Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.


Augustine Birrell

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They have four, five, six pro prospects on their team. They'll have a lottery pick coming off their ...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
You have to feel proud of your teammates for coming back and playing. At Iowa we just gave up. Tonig...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and ge...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
They switched everything and denied passes and did a good job of taking away what we wanted to do. W...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
Someone told me I had five assists at halftime and I just laughed. It's nice, but the win is more im...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
Coach Bruce Weber told me in a meeting that all I have to do is play pretty well. The rest of the gu...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
Against Michigan State, we just played lackadaisical. Here, it's a different setting. You hit one sh...
JAMES AUGUSTINE
It really has no bearing on any decisions. Coaching and playing is all we can do.
JOE AUGUSTINE
This is not one person's award. This is a reflection of all the coaches, management and players who ...
JOE AUGUSTINE
Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship...
JOE AUGUSTINE
I don't like to look too far ahead. We've got a big weekend coming up [against Penn State] before an...
JOE AUGUSTINE
We're playing okay but we haven't put 60 minutes together. We're inconsistent and we're not putting ...
JOE AUGUSTINE
Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here n...
JOE AUGUSTINE
As a team, we saw January as a new slate. We've had a lot of injuries. Looking back to the beginning...
JOE AUGUSTINE
It seems the storm is not going to be as strong as we feared and that was enough to take some of the...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Many market observers are coming out with the belief that the market will break upward after the ele...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Earnings are driving the testing of the top end for the S&P 500, but geopolitical issues are here to...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leav...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Big institutions are holding back their own capital. They're looking for an upside catalyst for stoc...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
There are fears that any supply disruptions could disturb oil markets and such concerns are holding ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Markets are now focused squarely on inflation. Will it follow the great growth we've seen and force ...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
We could be into mid-July until we see the Dow break that record. It may take another round of earni...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
Markets are now focused squarely on inflation, ... Will it follow the great growth we've seen and fo...
JOHN AUGUSTINE
The interim results are positive but may fall short of investor expectations.
MARK AUGUSTINE
We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen pr...
MARK AUGUSTINE
Vertex shares are once again challenging our price target and with the stock up 250% over the past y...
MARK AUGUSTINE