John Hammond Quotations

Watching those guys on our own floor every day, working with our guys, that's as good as it gets. There is something to be said for accountability, for actually seeing guys every day.

We're still hopeful. We want to be in the running.

There are thousands of examples of that, ... That's what makes the blues so special, so unique. Musicians add their own take, their own color, their own feeling, to existing material.

more rain at the end of the week, but nothing on the scale of what we have seen.

He was broken down. It's hard for a guy to take all that. It's human instinct to feel bad.

He goes home in one condition, ... and he returns a completely different person and player, physically and mentally.

We're pretty happy with where we're at right now. If some player comes available, we can look. But if we don't see anybody we like, we don't have to do something.

Katie's a really nice person. It's unfortunate she had a conflict of interest.

Someone deserves some credit. I know Carlos gives a lot of it to his dad.

I think this gives us another great opportunity, if we choose to use it. As far as us having a definite set plan to send guys down right now, we don't have one.

That's the way it will always be for this team, even if we have this success again next year. We're not a glitter team.

We've had cases in Maryland this year, but we haven't been able to connect any to the Midwest outbreak.

We won't see the same player we did last year. We already see a better one.

The conventional wisdom that this is somehow political suicide I think is off-base. Conventional wisdom is that it?s political suicide but it is not thought through because the issue for everyone is how soon the public can be educated fully on the benefits of this program.

You have to be involved internationally to compete these days. If not, you?re going to get left behind.

We simply classified it as a numbers game. Rickey is a quality player and has the skills to play in the NBA. For Rickey, it just wasn't the right time or right place for him in Detroit.

Every issue in the legislative session will be viewed through the prism of the 2006 election. There will not be one issue of any significance that will not be affected by election-year considerations.

There's not a whole lot to say at this point. It's something that's going to play out over the next few days. It's not that we're playing coy, we just have to wait.

Any NBA player, any international player, obviously has a contractual obligation to their team first and foremost. And all the national teams are aware of that and, of course, in agreement with that. Their jobs and the team that they're playing for is their first responsibility and they're all very aware about that.

They were e-mailing each other back and forth. I'll bet 80 percent of the thing was done that way.

They're destroying a big part of Los Angeles history. I'll be very sad to see it go.

It might give the town an idea of what is available for development and what should be preserved as open space. It is important that we concentrate development in the village centers and limit urban sprawl. This could be the right step in that direction.

That's about all we can and want to do right now -- study the situation and see what's shaking loose around the league. We certainly hope to find somebody who can fill the bill, but we're going to be pretty selective.

It's certainly on our radar for priority. We'd like to get something done by training camp.

It's never happened and it's never going to happen.

That's all we can do, watch what happens and see who is out there. It's going to be interesting to see who's left after the amnesty deadline. Then things progress from there.

I don't know how things get lost in translation. But I know they do.

He's way too intriguing to pass up, ... And with Steve Francis there already, it really makes it very simple.

The conditions were very unstable which could lead to this kind of event happening.