I had every desire to come back again, and now here's the opportunity. It's time to ensure that every community and every person believes they have a representative.

There was certainly no lack of opportunity for me at Oracle, ... At the same time, I have a career desire to be chief executive, and in [the] case of Oracle, Larry is CEO well into foreseeable future.

If a community decides that they want that farmland in perpetuity . . . there'd better a strong desire on the part of the community to subsidize that farming operation. Somebody's going to have to pay fair-market value for that property.

Opportunity creates desire.

Obviously it was very disappointing and frustrating. We understand the opportunity that we had to get (in the playoffs). There's nothing we can do now but go out and try to go 10-6.

We had a great opportunity and we missed it.