John Curry Quotes (25 Quotes)

When he speaks on this subject, the Prime Minister has to make it clear which hat he is wearing that of regulator, shareholder or leader of a government,

The biggest piece of advice, beyond 'start now,' is to use a 'set it and forget it' approach.

That's the main thing. With that experience of watching all the players, you kind of get a feeling for who's open, why they're open, getting the same chances a couple of times and you start to understand a breakdown here-and-there. You're just anticipating and trying to read what is going on. Sometimes you're wrong and sometimes you're right.

That is not their job at all. Their job is to keep all shareholders fully informed and the Government is just one shareholder out of 1.6 million and no shareholder should get any information before any other shareholder.

We didn't have it tonight. They played their best game tonight, there's no doubt in my mind.

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

The goalie's the backbone of the team. There definitely is a standard there that you need to live up to, or you're probably not going to be in net.

If you ask any goalie, it's kind of a curse to be thinking about it. But I was definitely doing that the last five minutes, thinking it would be nice to get it.

That was one of the first things I was thinking about when people were asking me questions. We're gonna enjoy this, but we have some big things in store for this year, I hope.

It's horrible. They're our best friends on the team. We've known them longer than any other kids on the team, and they're the best guys and I wish them luck. They've done a lot for this program and they should be proud of it.

Here (college) that's not going to cut it. You have to anticipate whether the guy's going to pass or shoot, things like that.

We will vote against whoever is standing to indicate shareholders are unhappy,

The fact that we held them to 20 shots - and it might not have even been 20 shots - is unbelievable. We stopped them in the neutral zone most of the time, and they didn't even spend a lot of time in our zone.

So there is a clear breach in my view of the disclosure provisions and that is the fault of the Telstra board, and I suspect probably the fault of the Government.

If I'm at the office, I can get an e-mail on my computer with a voice mail that somebody left for me at home.

He's definitely the toughest kid on the team, and, you know, he won't let you know about it. He's not moping around, he's not complaining or whining about any type of injury. He's injured all the time pretty much and he's really been toughing it out. All of last year, we find out now that he was battling through all this stuff.

I think, in the short time, it would stay there until the next flight.

The company issued three contradictory media releases concerning its forecasts. An overly optimistic forecast was made on February 28 and on April 28 the profit was downgraded to 20 per cent below the 2003-04 results.

I can't have the news on with the kids around. If they hear 'hurricane,' they get upset. They think it's going to come up here.

Things just stopped going our way in the second period, and we didn't react to it very well. Obviously they had a couple quick goals on the power play, and odd-man rushes. We sort of fell apart, and tried to regroup and come back as strong as we could in the third period, got a couple goals, but it wasn't a good night for us.

There appears to have been a number of discussions held between Telstra and the Government which really should have been made public,

If you ask any goalie around, especially at this level, you need the confidence of both your team and your coaches. It felt good to hear that, and obviously I read it. He does that from time to time, he's very good at throwing little subtle hints in there.

The Prime Minister's comments have been unhelpful. He has no more right to call for the Telstra directors to talk up the interests of the company than the Telstra board has a right to talk down the interests of the company. The directors must tell it as they see it. If they are subsequently found to be misleading the market, they will be held accountable.

Clearly directors and management have not accepted their responsibility for the company's inadequate risk, forecasting and financial controls,

When you talk about all of these things and weave them together, for the first time, conservationists have something in which they can see the forest for the trees. It screams that it needs our attention.