If he sees guys are down or if he sees we're having a sluggish practice, he's the first guy clapping his hands and talking loud and trying to get everybody up. He has so much respect that everybody listens to him. During the game, he's patting cats on the head and trying to keep guys up. He's real quiet outside of football, but when it's football time, he's the ideal player a coach wants to have.

I'm just going to rehab and see where it goes. That's all I can really do.

The settlement is a result of our careful and in-depth scrutiny of Nortel's proprietary financial information, which was analyzed by our investment banking team.

It was just a perfect ball. I'm the tallest guy out there, and he put it up high so nobody could get it but me.

It was a big surprise. But you've got to do what you're told, and when I'm out there I'm out there to play.

It was (Andersen's) job to look under the hood, to check the tires and to tell investors this car was safe to drive.

This field has been plowed. This strikes me as not only old news, but very old news ... The only difference seems to be that the lawyers won the right to publicize it.

This case was five or six years of litigation telescoped into less than three, which is a testament to a hands-on judge determined to get a fair and just resolution for investors and defendants as quickly as the judicial system will permit. We are extremely gratified by the kind words she has to say and look forward to pushing hard to process claims in accordance with the formula approved today and distributing this historic recovery to the victims of the WorldCom fraud as quickly as we can.

Now I have a lot more time to talk to them, and they probably won't like me as much,

You have to wonder how the auditors and investment bankers could have missed so many 11th-hour deals involving hundreds of millions of dollars at a time.