Tom Curley Quotations

The perfect was the enemy of the good,

When you race, it's who's fastest, not who's the best blocker, ... I'm begging you to understand that principle. There are people that are faster and you must respect that.

My proudest achievement is bringing Thunder Road back. It was really down for the count.

We know the digital era requires more content, not less. And it requires content edited and packaged in ways that help user access and allow for advertising placement.

Those are the stories journalists have to do.

When we opened in June we had 15 cars and 500 people between the pits and the gate,

Twice my car got on fire, ... and after the second time I said, 'This isn't fun anymore.'

You have to be ahead of the curve and ahead of everyone else, ... Everybody is so busy trying to make ends meet that they don't take time to look four years down the road.

This partnership will empower AP members to compete in an emerging segment of Web content.

There's a number of things we need to do, but the most important thing is to connect to the people. These are their rights. And the stories that we do, the front-page stories that newspapers have done around the country really have been pretty helpful because they have translated it into the here-and-now needs.

It's always been this NASCAR vs. Curley thing,

Steve was an inspirational leader because he was an exceptional individual. Steve cared deeply about his people, The Associated Press and what it meant to journalism. He played a pivotal role in the development of the modern AP in Europe and forever will hold a place in our hearts.

Steve was an inspirational leader because he was an exceptional individual, ... Steve cared deeply about his people, The Associated Press and what it meant to journalism. He played a pivotal role in the development of the modern AP in Europe and forever will hold a place in our hearts.

I learned a lot from observing my grandfather, a simple, honest, successful businessman, ... and from my various experiences at camp and in boarding schools.

I now look back fondly at those being the most constructive years for preparing me for life in the real world, ... You have to have pretty thick skin and you have to have big shoulders.

In terms of how it is distributed, people aren't going to wait.

FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CAN'T IMAGINE why they haven't done it.