We are concerned about the decision's effect on the rank-and-file. Anyone who does this for a living and says they don't care how it affects people's lives is lying. But we have to move this company forward.

Just to be part of something great, this is history we're living in right now. We changed the face of college basketball.

I remember that milk fondly. We were not living too high on the hog.

I'm living in the place where I always intended to retire. My house is paid for. Like a lot of people in California, I have a tremendous gain in that house where I'd have to cash out and pay the government. It just seemed like the appropriate time for me to make the break and go ahead and retire.

The creditors' committee is not Noah's Ark, you don't take two of every species.

It's demoralizing the executive rank.