Larry Thompson Quotations

We tried different things on defense (in the first half) like traps and pressing. We settled on man-to-man (in the second half) and it seemed to work out for us. Once we settled on one thing, we committed to it and did a nice job on it.

Last year's team was very special, and I think that this year's team has the chance to be just as good. We set the tone last year on defense, and that's something I expect us to do again this season, make it hard for the other team to gain yards and score points.

I want to thank the Muslim community of Buffalo for their extraordinary cooperation, ... The assistance of the Muslim community in Buffalo has helped to make the nation safer.

I surely want to win this game, but I have a lot of respect for those seniors at that school and the coaches, ... They're good friends of mine, and I wish them nothing but the best. Obviously I want to win the game, but if we don't win, I'll sure feel happy for them.

That was probably one of the best performances of his career. I knew he could do this. As soon as I got him to slow down, things started happening for him.

will enable our government to assess fully the scope and consequences of Hanssen's activities.

We are concerned about the continuing effort by third party groups to mischaracterize and misrepresent the facts surrounding these lawsuits and the degree of concern over this issue. From what regulators have said, there is little empirical evidence that widespread abuses such as naked short selling are occurring.

The grand jury indictment being released today details a systematic and calculated plan to damage our country's national security, ... Regan is charged with attempts to sell our intelligence agency's most valuable secrets for the purpose of enriching himself.

Fastow and his co-conspirators systematically and thoroughly corrupted the business of one of the largest corporations in the world,

The big thing was not having everybody settle on the 3-point shot. We needed to be more selective and get good shots.

Considering the risk I am about to take, I will require a minimum payment of 13 million U.S. dollars. There are many people from movie stars to athletes in the U.S. who receive tens of millions of dollars a year for their trivial contributions,

At times it feels like we come to work in the morning and we don't know what change is going to greet us.

If you're going to have 50-pound sacks thrown out of the door of the aircraft, you've got to have someone on the ground clearing the people out of the area where they're going to fall so they don't hit people.

He quit working out, and he quit doing anything. He lost 15 pounds and wasn't ready to play football out there in California. Luckily, he found a way to turn it around or it would have been a waste of talent.

The destruction of evidence extended far beyond the Houston base. The destruction was not confined to a few individuals but was a substantial undertaking over a period of time.

The conspiracy...allowed Enron to exploit and intensify the California energy crisis and prey on energy consumers at their most vulnerable moment,