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Should be an interesting game. We don't know anything about them. They didn't play a spring game and they're not playing a jamboree. So we're going into that first game pretty blind.

Ole Miss has extended a helping hand ever since our construction started in the spring of last year. They were as accommodating as you could ask anybody to be in helping us out with this.

She was real consistent. I'm looking forward to some good things in the Spring and in the future.

So I'm sure it's been a confidence thing off and on but he's a smart kid and next spring he's going to look back on this thing and (realize) he's learned quite a few things.

She's very even-tempered-she has the ability to stay calm and focused at a very high level. What I've seen this spring is that she is a relentless player who will go hard for her team until it's over.

She's been suffering from some lower leg issues that really haven't been well-defined -- shin splints and some other muscular issues. It's gonna depend on her mental toughness to determine how far she can take her performances. Spring break will help her to rehab a little. She got off to a good start, though.

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise... and of Spring.

The body whips the soul. In its great desire it demands the elixir In the roar of spring, transmutations.

I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordanthis is like spring break in the ghetto.

The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.

Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.

I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.

Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee; it springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parent of it, the mind. No glass renders a man's form or likeness so true as his speech.

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Peaches grow wild, and pigs can live in clover; A barrel of salted herrings lasts a year; The spring begins before the winter's over.

It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...

The story must spring from an impression or perception pressing enough to have made the writer write. It should magnetize the imagination and give pleasure.

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.

It was cold and windy, scarcely the day to take a walk on that long beach Everything was withdrawn as far as possible, indrawn: the tide far out, the ocean shrunken, seabirds in ones or twos. The rackety, icy, offshore wind numbed our faces on one side; disrupted the formation of a lone flight of Canada geese; and blew back the low, inaudible rollers in upright, steely mist.

God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ...

He who seeks to regulate everything by law is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, even though it be in itself harmful. How many evils spring from luxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness and the like, yet these are tolerated because they cannot be prevented by legal enactments.

But for us, in Syria, we have principles. We'll do anything to prevent the region from another crazy war. It's not only Syria. Because it will start in Syria...

The virtuous to those mansions go Where pleasures unembitter'd flow, Where, leading up a jocund band, Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand, Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales, Pipes softest music through the vales, And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd, With velvet carpet spread the ground; With livelier blush where roses bloom, And every shrub expires perfume.

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

Oh! that we two were Maying Down the stream of the soft spring breeze; Like children with violets playing, In the shade of the whispering trees.

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.

There are many Welsh who are taciturn, truthful, well formed, open minded, handsome and peaceful, even if no particular individual immediately springs to mind.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.

The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about.

I hate to say it, because I'm not a big believer in turning the switch on and off, but if there's one guy who I think could do it, it's Carlos. In his mind, he knows these are Spring Training games, and when it's Opening Day, I think the light bulb will come on. I'm not worried about him.

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

I was intrigued. One of the things we're trying to do a better job of is making sure we're relevant here all year long, not just in spring training and in baseball season.

I was like, ?Get off my arm,' and he wouldn't move. It's spring training and he's known for something, so nobody really cares. I could care less. I'll get over this. Hopefully, everybody else does.

K.J. (Smith)'s had a very good camp. He had a good spring ball and I like him there (at middle linebacker). I think it's a good position for him.

I would start spring training a week earlier so the players would get five or six exhibition games in before starting.

I would say it's going to be a group effort. What we've done since last spring and over the summer is come together as a group. We've worked on that, trying to build better chemistry.

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as pre-Arab Spring Tunisia and Egypt when measured by degrees of income inequality.

There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w

He knows, like Manny (Ramirez), we're trying to deal him, but there have been no threats made to us about spring training. He's been pretty good on the phone, understanding our situation. He won 15 games and is a very good pitcher, so we need to get a very good deal for him. Generally, the conversations we've had with him have been very positive. He understands that we need to get fair value for him in the market.

He just wasn't at the top of his game this spring and it just snowballed on him. I think ultimately this situation will be good for him. ... He knows there's only one way to get it together and that's to go play.

If I was going to lose any time, I'll lose less than other players. The first 10 days (of spring camp with the Mets), I'm going to go to work and be with my teammates.

I am really bummed that I have not been able to race since the Unadilla crash. I am sorry to disappoint the fans, Kawasaki, and my sponsors. There's a week off after Washougal so I should be 100% by Spring Creek and look forward to a strong ride there.

I am really pleased with the focus the kids are showing in these matches. Ever since spring break, I have just sensed a different team. I feel that they really want to prove themselves and their confidence and attitude is really at a high.

I am really proud of the way the team competed throughout the league. We showed tremendous growth in our three competition dates. The league is an integral part of our spring season. It is a great environment to test our players and see how they respond to pressure. Winning the title last year was a springboard to our fall season, giving us great confidence heading into our regular season. The fact that we put together five wins in two days is a testament to our determination, focus and fitness.

I can't do half the things he can, I'm feeling my age and he looks like a spring chicken it's a great effort from the guy.

I did it because we had a bullfight one day, and I didn't want to go to spring training. I got all the excuses.

I did it sneezing, of all things. I tried to hold it in because I was driving. It's one of those things where you're disappointed about it, but there's nothing you can do. You have to take the time to get healthy. Unfortunately I missed all of spring training, so it was tough. But after that first at-bat you sort of get the jitters out, you calm down and start to see the ball better.

I can't speak for all the puppets in my show but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't looking forward to my spring Broadway debut, but we are all very excited to be playing the Hayes immediately after Sarah Jones' successful run there.

Frank believes he'll be ready in spring training. There was a real sense of determination in talking to him.

Frank felt great. Frank believes he'll be ready in spring training.

Freddie has done a great job. He's had a great camp and spring and he's a guy we look to provide a spark for us. I think he's going to have a good year.

I don't think anybody has quit, we're just going through a rough time, ... We owe it to ourselves and our fans to play as hard as we can the rest of the season so that everybody can have something to look forward to by the time spring training rolls around.

From the first day of spring training, I told them 2005 is over. It's a new year and we're just like everybody else. Every team we play this year is going to be trying to knock us off, so we have to be ready.

From the very beginning of Spring Training, he's been telling us that. Get out there and get ahead of the guys, and that makes your job a lot easier.

Fundamentals are the focus during spring drills. Every spring, we work on blocking and tackling and the little things that end up being the big things - the basics of football.

Friends of mine take cross-country trips to see their favorite bands or to see a friend, or to go to spring training. You put the music on, get a nice beverage and just go. People forget how much there is to see.

(Former Iowa coach) Hayden Fry said (in spring games) he never wanted his ones to get beat. I want to see how our ones on offense do against our ones on defense. I think that will make a more competitive game.

For me, spring is over. Just get my work in. I had pitched well to this point. Not that this was a terrible outing, or anything. It's spring, and that's a pretty good lineup over there, especially power-wise." ()

Give big props to the offensive line. I know without them and the rest of the team, I couldn't do it. They spring me open. They're a big part of my success.

For several reasons, this spring has given a lot of guys opportunities to show what they've got. And they're doing it. It's been a fun thing to watch.

For so long, it's been, 'OK, he's playing first base. Don't even worry about him in spring training. But it's a different story now, and I fully understand that. That part has been a little weird for me, but that's the way it is right now.

From Day 1, everybody got along. If we can start off spring training the way we did last season, we're gonna have a good shot.

From day one of spring training, he came in with mental toughness and helped set the tone for our team. He had an all-star year for us, so he's very valuable for us.

From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.

I feel like I'm accustomed to Spring Training. It's like, just hurry up and get it over with. Let's start it up again and strap it on. I'm really eager. You can bet I'm going to do well.

If Buck sees him throwing 84 mph on March 6, he's going to have a heart attack. It's an issue, but people have to deal with it. There are going to be pitchers who are notorious for not getting going until right at the end of spring training. Guys aren't going to be locked and loaded; that's almost a guarantee.

I feel pretty good, I feel excited. I wanted to go at first, but I didn't because of the way I was feeling early in Spring Training. But I have been working hard and feeling better and better, so I'm excited to be going.

I feel pretty good, ... To not swing a baseball bat in almost a year, no spring training, and go to a college and hit in a cage for a week and come out here and face major league pitching ... like I try to tell these guys, 'If I give you a little, it's a lot in this stage.'

I feel real comfortable that who we are playing and who we could play does not throw up any red flags. I'm looking at it like I'm definitely packing for two days the first weekend, and then I'm not going on spring break the second weekend. There's no plans in the foreseeable future, so I'm planning on playing some basketball.

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I am excited about the spring season. We have a chance to do something we've never done before, be a strong competitor in Florida.

I get enough workouts outside of the games. It's more than the games right here in spring training. You can't take for granted what happens during the day. Hopefully, you get enough games. The last two or three games I've come in just catching. There are other guys that need to get work in. I know what my role is.

I get in a (Grapefruit League) game and I don't focus like I did today. It was spring training. When you're in a game, you're focused and it's like kicking it to a different level. I'll take three ground balls. That's what I told you guys when I came here.

I don't think it helped a lot of major league players. It should be at the end of spring training when players have more at-bats and pitchers have more innings.

I don't think its sets him back. He played winter ball so he had enough throwing. It could be a blessing in disguise. If you take a little break before spring training he could be strong after resting up. He'll have plenty of time to get ready.

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I faced Jake a couple of times in Spring Training. It didn't go very well. He's a great pitcher. I'm glad I'm on his side now.

I faced these guys in spring training and they got me pretty good. I changed my game plan against them tonight and gave us a chance to win.

GM's February sales improved nicely compared to last month and the prior year, giving us momentum as we move into the spring selling season,

For most Americans, spring is a great time to clean and freshen up their home. They are getting rid of a winter's worth of dust, dirt and grime. Of course, people also appreciate that there are significant physical and emotional benefits to keeping a clean house all year long.

I don't think he's the same guy in his first four starts that he was in spring training. I think he's heading in that direction, but he's not there right now.

I don't think anybody did. We have too many days off and too many pitchers -- 15 were pitching for this team. Luckily I think we still have time in Spring Training to be ready.

For me, this is getting me ready for April 3. Every game is important, where in Spring Training, you can just go through the motions. Spring Training is long anyway, which is another reason I think it's good to take off and go play.

From the spring to now is a whole different level. I have a lot of confidence now in what we're doing. I've never felt so good about what we're doing (offensively) before.

I don't think I've ever had a spring break without baseball being involved. It's a great opportunity to practice in the morning and play in the afternoon. It is very similar to the routine a professional player would have, and many times it helps your team finish the season strong.

I don't think people realize the sacrifice that went into that streak. Cal wanted to play every game, even in spring training.

For the spring semester, it looks pretty good so far, but right now we don't know those exact numbers. As we speak we are still admitting students.

For this time of year, the times being put up here are just crazy. When we get into the full swing of spring season, that's when you usually see these kinds of times.

I expect to see great competition this spring, and I expect to see all our quarterbacks grow and improve. I'm sure the competition will go through spring ball and extend into the summer before we know who our quarterback is going to be.

I don't want them to feel they have to pitch their way into the spot and that is what spring training is about. We need to get it out of the way, clear out any distractions and keep focused on the job at hand, getting ready for the season.

I don't think we need to start panicking this first week here. I think it's just a matter of, April is a tough month. You do what you can to win and right now we've got some guys who are a little tired from Spring Training still trying to get in shape.

If it continues to drag on, it will affect their spring recruiting. You don't want to go deep in April without hiring a coach. These weekends are essential to recruiting.

I felt I could have thrown but it's the beginning of the spring season so I decided to take a break. I didn't want to get a serious injury.