No one hopes that their stocks fall further.  Obviously their preference is for steep and steady upward trend.

The comment you are referring to is put forth in response to the doomsday pundits who are more likely to fit your Top 5 list..

We recognize that the market has cycles.  We recognize that it is pretty foolish to think that we can predict those cycles with any degrees of accuracy worth acting on.  We recognize that when the market crashes or merely dips that those are good opportunities to add to a solid investment holding.

Finally we also recognize that if the market pundits, traders, and timers, were even half as good as they like to suggest that there would be little need for them to be spending hours every day trying to poke holes in investment strategies that have proven track records of providing reliable above average returns.