“I hope it's a good sign. It gave me a lot of confidence going to Cleveland. Almost too much, though. I was on Cloud 9, and then I missed the cut.”

“We?re looking for a positive message and community building. We hope that people who have never met might strike up a conversation and build a new relationship.”

“You play as hard as you can now and you hope for the best. I'm sure what we do to our bodies is going to have an effect on us in the end.”

“My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy.”

“I hope we have the chance to play Eastern again. They are well deserving of the No. 1 seed but we really did not play well against them either time.”

“It is an enormous leap - a bigger leap than we had wanted. The island was hoping to reform through evolution, not revolution. Feudalism is a great system and has worked very well.”

“This is the first time all year we've been on a bit of a roll and guys are feeling good about themselves. Let's just hope we haven't run out of time.”

“The reports were an early indication that the pricing outlook may not be as good as one would hope. Last night's results and tonight's will give a sense of what 2006 will look like.”

“so I hope we can build a consensus around what is a very liberal position on this issue, and that we can give Australians the right that New Zealanders have.”

“We did not qualify enough (athletes to the finals) so some of the scoring we were hoping to do is not going to happen. We'll have to rely on our relay teams.”