The middle of the NIC-9 is stronger than it has been. In the past, we had an upper echelon, a couple of teams in the middle and then the bottom. Now, the middle has made strides.

This is a year we expect to compete. But this is a heck of a conference to try to be competing in.

If he's the best in this conference, that's saying something. He sure is striking the ball well. He doesn't ever seem to be getting himself in any trouble. As long as you are long and straight, you should be in the running. Now, if he can get hot with his putter -- I haven't seen that from him yet.

If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.