Glen Taylor Quotations

I don't view my opinions as the right ones; they are just different.

I have degrees in social science, math and physics. Everything but business.

I thought I might like to farm. But I didn't know the economics of it. Teachers basically steered me away from it.

I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare me for this business life.

I'm a mathematician by education, but I have this other thing. A gut instinct.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I think it's important to talk to your inner thing. The purpose is to go over the decisions that will affect my life and others. I pray that I don't make my decisions based on ego.

We didn't really feel poor. You don't know that as a kid, but we really didn't have any cash. When machinery broke down, we didn't have money for parts, so we did our best to fix it.

If we had won a number of those close games, we probably wouldn't have thought about doing the trade. Looking at the results, which were below our expectations, we felt we had to do something. Wally was a player other teams wanted.

I don't know. We'll see if we get to that point.

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

I do not see that as a possibility.

I came to work right away. That's the problem with those competitive guys.

I have always valued his input. He has not surprised me with any of his comments.

He has my confidence because I've worked with him all these years.

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

I think you work with a guy over a longer period of time and you try to judge him over the whole period of time. Though we're having difficulties this year, I don't just judge a person... . I assume some of the times we played better than we should have. Now we're playing probably less than my expectations. I don't want to judge him just on this (season).

It isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. It would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.

Konrad probably has more of a varied offense than Brock did at this time. The other thing that's probably helped Konrad is that he's got two additional years in college wrestling.

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Yeah, it isn't that we couldn't use somebody like that. We certainly could with his experience, and we know him. It's that he was signed at a salary that's going to cause us problems. So it would be difficult, it would have to be one of those things where New York would have to say that they really want to get rid of the player and could help us in some financial way to do it. We wouldn't know until this summer if that would even be a possibility.

We'll let the whole year play out ... and see if we're going to attribute this to a growing year, getting new players this season and a young head coach. We'd have to build quickly next year, though. It's very hard to get a quality player (in free agency). Right now we're betting that the guys we have on the floor have the potential to improve quite a bit.

We don't have a top candidate at this point. I have never met P.J.

When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire, we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff. We will use his many talents on both the basketball and business sides of the team.

When I got back to Corbin with the dogs, I was glad I stayed in the K-9 program. We've got the community behind us, that's very obvious. The community wants us to have these dogs.

We have gotten to know Fred very well over the past few years, both as a basketball player and as a person. When Fred relayed to us his decision to retire we didn't waste a minute in asking him to join our front office staff.

We will try to convince him that it would be to his advantage to play with us.

It would be easier if we could just say it's one thing. One game it's the defense, the next game it's the offense, another game it's something else.

The things that I admire him most for are his competitiveness and an ability to rise out of a rough neighborhood. The thing we all saw about him was his great love for his fans, in particular children. He just had a tremendous personality. He never forgot where he came from.

That's not coming from us; I certainly haven't pushed it. Nobody's presented me with a case (for a trade). That's not something I think we need to do.

You wouldn't even think about it until the year was over. At this point, I'm supporting him and trying to help him as best we can. I still think he's a good coach. We've had a tough season. He's learning. I don't think he would deny that, with young guys and stuff like that.

The way we're going to go about this is it's going to be like schooling. He's just left one career and we want him to have a long-term career with this organization. As Fred said, he wants to have a very important part of that, make us a team that we would all like, and that is a team that has the ability to win a championship.

Absolutely not. We've got plenty of good guys. We've just got to get more out of them.

It makes it difficult, but no more difficult than it has been in the past. It won't make it impossible.

It was hard for me. He worked with me every day. We did a lot of stuff together ... I almost left the K-9 program.

In hindsight I would have done a lot of things differently.

I just have to look at the long run. In the long run, we've done some really nice things. Overall our team, since I bought it 10 years ago, we've been a really good team.

I don't see that we have a bad team. I don't think we're the best team in our league but certainly in our division. Our goal was to win our division, and I think we have the players to do that. We've lost so many close games.

I do not believe WEA has the market briefs referred to in evidence provided to the Cole inquiry today.