Ray Anderson

It isn't just the low-hanging fruit we go after.

Those are three things that are kind of fundamental when you're talking about hiring a guy as your head coach. The absence of those three components of the process certainly had us thinking that this was unusual to say the least.

There's teeth in that initiative.

But he's going to learn a very, very difficult and painful lesson. Even if it's one that's not totally unexpected, because he has seen others go through it.

There is room for an Olympic-size swimming pool between the current library parking lot and the parking lot for Metro.

Everyone's out to have a good time, ... And so are we.

They all thought when we joined the league (from the Western District Junior Football League) that we were under done but we proved them wrong today. We've used this as our biggest challenge this season.

It's unfortunate that the next two years are the oddities, ... Because most years there are two weeks before the Super Bowl and interviews could be conducted in that time frame. We'll just have to see if something can be done in those situations.

I think I was surprised as anybody when I first got the call, because I've been an agent for 20 years, ... I was certainly intrigued and curious as to why me But I'm glad I took the opportunity to meet with Arthur Blank and have that explained, or I wouldn't be sitting here.

Notre Dame is in his rearview mirror. We don't even talk about it. What we have talked about is the excitement of being at Washington.

What has been very gratifying is that all my clients and colleagues in the agent ranks have taken a very supportive view. We're all human, and you think, 'I wonder what my buddies on the union side are going to think Are they going to think I've changed my stripes and now I'm management'

That's disappointing but it doesn't surprise me, ... The league historically takes its time on issues like this one. I guess the feeling is that it still needs more discussion.

The city of Houston could have made more of a pitch that they are going to be able to accomplish something other than just taking control of an existing asset that belongs to Texas Parks and Wildlife. Texas Parks and Wildlife apparently has no funds to do anything, so this appears to be a win situation for the city and for the park.

Right after World War II my grandfather, Gus Anderson, started this company because he felt there was a need for this kind of manufacturing and that there were a lot of companies to play off of, especially in Bridgeport. My grandfather met Igor Sikorsky a long time ago and got the idea that Sikorsky Aircraft would be a great place to do business.

The company has made significant progress in all areas of the business and, in particular, in building the international billing infrastructure that will support future growth.

As Norm Smith says 'you'll win the game by controlling the midfield' and that's what our boys did today. Our biggest emphasis was putting our body on the line and controlling the ball across the centre that's how we won.

Anyone who would say it's worse than it was before isn't being realistic. Before you could run around without the glare of the spotlight on you when you were conducting your search. Now at least you can't do that. You are going to draw attention. Some situations are going to have some uniqueness, but I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say the whole initiative if flawed. It's too early to say that.

You've got to project ahead and see what's going to help you win. Brian didn't think he'd get as much of a chance to be influential in personnel decisions in Cleveland, and I think that made the final decision.

The acceptance from the marketplace of what we're doing has been just astounding.