Tom Higgins Quotations

We've always felt that way. I'm not surprised that when he had the opportunity to go in that he performed as well as he did.

We're still learning how to win football games,

There is a real possibility that measured will be gone from the statement but that's not necessarily to say that the Fed is becoming more hawkish,

The problem with the Fed's focus on inflation is that it's really a lagging indicator. What you need to do is gauge what demand will be like down the road in order to determine future prices. And the bond market is focused on slowing growth.

Since day one, he has demonstrated his willingness to work hard and become a better player each time he steps on the field.

He was a pro in the true sense. Tony did his homework and was always prepared.

He has all the elements to be a very good quarterback. He really just needs to get his chance for game reps.

We are extremely pleased to have both these athletes on board. They both bring their own unique style to the football club and prove each and every day that they are outstanding individuals both on and off the football field.

We have to be able to restore in the minds of the financial community the creditworthiness of California and its public utilities, or we will not have the ability to borrow the money to keep the lights on,

I think we have a couple of headwinds facing the market.

I think there will be another quarter point hike or two. This is paving a way for a pause at some point early next year. This tightening cycle is long in the tooth.

Our fans will have to be patient. Should Jon be given an opportunity down south, then we could be a couple of years away.

I was pleased that he dropped the pass and we went right back to him and he got in sync.

We were looking for ways to get some of our art out.

We can be champions, but we have to take it one game at a time.

We'll know more (today). Hopefully it's just a sprain that he can walk off.

We'd like for him to have come on out and execute at a much higher level and it just didn't happen this evening.

The defence had another stellar performance. It was tough sledding out there just to operate the way we do normally. There's a lot of fond memories that come back from the crowd, which I thought was in this football game. It's not an easy place to ever win when you bring a team in to this place. It's humbling to come into this stadium and be on the other side. A lot of teams leave this locker-room dejected because they can't win here.

We'd better be able to operate on the silent count or we won't be able to operate at all.

We just do the best that we can. There's a lot of luck involved.

Via Rail did an unbelievable job. We had our own car, had a hot meal, including Montreal smoked meat before the main entree and even had knives that weren't plastic. Any time on the road, you get real cutlery, you think, 'This is neat.' We thought about high-jacking the train.

Everyone up North thinks this hurricane was a one- or two-week event and that we should get on with our lives. Why can't we get on with our lives?

As the season went on our offence continued to grow with the assistance of Bill. He was able to inspire confidence in our offensive unit, which bodes well for us starting the 2006 season in the right direction.

There's such a huge advantage to having a home playoff game that I'll make sure that the players aren't thinking anything in the back of their mind other than trying to win a football game,

Putting Josh in is still the right thing to do because it's not easy for Henry to do with a cast on, trying to squeeze the ball to get that one yard.

Any committee with the intent of increasing business in Vail Village in welcome.

Although I'd have trouble envisioning who would rent that. But that's a whole different subject.

They know how to make noise in Taylor Field,

It wasn't so much what Jason did as what we weren't able to do. They hung onto the football, we didn't.

It's truly a reflection of the people you surround yourself with. I empower them. I ask them to work as hard as they can and give them as much credit as I can and if anything goes wrong in the organization, it's my fault.

It's a lot easier for fans to stay in touch with what's happening when they can see it firsthand. So this bodes really well for us.

It's tough to win with young quarterbacks. It's proven in the CFL,

Danny realizes he's towards the tail end of his career but if he were to be called upon, he would be able to execute our offence.

It's still the right thing to do because you don't want to be going backwards (on a handoff) to go forward, that's why you use the quarterback sneak and they did a nice job of stopping us,

It's not an easy place to play and win. It has to be controlled. The only challenge we could have as a coaching staff is that the players are too high.

The Fed has a three-pronged mandate. The first is price stability and that's probably the most important, ... Given how hard the Fed fought to get inflation down in the 1980s, Greenspan doesn't want to be the guy who let it back out of the box.

The Fed's statement turned out to be more benign than people were expecting. Before the meeting, people were thinking the Fed would be more hawkish but their comments seemed to suggest that they were not overly concerned about inflation,

I'm very proud of Scott's career and what he has accomplished. Having followed him from the beginning, he has been a major contributor both on and off the field. He leaves the game a winner and a true professional.

but he never let on that he had health problems.

Before we left, people said if we won one out of two, that would be great. Shoot, we wanted to win two out of two. We won one and now we have to lick our wounds.

You crank it up too many notches -- people use that term -- you get to a point where you can't perform,

The floor of McMahon Stadium has rocked and has hummed with an unbelievable feeling. It's exactly what you'd like to have every time you play.

The market is factoring in a higher probability of a pause now but it's absolutely too soon to tell, ... By September 20, it may appear to be prudent to pause but the Fed will make the decision then depending on the severity of the economic damage.