Tom Burnett Quotations

We want to see our coaches move on to head coaching positions at a higher level.

I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.

I think investors need to be careful because there are some significant antitrust overlaps ... The antitrust review in the U.S. and Europe will be extremely detailed and we do not expect the transaction to close before February.

I think the relation is more that the economy is kind of stiffening and growth is slower overall.

We recognize that Mississippi State isn't what it was a year ago, but for a league like ours that is starved for basketball success, Mississippi State might as well be ranked in the top five.

With Pfizer, you probably don't do anything with it,

We saw they had a very competitive athletic program, they were in a good location. It seemed to make sense for us.

We are very sure that he led the effort to take the plane back.

We are very proud to be included in the ESPN Bracket Buster Saturday pool, and feel we are very deserving of consideration, ... Both Northwestern State and SFA have enjoyed success over the last three years, and we feel they will represent us very well. We thank our good friends at ESPN for their interest in Southland Conference basketball.

ISS is the only place to go now for independent proxy advice.

Probably we're going to end up as Pfizer as the victor, ... We believe we'll probably end up there, but the ratio will probably be sweetened too.

This is not a transaction of equals -- this is tough, dominant Dow. They're in charge.

They are a very independent lot these Hewlett shareholders. They don't do what you want them to.

There might be transactions involving smaller companies that probably represent more available targets than the networks because they're so hard to pry loose from their strong owners.

There'll be a lot of turmoil; and we're not finished yet.

It's a fair amount to pay to the folks that got you there.

It looks like they're trying to right the ship. They deserved to suffer all those slings and arrows of their own outrageous fortune.

It's very encouraging in terms of corporate expectations. Corporate America is willing to bet on future growth prospects overall in spite of the short-term problems that we're going to have.

They have to do the right thing for their shareholders and make sure they don't buy a pig in a poke.

The joke here is that basketball season in football country doesn't start until after the Super Bowl. That's in February.

I just don't know who can compete with Pfizer -- it's a pretty tall order.

The market is expecting that the independent directors will say that the price is inadequate in terms of a premium for control. A higher price will have to be paid for the independent directors to go along with it.

A group of us are going to do something.

I know we’re going to die. There’s three of us who are going to do something about it.