31 Quotes by Mike Griffin

It felt like somebody had just punched you in the stomach and knocked all the air out of you. We were so proud of all our kids for playing so great but were all crushed that we didn't get to that next level.

I would like to see us build on our performance at the John Burns last month. There will be some very good teams in this tournament, so it will be a challenge. We played well there last year, so that should give us some confidence this weekend.

While we're trying to figure out what to do, lots of dates get floated around. Until we actually caucus as a management team and figure out what our constraints are, we don't have a date except that right now, Bill and I think it's somewhat earlier than October. We'll let you know when we can.

We estimated that there are 18,000 workers who are earning $7 an hour or in some cases they might be earning less than that.

What we're trying to figure out is how Katrina has affected the shuttle program, ... If you talk to the folks at Michoud, they're ready to get busy taking care of any tank damage that was done and they want to be back in production in a few weeks. ... Their morale and esprit de corps down there just has to be seen to believed.

The partnership has proven stronger than the stresses and strains which have been imposed on it, which have been great, ... It has held together. If the United States is able to keep the commitments we've made to the station partners, I think we can take that partnership to the moon.

Every time I speak to one of our international partners, they are gung-ho in every possible way about wanting to take this partnership forged on the space station to the moon and Mars. They want to do that,

What value do you think it might be to be able to examine the primordial constituents from which the solar system, and all the planets and we ourselves were formed?

We didn't play bad and we didn't play well. We are still in contention but need to make a move Saturday. I am proud of the way Stuart hung in there after having such a tough start.