25 Quotes by Robert Lang

Las Vegas now is less Rat Pack and more brats in the car. It's just a big Western city.

New Orleans has a lot of energy talent. You can't build that from scratch.

I'd like to get a couple more of those.

I think you go there and you do sort of get a little jump start just from being with your buddies and playing a little bit different hockey. I think a lot of guys, even the guys from Swedish team, even though Hank played really good before, now, he's even playing better than he was before, just kind of effortless. So I think all of us sort of benefit from that and it's just nice.

I think once you get up there, you know it's up the alley and you're doing something really special, you're part of something pretty good. But I don't think anybody is really going like, hey, we've got to have two more to beat this record. You just sort of go with the flow.

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

You can build a big metro economy purely out of high-level services. You get people there with gambling, then rope them into consuming other things.

You know you're doing something special, and part of something, but nobody is thinking about it day to day.

The decade began with the economy off track, but the population boom kept rolling along and is on track to nearly match the record 1990s. The country found places to keep booming, shying away from the high-cost coasts and seeking the South and the mountain West.