Quarter Quotations | Page 7

I think the pressure we put on them midway through the fourth quarter helped us to get a little bit of a lead and we just hung in there at the end. Neither team was shooting the ball that great. It was such a physical game. It was hard to get shots, open looks at the basket.

I think the headline number is a bit misleading. It doesn't suggest that the economy is in trouble. Consumer durables production is looking solid, so it's looking like there's still going to be strong first quarter GDP growth.

I thought he competed in every event, he ran a real good quarter mile (56 seconds). He placed in most everything but the 200 meters, he was pretty worn out by then.

I thought, especially for our league, the fourth quarter was a great quarter. They saw a little bit about what NBA basketball is about: great plays by great players.

I thought defensively we were playing soft (in the first half) and not playing the type of game we needed to play to give ourselves a chance. The third quarter we came out with a lot of more aggression, and the third quarter was the key quarter.

I thought Austin Pratt came on in the fourth quarter and take over like he should. I was really happy for Chad because he struggled on his shooting (Wednesday), but he's a very capable ball player and exceptional shooter. He helped separate us there a little bit.

I thought as the game went on we wore down a little bit. I don't want to blame anything, they just beat us down the stretch. In the fourth quarter is where the game is won or lost.

I think the good news is that the current quarter is OK, and the challenge is going to be what comes next,

I think the fourth quarter will be positive on earnings.

I think the fourth quarter is going to be great, ... We just don't have signs of it yet.

I think the focus will shift toward corporate profits. Whether they (the Fed) raise rates a quarter point or not, I think it's not going to be the main focus of investors' attention. People are going to be watching the earnings pretty closely .

I think the first quarter determined the game. We jumped out to a big lead and then, as the game went on, we began to lose our focus a little bit. We have got to stay focused for all 32 minutes.

I think the first quarter and the last minute of the second half decided the basketball game. Then we give up a 10-point lead. If we would've went into the locker room up 12 instead of six, I think that changes the whole complexion of the basketball game.

I think the finish of that third quarter really sucked out some of the wind from us. It seemed like we were in control and then we had a couple of possessions toward the end which both led to turnovers. From that point on, the momentum swung their way and we lost control.

I think the Fed will move a quarter of a point at the end of June, then they may pause. I don't think they're going to stop. I don't think the ball game is over. I think if we are in the late innings and it's still a tie between the risks of higher inflation and slower growth, as Dick Fisher did say, this could go into extra innings.

I think the Fed is hanging its hopes on a couple of things. The bond price has dropped and yields have gone up and it is doing the job for them. . . the economy as a whole is slightly slower in the second quarter than it was in the first. There's hope that it will tail off to a more sustainable rate.

I think the Fed is going to 4.5 percent regardless and we will have an inverted yield curve by the first quarter of next year. So this is a bit of a strange statement.

I think the entire game changed when we opened the fourth quarter with those back-to-back 3-pointers. For the first time all game, we finally had some momentum. We knew how good they were. We needed something to get us going, and those two threes did it.

I think the big thing is the second quarter sales and earnings being below expectations.

I think that the performance last quarter was mixed,

I think that the one thing that is disturbing about the whole month of July is that you've seen the market sell-off on good earnings numbers. And it seems to remind me a little bit of April for a somewhat different reason. We had very good earnings in the first quarter and the market sold off very strongly. We're starting to see the same pattern in July. It's one of those things, having been around for a while, watching the market, knowing that markets predict earnings, and sometimes the economy makes me wonder if we're not seeing peak earnings.

It is going to be a Fed week. The market is 100 percent in sync with a quarter of a percentage point rise for Fed fund rates at 4.75 percent.

Last night, Apple pre-announced a massive shortfall in expected revenue for the current quarter as well as for the remainder of the fiscal year. This does not come as a surprise to us, although the magnitude of the shortfall surpassed even our low expectations, ... We believe it is important to note that we have been much more negative regarding the Apple story than the Street consensus over the past several months.

I was disappointed in our fourth quarter beginning. We put ourselves in a good position, and didn't score for the first three minutes of the fourth quarter. We gave it away in the fourth, and went from one to eleven.

It is possible that the hurricanes that hit in August and September had a bigger impact on measured GDP growth in the fourth quarter than in the third. ... The hurricanes probably dragged on investment, too.

I thought we did a really good job of playing defense in the second half. We picked up the pace a little bit on defense in the third quarter and were able to force some turnovers. Overall, it was a good game for us.

I thought we did a much better job in the third quarter coming out and playing our game plan to try to get back in the game and get us a little bit of a lead.

I thought we defended well in the third quarter and ran our sets a lot better on offense.

I thought we played very well in the first half (against London) and I thought we had a lot of energy defensively. In the second half, we just came out sluggish. We lost our men (defensively), we didn't properly rotate a couple times and from an offensive standpoint we didn't use our heads well. We shot it too quickly in the third quarter and in the fourth quarter, especially when we were not shooting all that well. Our patience has got to get better. And we were 7-for-19 from the foul line. They were fouling, and it looked like a pretty good strategy.

I thought we played the best quarter of the series, quite frankly. We kept it very simple and the ball moved to open shooters and we made the shots that we had to make.

I thought we played sluggish and tired all night. Our energy wasn't there. I can't give you the answer. In that third quarter we didn't get any stops at all.

I thought we played real well. They came out in a box on us and it took us a quarter to get adjusted to it, but once we did, we started playing well. Once again, we won with our defense.

I thought we played okay, but they stole the momentum right from the third quarter and just kept it going and we couldn't catch up to them.

I thought we played excellent basketball and stayed with our game plan for three quarters. We've got kids that don't have enough playing experience. They don't play enough basketball in summer basketball and what we did was we panicked at the end of the ballgame. Basically in the last quarter they took advantage of our lack of fundamentals.

I thought we played a really good third quarter. We struggled a little bit in the first half, but we played well enough in the third quarter to overcome it.

I thought we played a nice third quarter to cut that thing down. But that second quarter - four points -you just can't do that.

I thought we had a spurt early in the third quarter when we got Phil in transition. I could feel momentum go our way. Give Bald Eagle credit, they came back and took that momentum away from us. We did have our chances.

I thought we had a solid third quarter. We cut the deficit and swung the momentum in our favor. But then we started the fourth slowly. We turned the ball over and they got a couple of buckets and were able to forge ahead by seven or eight. We chased them the entire quarter and just couldn't catch up.

I thought we had a really good second quarter. I think that's the way these girls are capable of playing. The consistency in each quarter hasn't been there.

I thought we had a really good defensive first half. We found momentum at the beginning of the second quarter and established a lead.

I thought we got impatient in the fourth quarter where we could have done a better job of extending the lead. It should have easily been a 12-14 point ball game, but we didn't convert on some free throws.

I thought we got down early but we had a great second quarter and got back in the game.

I thought we did the things we wanted to do tonight. The first quarter we played a lot of our starters and scored once with the varsity guys.

I thought we played a great first quarter and a half and then the intensity just (went) down the rest of the game. They didn't finish how they started.

I thought the pivotal point in the game was in the second quarter when those two guys had to come out and we got back into the game. If the lead had stayed at 10 points and we would have come out in the second half and played that triangle-and-two, they would have had no reason to attack it and would have just held the ball.

I thought the key later on in the game was our play in the third quarter. We came out of the locker room and said we were going to make a run. That was the time, and I thought we were there to answer it. We got back on our game early in the third quarter and that is when the game was decided.

I thought the guys rallied. We came out in the third quarter with a lot more intensity.

I thought the first quarter for us was nearly flawless. Our team did an excellent job playing without Erin (Parker), and our bench played extremely well.

I thought the start of the third quarter really hurt us. We had three, four, or five possessions with pretty good looks at the basket and we just didn't score. You can't hold off good teams three or four possessions in a row.

I thought that was the difference. We missed a quick shot then he made six in a row and that gets it to nine. You hate them making a run at the end of a quarter because you have to sub and it just gets worse from there.

I thought that was maybe the biggest problem we had in the game. They took over there in that second quarter, and we just got worse and worse as the quarter went on.

I thought we came out and played fairly well in the first quarter and kind of neutralized their strengths. But Clovis West proved why they are the odds-on favorite to win the state title as they are very quick, extremely strong and physical as well as being deep.

I thought we came out and attacked offensively and really did a lot of things that we talked about doing. I think we got a better feel for what they were doing and what we needed to do in the second quarter and, I think, once we had a 12-point lead, we could play a game that was a little more our style.

I thought Virgil and Bryce had their moments, and I thought that Dodson's performance in the fourth quarter was incredible. He's one of the guys out late from football, and he's one of the first football players to get their legs back.

I thought this was a gutsy performance by our team. Cleveland really jumped out on us and put us in a big hole and our team responded in the second half. Our third quarter defense was pretty special.

I think we had a pretty good first quarter. The end of the quarter we let up and fouled a little bit. The fouls in the second quarter that put them on the free throw line just killed us because they weren't missing free throws.

I think we got a little lackadaisical in the second quarter. I was very glad to see that we took the ball in the third quarter and ran it down their throat twice.

I think we're going to go down to the wire whether or not it's a half-percentage point (increase). If you want to maintain market stability, a quarter percentage point could keep the market at bay.

I think we'll be fortunate if a quarter of that materializes. The change in the outlook for fiscal policy is remarkable.

I think we just needed to wake up and get warmed up. In the second quarter we lit it up.

I think we just kind of got complacent a bit, but we tried to get a lot of kids in the ballgame and get them some playing time. The scoring in the fourth quarter really didn't mean that much. We just wanted to see some more kids out there and let them play.

I think we didn't have much defensive intensity at all in the third quarter. The third quarter was not what we expected, so I wanted to put the young kids in and they brought us back into the game. I didn't think it would be fair if I took them out.

I think we can strengthen our relationship with Mexico which, by the way, was the state's largest trading partner in the fourth quarter of 1998,

I think we played a pretty good game tonight. Not necessarily the first quarter and not necessarily at the very end.

I think we played a great game. Even though we were scoreless in the second quarter the boys didn't quit.

I think we have to get through this period that we're in right now. Companies that don't prerelease will make the numbers. Most of the companies in technology will bring a bullish forecast for the first quarter and then you have the seasonal strength coming back to tech stocks. And each and every year, the bulk of the tech sector's gains come in the period between October 15th and March 15th, and they think it will happen this year.

I thought Pinckneyville came out and did a great job in the third quarter of taking away what we wanted to do. We always talk about the first three minutes of the second half is the most important part of the game. I just think we didn't match their intensity. ... And, I think Matt (Buren) getting in foul trouble in the third quarter really hurt us.

I thought our kids really came out and played well. I thought the third quarter was the difference. We held them to three points. The kids' team defense was so much better. They're a good basketball team and they're going to be reckoned with the rest of the way.

I thought our girls played absolutely wonderful. To go on the road and play a top team that close was great. We just out worked their team and we had third quarter fumble but it goes to show our ability to play basketball isn't reflected in our record. Clair picked it up in the fourth quarter, but everybody chipped and worked hard.

I thought our first half was as soft defensively as we'd been all year. We started the third quarter the same way but then our bench picked us up. Even though (our bench) was outscored, I thought they were the reason we won the game.

I think we will see a rebound in the economy partly because of this substantial easing that we've seen from the Fed, but I think it will be delayed. I think we are likely to see clear evidence of this emerging towards the end of the fourth quarter this year and a rebound well under way in the first quarter next year.

I think we're sort of in a holding pattern as we get ready for the second quarter earnings, which start pouring in around mid July,

I think we took control of the game there in the third quarter. After giving up 32 in the first half, we held them to 12 in the third quarter and they went five minutes in the fourth without scoring.

I think what we can do now is we can change our personality. Defense can carry us at times. But I thought in the fourth quarter, our offense, we executed. To score 28 points down the stretch in the fourth quarter that's pretty impressive.

I think by the time we get to the fourth quarter and next year, things are going to get a lot better.

I think by the first quarter of next year you're going to see a much better profits picture and that's what the market's telling us here.

I think a lot of people were a bit nervous about this quarter and there might be a bit of a collective sigh of relief that they pulled it out and that should be viewed positively. The second half of the year is likely to be a whole lot better.

I think a lot of people are rationalizing the fourth quarter as a one-time tax hit. I don't agree. This indicates the company's need to focus on and invest in its ability to more effectively forecast, manage and execute its international operations.

I think because of the easy comparisons, apparel has an opportunity to stand out through the rest of the quarter compared to some of the other categories.

I think after a while, after we start missing the easy shots, I think we start pressing a little bit and trying to make up for the easy shots that we missed and we just continued to miss. At one point I remember looking at the clock when we had 33 points and I don't remember the next time we scored. Then, the same thing happened in the third quarter when we just could not make a shot.

I think, actually, we are going to work our backlog down in this quarter and next quarter and the analysts are working through their numbers right now.

I think it was a strong quarter but given the level of movement in the stock over the last few weeks expectations had gotten to a point where more upside was likely anticipated both for this quarter and for the forecast.

I think it took Adam until the second quarter to get comfortable. He may have been a little anxious and trying too hard early, but he is definitely the right guy for this program.

I think it was the biggest weekend in a quarter century for a women's swimming team at Rutgers.

I think it was just experience. We were tired of getting beat. That's where we've been getting beat. We've been coming into the third quarter and playing lackadaisical.

I think it tells you a lot about the confidence you can have investing overseas. And maybe a little about the kind of quarter we had here at home.

I think it's probably on the high side. I've seen other estimates more in line with a half-percent hurt to GDP growth in the third quarter and fourth quarter -- but with a pick-up of roughly that order for '06,

It generally takes a few months after GDP growth such as we saw in the third quarter before that turns into strong growth in employment.

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

It goes without saying that the third quarter was one of the most challenging quarters ever for Compaq and for our industry.

It goes back to the (fact that the) market is confused. This will be the best looking earnings report of the quarter of any builder.

I think this quarter demonstrates how unsettled market conditions are. The old IBM doesn't fit with the new markets. IBM understands this and is trying to move quickly to change itself. This elephant has been dancing on stilts.

I think this last quarter proves out that their business model works versus Gateway, versus Compaq, versus other PC box makers,

I think this is the fifth sequential quarter where we have either met or exceeded analysts' top-line and bottom-line estimates, and we are proud of our results.

I think we came out in the third quarter and got away from our game plan. Three of our first four shots were 3-pointers. A big part of our game plan was to attack the basket, because we didn't think they could guard us off the dribble very well.

I think this could perhaps be the first quarter in quite a considerable time that the domestic NZ business shows signs of EBITDA growth, or at least if it's down it's only going to be down fractionally.

I think things went comparatively well today (Friday). The market has said and (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has said that the recovery is another quarter away, that it's going to be the third quarter, not the second, which is what people had been thinking.

I think they will reach their guidance. It will depend on the fourth quarter and the performance of the Real (food) stores.

I think they were a little stunned. We wanted to get out early in the first quarter and take control.

It is not like this is the first time this has happened. We did a phenomenal job in the first half and in the third quarter we came out flat. We have to do a better job.