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Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present.

You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.

Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.