I used to do lots of coke. ... You'd be tired and you'd do it just to stay out and go to bars and meet girls and have a good time. ... There's a two-year period at the beginning of this band that I don't even remember. I can't even imagine what the shows were like.

Rob Thomas

March Madness ranks number one for us. It is, by far, the busiest event we have online throughout the year. We see thousands of users coming to the site to make their bracket picks per minute.

Chris Nicholas

We sense that the sell-off is behind us and the market has the preconditions in place for a pretty good year-end rally, ... It's not going to be fabulous because we've already done an awful lot since Sept. 11.

Al Goldman

It's a relief that it's over; it's been a tough season all the way around. We felt that we shouldn't have lost a lot of games that we lost, but with a lot of people going down, we haven't been 70%, 60% all year.

Antonio Chatman

I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat hoping all of those blokes come back healthy. It is a physical challenge for them to present, year after year, without the appropriate rest and recovery.

Greg Shipperd

I'm very proud of my team's effort defensively. That's the closest anybody has played them all year. This is something we can grow from.

Machelle Joseph

It's a big difference from last year. Last year he was (about) speed and trying to hit the hole. Now he sees what's going on out there. And he's able to hit the hole and make a lot of people miss, too.

Marvel Smith

With Canada's installed wind energy capacity expected to grow by more than 70 per cent this year, it is clear that growth in Canada's wind energy production is rapid and accelerating.

Robert Hornung

We hear a lot of about the impending economic recession, but that does not imply an ad recession. In the last 20 economic downturns, only in one year has there been a decline, and that was 1.3 percent. So the doomsayers might be wrong again if we do have a downturn.

Lowry Mays

Companies are regaining pricing power, and they are beginning to pass manufacturing and labor costs to retail prices. Japan's economy has picked up momentum since early last year, and the gap between supply and demand has narrowed.

Ryutaro Kono

What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.

Tim Berners lee

We are looking for 110 yen in three months, and we could well hit 100 yen later this year.

Jens Nordvig

Given the situation Tiffany was put into this year, she's done a great job handling the pressure of sharing her knowledge and experience with the freshmen. One of Tiffany's strengths is that she follows up her words with the way she plays; she's a great leader by example and we all see from Tiffany that hard work really does lead to being a great basketball player.

Nina Norman

We've set a couple of goals. By the end of the year, we want to get our team score down to an average of 205. We also want to win the section, but it will be tough because Laurel Highlands, Mt. Pleasant and Albert Gallatin are very good teams.

Jason Tyska

I definitely think there is a great chemistry within our team this year.

Cristie Kerr

In the younger women, the 50- to 59-year-old women, it appeared that there was a suggestion that heart disease risk was lower, but in the older women it was either neutral or possibly even higher.

Dr. Judith Hsia

If I had my preference, we'd wait until the end of the [school] year to look at the impact. We're operating with no information in the face of legislation against the association.

Steve Timko

A big spending driver over the past two years -- about $400 billion this year -- has been homeowners taking cash out of their homes, with the great bulk of it spent.

Gary Gordon

Monica came out this year, and she stepped up. Everybody has stepped up, whether they are new or returning, and that's great to see.

Amanda Leahy

(The balance) has been our trademark all year. We don't really run any sets for one particular player. We'd like to think our defense will generate some opportunities and then, of course, we have to work on offense and get what we can.

Ron Nesper

[O'Neill knew going in that his success will depend on Carter, so he flew to Daytona Beach this summer and had dinner with Vince and his mom. He came away convinced that the talk about Carter being soft is just that: talk.] The thing people need to realize is that Vince had two serious injuries last year, ... Frankly, Vince Carter is the least of my worries.

Kevin O'neill

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, ... I loved performing at the NASCAR awards banquet last year and I can't wait to sing the national anthem in November at the championship race in Homestead. It's a real honor to partner with NASCAR in promoting the cup challenge.

Scott Stapp

I think there's probably a real good chance something will happen there. He did well there last year.

Barry Axelrod

Our defense is playing real good right now. The punt return team gave up the touchdown. The defense played real well against Troy. They had two big plays for their touchdowns. Other than that, we didn't give up much. I feel a lot better our defense than I did this time last year.

Wayne Grant

I heard some neighbors ask that the rate be lowered. But considering what is on the budget for next the next year, I don?t have any serious objections to the tax rate as proposed tonight.

Jim Short

It's early in the year. We just have to come out tomorrow and play better baseball.

Stan Sanchez

We've been extensively used this year in the Christie Wilson search.

Keven Besana

Because of the $41,000 we've had to cover this year, we are running into the red each month by $3,400.

Jim Reed

I'm sure they're going to come after us, just like we did last year.

Kevin Bettencourt

It's been the least successful year of his presidency.

Stephen Wayne

I have one 96-year-old patient who hasn't seen a doctor in two years because of this. I don't think he'll make it until the Supreme Court hears this. I've had other patients who have passed away for the same reason. I feel terrible, but there's nothing I can do.

George Hsu

Going into the year, our goal was to beat what we did last year. We won 14 features last season. We're sitting at 19 now and we have two chances to get 20.

Mark Dobmeier

It's going to be an awesome year. It's going to be another one like this year. We've got so much potential next year. I just can't wait to get it going.

Bailey Stanley

It was a tough day to judge. We made some competitive pitches when we had to so I was very pleased. Today we had to fight through the elements, but that is one of the things you have to deal with this time of year.

Smoke Laval

We're notorious this year for waiting until the end of games. In the seventh inning, the girls were determined she (Falcone) wasn't going to get them again.

Amy Beard

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Evan Esar

Electronic entertainment geared for kids is especially big this year.

Jim Silver

That was a great year (1959) for the White Sox, but a tough loss in the World Series.

Al Lopez

He pretty much did it all. His improvement was key to our success. He'll be our big gun next year.

Chris Whirlow

I don't see that she's the type of player who's going to sit on the bench her entire freshman year. I think she'll have the chance to get in and play straight away.

Craig Douglass

Right now, I'm putting a lot on myself as receiver to help the other guys. The strength of this group of receivers is that they want to learn. Last year the coaches were explaining the new offense to us and we just listened. This year we're asking more questions and we're eager to learn.

Michael Reed

Andy is not playing his best tennis. Fernando has improved very much. I think he played his best match of the year (on Friday). I think the tie is still open. If Fernando plays his best tennis and Andy makes some mistakes, doesn't hit the ball well … Fernando can do some damage.

Hans Gildemeister

For me, the best time of the year is the start of the second semester. They sit in the mess desk and catch up with one another. They have amazing stories to tell.

Adm. Richard Gurnon

Brittney threw as well as she has all year. It was just a pitch here or there, just one of those things and some bad luck.

Paul Talley

It's been a long time since (P-W) has been in our region. Back then only one team got out so there was a lot of pressure. With the regional this year, you don't want to close your eyes at all because I'm not real sure what some of these schools bring.

Deb Gaines

I'm looking forward to the season. We're looking to have a winning year for sure and hopefully that coincides with a playoff spot in the Shorelines.

Mark Brookes

I think the Bobcat Invite will be one of the premier meets in the state this year, no question.

Tim Bell

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Bill Buff

We're looking for Crowe, Wagner, Shelburne and Tingle to all have good a year. But it's going to take a while for some of these younger guys -- like Matthews, Siegel, Layton and all -- to get used to varsity pitching.

Donnie Williams

There was a lot of concern about who was going to pitch this year, what are we going to do, sort of a woe is us. Everybody was worried, and she got up on the bus and told everybody that it was a challenge to all of us. We were going to have to hit better, field better, play harder, pick our game up and play on a higher level.

Michael Lotief

She had a good year last year. If we could have supported her at all with some runs, especially earlier in the year, she would have had a much better record.

Mike Harper

We are going to be a very challenging team to beat this year. We practice hard and play hard.

Juliet Garlow

The food is good, and my boys are enjoying it, ... Basically we didn't come to it last year and we figured we'd come out and see what's going on.

Randy Miller

I very much doubt that it is going to go on. He is never going to be ready for that so we'll try to rearrange it for next year.

Frank Warren

You're not going to see a big rally through the end of the year, but I think the market will go higher than where it is now. I'm optimistic. I think the economy is improving even faster than people realize, and the fourth-quarter earnings are going to be really good.

Jon Burnham

With a $20 bill you'll walk away with a buggy full of items for your home. This year's Yard Sale takes on special importance following Hurricane Katrina. Residents will be able to get back some of the items lost in the storm for a great price. Our best sellers every year are our kitchen items and potted plants.

Yvonne Taylor

If they want to play at the next level they just need to keep performing year after year.

Trevor Bayliss

She missed a lot of practice time because of that injury. But she worked hard to get back, and she's had another good year for us.

Antonio Encarnacion

They wanted to retain the flexibility for another year.

Bill Price

We're very much a team and that's how we won the state championship last year. If these guys improve at all we're going to be in good shape.

Rich Bruneau

I'm very confident about the way my team played all year. I knew we could do this.

Doug Haynes

This year, it's a different team. We're definitely better than the last time we played there.

Dustin Villepigue

There's a feeling around the the company that this is going to be our break-out year. Our time has finally come.

John Patton

It's the biggest game we've played this year. We're going to Greenbrier, where they've beaten Huntsville and Greenwood the last two games. They're playing real well. Confidence is a big thing for us right now.

Stan Flenor

The winter has been unusually harsh this year again. It's a constant battle for these survivors.

Marvin Parvez

John Book, for his first start of the year, pitched a great game. He gave us a really good effort today on the mound.

Kurt Peters

If you are a mayor of Munich, you are supposed to be good at it. It's very important. So he promised that this year he will open the barrel with only two taps, and he did.

Astrid Ganssen

It's very clear, NAND flash saved the DRAM industry from a major collapse. 2005 was not a good year for the DRAM industry, but it could have been a lot worse.

Andrew Norwood

I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.

Albert Reynolds

We've struggled in that type of situation all year long. So it was nice to get a hit there and get a more comfortable lead.

Terry Walsh

I wanted to be there, on that podium. All year long, I've worked for that. You try not to think about it and play a team game, but it was a goal.

Ted Fabian

I'm so excited. I heard about it last year and I wanted to go. If this is one of the ways we can get people to learn about Christ, I want to be a part of it.

Jackie Evans

We returned all of our starters from last year. I rotated a lot of bodies throughout the game, but I returned to my starters in the fourth quarter and they settled down at the end.

John Augustavo

We expect to run out of money sooner. Additional funding will be needed to serve the same number of people we served last year.

Charles Jackson

It's to give people in different areas an opportunity to preview the races. Each year it will be held in a different area. Next year we'll take it to another area of Metro Louisville, possibly Southern Indiana. … We just wanted to add events to the schedule and create our own little balloon festival.

Aimee Boyd

Consumer sentiment has been improving since about half a year ago.

Taro Saito

If the pattern plays out, you'll get the first decent downside correction we've seen in a year.

Jeff Saut

It essentially sleeps 364 days out of the year and then wakes up on Christmas Day trying to destroy your systems. It can affect a machine any day of the year, and you are not going to notice a problem. You won't know you are infected until Christmas.

Patrick Martin

This is the time of year you want him throwing this way.

Jack Kokinda

I will do some crazy stuff if I have to. I'll move kids in different positions to compensate for other teams' strength. I can do that this year.

Javier Ramirez

We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.

Carl Thayer

If he makes the shot, we don't end up in the coin flip for Olajuwon. Because we had gotten Ralph the previous year, maybe a little bit of jealousy around the league led to a lot of the speculation about the fact that the Rockets were really doing bad.

Jim Foley

I thought Tyler pitched very well. He's experienced a little tightness in his arm and it's been a long year. He's thrown a lot of innings, but he made some tough pitches tonight. We need to take care of him a little bit. He's a little tired. We have to make sure we have him at full strength going down the stretch.

Charlie Puleo

In New Mexico this year, we have no ski areas operating on natural snow.

Ron Curry

Another year in Ottawa would be suicide and my feeling is everyone there is ready to bail out. Ottawa has proven it is not the right city.

Bruce Urban

Our defense was just fantastic as it has been all year. It has been the backbone of our team all year.

Al Guthman

We're going to go continue doing what we've been doing all year. It should work for us hopefully in Fort Lauderdale.

Anatol Popovich

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

Mario Theissen

And Jon Stewart will clean up really nice. I think there's a buoyancy about the show this year because of our host.

Roy Christopher

Our defense was phenomenal. We kept our marks the whole game. I would say this was the best game we've played overall this year.

Jennifer Henderson

The bulk of our moving is local moving. In fact, we only started interstate moving a little over a year ago.

Larry O'toole

We hope every year that this is going to be the one. I can't wait for the derby. It sounds cocky to say you expect to win, but I'm going with the idea that we have a pretty good horse.

Gretchen Jackson

It was not our year. It happens. It was Prosser's day. We kept fighting right up until the last play. There's no disgrace in that.

Butch Goncharoff

It's the first year I've had a grade issue, period. We started with eight in trouble.

Donna Harper

I really don't have any ideas on why the numbers were down this year. There's a lot of factors that affects what happens.

Patsy Brooks

Just about everyone had 30 bushels better than they expected. I can't recall a year when so many people misjudged their yields. It was actually one of the best years I've ever had.

Paul Roney

Peters had success right off the bat as a freshman. He won 20 matches his first year, he's very good at 189 lb.

Bill Simpkins

Eddy does a good job every year and those guys never quit. We had 'em knocked in the head a couple of times and they showed some great poise and composure coming back. They have a lot of pride in their program and we have a lot of pride in ours and it's always a good battle when we get together and play each other.

Troy Wells

I'm not sure what it is, but we've really struggled in the second period this year. Overall, we played pretty well. We came out and skated hard. But we just can't seem to put together a good second period. And that's something we need to address.

Larry Kupczyk

Possibly -- possibly -- Duke, and maybe North Carolina State. I'm not sure that we all aren't fighting for positioning now. I said before the season started that this would be a year where you could throw predictions out the window. I'm not sure you could make calls. You've had a couple of wide margins, but most games could have gone either way. That's the way it is in the ACC.

Leonard Hamilton

Also maybe this year, some of the organizations that have been participating didn't get organized and didn't do it.

Nancy Perry

I'm just getting myself prepared for tomorrow. I'm making sure to stock up for the new year and the rest of the year.

John Clemens

Under any scenario, there is going to be a bucketful of cash being dumped into education this year. There's always something for every side. That's the way politics is played in Albany.

Brian Backstrom

[Parents should] consider if they really want to have a TV in their 3-year-old's bedroom or not ... and think about maybe turning off the TV in the home if nobody's watching it.

Vicky Rideout

Record setting wet weather in key Western Canadian producing regions and industry activity levels in the North American oil and gas service sector have restricted access to land and equipment in an unprecedented way this year.

Gwyn Morgan

I just want to congratulate Seymour on another fine season. This is the seventh year in a row they've played in the state tournament. Maybe their experience paid off, and maybe some of our inexperience showed.

Brian Richert

Volkswagen said at the start of the year that it would be going up in market share and instead it has gone down. They appear to have lost the U.S. consumer in terms of design and functionality.

Adam Jonas

What happened here last year was not good for me, ... But I now have more experience and am more mature. I worked a lot after my disqualification, and I think I learned a lot.

Richard Gasquet

Piet said if I hurt it worse, it could be like two or three months. It's a bad injury for a goalie. I know guys that have been out for a year.

Chris Osgood

I give all of the credit in the world to Apollo-Ridge. They don't give up and we have not given up that many points all year. They pounded the ball inside and we worked on it. I cannot make the kids bigger.

Tim Joyce

People tend to know so little about their bodies as compared to their cars or their laptops, ... When I worked in a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., people would ask me medical questions all the time. I was just a 22-year-old cashier.

Mark Leyner

I have to prove I'm worthy of selection for the big races next year, ... To do that I will have to prove myself in the time trial and the road race at the Oceania Championships.

Sarah Ulmer

This is more cases than have occurred in the three previous years, ... We are concerned about what the remainder of the year holds in store for us.

Jim Hughes

She did it all this year with the poise of a veteran and class, ... It's hard to imagine a player who loves the game more. I can't wait to see what she does for an encore next year.

Val Ackerman

It looked like we were struggling to clear the ball. We've used the same clear pretty much the whole year and all of the sudden we're not making our looks or our reads.

John Desko

We'll have the capability to operate year-round if the demand is there.

John Scarano

We had our best fourth quarter of the year. We didn't get the bounces for three quarters, but the girls took control in the fourth.

Jeff Thorne

All the shots that we've been making all year, they just didn't fall tonight.

Curtis Hunter

One of my resolutions is to quit smoking. I've tried for the past two years, but this year I am going to stick with it.

John Oldham

West Brunswick came down here and embarrassed us last year. We respect all our opponents. They'll get our full attention. We'll just need to continue to improve next week.

Ben Marsh

It's a short-term phenomenon, and it does tighten the market a little, but it happens every year.

Glyn Lawcock

I had a picture of a seven-year-old throwing a Frisbee around on the grass but it's treated as a spiritual place.

John Archibald Wheeler

We will have to smother them for the entire match. They put a lot of width into their game. We will have to manage two halves of what we did last year at the Stade de France for one half.

Fabien Pelous

Most of the fish are stacked in that 4-, 5-, 6- and 7-year-old range. I think fishing is going to be getting better and better. There are a lot of fish between the 12- and 20-inch range. That's just good, nice, quality fishing.

Brian Borkholder

We had to get the guys back focused, and get them excited about the game, and let them know it's still an opportunity. It's only 13 points. It's two scores. I mean, we've been a second-half football team all year, that's kind of our M.O. (modus operandi), so we kind of hung our hat on that, and got the guys fired up.

Otis Covington

In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.

Larry Elder

The average mutual fund has lost about 2.5 percent a year to taxes on dividends and capital gains. Most funds are managed without regard to taxes, but taxes are something that can be controlled.

Joel Dickson

You can't run a business and pay out $150 million in liability every year.

Ron Silva

It's a great time of year to get your house thoroughly cleaned and to get spots you might have missed during the rest of the year.

Amy Olson

We view Earth Day as another way to inform students about the progress we have made with our environmental measures on campus and in the community. But (we view it) also as a way to celebrate a great year with some great music, fun activities and hopefully a new appreciation for the environment.

Lauren Mecham

Our team is strong again this year. We can control the midfield, defense is in good shape and we can score. Our style is aggressive with focus on passing and putting the ball in the net.

John Devries

It was a phenomenal year for PCs, with growth rates not seen since 2000.

Lillian Tay

We've done a pretty good job of getting the first run of the game and of the first half this year.

Tony Wingen

The conference is so balanced and so wide open this year that it doesn't matter who we play; whether they're last place or first place, we gotta win them all.

Tim Sinicki

With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.

Billy Koch

We want to win it this year. You have to win the first game, though. The morning games are very, very odd games. You can't predict what is going to happen. You never know what your kids will do. We were in a fog during that 10:30 game [against Evanston last year].

Dave Weber

I'm really happy with my girls. They stayed focused all game. We've been working on that all year.

Scott Whittier

First year out of college, that's great. I'm happy to accept that.

Jeremy Calahan

This is the best offensive team we'll see for awhile, maybe all year, ... I think they're going to be in the hunt for the 5A title before it's all said and done with.

Denton Fox

This year and last year the team has really responded to her and she learned how to handle that responsibility. She's gone from shying away from that and sometimes crumbling under that pressure to learning how to deal with it and make us better for it.

Jennifer Rizzotti

Derek's time at the beginning of last season was around 22 minutes, but by the end of the year he was in the low 18's. He wants to knock another minute off that this year. If he improves on his sprinting, I think he's capable of that. By the time he's a senior, he could be one of the best in the league.

Bill Boyd

At some point this will become so annoying that someone will want to change it. I'm quite confident that people are not going to be happy with multiple leap seconds per year.

Dennis Mccarthy

It's always nice to do something in front of your fans who support you all year long, ... [There are] 47,000 people up there cheering for you and giving you a standing ovation - it's great - but you can't get caught up in that. You need to make sure you get ready to go, and I'm pretty sure they will be pretty happy if we bring them a World Series championship.

Albert Pujols

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

Does the district look significantly different today than it did last year? The simple answer is no, not significantly.

Tom Hicks

The size of the gray market should be reduced at least down to 15% by the end of this year.

German Gref

When you consider the fact that we've taken them to overtime twice this year, and the fact that we were all over them the first game and should have won and we were all over them again in this game and should have had it, we thought the tie showed a good effort.

Scotte Massey

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Rusty Hand

Things will continue to deteriorate this year for earnings, ... Things are getting worse and they're likely to continue doing so. There's a chance we could have a recession in 1999.

Charles Hill

Dragging your 10-year-old to get a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease could have some groups pretty upset.

Al Rauch

I know it wasn't that fun early in the year. I tried to keep myself positive. This is a marathon.

Victor Martinez

I'm going to be stubborn and stay on the ball. I was more of a pull hitter (last year). It's not the way I had approached things in the first 10 years, so I don't know why in my 11th and 12th years I started changing. ... Not this spring.

Jim Edmonds

I lived wrestling. I took only one week off after my junior year. I lifted weights, ran and wrestled five or six times a week. Then I traveled to Pennsylvania last summer to compete.

Shaun Toomey

I think he will be an even better horse next year.

Wayne Lawson

We're here (in San Antonio) for the rest of the year, but we don't know where the rest of the home games will be played. For now, we're trying to find apartments and gain some kind of familiarity and get our schedule set up day-by-day. It's a process. We're getting there. Next week, we'll be back to normal, except for our home games.

Brian Young

Last year, we had a lot of (arena) veterans and I pretty much knew who I was going to cut going into camp. This year, I don't know. I can't tell you who will be released. I was going down the list today and I don't know who's going to make it and who's not.

Kevin Bouis

We are hoping for a great turnout this year and also for great weather on the day of the tournament.

Brenda Jones

I was finally given the right help and the right opportunities and I came through. (Tyler) and I have been working together with help from Athletics Canada, this is the year.

Tyler Christopher

Our release schedule for the balance of this year holds great promise, and our home video and television distribution operations continue to generate stronger than expected revenue and cash flow.

Alex Yemenidjian

But only for about 10 weeks a year.

Bill Lemke

Now we're getting towards the end of the year and we're battling some skin infections and kidney ailments that just happen to be part of the sport.

Russ Hellickson

A 7-year-old still sounds like a little kid. On the other end, the older students have almost adult voices.

Troy Fisher

This team exceeded my expectations of what I thought we'd be able to do this year. Tonight we didn't shoot the ball with confidence, and we didn't take care of some of the most basic things you need to take care of in playoff basketball. That's what happens with youth. You could tell that we'd never been this close before.

Dirk Hanson

We are very happy to be able to win again. It's tough to come in every year with a bullseye on your back and withstand the challenge. But this is a special group of girls, and they showed that with their performances this week.

Robin Tobias

As a matter of fact, you know I am rather sorry you should see the garden now, because, alas! it is not looking at its best. Oh, it doesn't compare to what it was last year.

Ruth Draper

This team has played the highest level for an entire year of any other team I have ever had. And that's a testament to the kids I have here. That bodes well for next year.

Rod Wood

Jake, I'll guarantee you, will do really well. He was indecisive in Arizona, and sometimes he made bad decisions, but he never had the talent around him that he does now. A lot of the interceptions he threw last year were to younger receivers he didn't trust as much, so he hesitated before throwing the pass. Now he's in a great system where that won't be a problem.

David Boston

We won't see many cattle turned out to the pastures before the end of April this year. The grass just isn't greening up. It's too dry.

Mike Holder

Heading into the new year, across-the-board improvements are giving rise to a more hopeful workforce, consistent with a growing demand for skilled labor and increased financial confidence. Multiple signs indicate that improving expectations about the employment market will jump start 2006.

Steve Wolfe

We finished December quite well. Between Christmas and the new year, we were really busy.

Richard Dixon

People have gotten tired of this company making excuses, ... It's been a marginal investment for us so far. We've owned it about a year; we're frustrated, too. Our average cost is $10.50 a share. That's not why we buy a stock -- to make 50 cents.

Robert Olstein

The critical factor for this team is they have to remain disciplined and focused. I think that's what kept them from the playoffs last year and the year before.

Saundra Hess

I think you have to play like that against a team like that. They are a physical team, and you have to rise to the occasion. Coach has been harping on it all year that when we compete and play physical, that's when we're productive. That's just the way we have to play to be a good team.

David Carpentier

Not surprisingly - especially in the case of retail banks - not only is revenue climbing steeply, but banks have also been watching their expenses, and through the year made gains in improving efficiencies.

Anton De Souza

We remember that we were one point away last year and that's added fuel. This is a whole new season, but we should be a strong team outdoors.

Deb Vercauteren

The discussion has increased enormously within the schools of the NCAA in the last year, ... We're on the right track, but those few schools that really profit from the relationship have the toughest decision to make.

George Hacker

This is striking because natives accounted for 61 percent of the net increase in the overall size of the 18- to 64-year-old population.

Steve Camarota

I saw two 80-year-olds fighting over it at Sam's.

Brian Nolan

A year ago this time, kids could come in with zero down, and even with B- or C-grade credit, could still close on a conventional loan in 20 to 30 days. What?s missing are easy-to get-into, no-down-payment loans where there are high credit risks.

Ron Galbreath

Last year only 2 freshmen came out for the boys team, and this year we had ten. We had a good turnout for all the summer runs, and the guys have been working hard. I'm excited, and think we are capable of repeating last year's success.

Niki Burger

He's one of those kids you can go to in a lot of different ways. He's able to make some nice catches and he's also able to run with the ball pretty hard. He's probably our most consistent running back, but at times he was our top receiver (last year). When you put those two together, not to mention having him return some punts and kickoffs back, he just brings a wide array of talents to the team.

Rod Losier

It's something we stress all the time. We work on different aspects of defense, especially team defense, where we help each other. The girls know they have to play physical and they need to communicate. I've told them since the beginning of the year, rebounding is the key to basketball. They're playing great defense right now.

Russ Tietjen

These rate levels may prove to be one of the best buying opportunities of the year.

William O'donnell

Many new teachers that we hire are actually ready to earn permanent status after their second year. Taking away from us the ability to award tenure to the best and brightest that we hire actually hurts us in recruiting highly qualified teaching staff.

Bob Wells

The thing people need to realize is that Vince had two serious injuries last year. Frankly, Vince Carter is the least of my worries.

Kevin O'neill

First of all, it is based on sound physical principles, and secondly, it finally answers the 150-year-old question of what causes the 11-year sunspot cycle.

David Hathaway

Your grandchild understands that money can grow with something called interest. That's a powerful concept for a 5-year-old.

George Carlin

We really haven't faced a quarterback like him this year. The game speed wasn't what we were used to.

Jordin Lindsey

I remember, back when I was running one of the trucks, you'd have one or two stocked each year. I stocked a few in my career, so you never know.

Clyde Welsh

We are shocked that the U.S. Attorney's Office has chosen to take this action against someone who has only engaged in lawful conduct throughout his distinguished 35-year career.

Patricia Glaser

We have great team chemistry. Our seven seniors have done a great job all year long. We're all 23. We're all older guys. There's nothing to fear.

Adrian Tigert

I lived in the dorms the first year and really missed cooking.

Fumi Ikeshima

I will miss them and I love them like brothers. It will be hard next year without them.

Marcus Thornton

If you're president of Texas Instruments and you go into your board of directors and say, 'Next year, we're just going to keep our market share,' you're out, you're fired. Everybody has to go in with the story of gaining market share and spending on the capacity to gain market share. Of course, it all just doesn't add up.

Bill Mcclean

We had some key players that were out. They got them back and they have made a difference. They are beating teams that they had trouble beating earlier this year.

Daniel Valdez

We were very good last year, but we went out and got what was on our wish list. The maturity level on our defense is huge.

Brent Johnson

We were amazed, but we are every year.

Bob Ross

We've been motivated this year. Everybody on our team expects to be good. Everybody expects to win every time we play. It won't be that hard to calm down and let everything work. We'll play until the final second.

Phillip Adams

A single-digit percentage gain looks more likely this year. We had a great '03, a great '04 and a great '05. I think we're due for a pause at some point.

George Vasic

How far we go this year will depend on how we hit. I can't see us being out of a game with our pitching and defense. If we hit we're going to have a tremendous year. If we don't hit, we'll probably end up 14-8, which we've been for four years in a row now. I'll be very disappointed if we don't compete seriously for the league title.

Jim Frederick