My thing is I can't worry about what if something happens or what if I take a hit, ... I just have to go out there and play football. Once you start worrying about something happening, something will happen. You just have to go out there and compete. As long as you've got the Lord on your side, He will take care of you. |
John McEnroe (1959-) |
No. 1, there are not as many quality big guys now. What passes for a center now could be 6-8, where 20 years ago a 6-8 guy would have a lot of trouble. And, secondly, the three-point line is so close that teams have spread the floor. If you have one big guy, you can let him go one on one and spread the floor around him. |
Nobody can figure out what's going to happen with the market -- they're all guessing, ... Let's say CNN or Fox or MSNBC brings up a picture of a GI in a bad situation. The market takes a dip. Is that a fundamental or a technical move? No, it's a war-driven, live-video stream move, which means it's totally unpredictable. |
Nobody likes getting the information that they aren't getting a uniform, ... They work all week, and they want to play, but we're only allowed to keep 46 active players on the game-day roster, and it's a numbers thing. I'm sure if you took a poll, I don't think any player would be that excited about not sticking around. |
Notwithstanding some quotes attributed to me in the Feb. 15 edition of the New York Post, I wish Pat no ill. Our marriage has had its difficulties. We are separated. And while I may wish that it were not so, our marital difficulties in no way reflect on his capacity to service his constituents or the people of New York. |
Now I feel that everything takes a lot longer to heal and I am only 22. When I'm 30, 35, I still want to be able to play a lot of sports without having to a lot of things to worry about. I'm going to give myself 200 percent for the next two seasons. I think I'm going to go for it and I'm going to give everything I have. |
Nowadays, pro athletes are so recognizable; their faces are plastered everywhere. There are guys who are good people who are put in bad situations and just don't know how to handle those situations. Guys will start a fight with a basketball player because they know that if he connects with a punch, they're going to sue. |
Obviously we look forward to the game on Saturday for a couple of reasons. Mexico is certainly and arguably our biggest rival in CONCACAF and that always makes for a good game. More importantly, any kind of positive result for the U.S. qualifies us for the next World Cup and that's been our objective since June of 2004. |
Obviously we're going to look to her to step up and make big plays and be the player that she is, that she was in college and still is. But I don't think there's pressure on her coming in and I don't think she wants to be the diva on the team or anything on the team, I think she just wants to fit in with the rest of us. |
Obviously, if you're hurt, not able to do it, that's one thing. But if you're just not sure, and you think, 'I might not be ready for the season if I do this,' I don't think that's a good excuse. I think you need to do it. Who knows? If one or more people wanted to do that, maybe we would have gotten to the final round. |
Obviously, the most disappointing thing is we just didn't do the things we had to do at the end, communicate. There was a little break down in communication, you know. They didn't have any more time-outs and I didn't think that they could run a play that was going to give them a good enough look that we couldn't defend. |
Obviously, we have a great rivalry with them. Historically, we enjoy playing each other. There's no love lost between the two of us. There is a great deal of respect for both clubs, for each other. But at the same time, we enjoy beating each other. It'll be an emotional series like it always is as well as a good series. |
Of course the loss of the 2,400 GM jobs will hurt the Oklahoma and Oklahoma City economies. However, given the provisions of job banks, the full force of the negative impacts will not be felt until 2008. In the interim, our survey points to solid growth with positive job gains in the months ahead for Oklahoma's economy. |
Often, the Rainbow Room will allow a child to remain in their own home. If the offending parent leaves — the father for example — the child would not have to be placed in foster care, but the mother might be left with no source of income. Items from the Rainbow Room could mean the child will be able to stay at home. |