We came into this tournament trying to get better and we have improved in some areas.

It kept going through my mind ... I knew I had to keep trying to get it up there. I felt like I had to make a couple of shots to keep us in there mentally.

There was an awful lot of turnovers by two young teams.

The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million people (in Social Security) could be done, but it will take years. The federal thrift program is having problems and that's a lot fewer people.

We're getting there. We're trying to keep ourselves in ballgames. We just got to close it out.

It's the weaker candidate trying to get the strongest candidate out,