We don't know when we're going to get in, but I know [Weiss] does have the confidence in me and will put me in. I just try to stay ready. I'm not going to go in there and score 30 points because that isn't what I do. What I do is defend and run the team.

It feels good that the coaching staff has confidence in me to play me that late in the game and give me a chance. I wanted to hold it down, maybe make a run, and let our main guys finish them off.

With Sept. 11 coming up, they want to justify their job.... They're on a witch hunt. If being Muslim is a crime, then I'm guilty.

Where are the choke points? Where are the areas we need to put police and put . . . barriers? The study will give that to us.

When there's nothing like 9/11 or Katrina, complacency sets in. You don't do all the planning you could.

There is only one security, and when you've lost that security, you've lost everything you've got. And that is the security of confidence in yourself; to be, to create, to make any position you want to make for yourself. And when you lose that confidence, you've lost the only security you can have. ... Self-confidence is self-determinism. One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course. As long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket. And when he hasn't got that, not all the pearls in China nor all the grain and corn in Iowa can give him security, because that's the only security there is.