"I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not achieved what we have, there would have been many regional brands that would have succeeded. But I'm not sure there would have been a national brand of the scope of Starbucks."

"People ask me what's the most important function when you're starting an organization or setting up the kind of culture and values that are going to endure. The discipline I believe so strongly in is H.R., and its the last discipline that gets funded."

"It's different when you're trying to turn something around, especially something that you built, at a time when so many constituents - the media, Wall Street, competitors, ex-employees - are all saying that Starbucks's best days are behind it, and that Schultz is never going to be able to bring it back."

"We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege."

"Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream."

"The business end of business has never interested me."

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."

"When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer."

"Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did."

"If a beautiful women expressed interest in me and my company, I don't really probe their motivations. Call me shallow."

"For me, the magazine was always the heart of what my life was all about, and the other half was living the life."

"The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great."

"Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers."

"In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined a sweeter life."

"He's the key to their team. If he can't get going, it'll be a tough night for everybody."

"I don't think it crossed my mind we were going to lose that game. I'm still kicking myself. For the first time in basketball, I feel sorry for myself."

"They're so experienced and so talented. We're definitely going to need them to make some mistakes to win."

"That's going to be a struggle between two teams trying to impose their wills on one another. If they can get it in the half-court set, they'll have the advantage."

"(Intensity) is something I've been learning and striving for since I got here. Coach is always on me about my intensity level. He told me I was talented but I had to pick up my intensity level. In the past, I would often defer. This season I wasn't allowed to do that. He had to stay on me to make sure I bring it every night. Now I'm seeing that all the hard work paid off. Playing hard all the time can be rewarded."

"I was actually frustrated throughout (non-league). I was like, man, I can wait until I can start putting my print on the team."

"Washington is taking a huge step in being a power program."

"We just totally turned the page on that Thursday game. It was important not to come in here and worry about making shots, and we did a good job of that."

"I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever."

"In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago,"

"Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports."

"I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack of the possibilities, a lack of passion. And I didn't want to live without passion."

"Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are."

"Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses."

"Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot."

"There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in."

"I've had death threats, but I've never been fearful for my life. Although I have traveled with security since the '60s."

"I think being connected to younger people helps to keep you young and gives you a young attitude."

"When I was a kid I dreamed about this. It's an incredible honor to be recognized nationally like this."

"Lately a lot of people have been giving me respect. You know when they don't give it to me, I just use it as motivation. Now that they're saying I'm the most complete player, I have to look for other motivation."

"In my heart, I would have liked to have seen him come to Washington because I feel like the things I've been through here have made me not only a better person but a better basketball player. You come to college and nobody looks at you as a star anymore. You're just another guy on the team, and that would have been great for him."

"I'm a big fan of Dee Brown. He's the heart and soul of that team and he's the first guy we've got to stop."

"I think that's a credit to all past Husky teams. I'm happy to be part of it."

"This is probably the best game that I played and I was forced to do more. In years past, I've always had Nate [Robinson], I've always had Will [Conroy]."

"I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime."

"I'm just happy we are in the race for the Pac-10 title again."

"This is the first night me, Bobby and Jamal got on the same page. We need to lead this team. I think tonight we did a good job."

"The consistency of fans now is so much better. I think it has a lot to do with our play, and we're doing it together. The better we get, the better they get."

"I'm still kicking myself because I think for the first time in basketball, I felt sorry for myself. Like, 'Man, I did everything I could to win and then that happened.' It took me a minute to get my engine going. I think Bobby [Jones] felt the same way. I think Jamaal [Williams] felt the same way."

"He's made me a better player over four seasons. All summer, we played pick-up basketball and we'd match up against one another. When I penetrate to the basket, there are times when he stops me. His ability to guard big men and small guys definitely helps."

"I think we just want to keep playing good basketball. We don't want to go the Pac-10 tournament and have a terrible game and have that be the last thought on our minds heading into the NCAA tournament."

"It's fun playing Oregon. It's an up-tempo game. Hopefully, we'll make some shots."

"They were physical, they were banging me. Coming off screens, they were grabbing me. It was one of those games."

"We can't give up hope. I've started off 0-5, so it doesn't get any worse than that. Five-and-four is not bad at all. We just have to keep scrapping and keep fighting and know that if we win this game we've got two games at home and chance to go to 7-4. The future is still bright for us."

"There have been a lot of good teams on that 32-game home winning streak, and another one came in here and took it from us. It is the only way it should end, it shouldn't end with us losing by 15 or us losing to a bad team."

"We're still kind of kicking ourselves for those two losses at home. But we got two really big wins on the road and now we've got to go back and defend our home court, like we usually do."