What we're having now is an interesting window. There is a lot of confidence in retail stocks, and restaurant stocks in particular.

It is not good timing. That is not the type of development in normal cases that would inflate investors' enthusiasms for this transaction, because it just begs the question of why.

You have to hit the public markets when they're receptive. Right now, I think you have a very favorable market environment.

We got our confidence. We knew we could shoot good. We just went out and started making them.

For a freshman, that was a great play, just having the confidence to go up there and make a play like that at that time in the game. He went up and challenged him and made a great play.

I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.