displaced by the hurricanes find their way back into the job market, and that's likely to continue in the first few months of this year.

Steve LeBlanc

We're going to experience a significant amount of flooding. We could for a short time be completely under, and then come out of it after a couple of hours. But we're more than likely to be completely flooded.

Mike Goodman

What we're seeing right now is most likely stage one, with other details to come in the near future.

Hugh Johnson

What we're seeing from Lehman is that market conditions improved through the summer, and that conditions are likely to continue improving. That's showing up in the earnings and in the detail of their reports.

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

Buzz Hargrove

What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.

Adam Mesurier

What they're likely to do is take away the mild and gradual language from the statement.

Thomas Szasz

Whenever masses of people, especially educated people, know something- and when what they know is something they greatly fear because they believe it affects virtually everything they do or want to do - then most likely we stand in the presence of a

Marc Klee

We've always felt that we were going to have to test the bottoms that we've seen. We think what you are seeing today is probably that test and we really don't think that the market is going much lower.

Ellis Verdi

We've always felt that no other agency could match our creative strengths in retail advertising, and this year's continued success at RAMA is a testament to our ability in marketing leading retailers.

Kelly Leonard

When we were talking to them about the marketing, I said traditional theater marketing never works for us. We need college students, we need young people who wouldn't necessarily go to Denver Center. We get a lot of people at Second City who don't know they're coming to an Actors' Equity theater. A lot of marketing we're doing is promoting Red Scare without the Second City name or the Denver Center name.

Maripol

When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and to make jewellery for friends. Later, at 18, I would do my own clothes and make my own patterns. When I first came to New York, people just assumed I was a stylist because I was so into fashion.

Bob Nardelli

Tom Taylor brings decades of company and retail experience to his new role. He has touched virtually every part of company and has in-depth knowledge of stores, products, associates, suppliers and customers. Tom has served in numerous leadership roles that have directly influenced merchandising and marketing efforts.

John Pickett

Tomorrow we've got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

David Spurlock

We're marketing to international business travelers, those people who get on a plane, fly overseas and go right into a meeting.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

David Samson

We're marketing no expectation, and we're trying to introduce people to players.

John Warner

We're going to recommend to the secretary of defense not to use such funds as he has available ... to implement the initial stages of this program.

Larry Richardson

What they'll determine or what they'll recommend will have a lot bearing on saving cats that might want to migrate north of here.

Ken Perrotte

We would recommend against that based on the fact that it's in the direct flight path of military aircraft.

Denise Garcia

We believe this position will ultimately bode well with its users and will not have a significant impact on current traffic and consequent advertising revenues. We recommend investors take advantage of any declines in the stock price today as an opportunity to buy.

Judy Morgan

Years later, we added up the time we had spent together before we got married and discovered that it was only a mere 30 days or so. It worked for us, but I sure didn't recommend it to my children.

Roey Thorpe

We're hoping they will recommend civil unions becoming legal and established in the state of Oregon and discrimination becoming illegal.

Louis Navellier

I almost always recommend investors get fully invested, since it's better to put your money to work than to let it simply track the rate of inflation.

Richard Head

The other thing is to ask the person on the phone to identify themselves and who they are working for, ... At any time they should be able to provide something in writing. We recommend that people dont respond over the phone but have information mailed to them. That gives them time to check it out and, if it is a scam, (the false organization) wont have written material.

Paul Hansen

We believe that the case remains strong for SA equities, in both absolute and relative terms, and continue to recommend an overweight exposure.

Todd Park

When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission - to deliver something that was helpful... Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.

David Katz

You don't know who's going to win until they actually win and by the time stocks react to that, it's too late.

Ian Shepherdson

We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,

Dan Niles

We remain negative on PCs and semis and believe there is still downside risk to estimates and stock prices.

Julio Ziegelmann

We're starting to catch the technology wave and stocks tied to Internet are the stand-outs.

John Hughs

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. You're seeing that today, ... There's still a lot of uncertainty about the economy and about the change in Bush's economic team. We're also coming off a period where the Dow rose for 8 weeks and so you're seeing a little pullback. You saw it last week and I think it's continuing.

S. Hughes

We're getting to the year-end period and stocks are starting to drift. But the pullback so far has been orderly,

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Cody Acree

We're going to need to see follow-through from Intel. Good news from Intel could set a tone and start to give those that were most fearful about the outlook for chip stocks less reason to be concerned.

Matt King

We've always gone to watch shows there. It's a very cool atmosphere.

Eli Juarez

When we were down by 19 I'm sure people left to go watch the other game. It came down to earning some respect. We decided to go out and leave everything on the floor. I think the kids earned that respect with their effort.

John Bell

When I was mixing the album I was just cheering it on, ... I was actually getting to put myself in a position of observation of listening to the band, watching it, experiencing it probably closer to a fan thing than I've ever had the ability to do, or that I've ever let myself do. And I was just like, yeah, George is getting it on. And that's what you want for anybody's performance.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

Chelsea Peretti

When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don't remember how old she was at the time, but she just had this edgy hour that had so much funny stuff in it, and she was so fearless. If you only watch her on the red carpet, you don't get a sense of what a legendary standup comedian she is.

Dan Harmon

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

Sergio Garcia

You don't laugh about your fellow professionals. But, for sure, I'm going to watch and I'm going to compare what I did and what they're doing or what they can do.

Don Marshall

We're so excited to be able to provide this kind of experience for both the community and visitors to the Chattanooga area. Not only is it the world's largest single screen outdoor theater, but where else can you park your car, throw a Frisbee for a little while and then relax and watch a movie? It's going to be incredible!

Todd Coffey

We're so close to Atlanta. We used to come down here and watch Braves games,

Greg Garrison

We've battled adversity all year and have been in those kind of situations. Our kids know they're never out of a game. But it looked pretty bleak there for a bit.

Tony Haynes

We've averaged 20-plus wins a year for the last five years, five straight NCAA tournaments. Kids graduate. Hey, that's a successful program.

Clint Hurdle

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

Shawn McDowell

We've always thought this senior class had the physical skills, it was a matter of them jelling together as a unit. A year can make a big difference both mentally and physically and the kids have really matured.

Jim Hendry

We've always had a lot of respect for him. He pitched so well against us for Houston. He went out there last year with some discomfort and gutted out his starts in Boston. He's a winning-type guy. He's a winning pitcher who, when he's out there, he wins you games.

Sean Cotter

We've always felt Heidi was a real good hitter, and she's definitely a feared hitter in the conference, but it just seemed like she just wasn't able to put it together for long stretches. And this year she's just been in a really good place, I think, both physically and mentally.

Ray Preston

When we were talking to him, he didn't want to commit to how long. So I said, 'Try a year and see how it works out.' Fortunately he's been there since.

John Tesh

When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew my jazz background, suggested I try big-band music, so we spent a year experimenting with it in concert, and the audience reaction was really good.

Mike Curb

When I was lieutenant governor, Jerry Brown was governor and you might recall that he spent just about a year of my term out of the state.