All clubs are after quality players and guys who are goal kickers. I am very confident in the quality of our football club. The people we have got around our footy club, I believe they can get the best out of any player.

We're so lucky to have lifelong friends who are very good to us, ... Steve just called and said, 'Come on over!'

We're all just amazed, ... that the Seattle Symphony people have stepped forward on our behalf like this. But I know that people in the LPO would have done the same thing for them. It's a small world — symphonies are like families, so we're all sort of related.

Look, we understand that every club has got a wish-list and some years it is fulfilled and other years it isn't. You can't have it all all of the time so we are not complaining about it.

I don't know how we can go into a partnership with them when we don't have the information.

There's a lot of class spirit, school spirit. There's not a lot of pressure to dress up. This year, our theme is 'Neon Nights.' Everything is going to be blacklit. The students wanted to move away from tradition.

He basically lives and dies with (Wilkerson). He's on the computer every night checking his scores.

Right now I can't comment or categorically deny anything.

We haven't spoken since, but we expect everything will be fine.