When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.
We're still not executing a lot of the things we would like to but we're not expecting to be perfect in February or March. It's going to be a gradual process, but our best football is in front of us.
We're still getting more negatives on the economic front today, and this is a period where we're really looking for economic growth to avoid a Fed rate cut.
We're still fighting for that playoff spot and that just means those teams in front of us have to keep winning to stay ahead of us.
We're still a very young football team. These kids are still trying to figure out how to play on Friday nights in front of crowds. We still have a lot of room for improvement.
We're starting to make some marks in the right direction on the road. The layout of the land behind us is what it is. We can't change that. We can change what's in front of us.
We're starting to hear from companies that are hiring. Their business outlook is much better for '06. We expect '06 to be a better year -- we're still struggling, still dealing with change, but we're on our way out the front door.
When you walk out in front of an audience of over 70,000 people, you've got to be on your game. They deserve it.
When you've got guys like Andruw (Jones), Chipper (Jones), Julio (Franco) and Marcus (Giles) in front of you, you have some RBI chances. A pitcher doesn't want to pitch to those guys. He'd rather pitch to a rookie any day.