When you're an economist trained in conceptual stuff, you tend to be less intuitive. You fall back on this conceptual framework that the profession has invested a lot of time in.

He's a very well trained economist like Greenspan...so I don't think there will be a problem with the transition.

When Yuri detects narcotics or other substances, he's trained to sit and put his nose on the location where the substance is hidden. Sometimes he'll get himself into a pretty contorted position trying to show me where something is located.

I was really, really mad; really upset when it happened. It's one thing if you fall and go down, but if it's an equipment problem, like I've been having with the bindings, it really gets to you.

Maths should be more practical and more conceptual, but less mechanical.

We're playing a lot less random, a lot more structured. We're pushing, still getting stuff in transition. But when we don't have it, we're finding Yao in the paint, going inside/outside. ... Usually we depended on someone like Tracy doing it all and making plays for us, but now we're just playing basketball and getting the job done.