from a convenience ? and cost standpoint will be very important.

The thing I remember is that Johnny Bench hit that ball further than I’d ever seen a human being hit a baseball. I don’t know how far he hit it, but it was a shot.

If we do our job well in telling our story, I think we’ll be all right. People in Jackson County that are not sports fans need to understand what an economic generator for the entire...

While we’re trying to do the right thing by our customers and shareholders, we did nothing about our image. Therefore we’ve been vulnerable to attacks, … I thought all we had to do was run...

If for some reason this wouldn’t pass, we would have to examine our options. To be real honest, we haven’t looked at our options. And there’s no point in thinking about anything right now other...

It’s a great day for Jackson County and a great day for Kansas City and I’m just proud to be a part of it. I never doubted this would happen.

It’s a force that is manifested in every aspect of our daily existence.

We’ve made our share of mistakes and we’ve tried hard to correct them, but we’ve never covered them up, … What we need to do much better is to get our story out about how...

purely because we will face more difficult comparisons resulting from last year’s solid performance.

I was pleasantly surprised, and I could tell that they are genuine about wanting us in the coalition. The talks were very constructive and from the good atmosphere, we could tell that we will be...

We are well positioned for the holiday season and look forward to continued double-digit growth in sales and, more importantly, earnings,

It’s hard to say how many games we’ll win, but if character counts, we will win a lot.

I’m not willing to go through a season like we did last year.

When major-league baseball came to Kansas City, Ewing Kauffman always said Joe deserved most of the credit for making that happen.

The partnership between Missouri State University and IBM creates tremendous opportunities for both students and faculty alike. I applaud IBM’s effort and commitment to advancing the study of technology in schools. I would encourage others...

I hope that he’s happy here and will stay because we’ve laid the foundation now to do a lot of good things here. The Theater District is not the end, it’s the beginning,

Each of our operating divisions reported increased operating income as a percent of sales and surpassed their own aggressive plans.

Deric, let’s get this guy signed and playing somewhere.

We are excited about the earnings growth achieved in the first half of the year, but temper our enthusiasm for the second half purely because we face strong comparisons resulting from last year’s solid performance.

We’re really excited about growth internationally,

My dreams of another perfect season went up in smoke yesterday. I still take comfort that we have 161 to go.

I am pleased to report another record quarter of sales and earnings,

We achieved our fourth consecutive quarter of net income in excess of $1 billion and the highest net income ever reported by the company in a non-Christmas quarter in our history.

They have a commitment for a Super Bowl, we have commitment for an All-Star game. It’s a big-time opportunity for Kansas City.

It’s one thing after another to get the pieces in place. We will hit challenges, and we will work through them.

They shocked us, we never expected them to throw this much. We anticipated them running the ball. We just did the best we could.

Yes, [Basin Street was] first, and maybe they will be the largest. As far as concerns about what some have called ‘Whitesville,’ they don’t understand what’s happening here.