We've got to keep our composure and not let getting down by a couple of points affect us. It's pretty important to get a nice cushion. But we're also pretty confident in ourselves in the fourth quarter. If we're in a tight game in the fourth quarter, we're pretty confident we'll pull away with it.

Jacob Tucker

Our conviction level has been buoyed by Sirius' fourth-quarter results and long-term free cash flow outlook.

Benjamin Swinburne

Most of the rise in 2005 was in the final quarter of last year, where the gold price hit 17-year highs. We think it might get to $US650 this year.

Greg Canavan

Looking ahead, the fourth quarter will also be affected by comparisons to the almost $50 million of politically-related ad demand from last year's fall elections and a continuing soft advertising outlook in the U.K.,

Craig A. Dubow

It's close-quarter, hand-to-hand combat in the dark. If this guy was a tunnel rat and lived through that and excelled at it, it pretty much (indicated) what kind of character he was.

Sam Elliott

Ray was on a mission. He had that proverbial scowl on his face. He got a little anxious midway through the fourth quarter. He was getting open. He did a good job of getting open the entire game.

Bob Hill

In the first quarter, especially, I knew we were in for a battle. We haven't been really tested this year, and maybe that caught us off guard.

Ronald Preston

They tell us we will be in by Christmas. That's good because the first quarter of the year is one of our busiest as far as trade shows.

Betty Stewart

I was disappointed with getting the two quick fouls in the first quarter. As soon as I came back in, the object was to get the ball up the court.

Demetrius Porter

We had a strong third quarter.

Chris Fenton

The first quarter looks bright and will boost electronics shares since consumer demand and economic growth seem to be rosy for the whole of 2006.

Michael On

Salisbury couldn't have shot it any better in the first quarter. But we finally got over that initial burst, and I give my kids a lot of credit for withstanding it.

Scott Dalton

We anticipate further like-for-like growth in the fourth quarter, supported by further store openings.

Charles Dunstone

I am sure they will have prepared hard for this game after our victory over them last year. Emotionally they will be pretty jacked up for us. We will have to come out and do our best to set the tempo of the game, especially in the first quarter when they will be so fired up.

Todd Butler

I'm not leaving. The people who live here and love it have kind of a carnival-like quality to them. Nothing much bothers us. If I left the Quarter, I'd only get depressed.

Finis Shelnutt

Although the quarter (for CNH) was a disappointment, the outlook shows some promise.

Scott Burns

We'd like to play a game with no turnovers and keep the other team from big plays. If we can get into the fourth quarter, anything can happen.

Andy Smyth

They beat the Street slightly, which is great. This is the third straight quarter of progress.

Glenn Stewart

We had too many turnovers in the first quarter that pretty much started our downfall from the beginning. We panicked too much in the first quarter and we weren't really running our offensive sets that well.

Rob Shepard

This was a good quarter, but not spectacular.

Art Hatfield

It felt good not to have to sit down during that second quarter. I was able to stay out there and give my team a spark.

Danilio Hutchinson

Nat is the kind of guy who wants to be great. If his team wins 52-3, he's kicking himself because of a second-quarter holding penalty.

Nat Dorsey

Most business lines continue to exhibit strong sales during the quarter, including sales of consumer loans, deposits and credit cards.

Howard Atkins

Will we see Aaron Rodgers in the fourth quarter? When that's the only pressing question late in the game, it's an unusual day.

Cliff Christl

There seems very little doubt that the Fed will go a quarter-point. There is no evidence of inflation pressures yet, so the Fed can afford to be patient if they want to, but I don't think they want to wait around for problems.

William Dudley

We didn't run our offense very well in the first half. We forced shots. That first quarter has been a headache for us all year.

Mike Feagans

That first quarter was huge for us tonight. We came out and scored 24 points and set the tone that this was going to be a good game.

Joe Konieczny

Our defense all year hasn't been where it needs to be. In the fourth quarter, we showed signs of playing better defense. It's been a struggle all year.

Gregg Zenerovitz

We started pressing in the second quarter and it forced some turnovers. Their coach made some good adjustments after halftime, which slowed the game down. There was no flow to the game.

Todd Tate

It was a clean beat. It was a quarter with true operations-driven upside.

Robert Lafleur

The company has lost credibility and if they were to disappoint this quarter, it would be a serious blow to the stock and I would have to question owning it going forward.

Ted Parrish

At one point in the fourth quarter, I thought we were going to do it, but then they got some easy baskets and then we put them on the foul line.

Martha Altmire

[Did that mean he agreed with Wyman's estimate that up to a quarter of the membership favored making the club coed?] I think it's true, ... Everybody in the club anticipated that it would happen eventually. I heard it discussed. I think a lot of members feel the way Tom did -- but not to resign over.

Wheelock Whitney

You can hike for a quarter of a mile and find a beautiful waterfall.

Matt Lombardi

We moved the ball pretty well offensively, especially in the first half and the third quarter.

Bill Pekarek

It was a tough quarter -- no question. But we have a plan to rectify this.

Don Leclair

Our young guys are still learning. They grew up a lot tonight by playing most of the fourth quarter.

Walt Smith

The market correction which began abruptly with a sharp inventory adjustment in the 2000 fourth quarter, is likely to continue through much of this year.

Pasquale Pistorio

Investors expected a good quarter and they got it ... the focus now is what happens when Red Rock opens on April 18.

Brian Mcgill

This is sort-of the real dead period for the quarter and it's also the summer, and a lot of people are on vacation.

Ned Riley

Overall, our first-quarter results were disappointing as we were up against record-high earnings from last year.

Paul Pressler

Nevertheless, fourth-quarter growth was far more than anybody was looking for, and it is something that's going to keep the (Federal Reserve) on notice that growth is eclipsing their expectations by a visible amount.

Kevin Flanagan

I just don't think we played very well after that first half of a quarter. I'm a little disappointed in our intensity level, and I was disappointed in our penalties. ... We didn't keep the ball enough to keep their offense off the field.

Craig Rigsbee

Gatorade was a huge driver in the prior quarter, and so it is nice to see that momentum continuing. It is just another textbook Pepsi quarter that we have come to rely on. Everything I have seen so far is at or above expectations.

Peter Schofield

Jefferson seemed to get hot each time we started to pull away. They would find the open man for a 16-17-foot jump shot and they just didn't miss in the fourth quarter.

Mick Bittick

I don't lose any sleep whether they miss by 2 or 6 or 8 cents. The concern is how this ends, do they come back as one team, or do they come back one at a time with an attitude. That could impact [on whether] you recover in the quarter.

Cai Von Rumohr

I'm not that surprised. Listening to the first-quarter conference call, [Chief Financial Officer] John Devine was agitated about European, South American, and as a whole, international results.

James Kelleher

We do get a sense that search advertising has picked up since mid-August and that this recovery will continue in the fall and the fourth quarter.

Marianne Wolk

It was an extremely confusing quarter. It looks like their tax rate was lower than expected, so I think they did a little bit better than people were expecting. But it seems to have been driven by the tax rate.

Bill Leach

It's one of those games that is behind us now. It didn't help that we scored only three points in the third quarter but there's a reason why they beat New London the other day.

Tim Payne

Pretty much everyone, as well as their Uncle Bob, is expecting the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates by 25 basis points [a quarter of a percentage point] to 3 per cent at tomorrow's announcement.

Douglas Porter

Every quarter against West, they're going to come out ready to play. It's a matter of matching their intensity and getting the momentum. If you don't come out and play every single play, you slack for even 2 minutes and game's over.

Ben Anderson

It was the whole team that played defense that gave us a comfortable cushion there in the fourth quarter.

Stan Glowiak

I knew Amanda was out (in the first quarter), and I had to take control a bit and just be a good leader. I wanted to make good decisions so my teammates could follow, and I think they did a good job.

Alison Lacey

This quarter delivered exceptionally strong applications performance driven by the successful integration of PeopleSoft.

Gregory Maffei

It changes each quarter, it fluctuates pretty widely.

Jeff Prescott

It's a very gloomy picture. We can reasonably expect a very weak economic picture for the first and second quarter.

Tomoko Fujii

Star Wars Episode Three (And One Quarter): Revenge Of The Hicks.

Aaron White

We see the most number of job offers happening in the fourth quarter. This is the best time to be in the market.

Rick Cobb

The first quarter results were in line with our plan for the quarter, although gross margins were somewhat stronger than planned.

Jerald Fishman

A mild winter has allowed the U.S. to avoid much higher energy prices, particularly for natural gas and home heating oil, which could have seriously slowed the expansion. As we head into the spring quarter, the nation's economy is essentially at full capacity with growing pressures on inflation.

Marshall Vest

Both of our post players picked up their third fouls in the second quarter. Our bench did all right, but we struggled offensively.

Tim Ricketts

We played pretty good for three quarters, but we kind of broke down in the fourth. (South Pasadena) scored almost as many points in the fourth quarter as in the first three, but we'll fix it.

Derrick Delton

It was a positive quarter, with everything in line in terms of their guidelines and our expectations that they would raise their dividend.

David Hartley

Old Cabbage Head was used at the Manatee Create Co., which was located only about a quarter-mile from here.

Jay Duke

The fourth quarter we struggled, but the most important thing was, we got the win.

Steve Seymour

If a company has stable earnings quarter after quarter, ... and each quarter its earnings go up another penny, and then all of a sudden, they don't go up anymore, investors go nuts.

Jason Zweig

Elkins did make a run. They hit a few buckets that they hadn't been making and when you get inside the fourth quarter, it's going to favor the home team. When they did cut the lead to 4, that's when we stuck five fresh legs in and that really made a difference that last five minutes.

Jim Goins

Our base case is that they (Fed) will go to five percent this quarter and then pause. There is a risk that they could do one more, but we're sticking with five percent.

Bilal Hafeez

The economy is continuing to run at a strong pace in the third quarter. The underlying trend in durable goods orders is positive and the housing market continues to run strong.

Dean Maki

We didn't handle Summertown's pressure well in the fourth quarter. Our girls played hard, but we didn't play smart late in the game.

Chad Hall

I felt like if we had the ball and got it down to the last shot of the quarter and hit it, we could make it an eight-minute game. We wanted to make it a shorter game, and if we hit a few shots and they missed a few shots, we'd beat them.

Steve Mcfall

We got careless in the fourth quarter. I think with what the girls had to go through the last 24 hours, it was to be expected that they would have letdowns at times.

Gary Brunner

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Michael Carty

We expect financial conditions to tighten in the second quarter.

Hong Liang

Our goal was to hold them in the 40s, but that second quarter was just too big.

Keith Andrews

Given our excellent position in the communications and electronics markets and our strong backlog levels, we continue to feel comfortable with fourth quarter earnings per share of 39 cents.

Ned Barnholt

We came out shooting the ball in the first quarter but they fought back like I knew they would. We tried going to a couple of different defenses but it didn't work. We knew going into the third quarter we had to play like we did in the first quarter.

Jimmy Littleton

Danny had a good fourth quarter. He finished some fast-break points on the other end. He was out in front and got some deflections.

Al Carter

We had a really good first quarter and when you get a big lead like we did so early in the game, it's harder to protect it. You know a team as good as Hinsdale South is going to make a run.

Jim Bageanis

This strength could result in orders coming in as high as $1.4 billion, above our original $1.2 billion estimate for the quarter.

Brett Hodess

The third-quarter Employment Cost Index is ... reassuring in the sense that labor costs as measured on this index remain very contained, in contrast to some other labor cost indexes.

Pierre Ellis

Our solid first-quarter performance is in line with our expectations for the quarter and demonstrates progress towards achieving our financial goals for the year. We continue to remain focused on preparing for potential new product launches in 2003.

Arthur D. Levinson

Looking ahead, we continue to foresee an excellent year for Knight-Ridder. Advertising strength has grown each quarter, and we are optimistic that the fourth will be strong as well.

Ross Jones

Our 1 percent growth in Europe is affected by currency. In the quarter, the effect of the euro took about 9 percentage points of growth. That's still good growth. I'd love to see North American sales be higher than that. Our focus is to grow the top line, but profitably.

Kevin Murai

It's going to be a lot of hard hitting. It's going to be tough, and it's probably going to come down to the fourth quarter.

Travis Payne

In the first quarter we were a little jittery. It's kind hard not to be nervous. I'm a senior, and I'm still nervous.

Lierre Dancy

The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to 4.25 percent.

Craig Alexander

Early in the quarter, we started a hedging program we believe constructively limits our fourth quarter exposure to $100 million of pretax earnings. The entire adjustment in the fourth quarter is because of currency.

Jesse Greene

This was a solid quarter for Dell. But by their unique standards, it's not a home run.

Kurt King

This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century.

John Glenn

We just had a revaluation here folks. Has your valuation gone down by a quarter, I don't think so.

Charles Kent

They're the league favorite, but they're beatable. If we could have made some shots in the first half and played a little better in the third quarter, we could have been right there.

Jerry Woolsey

In the first quarter we were moving the ball well and were going to our strengths. But in the second quarter we had no concept of what we were doing. We were playing 'I' basketball instead of 'team' basketball.

Steve Austin

They issued great results ... much better than consensus. Factor number two: their guidance is above Street consensus for the next quarter.

Jonathan Hykawy

This quarter particularly, we expect some tough film comps (comparisons) and a bit of weakness around newspapers and TV stations.

Nola Hodgson

I had to call two time-outs in the first quarter to stop (Southern Nash's) momentum. That's something I haven't had to do in a long time.

Sandra Langley

They were playing harder. They were getting after loose balls, long rebounds. We had to match their energy. In the third quarter and fourth quarter, we did a much better job.

Byron Scott

Going into the fourth quarter, I just wanted to keep up the intensity and try to keep Brewster from going on another run.

Mike Crews

Our offense still gives us trouble sometimes because we don't have the consistency we need. We had our chances in the fourth quarter to score enough points to win, but the ball just wouldn't go in for us.

Todd Wetterling

We didn't execute very well, and they played their zone well, but we settled for outside shots instead of continuing to try to get the ball inside, and we just didn't do a good job in the third quarter of getting the ball where we needed it. I credit them for some of that, and some of it is we weren't patient. Their zone was good, but our patience was not good.

Robert Griffin

We can't afford to go out and not compete for 32 minutes. It doesn't matter who's out on the court. We had a let-down in the third quarter, and we were in too big of a hole to pull ourselves out of in the fourth quarter.

Marcus Knott

They just got awestruck just standing there and watching. Actually, probably in the fourth quarter, there were four of them just not catching the ball and two people going to the same spot, and things like that, and it cost us.

Russ Halverson

We had a challenging quarter due to the wet and cool spring across the country, the National Hockey League lockout and continued price discounting in our key markets.

John Sleeman

In the 1950s, about a quarter of corporate executives died before they hit 65 so they died in office. There was a notion that you better get out by 65 if you want a retirement. Now, people are living longer and they're also living healthier. People don't have to retire so they say the heck with it. You see these founding CEO-type folks hanging around forever.

Peter Cappelli

We are probably in the process of revising our first-quarter GDP estimate up again after we moved it up last week to 4.7 percent.

Gerald Lucas

Our pressure defense was great. We knew they had some good athletes, but we were able to shut them down after the first quarter.

Tee Newman

At this stage, it appears that the momentum from our accelerated profit improvement effort will continue in the second quarter.

Christopher B. Galvin

We are very pleased with our first-quarter results. All key elements of the business performed very well, and we were able to exceed our previous expectations.

Richard Fain

He caught fire in the second quarter, and we managed to pull within 10 points.

Paul Nocito

The consumer spending figures are better that what we were expecting... The October revision is important and it shows the trend in the fourth quarter is positive.

David Naude

Some people probably were looking for a little more upside on the quarter, and the fact that they're guiding for a potential downturn in the chipset business I think has some people a little bit concerned.

Mark Mckechnie

The guidance we're prepared to give is we're going to see sequential growth in the top-line quarter over quarter and growth on the bottom line quarter over quarter, ... We need to perform. Performance is our mantra, and out here we are working hard to perform.

Henry Schacht

I'll tell you. We were playing little bit to passively. We were a lot more aggressive in the fourth quarter. We've got to start playing passionately from the beginning.

Ladreda Akins

Despite the challenging environment, especially in the home loans business, we delivered solid performance, achieving 12 percent earnings per share growth for the quarter and 14 percent for the year.

Kerry Killinger

Today's figures show that in the fourth quarter of 2005, consumers simply ran out of steam.

Christian Weller

We saw a pretty significant, 12 percent quarter-on-quarter decline in memory prices.

Mike Sadler

We did a good job defensively early on. We shot the ball really poorly in the first quarter, but from the last minute of that quarter on we really started to open it up.

Bob Feasel

The second quarter represents an example of our priorities during these times – customer growth, financial discipline, and continued investment in innovation.

Scott Kriens

The focus is on earnings, but despite good results in the past quarter, the outlook for the first quarter is not so strong.

Neil Massa

I love my horse. He ran big today. He had a little trouble the last quarter, but I put him in the clear. I had a lot of horse.

Cornelio Velasquez

We want to launch one big reality show a quarter.

Kevin Kay

There was a lot of learning and a lot of coaching and a lot of teaching right up until the end of every game. Our players had to learn how to close a game out, and how to be ruthless and not have mental lapses in the third quarter.

Bernie Mullin

Going up to their gym and playing up there, I honestly expected a closer game. But with the first quarter that we had and the guys started off shooting the ball well, it was pretty incredible.

Doug Nofziger

While our checks suggest that there was a general pickup in hardware business at the end of the March quarter, this was probably not sufficient for IBM to make our original revenue forecasts.

Laura Conigliaro

Yes, we've got more money this year from the quarter mill than last year. But we also have more programs and more people. You can't say no to those people.

Rick Burton

We got so fatigued because of the hectic pace we played in the first half that they were able to make a run at us when the fourth quarter started. We ended up having to make free throws to win it.

Roy Backus

This has nothing to do with the Fed. This is all end-of-quarter window dressing.

Scott Bleier

We had a hard time running our offense, especially in the fourth quarter. Effort-wise, I felt good about this. All our guys put everything into the game.

Scott Orness

Regis missed earnings badly in a critical quarter for establishing credibility with consumer investors. Instead, this miss has created questions as to whether Alberto's beauty supply business is truly better off as a part of Regis.

Justin Hott

Billy played well. He got into foul trouble in the second quarter. He got two fouls in the second so I pulled him. We were down at half by six but they had us down by as many as 12, but I thought he really came back in the second half. It was a big game for Billy.

Larry Hogan

Overage in the quarter (was) mostly due to very strong investment banking results, particularly trading, and good expense control.

Glenn Schorr

We're not going to have numbers to write home about in the first quarter, although they will show improvement, ... The first quarter will continue to have some residue from the difficulties of the fourth quarter, but nothing of the magnitude. We're starting to get our arms around it.

John Snow

During the third quarter, we focused on lowering costs and decreasing cash burn while continuing to address the evolving needs of our customers and prospects.

Dan Smith

We fought hard in that fourth quarter and for that to be the deciding part of the game, that's a tough call. We should've had a better chance than that.

Joe Johnson

(The third quarter) was very important to keep the momentum. We learned from experience (in the CD game). You have to play the whole game from start to finish.

Rachael Holt

We finally got their penetration stopped. They were penetrating on us all night long and that was where they were scoring. We finally were able to get that stopped in the fourth quarter and that was the difference.

Doug Mccarter

The speech quietly signaled a 25-basis-point (quarter percentage point) rate hike in February, and was consistent with a further rate increase in March or May.

Conrad Dequadros

In the first quarter we came out just on fire. Then Sheena got in foul trouble and I sat her down. Then, our defense fell asleep. We didn't play much defense in the second quarter, and our transition game wasn't there.

Steve Aden

I had goose bumps the whole fourth quarter. But we knew the game wasn't over until the final buzzer.

Brooke Nelson

We are in fact having an extremely strong quarter, and we are more than comfortable with numbers that are out there.

Richard Braddock

We did a lot this quarter. For the rest of 1999 we expect to invest more heavily than we have in the past.

Jeff Bezos

Magna is very anxious to start public hearings at least in the first quarter. If we could get it done in March, that would be great.

Scott Rose

I wasn't paying attention to how many points I scored in the third quarter, but I knew I had to turn it up for us to win the game.

Trey Blue

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Scott Bogumil

IBM had a good quarter. It showed the strength of our business model across hardware, software and services.

Sam Palmisano

I thought we had moments of brilliance on defense. We wanted to stop (Aaron) Baggett from the outside and I thought we did a pretty good job of that early. However, he caught fire late and brought them back in the fourth quarter.

Ralph Larson

Momentum has been consolidated at quite a high level with strength coming mainly from mainland Chinese demand. This should be sustained through the first quarter of next year.

Ben Simpfendorfer

The introduction of two new modular storage products helped to diversify the revenue mix this quarter.

Donna Taylor

We played hard in the fourth quarter to get back in the game. We're just not coming to play four quarters.

Brian Ellis

We had a lot of good looks in the first quarter. You get good shots and good things happen.

Kurt Melton

The thing about it, it didn't seem to me like he lost a step from the first to fourth quarter. That tells me something about his conditioning.

Carl Gross

In the first quarter we were executing offensively. We were looking to score. We had open shots, we were taking them and they were being extremely aggressive on the defensive end which helps us out a lot.

Rachel Farwell

You can expect AMD to bring out a dual-core mobile processor with DDR-2 memory in the second quarter of this year.

David Rooney

We started to run the ball pretty well and moved the ball pretty decently. We had some plays we could have made for a bigger first quarter, but we're still working. It's still early.

Rex Grossman

Some investors chose to lock in profits after most of the listed companies announced their first-quarter results (last week).

Diana Wu

Shelby did a good job of defending (Daniel) McPherson, who is one of the best players in our region. It seemed like the buckets had lids on them in the fourth quarter, because we had some good looks that simply bounced out.

Jimmy Wallace

It's a mixed quarter and a mixed outlook.

George Farra

Europe's acceleration is confirmed and will continue in the second quarter. The extra froth is not just coming from exports. More is coming from investment and consumption.

Janwillem Acket

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.

Gaylord Nelson

I've got 12 players on my team, and all 12 can play. At the four-minute mark of the first quarter, five players come out and five go in. There are a lot more shot opportunities for Kevin with the second unit.

Jerry Mastenbrook

The market seems to be focused on the immediate negatives without looking at the elephant that's coming around the corner, and that is first quarter earnings are likely to be better than everyone expects.

Philip Dow

We gave them a game and a quarter with our mistakes, and it was still that close. Imagine how good we might be if we could get rid of those mistakes.

Tammy Evans

You're dealing with a seasonal period that's less favorable for markets and you're also dealing with end of quarter portfolio issues.

Jeffrey Hirsch

We benefited from a positive global economic market and there is a positive environment at least through mid-year. We intend to operate as near to full capacity as we can in the second quarter.

John Surma

The aim is to agree on the details during the first half of the year and then in the third quarter the new company (joint venture) would start to function.

Arja Suominen

Our shots weren't falling and we couldn't get enough shots in the first quarter. We were turning the ball over on the press. Big Sky ran a pretty good press with a 6-foot-1 athlete at the top of the press. She was pretty hard to pass around.

Nate Hammond

This first half we felt pretty good, (but) I'm not very happy with the second half right now. But we had four possessions in the fourth quarter, and we put it in the end zone in the fourth quarter. That's important to us.

Mike Canales

We should have been up by 12 points in the first quarter if we had taken care of the ball and pumped it into Mike like we were supposed to do. That's all on us. Once we started playing from so far behind, it was over. They're so much quicker than us ... we couldn't chase them around and press them. There wasn't a lot we could do.

Nate Drye

Brittany [Jackson] had 12 points, all in the first quarter and all coming off steals. Our press gave them a lot of trouble.

Jim Holleran

We expect second-quarter earnings to approach those of the second quarter of 1997, if Asian markets do not decline further and other markets remain strong.

Jim Henderson

My coach saw I was hitting in the first quarter, so he just told me to keep shooting. My shot was falling tonight.

Justin Arthur

We came out in the third quarter and went to work.

Dick Corn

In the third quarter they still had their legs. By the fourth quarter, our substitute pattern wore them out. The bench was huge.

Chase Cofer

Jake did a great job defensively. The kid has been averaging 17 points a game, but we took him out of his rhythm. He never really got going until the last quarter.

Steve Box

This feels great. I've made shots at the end of the third quarter before, but not to end a game.

Quentin Redfern

We were down in the first quarter, but it was much better in the second and third quarter.They were really key.

Kevin Estes

I thought we did a much better job in the third quarter coming out and playing our game plan to try to get back in the game and get us a little bit of a lead.

Bob Nobbe

In the third quarter we came out with more energy and intensity than they did. We knew all along we could compete. We knew after last night we could not only compete, but win.

Bob Marquardt

Our strong first quarter was achieved without any sales increase [in cereal], with a volume decline, ... Going forward, we expect cereal sales to grow for the balance of the year.

Steve Sanger

This has been a stellar quarter and year for Scholastic, enabling us to exceed our revenue and profit goals.

Richard Robinson

You can't win a ballgame when a kid like Josh goes 1-for-14. You have to hand it to Tooele whose efforts were focused toward stopping Josh. I didn't anticipate them coming out (in the fourth quarter) with the press, and we didn't handle it well.

Jim Wiscombe

The two turnovers in the third quarter were huge. They gave us momentum in the second half, and helped us pull away.

Byron Allen

For three quarters, we played great. But we need to put that into 32 minutes instead of just three quarters. Even though we did turn the ball over in the fourth quarter, we still found a way to get the job done.

Michael Teller

When we fell down I knew it was going to take a lot of energy for us to comeback against a great team like that. We came up a little short in the fourth quarter and that's what I feared.

Marty Dejarnette

Our revenue grew 7 percent on an organic basis this quarter, ... We are confident EDS' revenue performance will improve in the second half of the year and beyond.

Dick Brown

The company came through with about 38% operating margins this quarter, guiding 42% over the next couple of year. That's dramatic translation of top-line revenues to the bottom line.

Joel Sendek

We weren't as aggressive on offensive in the second and third quarter. A lot of that was the physical part of the game.

David Baumann

We always seem to be getting off to sluggish starts in the first quarter of every game in this series.

Lee Okuja

I'm just disappointed we didn't take care of the ball any better that first quarter. I thought we had a chance to do a lot of good things.

Jeff Bower

Profits will probably still decline in the second quarter, but at a slower rate than in the first quarter.

Henry Willmore

It's not about how the first or second quarter ends.

Lendale White

We beat analyst estimates on revenues for the quarter.

Scott Cook

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Mark Jula

There was a big disappointment that fourth quarter growth (for 2005) was below expectations.

Ryan Wibberley

They always are good for a run, and they brought that run at us in the third quarter. I think that when we negated that run is when the game kind of got out of hand.

Craig Drury

There are very few horses that can go with this horse for the first half- mile. He runs the second quarter almost as fast as the first quarter, and he can finish from there. He's an exceptional animal, and it is really going to take an exceptional animal to beat him. Getting on a horse like this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Russell Baze

I yelled out to her that the fourth quarter was hers, and she took it.

Mark Tiby

We started kind of slow. We were down at least eight in the first quarter, but we were up 37-28 at the half. We held them to just eight points in the second quarter.

Billy Thornhill

We had a very solid first quarter and are pleased with our performance. This is particularly true given the rapid increase in raw material prices and costs that we experienced.

John Conway