John Thompson Quotations

We are pleased to have completed our audit and filed our Form 10-K, ... We look forward to regaining full compliance with NASDAQ listing requirements by filing our first and second quarter Form 10-Qs.

What he did was the right thing for him. Unfortunately, it has a negative influence on a lot of other people. Going into professional sports and making the money he's made does not close the option for him to still get a formal education. It does close the option for a kid that does not make it. If I'm some kid from the inner-city who has used athletics to motivate myself and I miss, I have no more options.

What happens when you push the old guys out and put the young guys on the bench? These guys aren't getting a formal education or an informal education. The older guys are getting pushed out for the younger guys, but there's no one to teach them how to carry themselves.

We're getting contributions from 10 guys on a regular basis. Scoring is great, but you have to get some rebounds and have guys buying into defensive schemes. So many times guys who score get the press, but the reality is that the last several games have been total team efforts. It's been a lot of fun to watch.

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

We're seeing more and more partners go global, and I think that's having a big impact in terms of how we, as companies, approach the partner community.

We have a pager they can call, anonymously, and report animal cruelty, and we'll take it from there.

Levy limits were discussed this year, but not enforced. Some of that's just every-year political stuff, but you don't know until the Legislature adjourns for the year what they really will do to us.

Lenny's three was huge. It was a four-point lead at that point and we hadn't scored in awhile.

She was discussing with me the things available to someone like me to get into teaching. I had heard about Teach Tennessee and I got online and got some information sent to me. It was a major packet of information you had to have, and proof that you've got these skills (to teach).

Most of us don't think watching a 12-year-old girl strangle to death is a sexual turn-on, but to him it is.

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Obviously we didn't tackle. We were not physical and we stopped them only a few times ... long runs, big plays, we didn't get the job done. We got whipped.

Obviously, we didn't tackle and we weren't physical. We stopped them very few times. We were poor in every category. We gave up big plays, especially in the running game. We didn't get off the field on third down. We just didn't get the job done. We got whipped in every facet. We didn't get any turnovers. We have to go work, look at what we're doing everywhere and get better.

More or less, if you see what a hitter's doing, try to get him out that way. If he looks like he's going to be leaning out over the plate, go inside. If it's looking like he's trying to cheat inside, go away. It's not a set thing.

Nobody sells a house before fixing it up. If you want to sell you fix it up first, ... But if Hurd can make the PC business consistently profitable then there is no need to get rid of it. It can be a decent business.

If we have costs that we have to spend money on, then we have to dip into our reserves. In the early '90s, our reserves dipped down really low, and we're just now building them back up again. I'd hate to see real restrictive levy limits when we need to spend money. That's why any construction project, or anything like that, would have to be put on hold.

I'd like to sit and talk to him between innings when I'm pitching. It keeps my mind off the game a little. Most of the time, I like to talk not about the game, but something else. The last couple years it was a little hard because Leo wasn't like that. He's really into the game. So I'd talk to whoever sat next to me. We'd talk about anything.

I did what I thought was right. I wouldn't change what I did and I'd do it again.

Certainly if the Bush budget proposal is accepted, a lot of people will suffer. We feel very strongly that there needs to be a national system.

If it's not working, you need to know that, ... and if it is working, you need to know that, too.

He has had some very good games against quality opponents. But it's March, and you're playing for a lot more than you were earlier in the year. So was this his biggest game? Yes, without a doubt.

We expect to hold a communitywide meeting in April or May.

We've been very happy with Studio Pro. It's definitely sped up development.

We feel it should be for community use, for meetings and fundraising.

We tighten up security and we interfere with a vast amount of legitimate commerce.

What we have announced today are promotions and opportunities around the attach area. We want to allow you to get aggressive this quarter.

He was one of the guys who helped make tournaments like this famous. He had to go through it when it was tough, really tough.

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

He just assumed that the time was so short, he hadn't served. He was born before the Great War, he was a child in the Roaring '20s, he graduated about the Depression and he married about World War II. These are very unassuming guys. It was a national responsibility, and you did your job.

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

I yelled at them. We peeled a little paint.

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

I think they had about 1,200 inquiries into the program and they had 225 completed applications. It took three to four weeks to complete the application to get in. Everything came together pretty quickly.

I'm sick of us having to be perfect to get the job.

that you're only as good in business as your last response to an attack. You always have to be one step ahead of the bad guys.

That's up to them and their taxpayers. Even though we know limits may be coming, I would hate to have to justify an increase like that. Generally this part of the state's a little more conservative than that. If many do raise taxes like that, it just adds to the Legislature's desire to place limits.

who are trying to make money and leave us with the mess.

We're already enjoying the benefits of the greater scope and scale that Vodafone gives us when we're purchasing so we're buying a lot of infrastructure, a lot of handsets.

We asked what we needed, and we said the interior needs restoration. We want warming ovens for caterers. We'll start in the east parlor and go through the hallway to the west parlor into the kitchen. The upstairs is in excellent condition, so we're going to focus on the first floor of the house. We're applying for grants.

We can't allow trust to continue to erode. We as an industry must join together to create a trusted online community.

The reason we own Microsoft is because once the economy improves we expect an upgrade in the PC cycle. All this other stuff is noise.

We need to do a better job of creating processes for large and small companies on a new vulnerability and what actions they should take.

We're not looking to go whining to the EU or the DOJ for anything,

To say the only means we can survive is to put in a 28-story mountain of trash is not right, ... Our children in the future are going to pay a price.

We have to collaborate together, find these opportunities and make these connections.

The parity, from top to bottom, is terrific. It's unlike any other league with quality teams, quality players and quality coaches from top to bottom.

When you get into teaching, not being what you studied in college the first time around, unless you drop what you're doing and go back to school full-time, it's kinda hard to get into.

explained Donny Marshall , one of Calhoun's many University of Connecticut stars. ''We wanted to make sure we had even more.

There is nothing much better than going to a baseball game, getting a decent seat with a nice view (for one tenth of the price of a seat at Stamford Bridge) and enjoying a game with a beer in one hand and a NY-style hot dog in the other - and no chance of some idiot behind me shouting abuse or spitting obsenities at me (I am a Celtic supporter, I'm used to both).

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We don't really understand these serial sexual homicides to the extent that we think we do. We think we know what's going on. But because these people are so rare, we really don't. It's chilling.

We're going to watch him next year (in the NFL). He's a really good player and you can tell the difference in this league, you get a fifth-year senior at quarterback and your team really improves.

We are very honored to have won the inaugural USA South Sportsmanship Award, ... Sportsmanship has been an important focus in the league for a number of years and we are proud of, and excited for, all of our student-athletes.

At the end of the day, they have very good players. We would make a run at them and their players would make plays.

(Commissioners) could work and take some dollars out of this budget if they choose to, and they have a couple months to work on that.

Except for a couple of possessions, we played well at West Virginia. It was a tough loss, but we don?t have the time to regroup. We have to just move on.

I understand what they are doing. Microsoft is playing hardball,

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No set time limit is in place since the actual decision to build isn't in place.

Some didn't get the job they wanted. Some got a job offered to them, but it wasn't within the driving distance they wanted to. Because of my background, I had people calling me from Cleveland, Chattanooga, Athens and down the I-75 corridor because of the needs they had at their school. But I just didn't want to leave.

During the Internet bubble people focused on the fast companies,

A nice well-equipped, state-of-the-art amusement centre of the type we have planned to develop will cost in excess of US$500,000 to get the minimum basic infrastructure to develop the park to its former glory... and we can't find the money, so we need help.

They've been working so hard and really had never gotten down. The hard work is starting to pay off. It's taken a little while with the youth and schedule we've played. It's good to see them have some success.

A lot of the tech companies that have done quite well and had higher multiples were ready to pullback.

They are still in college. They are good, very good. It's not important how they compare to some of the guys I coached. What's important is how they compare against their peers, and they are damn good.

This positive endeavor will benefit our children enrolled in the local schools and provide a safety enhancement for our citizens. We are very excited to be a part of this program and believe it will be a great asset to our community.

There's a lot at stake. This generation can transform coal used for burning - one of the dirtiest industrial activities on the planet - to, ironically, being one of the cleanest fuels from an air pollution standpoint.

It was beautiful, because it was the first time everyone got together to discuss the situation. I'll be honest, we really didn't have any answers. There were some things we discussed, but I don't know what the solution is.

It was supposed to be such a big moment for integration, but that's all just BS. The game was in College Park, Md., and I was here at the time and nobody was talking about it as a big deal. Sure, in the Black community, we quietly said, 'Good,' but nobody was running around saying how great it was.

I told them the Chowan game was going to help us win a game down the road. The guys really executed and managed the basketball. We're making progress. This is a team that is growing.

For basketball games, you walk up five minutes before the game starts and get your tickets.

It's a pretty unstable foundation on which to build, I was going to say a culture. But in a sense it is a culture.

It's a very lethal combination. A normal male his age may lead a normal life and have sexual fantasies.

You think about Georgetown centers (Ewing, Mourning, Mutombo), and everyone wants to throw him into that category -- and he will be one day, ... Roy's probably worked harder than anyone on our team this summer. Hopefully, much like with our team, you'll see improvement. As we try to get things going here, we want to keep taking baby steps.

That is a much much better way for our company to think about the changing threat landscape and the changing competitive landscape.

After Wayne Rooney's recent sending-off for a sarcastic gesture, are there any other examples of sardonic play being punished?

Any time you add additional duties, teachers expect to be paid, which is reasonable. But with pension and health care costs going through the roof, we can't afford things like higher pay for more work.

At this time a year, you need every game,

The messaging that our CEO made was that we are going to look to reward partners doing more with HP. To put it simply, we want to do more business with you.

The fact that you ask that question gives the answer. When it comes to the point we don't have to ask it anymore, that will be a good thing.

I love helping kids and working with them. In the couple of jobs I've had, the times where I had assignments to teach something, like a safety topic or something technical, I loved it. It just kinda got me thinking, what do I want to do for the next 30 years?

I have not seen two guys play together like that in a long time.

In North Carolina, cockfighting is a first-offense felony, so now they are coming to South Carolina to cockfights.

In this day and age, you have to understand if you have good players -- and your team has success -- then guys may leave early, ... We haven't gone into it that way, that Jeff's not going to be here, but at the same time you have to plan accordingly.

I attribute that to listening to partners. Partnering been in the DNA of our company for over 25 years.

You want to protect the interest of the kids -- not worry so much about the school -- and do what's best for the player. After what these kids have been through, the NCAA ought to permit them to play anywhere, not punish them and make judgments.

The first issue is the awareness level the general public has of things they can and should do to protect their systems and network connections.

The company used almost 100 percent of earnings for the dividend. This was atypical and a big boost for shareholders.