“My hope is it's a universe, and people drift out and sometimes they drift back in again. Just because someone leaves doesn't mean they can't show up in some other way.”

“I'm hoping that in this incident with the wrestling team that nobody lost their life or was seriously injured. If you don't have a wrestling program for a few years, that's a small price to pay in my opinion.”

“We're hoping our defense will be strong again and will keep us in games. We have a lot of young returning players on offense that will help out, but it will take them a while to get going.”

“Usually I qualify good here but always seem to get into a mishap and get knocked out, ... I haven't had a good run of luck, so I was just hoping to finish.”

“We have to do this very carefully and we hope you can understand our desire to do this right. We're trying to balance that with getting the game back up as quickly as possible”

“We hope to paint a picture for those (voters). We want to give them the power their vote should have, so they have the knowledge to put into office the right people for the right reasons.”

“When once a man is launched on such an adventure as this, he must bid farewell to hopes and fears, otherwise death or deliverance will both come too late to save his honor and his reason.”

“We certainly appreciate what John did but hope that's something we can manage in the future. This is exactly the prototype we would like to have for the trust fund going forward.”

“It has been very tough financially on Anthony. I hope he gets more local support in the lead-up to Beijing. Anthony is extremely strong to have gone through all of this.”

“We hope that all students are keeping up with his or her work, getting targeted help ... and are engaged in their classes. If that's the case, then for most students the CRCT should not be something to be nervous about.”