“I?m hoping it was just a scare. But we are not the type of team we were last year in that we are not going to go on these big runs. We are going to be in tight games that are going to be battles.”

“Investors are realizing they oversold last week. Tokyo stocks are still very much at the mercy of the U.S. market, but there's now hope technology stocks in both markets have hit bottom.”

“I will do my best to rise to the enormity of the task at hand. It is with great humility that I regard the challenges that lie ahead -- and it is with great hope that I will find the strength and ability to meet them,”

“The only hope is that people are learning. We want to see pesticides used like antibiotics. We cannot put the whole nation on antibiotics fearing that [people] will one day get sick.”

“I hope it gives me a little bit of an advantage so I can rebound. What I love to do is rebound, so it may give me a little edge on the competition.”

“I'll be sitting on the edge of my seat hoping all of those blokes come back healthy. It is a physical challenge for them to present, year after year, without the appropriate rest and recovery.”

“I hope now that in the longer term they will give authority to the fourth official to suspend matches where there is racist abuse of the type we witnessed in Madrid, and if the chanting continues then to abandon games altogether.”

“In the past, we had made up our mind that if Alex or Kyle was still there, they were the guy. Will we be able to do that this year? Maybe not. We'll have a list and hope that somebody sticks there.”

“If he's going well in a few weeks, I would hope we would move on to Louisville. He showed today that he can do whatever we really want him to.”

“America supports everything that we need to do with Katrina. I hope everyone understands this approximately $63 billion ... that's only a down payment. There's going to be lots more money.”