They said it!

“Some people believe that we’re poor, we’re ignorant, we can’t do it and the reality is just the opposite.”

SDSU athletic director Fred Oien on the most common problems people have with the Division I move.

“I understand why people don’t like to commit the military to action. I can understand that. I’m the person in this country that hugs the mothers and the widows if their son or husband dies. I know people would like to avoid armed conflict, and so would I. But the risks of doing nothing far outweigh the risks of whatever it takes to disarm Saddam Hussein.”

President George W. Bush, explaining why he will continue to pursue war with Iraq, despite concerns expressed by France, Germany and Russia, as reported by the Associated Press Mon., Feb. 10.

“He’s someone who has been so famous, so spectacularly gifted for so long. On the other side, there’s something unexplainable about what he has done to himself, about the scandal that continues to cling to him, the controversy.”

Jeff Wachtel, the USA Network’s executive VP of series and longform programming, on his network’s plan to make a TV movie about Michael Jackson, as reported by Variety Mon., Feb. 10.

“It’s big that we won. The last thing I wanted was to get that goal when we were down 4-0 or something.”

Detroit Red Wing Brett Hull on scoring his 700th goal, as reported by the AP Mon., Feb. 10. Only four other hockey players have scored 700 goals.

“It’s a full-blown attack on the sheep. They use their beaks, their feet. They pick out the animals’ eyes.”

Police spokesman Dietmar Ernst of Loerrach, Germany on recent attacks by ravens on sheep, which have prompted some to say the film “The Birds” has come to life, as reported by Reuters Mon., Feb. 10.