Brian Young Quotations

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

It's sad. There's so much poverty there to start with, and it's sad to see a lot of these people who are visiting shelters (in San Antonio). It's sad to see, because these people didn't have a lot to start with. Now they have even less. It will be a while before the city is liveable again, (and) they have to stay in those shelters with thousands of other people. They may be stuck in shelters for a year or so. A lot of people were wiped out. And people will have to start all over again. It's rough for a lot of people in New Orleans.

We played all right, but we had some lapses.

We would love to fight Laila Ali. We offered her $500,000 dec 28th of last year when we met with Ya Ya Mclaine. We offered her 1/2 a million guarantee and 75% of the PPV revenue -- she turned the fight down. We still to this day do not know why they would turn down that kind of offer.

If we included this in the price of our room, it could put us at a competitive disadvantage.

Anthony and Lamont are surrounded by the right people. They have a manager in Shelly Finkel who has a long history of working with the best boxers in the business. A trainer and mentor in Barry Hunter who I believe is the best young trainer in the country today. And a promotional team like Prize Fight who is focused on making Anthony and Lamont world champions for a very long time. I expect 2006 to be a banner year for the best brother combination this sport has ever seen.

Compared to most people in New Orleans, what we're going through is minute. It's not so much of a nightmare for us. We all got out safe, moved somewhere else, and were taken care of. Not much compared to what most people have to deal with.

It's been crazy. It's going to be similar to Lewis-Tyson, and you're talking about a $15- to $20-million economic boom for the city of Memphis, and an untold amount of exposure. It's just going to be huge.

Ann wanted to fight Valerie, ... and when she beats Valerie it will be another confidence boost for her. Ann wanted to fight an opponent that would actually make her fight and not run from her. If you look at Ann's last two opponents -- they both ran from her -- and that is frustrating to Ann.

We will have computer mobility over today's portability. We will see less reliability on traditional battery power and more power sources based on solar and wind, coupled with physical movement.