The way I see it is it's a brand new day. You never know what could happen.

You know, it was going to happen sooner or later. We understand that. Whether it's another year, another two years, whatever, we know it's going to happen. We know nobody can play forever. But for now, the thing I'm happy about the most is that he's down here and he's getting the opportunity to play. And he's such a professional, if he can't play, he'll let you know it.

The goal was to get second in that race and think about what would happen after.

I'm absolutely not interested in seeing it happen.

No doubt, Pier 1 has a substantial brand equity, ... My suspicion is that Buffett sees through the current problems and has confidence in whatever new vision and strategy the company is working on that isn't apparent yet to outsiders.

We swam extremely well this weekend. The Woodlands has an awesome team and we knew we would have a tough time catching them. But we were able to get second and I'm very happy with that.