You have to give him pretty high marks on how he manages the business. They've done pretty good in the marketplace, taking share every year.

All four of them want it pretty badly. It's the last great site on the Strip and there's never going to be another chance like this.

It was pretty much a free-for-all.

What we need to do now is to unite and get together with the real business at hand. Now is the time to bring everybody together.

When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.

We've been doing pretty much what we usually do at this time of year. It's too late to start doing anything differently, so we're just concentrating really hard on what we've been doing right all season. We've also been having a little bit of fun in practice, because when it comes down to it, it is a game. We take it very seriously, but we can't lose sight of the bigger picture.