Michael Allen Quotations

The pricing is something that has been a problem for quite some time, when the front of the plane was basically subsidizing the back of the plane. The very small number of people who were paying for the very high fares were resentful.

None of these people are lazy, ... Why wouldn't you want to help somebody like that? All they needed was a jump-start.

I didn't want to lose out on a whole semester. They made it real easy for us to enroll in school.

I'm ahead. I don't know what my lead is on the number that matters, but we all have three tough days left. That's the hard thing right now for me. It's the Tour school. That's why they call it that -- to learn how to deal with this is a little bit better.

Given that many of us work more than eight hours a day and five days a week, that free time is precious.

I don't think what happened here today is going to have too much impact on the Revenue Forecasting Committee, ... I think a lot of the decisions there are going to center around the impact of energy prices on consumer expenditures.

It comes down to execution, and right now we aren't making plays. We've got a lot of work to, but this team has a lot of pride, and we will fight back.

Our goal is to bring the community together on May 19-20 to celebrate.

We put up sheets here so they can have their privacy,

The only thing I can say and I can implore to everyone in our community, is to look at the case, look at the facts when it comes to trial. And I will say, that I think the grand jury made the right call in this case,

There's more price sensitivity among business travelers than ever.

It was an emotional roller-coaster all day long. I did not play well at all for most of the day, but I was able to get it together at the end. Making three (birdies) in a row to finish the round at least makes you feel like you had a good day. I got in my own way today, and I've got to figure out a way to rectify that before tomorrow.

Sonny was a no-frills kind of guy. He shot straight from the shoulder. You knew exactly where you stood with him.

Right now ... the tribes are pretty satisfied. I think (the first speech) helped move this thing along a little bit.

Profits are elusive. Airlines either need to raise fares, or the price of oil has to come down.

People at the upper end of the income distribution have done very well and continue to do well. People in the middle are growing, but they're not growing all that much. Wage increases have been muted and that certainly affects people in the middle and at the bottom. Add in rising energy costs and those people are really being constrained right at the moment in their ability to go out and purchase items and that's certainly affecting the sales tax.

Coming out of high school, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I didn't know where. I didn't want to go to a small school because I like the big atmosphere. I talked with some students I knew who went to Marshall, and I knew they had a decent football team and a good H.E.L.P. program to help students, so I decided to come to Marshall.

That's what they do. They primarily like going after big markets.

This is definitely going to change the way we do science.

A lot of schools are looking at open source ? budgets come into play here. Microsoft licensing takes a big chunk out of schools budgets. The biggest issue is cost, basically.

They need to have sustained growth, so they can't concentrate only on the high-density market. What they've done for the most part is go into very big destination markets like New York to Southern Florida.

For at least 20 years we've been talking about consolidation, but it never quite evolves the way anyone expects.

It may help me set up a golf course, the drainage and that stuff.

Then I had another brother who wanted to come, ... Then my sister called and she had friends, and they had friends. And I said, 'Bring them all.'

Even without a liquidation, the low-cost carriers have a lot of capacity coming in, ... It (liquidation) is not going to be a picnic in terms of fare raising.

The bad thing about the Senior Tour is that it means you're a senior.

Not a lot of people know about that. I was majoring in business, but the teachers wouldn't let me out for golf. But I've always been interested in growing things, not that I have a green thumb or anything, but I dig around in my yard at home.

They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need to exit bankruptcy. They need to show that they have a plan that will function properly for the longer term.

Their defense was very good. But we helped them out a lot with turnovers and penalties. Our own mistakes have cost us three games now.

In many cases, the walk-ups were placed at such a level that people were willing to make adjustments like driving to alternate airports.

I need my space and that's what they're saying -- 'I'd like to have my space,'

I personally asked the sheriff myself, and he said he had no comment. I said, 'What's the reason?' There was no reason given.

If you go into the conference thinking you're just going to nail it in, Mt. SAC will beat us.

In some cases, the airlines were buying one of just about everything, because they thought they had an application for everything. It turns out they were wrong.

In normal downturns, you lose some big players. This industry was not built for $62 a barrel oil.

In theory, it can all be done at the (same) site once we get the logistics worked out. We've made great strides, but we still have more work to do.

International markets have had far better pricing power than domestic markets.

Hey, I never competed all that well when I was younger,

college coaches can get athletic programs placed on probation by violating rules, yet they can bounce to another job while their former school is put on probation and the athletes left behind are reprimanded. It seems the NCAA should wise up and ... ban them from being hired by another school.