24 Quotes by John Johnston

We are excited to welcome the hospitals from one of the nation's great academic medical centers as Premier owners. UT Southwestern Medical Center adds to Premier's strong position in the fast-growing Dallas-Fort Worth market. More important, we are now partners with one of the leading research and patient care centers. We look forward to working with UT Southwestern to make its supply chain system world class as well.

We've got a great run in earnings. It's been absolutely spectacular, (but) the fact of the matter is, that the economic wave is cresting. We're looking at a more moderate pace going forward.

We've really been in a slump offensively. We haven't been bad running stuff, we just haven't been putting the ball in the basket. I think it's just a huge amount of confidence. We basically just told these kids they have to go out and play. The first quarter concerned me. I mean four points, I was worried what was going to happen and then we go out and put up 60-something over three quarters so I was pleased with that.

There's good evidence the U.S. housing sector is cooling, not collapsing, which means the U.S. consumer is going to cool.

There's no way they did this on purpose -- no way.

People coming up from Texas heading to the ski slopes put on their brakes when they see the sign.

Defensive and interest-rate sensitive sectors did well because Canadian rates were very low - up until recently we saw the 10-year Canada yield get down to 3.73 per cent - very constructive to utilities and the dividend payers and the defensives.

You've had a good run, the markets were extended, they were starting to show signs that the internal momentum was waning and they were due for a technical correction.

They're very athletic and they shut down some of the things we wanted to do and we struggled offensively. We have struggled the last couple of games. It's not so much not getting what we want, it's just that we can't finish. That's not always with the shot that's with the pass sometimes.