Tom Hansen Quotations

We're going to start pressing a lot of it this week ... assuming people are willing to talk.

We would probably hurt more people than we would help with this legislation.

We want them to test the waters. We want to see if other areas are attractive to us.

When we sell television properties, ... we're already claiming all of California.

Now we just have to get lucky for a year or two.

If they want 9-2 teams, that's their choice,

For those reasons, it's going to take a strong reason to get out of there.

We're pretty much in the range that's been publicly discussed, ... Four games plus either a fifth game played concurrently with them, or the 'plus-one' game, those are the major structural differences we're looking at. Or you could do both. Or there are various subsets within that.

He's a drop-back, three-step quarterback. His forte is throwing the football, ... Physically, I think his talents fit well with that style offense. It's similar to what he did in high school.

Going out meeting the people. The people of this county want to go kick the tires, meet the candidates, see, and find out their views.

The Pac-10 presidents are very strongly and unanimously opposed to any extension of the bowl season into January. ... It's not about money with our presidents. It's strictly a philosophical decision.

The Pac-10 looks forward to participating in the Hawaii Bowl. Hawaii is a wonderful destination for our student-athletes and our fans and Hawaii has an affinity with the West Coast that makes this a great fit for the Pac-10.

The Pac-10 looks forward to participating in the Hawaii Bowl, ... Hawaii is a wonderful destination for our student-athletes and our fans and Hawaii has an affinity with the West Coast that makes this a great fit for the Pac-10.

I think the way we've structured it with the four games plus the national championship will be a positive,

I think he'll probably have to pay it back, but the NCAA gives you a payment schedule.

The announcers were portraying the game as called hideously. If they were accurate, that's not what anyone wants.

We will all miss her terribly, because she was a wonderful human being in addition to being a great player. The affection is obvious the way everyone reacted to her loss. We can't believe she's gone. Losing any young person is the worst thing that can happen in life. We will be thinking of her throughout the season.

We became Lake Martin. Every year, the storm drains go the other way.

We thought perhaps if we invited Texas A&M as well, we might get Texas,

We're the only Division I-A conference that hasn't changed since Penn State was added to the Big Ten.

We've ran for our lives countless times because trucks and cars have slid sideways on icy roads at a wreck we're working.

Bill was one of the first names suggested to us. We were very impressed with the candidates. Bill has a great passion for college athletics. He has terrific personal relationships in our business and with the media. We felt he would bring credibility to the position.

Every year we have farmers who visit a local farm store and are informed that their private pesticide applicators license has expired and they need a new license before they can purchase any of these products.

I've talked to some of these convenience stores that do like this touch play because they say it brings income into their stores. Again, if there were more people living out in the country, they wouldn't need these touch play machines because there would be more people in their stores buying things.

Property taxes are too high because valuations are too high. I would support a tax shift, with an increase of sales and income taxes. It will not be a popular idea, but the burden of property taxes is too high on farm and ranch land.

The bottom line is that a 10-1 team was passed over for two 9-2 teams. I didn't think it was fair that Ohio State was rated ahead of Oregon, especially when Oregon's only loss was to USC.

They open that road prematurely every single winter storm. I think they open it for economic reasons rather than taking care of the safety of the motoring public.

Assessment should be based on how much that ground can raise.

Absolutely every single winter storm, the same thing happens.

ABC is going to want to keep us from going to the open marketplace, but we're going to be very interested in going there if ABC doesn't make a preemptive offer. We've never had the opportunity to test it on the open marketplace.

It's a big loss for Stanford, and it's a big loss for the conference. The achievements are truly monumental, looking at it in terms of building the program, hiring outstanding coaches and building outstanding facilities. The one missing facility is the football stadium, and now that's moving forward.

It's a whole lot of pressure, ... You've got so many people expecting so much out of you. I was so nervous before the Lodi game.

It's absurd to say getting to the Sweet 16 equates to winning a national title. There's no question Duke's record of the past 15 years is impressive, but how many national championships have they won? Three doesn't equal 10.

It's about time the Pac-10 was impacted positively by a hurricane,

It (stunk) so much last year, ... You missed running. You just wanted to do sprints so bad.

It's one of his first appearances in the Chicago area.

It's nice how I started out, ... Now I just have stats. I just don't have my SPARQ rating.

It's something schools are really lacking. You know the saying, 'if you don't know history, you're doomed to repeat it'.

It was apparent for the last two years that we were going to get pressure from the other five conferences, ... That's why the BCS went to the presidents and said, 'We need you to take a more active role.'

I want to commit as soon as possible, ... I want to get it over with. It's everything. It's the calls every day, the coaches wanting to be your friends. ... It's a tough decision. It's hard.

I keep telling them I'm glad they weren't around about 230 years ago when this country was being founded. People have to get informed and become involved, no matter who you are. All ideas start with just one person.

In each incident, the player committed an unsporting act toward an opposing player. The actions warranted the one-game suspension.

I just don't think they ever call it,

Calhoun had already been given a T in the first half, so there was no way they were going to throw him out of a tournament game. He got a free pass. That's part of why referees are instructed to leave the court immediately.

The idea is to try to get relationships developed because it's my thought that when an athletic director has to hire a major coach, he doesn't have time to really start meeting people. There's the statement made that ADs hire people they know. Well, it's true. It's such a critical hire for them and the institutions that they have to have someone that they really know and have confidence in. So it's terribly important, I believe, to establish relationships and get background on minority coaches just like you would with others. So we took some extra effort to make sure that occurs.

The double-T was poorly handled. The game was intense, but not threatening to get out of hand. An experienced official gets between players and warns them once, and tells them to knock it off.