This year's China Open will be a great leap forward from last year as more world-class players have confirmed their participation.
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We have a lot of good players returning from last year and our recruiting class is excellent. I will...
JASPER EDWARDS From the last 20 years, this is the biggest we have seen. We had a big year class in 1998.
DAVID JUDE This is a great leap forward in the evolution of our mobile video strategy, and we look forward to d...
JUDY MCGRATH While last year's tournament was an outstanding success, we are confident this year's event will be ...
EKKEHARD RATHGEBER It's more expensive, but it's a great leap forward.
JULIE WEBER Last year it was open. This year, it is wide open. You can be a great team and still finish sixth.
DAN CARTER Compared with the ninth national games, we will have 20 percent more tests this time. The athletes w...
LIU PENG China and India have rapidly growing economies and a great challenge for them going forward will be ...
FRANK AQUILA We have five seniors, but a lot of young players as well. The biggest challenge for our seniors will...
AMIE HAMILTON We won't be as predictable this year. We should be much more balanced offensively. We can dodge from...
FRANK FEDORJAKA His invention marked an 'industrial revolution' in the history of printing and a great leap forward ...
KANG BAOSHAN We'll have to compare the numbers from this year to ratings for the years prior to the Red Sox and C...
ED GOREN From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has...
LEE KUAN YEW We're looking forward to what should be a fantastic spectacle.
EKKEHARD RATHGEBER The players want to take the game to a new audience and Chinese fans want to see world-class stars i...
EKKEHARD RATHGEBER We have a reasonable balance of returning players and new players from Grade 11 this year. The addit...
LARRY WISNIEWSKI I expect a huge leap. They both had such good years last year, and you know from experience how much...
KIRK HINRICH There is no question of the benefits that opening a market of a billion people will bring to America...
WILLIAM M. DALEY [Chang is looking forward to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. He served as a Goodwill Ambassador for Ch...
MICHAEL CHANG Making the leap from the best sunglasses company in the world to a world-class brand is a natural tr...
JAMES JANNARD This is an exciting and unprecedented opportunity to leap Indiana forward in a way that none of use ...
JEFF ESPICH This year... when this 80 is booked, we will have sold 100 planes in China, so we are well on our wa...
ROB LAIRD From top to bottom, I think this class could be one of the best in program history. We brought in a ...
JAY VIDOVICH Having a lot of returning varsity players is going to have a tremendous impact on the season, ... La...
MARK TAYLOR Things are a lot more organized this year. The players have great living conditions and have plenty ...
ERVIN BRYSON Last year, we were 11 freshmen just trying to get by. This year, with the transfers from junior coll...
JAY ENTLICH This year we are moving down, so I do not know who the strongest teams are, but I know both teams th...
PAUL DAVIS This is as good a collection of players as I can remember. Most of these players will have a major i...
DAN OWENS This will be world-class golf and we won't have to drive to Chicago to see it. This is a major thing...
SCOTT BENNETT We foresee that China will be our biggest Asia market beside Japan in three years time. Chinese play...
DAVID ONG We have a lot of players in their first year. Some of them are also in their last year.
BILL WALSH A lot of the players that will start this season were the practice players last year. They were very...
KEVIN ALBURY This year has been a lot more fun. It's neat to have my own players in the program. The freshman cla...
HEATHER TARR But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w...
ED O'BRIEN In recent years, more and more commercial advertisements in China involve the participation of child...
CAI ZIXING We don't have the great players we had last year, but if we play hard and play together we can be a ...
BRUCE WEBER Youngster year he lost a real close decision. Last year he won Nationals as a second class and got t...
JAMES MCNALLY This will be a world class facility.
DANYEL SCOTT We are all so excited about this event. All the seven players have confirmed their presence for this...
FARBOD DOWLATSHAHI Their leadership will be critical this year with having graduated such a big class last year. We bro...
ADAM PASCAL We lost a lot from last year, so we're going to rely on some younger players this year.
GARY LONG Last year we met as an after-school club, but this year we are meeting as a class during lunch perio...
ANDREW GIBSON Tennessee will be the underdogs. People tend to look at Tennessee as not producing some of the stron...
AJIT KORGAOKAR I think this year, she's going to have a hard time copying the offense she had last year. If she can...
GREG DIERKS We just get what we deserve. We didn't have as great a season this year as last year, but we're just...
CHAD HENNE Last year I didn't have a good opportunity to be the main focus because I had two great players in f...
ALAN WIGGINS There's great participation, there's great enthusiasm and there's a great calm in the country... It ...
ERNESTO ZEDILLO We needed a game of this nature. We would have liked a little more of a challenge but it lifted thei...
ADAM ALLERTON I feel a lot more confident with the team this year. We had a great team going into the season last ...
ALEX MOUNT What people don't understand is, last year we had two great players, but you need more talent. You c...
PAT RILEY Wal-Mart plans to open 20 stores in China this year.
AMY WYATT We have been looking forward to this day. The talent in the AFL has improved dramatically from my fi...
DANNY WHITE We have been looking forward to this day, ... The talent in the AFL has improved dramatically from m...
DANNY WHITE India and China are coming into their own. As a business person, I know that I will be working with ...
ERIC STUCKEY [Bishop Grimes struggled last season, finishing at 1-7, but the Cobras are looking to regroup this y...
JOHN MANION We would like to have more participation from the tavern members as well as more riders from the pub...
BOB KRUEGER That will be a great gauge for us. We lost to North twice last year but beat them two years ago.
ALMA QUINLAN Our goal is to win as many games or more this year as last year. And I think if we do that, there's ...
JOSH SATIN If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view. This hearing will, in some wa...
GRETA GARBO Absolutely. I think we took a step forward last year and I reckon we've recruited really well and we...
SAVERIO ROCCA To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a con...
, JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, FEBRUARY 17, 1993 China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot ...
GARY LOCKE This will be a world-class act for sure.
FARBOD DOWLATSHAHI It's a fairly robust auction. The 46-odd percent is significantly more robust than average participa...
GEMMA WRIGHT Last year, we probably held back a little. We only had three seniors. This year, we were telling our...
MARKEE NOBRIGA We must clarify that China has not been concealing any confirmed or suspected human case of bird flu...
MAO QUN'AN We tried to reach all the churches in the county and everyone on the committee and on teams made sur...
ROBBIE ATKISSON I've told these guys, we're a good team. We don't have great players like we did last year.
BRUCE WEBER We already have as many open orders by March as we had for all of last year. In terms of the number ...
JOEL BLETH I think they (Truckee players) are playing with a little bit of a chip on their shoulders from last ...
HERNAN VALDIVIA Last year we beat them, but it came down to the last relay — this year shouldn't be as close. They...
DAVE HOLMES Last year we beat them, but it came down to the last relay this year shouldn't be as close. They ...
DAVE HOLMES This is perhaps the first generation of minorities that have a full and equal shot at the American D...
DAN OWENS That was a good class last year. A bunch of those kids have helped us already and a lot more will do...
BRAD LAWING Last year, as great as it was, it was like a fairy tale season. I think we appreciate this a heck of...
KYLE WHITTINGHAM I think we had a great first season. It would be impressive if we could have two years in a row like...
KARA CONNERTY Last year Duke had a monster recruiting class. This year North Carolina has a monster recruiting cla...
DAVE TELEP The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world. The positive results this year comp...
DOUGLAS ELLIOTT The PBGC does not appear to have a corner yet in the real world, ... The positive results this year ...
DOUGLAS ELLIOTT Hopefully, we have more depth and we'll be more athletic than last year. Last year, this team was a ...
DALE OSBOURNE Jake had a great year last season as a sophomore. He should be even better this season.
BRENT DERUYTER The high water from last year will be a benefit. There is lots of brush where the fish hide and this...
JED DICKERSON Open a Jewish daily prayer book used in any part of the world, and Zionism will leap out at you.
EPHRAIM MIRVIS It's a total difference from last year to this year. This year's a little more mellow than the inten...
GUIDO KNUDSON Though we lost, the players showed a great deal of class, sportsmanship, and determination to achiev...
DAN MURPHY For many years we have supplied video processing equipment to markets throughout China. We were prou...
BOB NOONAN I think this team can be as good as it was last year. The freshmen who came in are all very, very go...
JEN AMASINO I have spent the last month talking with Bryan and I feel we will make a great coaching partnership....
MARK MORRISON The way they've been playing over the last few years, it's clear they're a team on the ascendancy. T...
SIDNEY GOVOU The union is delighted. The new CBA is a big leap forward for the players and means a fairer system ...
JEFFREY KESSLER When Japan and China tensions erupted last year, there was a sudden interest from Japan to have fall...
FREDERICK BURKE Last week was more about evaluation, ... This weekend will be more about a combination of structure,...
BILL PETERS From our consumer survey, we found that consumers plan to spend a little more this year than last, ....
ELLEN TOLLEY What we think will make this plan a great plan is public participation.
KAREN MINKEL Cricket is just following the same trend as football and rugby. You do see world-class players becom...
HUGH MORRIS We may have had a little dip the last couple of years, but the ratings this year are holding their o...
ED MOORHOUSE This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.
CHAN HO PARK For me, 1995 was a special year, not only because I won but because it was Arnold Palmer's last Open...
JOHN DALY This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will...
GRAHAM CLULEY If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools.
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