You can't have a glaring weakness with your most important venue and expect to win.

We expect to win every game.

We're not going to allocate Liberty Bonds today to buildings that are never going to be built.

They are highly dependent on the interest of the American audience. They have to maintain interest in the American viewer and one way is to have the games return here regularly.

It's great to be here. A lot of people questioned whether we would be here. But there is one thing you want to know about New Yorkers - we never give up. In just 72 hours, we created a new great plan for our Olympic stadium.

I certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy. And New Yorkers certainly don't want people to vote for us out of sympathy.