I've never gotten off the plane and come straight to the performance. We always come from the airport to the hotel and change into our uniforms, but we didn't have time.

Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quarterly earnings increases, margin improvement and double-digit sales growth driven by acquisitions, improved company wide volume coming from significant new consumer product and market development, and geographical expansion. Our employees remained focused on meeting the needs of our customers while improving productivity and managing costs in all of our businesses. We continued our efforts to successfully hedge the majority of our natural gas needs to provide more certainty of energy costs, and we maintained a positive price/cost relationship, despite rising costs in most raw materials.

The defense played well enough for us to win the game, ... That was a very poor performance on offense and the kicking game stunk it up. There are a lot of things we have to tighten up. I don't know how many changes we can actually make.

Let Love wrap her sacred arms around you to keep you safe.

The program is totally performance-based.

Inconsistent performance at a high level -- not because of any one guy or two guys, but as a team. I think [the fast start] gave us a false sense of security, actually. We thought we were already good, as opposed to still working toward being good.