`I looked at the stats before the game and I had a 6 percent shooting average. You’ve got to try really hard to be that bad.’
— Hockey forward Brian Bellows of Anaheim after ending his recent goal-scoring drought.
PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU WARNS ARAB STATES NOT TO GANG UP ON ISRAEL: `The Arabs are returning to the old tactics of the Arab boycott to weaken us and isolate us politically. They won’t succeed.’
`That steel-hard look is kind of piercing.’
Bud Welch, who lost his 23-year-old daughter, Julie, in the Oklahoma City bombing, after seeing suspect Timothy McVeigh on the large screen.
“We’re not going to charge anyone with anything, and who would we charge?’
Sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Lipscomb about the mass suicide of 39 Heaven’s Gate cult members in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Investigators are trying to determine where the cultists got so much phenobarbital.
`This man (Manson frontman Brian Warner) is a slap in the face. He’s no less an affront than Nazis marching down Myrtle Avenue.’
Stan Carter, among 800 in Jacksonville, Fla., who called, faxed and e-mailed the mayor’s office in the last week to protest the group Marilyn Manson.
`Investors are beating stock to death.’
Paul Hennessey, head of equities trading at Boston Partners Asset Management, in the wake of the stock market’s second sizable drop in the last two trading days.
`It’s a question of manners. My mum brought me up to be a gentleman.’
Passerby Kevin Duggan, 28, who forced a Sun photographer to give up his film of Princess Diana at her request outside a London gym. The Sun printed seven pictures of the incident taken by another photographer.
`I love playing in the dirt and getting dirty.’
Pvt. Tabatha Kittleson, Charleston, S.C., who had just finished spraying targets with an M240G machine gun as enlisted women shot live ammunition from heavy weapons during Marine combat training.
`Coaches sometimes talk too much.’
Kentucky coach Rick Pitino, commenting on former Irish coach Lou Holtz’s stating previously on ESPN that he would never leave Notre Dame.
