Quotes by Steve Largent

• It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.
• When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone and have it transcript voice into text and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling.
• When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence.
• What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world.
• We're not necessarily the ski boat, we're the skier. There are countries like Japan and Korea and others who are the ski boat at this point, but we're getting pulled right behind them.
• We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.
• These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.
• Sometimes Congress likes to milk an issue.
• People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.
• There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.
• Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
• It's hard, or you wouldn't like it. A lot of coaches really don't like what they're doing.
• It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
• It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.
• I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.
• A child can escape the shadows.
• Where is the harm in the wireless industry?
• People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.
• This is going to become a battle for access to your home and office plus mobility. It's about who can provide the biggest and least expensive and fastest pipe to your home and office and offer you a mobility feature.