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(Chappell) has been showing me some new things. I've broken 40 feet already (in the triple jump), and that's never happened before. ... I have a hurdles coach and a high jump coach as well. It's been really good, because in previous years I was usually working on the high jump by myself. |
(Greenspan's) a proponent of what productivity gains have brought to this new economy. Of all the things he says, the least hawkish is when he talks about productivity and the new economy. In terms of Wall Street's reaction, I wouldn't say we could garner anything but a positive feeling. |
[A true competitor keen to set the good times rolling, Owen will deliver.] The thing that struck everyone about Michael when he first came on the scene was how mature he was at an early age, ... That's something that helped him deal with the periods when he's had an injury or not scored. |
[Albright] will be explaining to the Chinese and to Zhu Rongji specifically that if he and the Chinese want their trip to the United States to be a success, that it's got to go beyond economic issues, ... The nature of the U.S.-China relationship is broader than simply a question of WTO. |
[As for establishing rivalries,] The top teams are always going to have a rivalry, ... Connecticut is more of a big rivalry for us now because they've been so good. Now Georgetown's coming back, they'll be good again and that'll be a big rivalry game. It's the good teams that are rivals. |
[As Moses,] I just want to be an ordinary man. In his head and heart, he's in the wilderness. He wants to focus his life on something he believes in, and yet he's not sure he's the right person. He has to lead his people to the Promised Land and figure out what God sees as worthy in him. |
[Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville, whose team finished No. 2 in the final polls last season, says he considered voting for Texas, Iowa, Miami and Virginia Tech before settling on Michigan for No. 2 on his preseason ballot.] I had no clue, ... Just take one of them out and put them in there. |
[Death] affects everyone a little differently, and you never know until it happens. I don't know. Clive's death really made me, I don't know, strong in ways I hadn't been in a long time. It made me feel like, I don't know, it's time to stop wasting your time. I can't waste any more time. |
[Derek Walker, a spokesman for the Maryland Democratic Party, said the episode had nothing to do with the party's view of a Steele candidacy.] This is a one-time stupid mistake by a couple of young people who were willing to take responsibility immediately, ... That's what this is about. |
[First Selectmen David King said the town would be very interested in their ideas to correct the problem, and suggested they contact the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) to share their ideas.] It sounds like a logical fix to the problem, ... You have our blessing and our thanks. |
[For all his notoriety in global tech circles, Wales is all but invisible in Florida. Due to lack of interest, an organizer once had to cancel an event in St. Petersburg where Wales was to speak.] Like the great artists Jerry Lewis and David Hasselhoff, ... I'm only appreciated overseas. |
[From a financial standpoint,] the time did benefit Mark, ... We had agreed on the gross package and years three or four days ago. What was holding up the deal was the structure -- the guaranteed money, the incentives and escalators -- and those did change. It was well worth the holdout. |
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[It is barely more than a year since Blake broke his neck on a net post during training, lost his father to stomach cancer and was struck with stress-triggered shingles, which paralyzed half his face and jeopardized his career. But those] life lessons, ... find a way to be happy with it. |