Opening Quotations | Page 5

With us, everything is sort of new, from a personnel standpoint. Simonitis is really the only one that was in the lineup on Opening Day a year ago.

We let them take the opening kickoff and drive it in for a touchdown. But after that, we really held them down. They got a long run toward the end of the game when we had our younger players in, and that accounted for about 80 yards of their offense.

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

Like a Pearl Harbor, they're going into their opening weekend knowing that they spent $110 million making this movie. That pressure must be enormous.

Letting them take the opening drive right down against us wasn't very encouraging. We responded. We had some guys make plays ... (but) we just didn't play very well.

The Potter franchise is just irresistible to moviegoers. The combination of the Potter books and the love audiences have for the movies conspired a big opening weekend.

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

The perception coming in is that you're going to be opening yourself up to personal attacks and ridicule from other councilors.

We are pretty intent on opening more campuses in North Carolina because the achievement gap is so great, whether you are talking about the difference between blacks and whites or the difference between eastern North Carolina and Chapel Hill.

I didn't have any ties to Akron before moving here with my family and opening a business in 1995. I just fell in love with this place.