"You live by the three, you die by the three."

÷ Jason Gardner, anticipating Notre Dame's deadly 3-point shooting

"All the fat's been cut. What they're going to need next is a meat ax to cut the bone."

÷ UA lobbyist Greg Fahey, responding to Republican lawmakers' suggestions that UA needs to trim the "fat" from its budget.

"It has a way of airing out dirty laundry, sometimes in a very raw way; yet within that rawness, there's a gentleness also there."

÷ Kwame Ross, associate artistic director for Urban Bush Women, describing the social, political voice of the African/African-American art troupe.

"Try it, you'll like it!"

÷ The new slogan encouraging people to try Express Check-out at the library.

"I am not afraid of being hurt, but I am not going to go around waving an American flag either."

÷ Jessica Pushor, a UA art history junior studying abroad in Ireland.

"If they made me start paying it, I'd do it."

÷ Graduate student Sarah Potzler on her willingness to pay extra fees in order to save the school of planning, which administrators proposed earlier this year to eliminate.

"Anyway, I got to the bar and I saw a girl who looked like her, but was like 50 pounds fatter. The picture she sent me must have been about two years old. I turned around and left without even talking to her. I don't even think she ever saw me."

÷ Jeff Wright, a business sophomore, on his bad online dating experience that has sworn him off meeting people online for good.

"Robotic tools are to the future of surgery what antibiotics were in the '50s and what computers were in the '80s."

÷ Dr. Allan Hamilton, chair of the department of surgery at UMC, on why UA hopes to obtain a robot that helps doctors perform surgery.

"I don't think people were that concerned (about the war), they were more concerned about getting into the country."

÷ Michael Tankenoff, an undeclared freshman. After the United States went on a high terror alert, security at the border slowed down students trying to get back to UA from Mexico.

"We need (the break) ÷ our bats are a little tired. It's a young group, and we put them through a pretty good stretch."

÷ Baseball head coach Andy Lopez after the baseball team broke a 10-year drought against the USC Trojans.