Jeff Davis Quotes

"We like, in energy, Williams Companies, which has been beaten down a little bit in the first quarter because of questions about accounting. But, again, I think they're a very clean company but natural gas pipeline is their business. We think, in the energy area, Exxon, which took a bad hit this week, is probably attractive at this point in time,"

"The Army calls it 'consequence management'. We've been searching a lot of houses in the area -- finding [weapons] caches. It's somewhat disruptive, so we want to go back in with food, school supplies; make sure everyone is OK."

"It was ugly basketball at it's best. We won the game on the free throw line."

"We wanted to make a record that challenged kids to listen to it from beginning to end. We wanted them to sit with headphones on and listen to it and read the lyrics, go back to the way it used to be."

"No, I don't believe it was."

"It's a bummer, ... because we get so many emails from young kids saying stuff like, 'It's Boys Night Out, not Unisex Night Out!' It's frustrating, but we realized when we started writing that we wanted to make a record that would make us happy."

"There's cash on the sidelines and a lack of buying commitment as people wait until they can sort out the earnings coming in this week, ... People are waiting to hear if any new trends developed at the end of the quarter, and what they can extrapolate from that about the second and third quarters. In that kind of environment, it's easy to have a little selling."

"discussed military-to-military cooperation and ways that the United States can continue to help as part of its security assistance program for Colombia."

"We just left two balls in the middle of the plate. It was the fourth league game in five days, we were a little tired."

"We've had some battles with Turpin over the years. It's so much fun. It's exciting to coach in. It's fun for the parents to watch. I think it's a really good thing."

"We started with a bunch of scattered notes and half ideas. It was just an idea for a short story originally. I had written a lot of stuff, and when we had the idea to do a concept record, it was one of the ideas I brought to the table."

"You know it's going to be four quarters of football, ... It's not like we haven't seen them before. But there's a little more adrenaline this week."

"It's hard to stomach that you go 17-3 and get nothing for it."

"They have a lot of growth characteristics, a great acquisition strategy to preserve margins. No matter what happens to the economy here in the fourth quarter and the first quarter of next year, (the company has) a good, broad diversified industrial clientele (and) a lot of good markets ."

"There is a cyclical shift going on. Deposit growth is slowing, while commercial lending grows, led by real estate. Consumer lending is slowing, which I think is good because consumers have been spending like drunk sailors."

"I guess the big issue is whether you can sustain profit growth, and everybody's looking at certain factors that will influence the ability for companies to report -- well, for above consensus expectations -- a good report. I think commodity prices, rising interest rates, are having a lagged negative effect on some earnings of major leading corporations. It's not impacting this quarter, but probably the third and the fourth quarter. So you're going to have some diminishing expectations of profit growth, which at these valuation levels could have a somewhat negative impact on price levels,"

"I guess the big issue is whether you can sustain profit growth, and everybody's looking at certain factors that will influence the ability for companies to report -- well, for above consensus expectations -- a good report. I think commodity prices, rising interest rates, are having a lagged negative effect on some earnings of major leading corporations. It's not impacting this quarter, but probably the third and the fourth quarter. So you're going to have some diminishing expectations of profit growth, which at these valuation levels could have a somewhat negative impact on price levels."

"The key thing about Sky is that Marty's organization has always been tightly managed and been good about credit quality. The Street likes Sky, likes the story and likes the management team."

"They always do that, ... because they think we're going to start some kind of trouble with him."

"They jumped out 17-5 on us. We came out slow and got in foul trouble early. We had two or three players with two fouls right off the bat."