Quotes by Rick Peterson

“We were trying to take him in a direction to grow and he wanted to cling to what he was doing before, ... He was a very limited pitcher. Sometimes, it takes longer to learn from our successes and our failures.”

“If you want to hit the target,”

“I dont know why. But if we werent that way, wed be way out of it by now.”

“I felt, ... like I got kicked in the soul.”

“Theyve all been trying to bend over backwards to make sure were OK. Well have to wait and see; theyve got a lot to do.”

“We were as prepared as we could be for the rainfall with the road barricades, having them ready. Theres nothing we can do to hold the rain back, we just deal with it when it gets here.”

“Firms have been showing strong profit growth by getting by with fewer people, adding computers instead.”

“You always hear that when hitters are in a groove, they say that theyre seeing the ball well. But Chad makes it so they cant.”

“Its sort of like that movie, Shallow Hal, where the guy falls in love because of what he sees inside her, not what she looks like. Chad just saw himself differently from how we saw him.”

“The weeding out process is over, ... Most of the office closings are behind us. Unemployment has hit bottom and job recovery will only gain momentum in the months ahead.”