It's the city's new rolling slum. Well, it's not exactly new. It's just bigger.

That's what I want to invoke on them. This is bigger than them and it is sport and it's a chain of events and in 10 years someone else will be doing what you're doing at what are you leaving behind for them.

Something is going on. We're going to find out exactly what it is that has my percentages not where they should be. ... Since I have a family history of kidney failure, these can be tests to save your life.

Basically I'm going into surgery and I'm rolling the dice. I said, 'Why not go to Vegas?' But I never did get to feeling good enough to do that.

What we have is almost like a boulder rolling down a hill. This is someone who is not going to stop until the authorities find him.

The elephant in the living room for us is the huge number of seats and the emptiness for great concerts. ... The symphony has to look out for itself. That's what we the trustees are there for. Right now, our first line of defense is a renovation with reduction of seating.