Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be ...
AL SPALDING The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
AL SPALDING Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything el...
AL SPALDING Baseball is a man maker.
AL SPALDING Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, ...
AL SPALDING I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentali...
AL SPALDING Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You ca...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles...
ESPERANZA SPALDING When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the l...
SPALDING GRAY For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. I...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's peop...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
ESPERANZA SPALDING What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logi...
SPALDING GRAY There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. Ther...
CHARLES SPALDING I'm really happy with our pitching right now. We had a few defensive lapses, but you have to expect ...
CHAD SPALDING I think some of our players have the jitters out in the field. It's the first year of varsity for se...
CHAD SPALDING I wanted our team to be pressed some this year. We have some tough stretches in our schedule this ye...
CHAD SPALDING Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler jus...
CHAD SPALDING Jake pitched a great game. It's a shame we let them back in it. It's good that Tyler was able to get...
CHAD SPALDING It's so important at the high school level to be able to get the ball over the plate. This staff wil...
CHAD SPALDING He's definitely one of the top pitchers in the region. But after facing the tough pitcher we saw at ...
CHAD SPALDING Other than that inning, we didn't play too badly. I thought the first six innings were very promisin...
CHAD SPALDING There's a lot of competition for these spots. I think every player understands that there are two or...
CHAD SPALDING This was a fun game to watch. There were some exciting plays and just good competitive baseball. I t...
CHAD SPALDING You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn&#...
ESPERANZA SPALDING The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you ...
SPALDING GRAY I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis' — there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster th...
SPALDING GRAY I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that ever...
SPALDING GRAY If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportuni...
ESPERANZA SPALDING It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the pe...
CHARLES SPALDING Overall, I would have to give this effort a B minus, but for the first five innings we were better t...
CHAD SPALDING Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
ESPERANZA SPALDING It's time for our team to grow as young men or wilt against better competition. We're going to face ...
CHAD SPALDING [NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.
SPALDING GRAY I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
SPALDING GRAY I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting ...
SPALDING GRAY I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would ha...
SPALDING GRAY everything is contingent, and there is also chaos
SPALDING GRAY Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiin...
SPALDING GRAY I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off t...
SPALDING GRAY I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
SPALDING GRAY We were more ready to play than I even thought we were going in. Even during the infield/outfield dr...
CHAD SPALDING I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor....
SPALDING GRAY The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever prese...
SPALDING GRAY I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is t...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at tha...
SPALDING GRAY I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
LAVINIA SPALDING One of our players had a really tough night. Other than that we showed we could compete with a quali...
CHAD SPALDING I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning b...
ESPERANZA SPALDING On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together...
ESPERANZA SPALDING There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see...
ESPERANZA SPALDING We will go on with the gallery. Our first show will prominently feature Newman's work.
DOUG SPALDING Newman was a healer. He spent the last two months struggling with how to heal St. Albans. He was suc...
DOUG SPALDING This town was just so important to him. Newman was the quiet person in the background, always doing ...
DOUG SPALDING To hold this meeting, days before voting and the town meeting, is a slap in the face to the people o...
DOUG SPALDING He knew it was a team as much as anybody else did. He's quick to say how well anybody else is doing.
BRYCE SPALDING I'm always astounded by what he can do. He has complete body control when he's in the air.
BRYCE SPALDING I go places and people are congratulating me left and right. Old teachers, other people I know in th...
BRYCE SPALDING We put on a show.
CHAD SPALDING You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the...
CHARLES SPALDING We get benefit by serving our members which, of course, drives more business towards us. If we are p...
DAVE SPALDING We think it's the future; we're making a lot of investments to stay at the front end of, really, a v...
DAVE SPALDING Putting it in the state constitution doesn't save it.
LARRY SPALDING If this bill is enacted, I would have no hesitation to recommend a challenge.
LARRY SPALDING If that was true, we wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of Texas — unanimous jury required...
LARRY SPALDING The judges in this state are responsible people. They do a good job. Leave them alone.
LARRY SPALDING The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter yo...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
ESPERANZA SPALDING There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities tha...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a l...
ESPERANZA SPALDING There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lo...
ESPERANZA SPALDING I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
ESPERANZA SPALDING I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you kn...
ESPERANZA SPALDING It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throu...
ESPERANZA SPALDING My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s...
ESPERANZA SPALDING It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or do...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
ESPERANZA SPALDING We're not unreasonable. We expect people to ask for help if they have to lift something heavy.
TRAVIS SPALDING Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING She's from out of town, and it was just given to her from her parents from out of town and they got ...
DR. THERESA SPALDING We were very concerned as soon as we heard about the positive testing late this evening.
DR. THERESA SPALDING The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
AL-HASAN AL-BASRI I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAU You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
AL FRANKEN Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We l...
AL ROKER During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have acce...
AL FRANKEN We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTON I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy ...
AL SHARPTON The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...
AL SHARPTON To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If yo...
AL OERTER I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
AL OERTER It was like a tidal wave went through the city.
AL OERTER It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.
AL OERTER I never had technique.
AL OERTER I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at eac...
AL OERTER We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognitio...
AL PEACOCK I learned years ago you can shape your own destiny if you do get involved. There have always been a ...
AL PAZAR There's a lot of overcapacity in the fishery that will need to be addressed. Probably that won't be ...
AL PAZAR Every time you lose that pre-soak, the danger increases. It's the race to fish.
AL PAZAR Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. Th...
AL PAZAR It broke down this year, with both sides not able to agree, and so we went into our usual free-for-a...
AL PAZAR That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T...
AL PARISH It's going to continue to make realtors very happy. I haven't seen any unhappy people in that indust...
AL PARISH Even though it's not the biggest property, it's getting in excess of $300 a night for a room. That's...
AL PARISH It doesn't mean that everybody's condo went up 37 percent. It means they built more expensive condos...
AL PARISH CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT That's Fry. She settled down and came through for us.
AL NORTHINGTON We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.
AL NORTHINGTON We didn't finish in that game. Tonight we finished.
AL NORTHINGTON We made some mental mistakes, but we're still so young, and that's going to happen. Our four freshme...
AL NORTHINGTON I'm so proud of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling to see these kids progress. This is a win for t...
AL NORTHINGTON The president believes very strongly that this is going to have a major, major impact on economic gr...
AL HUBBARD The recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to the deficit.
AL HUBBARD It's coming from the American taxpayer.
AL HUBBARD The last thing in the world we need to do is raise taxes and retard economic growth.
AL HUBBARD Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy...
AL HUBBARD The president is totally committed to Social Security reform.
AL HUBBARD Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We'...
AL HORFORD Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa...
AL HORFORD It's great to see your son doing his job on the court. But it was no surprise.
AL HORFORD There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times...
AL HORFORD We're so anxious for the game to get here.
AL HORFORD We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make t...
AL HORFORD You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
AL HORFORD You could just see it in their eyes. That's when we go for the kill.
AL HORFORD I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel p...
AL HORFORD They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it.
AL HORFORD [He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu...
AL HIRT I don't know, ... I do not know.
AL HIRT I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
AL HIRT The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ...
AL HIRT When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die befo...
AL HIRT Rich could play way better than Krupa.
AL HIRT Old Sharkey had a fat sound, man. He could blow like wild fire and when he played, I am telling you,...
AL HIRT I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
AL HIRT A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
AL HIRT You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested ...
AL HIRSCHFELD We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a...
AL HIRSCHFELD You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done, ... I am only intereste...
AL HIRSCHFELD When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experienc...
AL HIRSCHFELD Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
AL HIRSCHFELD Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
AL HIRSCHFELD $250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's...
AL HARTKOPF A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.
AL HARTKOPF I knew it was going to end up badly.
AL HARTKOPF If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does.
AL HARTKOPF I have very mixed feelings on it. I totally get where the commissioners are coming from. I see the p...
AL HARTKOPF Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS [In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively...
AL HARRINGTON When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice co...
AL HARRINGTON I'm sure he is from everything I hear, but I've got to wait until that happens.
AL HARRINGTON When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media kn...
AL HARRINGTON It's been a long time coming.
AL HARRINGTON I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a f...
AL HARRINGTON I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as so...
AL HARRINGTON That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace f...
AL HARRINGTON Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
AL HARRINGTON It helps us determine which candidate might be the right match for Blue Valley Middle School.
AL HANNA We are looking for a well-qualified, experienced administrator.
AL HANNA He already knows a great deal about us and our operations. We think he will work well with staff and...
AL HANNA Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.
AL HANNA This is a very tough loss for us. We felt like we had the game, but I have to give them credit. They...
AL HAMMELL We'll really get into the fundamentals. It's something we hope to build on each year.
AL HAMMELL I was impressed by how well our players interacted.
AL HAMMELL It's about getting the younger players excited about baseball. We'll look forward to doing it each y...
AL HAMMELL It was a great clinic for the first year.
AL HAMMELL