Mark Foster
Mark Foster
Mark Andrew Fosteris an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics and world championships, and swam for England in the Commonwealth Games. Foster is a former world champion and won multiple medals in international competition during his long career. He competed primarily in butterfly and freestyle at 50 metres...
ProfessionSwimmer
Date of Birth12 May 1970
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We have no complaints with bottom-line earnings growth in what we've seen so far. The economy is going to hold together, earnings growth is going to hold together, the Fed's going to stop raising rates and that will give the market an opportunity to move forward.
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Typically the market moves quickly, and if you're not there ahead of time you'll miss what historically can be a decent move.
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I'm trying to just let it go, being more accepting of my bad shots. Today I put the ball in the right areas and took my chances when I got them.
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I've been most at home short course and that's why this meet is a great way to end my career. It's where I'm most comfortable and it's where I've had the greatest success, so I'm playing to my strengths.
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The sales numbers looked pretty good. Cost control continues to be a key component in their performance, so they've done a good job there.
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It sounds silly but at times I have not allowed myself to play well through being too tough on myself. So I'm trying to just let it go, being more accepting of my bad shots.
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For them, that's an achievement. To the extent that they still can generate some traffic and higher price points, they are generating better sales figures. They seem to be doing better in terms of their merchandising efforts and the basics of just running the business.
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It's difficult to get any momentum going as every time play is stopped you have to sit around before getting warmed up again, and it's really hard for me as I've got off to such a good start.
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The last five weeks have been a worry and the card has played on my mind off the course, and my big effort in Madrid last week to make sure of the card has left me very tired,
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The course is tough because if you miss a fairway or a green, you are in trouble and we have done a lot of work on that over the past two days trying to save shots and it worked. This is my first outing of the year so you are never really sure what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised.
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You could see double-digit market growth in '06. My guess is there's some bumps along the way, but I'm more optimistic about '06 than I was about '05.