We're working hard to turn it around and make it right, ... It's not from a lack of effort. Everybody is working so hard. We're trying to find that tenth of a second that we're missing — it's not much. In our sport today, a little bit takes you from winning races to running tenth. |
We've been fortunate because we have an outstanding group that are not only pretty good players, but quality young men as well. We're going to have our hands full, though, trying to get anything going because their switching man-to-man defense has caused problems for a lot of teams. |
We've been in every single game, we just don't have the record we'd like to have. I'm satisfied with the effort that everybody is putting out there. We have the energy going from day one this year. When you have veterans like we have, you have a tendency to be a little more patient. |
We've got talent in every area of the field. The first 11 and the next seven or eight guys who sit on the bench are all plenty good enough to come in and do the job every week as well. That ups the tempo in practice every day and that's why we're working so hard and playing so well. |
We've got to get the courts out of our classrooms, and the state must be committed to meeting the funding requirements of public education. At the same time, we must also recognize that the old way of doing things _ of simply raising taxes and increasing spending _ will not suffice. |
We've had many people suspended for actions we deemed harmful to Hollywood Foreign Press - we're trying to protect our image. Certainly none ended up in suicide. If Nick did take his life, which seems apparent, I don't think you can say there's a causal relationship between the two. |
We've played at an extremely high level at times, but other times we've played below our capabilities. I'm hoping that we'll get that pattern out of our system and start playing a little more consistently. All three of our losses thus far were games which we felt we should have won. |
We've played in a lot of loud places. I've heard this place is especially loud, and with this scenario I'm sure it's going to be ear-splitting. But there's always ways to quiet down the crowd, and we want to get to that point. Certainly, we'll have to use every tool at our disposal. |
|
We've won a lot of games before, so you don't want to get really excited about a first win. But it's hard to not be excited when your first win comes 13 games into the season, after Christmas. This is what we want to use as a springboard as we get hot and heavy into conference play. |
Well I look at somebody from the other side being the radio station and they project their signal to me and that is energy. That energy comes across to me and then I interpret what it is that I'm seeing, hearing, and feeling. So they communicate in an energy, for instance telepathy. |
Well, my shrink's been trying to talk me out of that for many years. We used to have this discussion: 'Well, you know, I can't let go of [eccentricities] or I won't be creative anymore.' And then I decided ... it's good to let a certain amount go, so you can be a functioning person. |
What are you going to yell and scream about? Maybe you can say, 'Hey, you guys are playing hard!' I mean, obviously, our record isn't what we'd like it to be. At the same time, we're still going out there and staying in every game. It's not like we're getting blown out of the water. |
What do you prefer? A guy who's worried about the team and wants it to get better, or a guy who's going to be here six years and get in his pocket $72 million and not care about winning? You can't take it like he doesn't like the Orioles and doesn't want to be here. That's not true. |
What he did in New Orleans -- I mean, that's worse than what Bull Connor did in his entire career as a racist in the South. Look at these neighborhoods before Katrina hit. Bush made that community what it is. Katrina did the rest, in partnership with Bush, to deliver the final blow. |