21.  Any second, we thought, Tom would give us the signal to rise and take them.

22.  Denver thought it could roll on that same path last season, even without quarterback John Elway, who retired.

23.  Deficits are a remote abstraction when the public has other things to think about, however.

24.  Definitely there were times you'd think, 'That could be me.'

25.  Cuban goes ballistic only after games where he thinks his team has been jobbed.

26.  Cuban scholars, he said, did not think Machado should be barred from speaking at the meeting, but questioned its sponsorship of his trip.

27.  Cubans often try to come to the United States because they think they'll have a better life here.

28.  Cui thinks young people in China today are like caged birds: when they try to fly, they don't go very far.

29.  Culinary achievements: "I guess that my friends thought enough of me to put me in the paper."

30.  Culligan doesn't think so.