We have competitors coming in from California, and we even have one coming from Scotland to compete in the caber toss. They all have to compete wearing kilts, even the women, who wear what we call kilted skirts.

There are so many versions of haggis nowadays. You can even buy haggis in a can.

When Hurricane Katrina hit, so many of our steering council members were called out of town to work on hurricane-relief efforts that it was just too much to try and do without them. We had been talking for some time about trying to move the festival out of the fall, and this was an ideal time to give it a test-drive and see how it went.

I have three years with him; we went through a lot. You're going to see one of the fiercest competitors; he has a switch he turns on when the game starts. He doesn't back down from anyone.

The notion is not that if you're a monopoly, you compete less vigorously or with more deference to your competitors, ... The interest in antitrust law is for the protection of consumers, not individual competitors.

I looked at my competitors and I thought that, If they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them.