It is extremely motivating. We have high expectations on this team and we're trying to live up to them. Now we know it takes hard work.

I'm just trying to pitch. I just have to go out and do what I can do.

Unfortunately, earnings growth expectations are still too high. We continue to learn about that.

Maybe it's in the back of our minds. But we're not trying to live up to anyone's expectations. We have other goals.

We think the Fed is trying to manage market expectations on the pace of economic recovery and on when the Fed is likely to shift its (monetary policy) bias to neutral.

It feels good, I guess, to live up to expectations, ... But the season's nowhere near over, and we're trying to get better.