"Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills."

“Me, I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.”

“When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.”

“Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.”

Source : "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, 1526.

“We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back into the dressing room and passed out cold.”

“At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.”

“You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.” “It didn’t come up.” “How disappointing for you.” Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.”

“We know that in order for us to turn this around, it doesn't matter how many coaches they bring in here, assistants, weight trainers, whoever, we're the ones that are going to have turn it around. And I think just took that responsibility on ourselves.”

Source : Group interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 30, 2005.

“Racial prejudice boils down to the deeply anti-American message that some people are born to fail.”