He always wanted to run a marathon when he was at school. My recommendation was: Give it a few years after you graduate. You have to develop.

I'll tell you what I'm looking for when I make a recommendation: I want a collaborator.

This is a marathon. We've still got 54 holes to go.

There are things that you run into when developing a city that you wouldn't have in a rural area. We have to be very respectful and sensitive to the fact that these are people's livelihoods that we're dealing with. That is usually the most emotional and time-consuming aspect of this job.

That doesn't give me any insight if it's just a run-of-the-mill 'here's my formula' recommendation letter.

But he just seems to have an engine . . . that allows him to run marathons pretty well. He's also very solid. He had very few injuries in college, a little bit of a calf problem freshman year, that was it.