I always said the calendar was working in our favor. If he was going to (retire), he would have told us in January.

They told her she basically wouldn't end up doing anything for them and she might as well retire. She didn't win beam, but she beat everybody from Utah State, and she won bars.

Vladimir told me he was going to retire and then his representative asked that he be allowed to have some time off to go home. I told him it was not in the best interest of the club for him to do that.

I told the seniors after the third game, 'This is what you've been busting your butts since June 1, for this match. And they responded.

I don't know that I'd read anything into it. Many of them are getting ready to retire or are near retirement. I just look at it as there were several personal decisions made at one time.

Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.