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I'm in Houston right now, getting ready to go to a farm in Lake Charles. I left my mom and my grandmother and her blind friend in a hotel lobby in Baton Rouge, so I've got to get them up to the farm. I grabbed my guitar, my dog and my girlfriend and got out. That was all I could do. I've got nothing left besides a little cash in my back pocket. It will take months for me to figure out a semblance of what to do.

I'm glad I gave up baton twirling for basketball.

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton Rouge.

Initially, we wanted to make sure that, if the storm continued on a path toward New Orleans and the smart thing was to evacuate, my 80-something-year-old aunt knew she could come to Baton Rouge. These evacuations are necessary every few years, and, in fact, my aunt came to Baton Rouge last September during a storm that came near New Orleans.

In Korea, already you can see the baton passed from exporters to domestic consumption.

I know what their agenda was: They would like us to play in our home state, ... And our players like that, too, to be honest with you. It's just more of a travel issue and a family issue. But I'm sure our families and their families and friends will go to Baton Rouge to see the game and be with them.

I knew this was possible. Louisiana has been a hot spot for high school basketball, and Baton Rouge has been producing a lot of Division I college basketball players. I knew here we would do something special. It was just a matter of time.

I'm proud to pass the baton to Jack Greenberg, because he is thoroughly prepared to take on the challenging responsibilities of being chief executive officer.

I'm saying that from a totally uneducated perspective. My impression is what you see on TV. I'm not in Baton Rouge. We all feel horrible about what's going on there. I have no idea what we'd be going into.

If you drew a circle around Baton Rouge, you'd have to go pretty far out to find any venue that had available hotel rooms to handle an event of this magnitude. There just aren't enough rooms, even as far as Shreveport and Lake Charles, and you can't come in from too far.

If you go down to New Orleans in the poorer places, you still see things that are unimaginable. We were so lucky in Baton Rouge. We gave up our time, our homes, to help.

In spite of conventional wisdom to the contrary, in our view, Sun has a future and, potentially a very bright one. We see the passing of the baton as affirmation that Sun can move into a strategic harvesting phase combined with focus on streamlined cost structure.

In Oklahoma City, we know all about tragedy. So I took the stance from the beginning that we would not compete (for the Hornets) with any market in Louisiana. When I contacted the league, I made it clear that if the team decided not to play in Baton Rouge or New Orleans, only then would we be interested. It's my belief that if this team can, then it should go back to New Orleans. Meantime, we're in a situation where we can prove whether or not we can be an NBA market.

I just think the state is going to have to be involved in that helpful way, ... I just want to express my deep frustration about folks in Baton Rouge who apparently are completely focused on why this can't work instead of figuring out how to make it work so we can get these communities through these very crucial next several months.

I'll reach up with the shuttle arm, almost like passing a baton from the new arm to the old arm,

I know our players would like to play them all here. But if we have to play some in Baton Rouge, that's a good alternative because of our fan base and our people there. But we still have to travel.

I really think five years from now people will be talking about Baton Rouge the way they talked about Austin (Texas) five years ago.

In every company's history, there is a time when it is appropriate to pass the baton and give a new management team the opportunity to lead, and that time has come at McDonald's,

because we're working here, but still having our ties to Louisiana, you'd like to probably go to Baton Rouge and play a game or two.

He's supposed to contact me and keep me informed. All I can tell you is that FEMA put a request in for a fire chief to help rebuild or reorganize fire departments from Baton Rouge south.

He's supposed to contact me and keep me informed, ... All I can tell you is that FEMA put a request in for a fire chief to help rebuild or reorganize fire departments from Baton Rouge south.

Hopefully, I can turn the baton over to them.

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

The only weapons I ever had were my cello and my baton.

You circle 'em up. That's the nature of the beast, especially in Baton Rouge. It starts with football, goes right through basketball and to baseball. You're expected to win every one. Until you experience it, with a lot of the younger guys, it happens too fast.

The uncle, the one that nobody one knew where he was at, is in Baton Rouge, ... We're still looking for some cousins. My grandfather he came up. It's just a blessing, but I have so many family members that have just lost everything. Their homes and everything. I have a bunch of friends that are just traumatized. There's still a lot of people they haven't heard from. Their family members, parents, kids separated from their moms.

All today's data tell you the business sector is becoming more engaged and consumers are handing the baton over to the business sector, making it highly likely that the recovery will turn into a fully sustainable expansion. In fact, chances are it already is.

The current expectation is that he'll pick up the baton where Greenspan left it off.

The first two were nothing, but the third ticket said I needed to go the lottery office. I didn't know whether it was the Match-5 winnings or something else. But when they said I had to drive to Baton Rouge, I started looking for someone to drive me.

And all I was doing was playing all those funky blues tunes and rock and roll songs I'd played with my band back in Baton Rouge in the '50s.

And Glen challenged the team at halftime. You know what it was like being in Baton Rouge last year after we didn't win that first round game. I didn't want to experience that any more.

The man in Baton Rouge said to call when we get close.

I gotta take the baton from Chuck Norris.

Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.