These coins have been around well past their expected time changes. It may have just been time to update them.

The revenues from the commemorative coins were just incredible and it prompted the Mint to come up with the idea for the statehood quarters. We are talking minting into the billions of coins. While the Mint doesn't make money on all the coins they do make money on the proof sets and the silver dollar proof sets. But more importantly, it introduced people to the Mint's Web site.

I want to go out on top, and above all I want to spend a lot of time with Patti and the kids, and I don't want to be some invalid or hurt and killed because of something that went wrong.

We're qualifying pretty good this year. It's just a matter of time before we get the rhythm back going. I am looking at the points already. I know we're only like 40 or something like that out of the top 10. [Actually, it's 51 points.] Now I've got to get back up there and get myself up to the front.

[This gives Andersen less than three days to present its defense.] That doesn't leave much time to put on a defense, ... All I want is equal time.

I think we are getting hot at the right time. Now, we just need to put everything together, and make a push to the regional tournament.