Ivan Quotes

"`Ghostbusters 3` will never happen. Unless Bill Murray agrees. Everyone else would love to do it--Columbia, (Harold Ramis), myself, (Ivan Reitman). It`s a five-way rights situation and Bill is locking up his piece of the rights because he feels that was work he just wants preserved and he doesn`t want it diluted. As an artist I can respect that."

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out.

(T-Mobile`s Jan Ullrich and CSC`s Ivan Basso, two the great contenders for next year`s Tour de France, didn`t mingle with the top ten of the race. Both came in with the peloton nearly one minute after the winner, and finished 45th and 59th respectively.) You start to feel that the power missing, ... The season has been long, and the legs start to get heavy.

Right now I don`t see this team like it used to be early in the season. I`ve only been around when they play here. It`s tough for me to say how they do on the road. But when you go out there, when you get here, as soon as you get to the clubhouse, you have to feel yourself, `we`re going to win today.` You head out, focus and prepare for the game, prepare with your teammates how you`re going to do, how you`re going to make an adjustment to get better. I don`t think we`ve got that kind of players over here. We`ve got pretty good players that can be All-Stars. We`ve got Pudge (Ivan Rodriguez), all those guys. We need to stay together. This game is not easy. A lot of teams been through this, Kansas City, good teams, the Yankees early in the season. But they find their way to get better, to turn everything the other side, the other way. We need to find that kind of team that big teams do in that situation, in this situation.

In the tiebreaker, I was up 4-0 and again 5-2, and then came the aces from Ivan. You`ve got to be careful against guys like him, he serves a couple of aces and he`s there again.

(Provost) is one of the most important positions at the university for students and faculty, ... The provost sets the academic standards. I just feel so fortunate that I was able to attract someone of Ivan`s caliber and experience here. He`s been very good for NIU.

What we learned from Ivan is that it usually peaks six or seven days after the storm as more people return home and start making repairs.

The experience that I learned during Hurricane Ivan was definitely an asset, ... Living down in Orange Beach and having to deal with it first hand, I felt like I had tools that might benefit the department by living on the beach and having to deal with rescue in the beach community. I think it is ironic that we`ve had two hurricanes within two months of each other.

(Ivan wiped out $300 million worth of homes and businesses. But having fewer homes for sale) turned what was already a hot market into an inferno, ... All of that appreciation was in the land.

The damage to Grenada from Hurricane Ivan was easily in the billions of dollars - several times more than the country`s Gross Domestic Product.

Given Ivan`s size and power, we must remain vigilant.

Ivan, ... is a professional, always.

To have CSC here is very important because we have an American sponsor, ... This team has a certain image, and it`s important to show it over here (in the United States). ... And bringing Ivan here really brings out our image. He`s the main man here in the race.

I saw Pensacola after Ivan and it was nothing like this, ... This is a disaster, the big one.

Hurricane Ivan could have had very little impact overall compared to what the cold fronts do every year. It`s almost like a cancer that is low grade, but it continues incessantly, and it will only get worse.