We came in here with a game plan five years ago to get the team to the top of the state. We're at the top. Now we just need a few more players to finish it.

That gave me something to talk about in the locker room. If you get cocky, they'll step right over you.

I have to stay on them and I have to keep them going because no matter who it is you know you have to go hard. I'd like to see them share the puck and make the extra pass. And, they're really trying.

I try to remind them about it. I try to appeal to their senses. I haven't had a sense of urgency with them yet because I don't want to waste those speeches during the regular season.

We actually eat less than our ancestors, despite the fact that we eat more than we should. Since we expend so much less energy than prior generations, we need fewer calories. And when you take in fewer calories, you usually take in fewer nutrients. We also eat more high-calorie foods with poor nutritional value, like chips, and fewer nutrient-rich foods, like fruits and vegetables.

We will not tolerate this budget being balanced on the backs of hardworking public workers. This governor repeatedly made a commitment of no layoffs, a commitment to cut waste in spending, to cut political appointees and to only cut the state work force through attrition. We're going to hold him to those commitments.