It was good to see her not have any trouble. The two matches were not even close.

We're late in the economic cycle. We're slowing down or at least -- I won't say going into recession but we're slowing down -- and we've got some troubles overseas with Asia. These aren't huge ones, but these could slow earnings growth to about 5 percent for the S&P 500.

We moved singles into doubles and doubles into singles. We put the juniors together to see what might work for next year.

We have a much different team than the last two years with only three (players) returning. The other teams there are a lot stronger and we didn't get any easy first-round matches.

I always knew he was no good. He was in trouble as a kid. Lying and cheating in grammar school.

I asked them if it wasn't too much trouble, if I wasn't being too pushy, if they could execute what we were trying to do. And if it didn't make them too angry, if they also wanted to play some defense on the other end, that would be great.