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Spring Hill is one of the oldest communities in DeLand.

Spring is a spiritually renewing time, particularly after Katrina bruised our spirit.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Spring is here -- so be sure to follow these simple tips to ensure vehicle dependability in the warm months ahead. By taking care of your vehicle, it will more likely take care of you. And it will do it for a lot less money.

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Spring is near, the holiday weekend is approaching and an above-average passenger volume is expected. We are prepared to handle the crowds, but I ask the traveling public to follow a few simple steps to assist us in getting you through the checkpoints as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Spring is not the best of seasons. Cold and flu are two good reasons; wind and rain and other sorrow, warm today and cold tomorrow. Whoever said Spring was romantic? The word that best applies is frantic!

Spring is oftentimes very difficult to forecast. Tomorrow it might snow and a weekend ago, it was 85.

Spring is where you win a job. I've been telling all the young guys, come out here and give effort every play. Don't worry about messing up now. Just see yourself improve and get your way up the depth chart. We're going to have a lot of fight this spring.

Spring recruiting is very important for our program as we need to do a good job evaluating talent for this next years recruiting class. Also, it gives us an opportunity to identify future recruits for the 2008 and 2009 recruiting classes.

Spring runoff is a concern. This year we had over 400 inches of snow. We are about 13-percent above average. Depending on how mother nature melts that snow there could be some problems.

Spring sports have a major disadvantage. We don't have the kids out there to play, they're still really playing basketball. Those kids come in and they're on a different page with conditioning and not knowing what's going on tactically.

Spring training brings $450 million a year to Florida. We built the field of dreams and they came. Now we need to fund the maintenance of the facilities or they will go. Let's keep baseball in Florida.

Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.

Spring training doesn't matter. Stats don't matter. You take that time, especially the veteran guys, to get ready.

Spring Training is about playing, and we will be playing, so I don't think it will affect us that way. Maybe it could have an effect on managers and general managers, because all the players won't be together in the clubhouse and they might not have enough time to see everybody.

Spring training is a (time) to get to know your team. We've got new guys on our club, and you don't even know these guys.

Spring training is fun and this should be a lot of fun. We've already had a lot of fun just talking about it.

Spring Training is just a fun time. I really don't know how to explain it. Everyone's got new jokes and everyone is having fun with each other. You get to have your cake and eat it, too. You get to have a life. During the regular season, you don't because it's all day long -- baseball is at the end of the day. But here it's at the beginning of the day and then, with me, I'm going to go out and play golf every day for the next six weeks.

Spring training is over. Right now we're starting a new season. We're trying to make adjustments and play real good defense.

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,

Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind. We certainly intend to add somebody to our outfield, we just don't know who that person will be yet.

Spring training is too long anyway. I think this team, we're ready for the season to start right now, the position players anyway. It can be long and tedious, and this breaks it up.

Spring training is very important to me. I told my agent last June it would be tough to enter the World Classic.

Spring training was a long time ago. He could be starting from ground zero as far as the baseball activities.

Spring trip is great because it is a time to play baseball without the pressures of class. We get to pretend that we are minor leaguers by riding the bus and playing games almost every day.

Really, it's like having another spring practice. That's very beneficial for your team.

Sure, I'd like the opportunity. It would be a good challenge for me. I was excited about the start I had against them in spring training. That was neat.

Sure, there will be some more back out, whether it's our players or somebody else's. I'm used to spring training being to concentrate on the World Series, and that's what we like to see our players do. But we don't tell them not to play.

Surveying these fields will provide information to get the big picture of how this fungus behaves in this part of the world. We know it's caused major losses in Asia and other parts of the world, but we don't really know how it will affect crops here. The weather and prevailing winds this spring will play a big role in what happens, but if South Texas bean crops have a rough year with soybean rust, there will be the potential for a bad year further north.

Playing the way we were playing, I didn't have the desire to come to the ballpark. This year, from what I see from the beginning of spring training, the chemistry is different.

Previous research has shown that every spring there are massive dust storms in Asia that transport soil eastward to Japan and across the Pacific to the United States. Now we've found that sulfate and organic aerosols are also present, and in roughly the same amounts.

Party trips to spring break destinations have been flat or declining since 2000.

Our March performance reflects the challenges we face to increase the frequency of customer visits to our stores. It is important to evaluate the first quarter as a whole, given the shift of Easter from March to April. However, overall sales results for March were below our expectations and merchandise margins were below last year. Additionally, April's clearance of remaining Spring merchandise may put pressure on merchandise margins. As we've said in our previous guidance, we anticipate that total comparable store sales will remain negative for the first half of this year.

Our objectives during the spring season are quite different than during our fall championship campaign. We are focused on helping each player improve her game and trying some new things. I felt we were successful on both counts last weekend.

Peace can be got only through Faith; Faith is the spring of Joy. But now we see Sorrow, wherever we cast our eyes. Why does this happen ? Because, man has lost Faith. He has no Faith in himself. How then can he acquire Ananda ? How can a person, how has not got Faith enough to live happily for a few days, win the Grace of God ?

People have a spring in their step. When you read that the TV ratings exceeded the final night of Big Brother, you know that you're heading in the right direction.

Our mission will be to protect this area as a natural region and protect the spring flow of this vital resource here in the Texas Hill Country.

Our new era at Churchill Downs got off to a spectacular start last year with a record-smashing Kentucky Derby Week and we look forward to welcoming our fans back for another exciting spring meet. That Derby Week momentum carried on through a terrific spring meet in which fans got to know and love our new facilities. Our staff is working hard to present those fans not only with the finest racing facilities in America, but to provide unparalleled guest service as they enjoy the strongest and most competitive daily racing program in the country.

People have said they thought Tulane could start back in the spring semester,

People knew it was a bad dam. People talked every spring that it was going to break. They just didn't know what the consequences would be.

I see it as a positive step to protect the integrity of the sport. I have always viewed the winter option as detrimental when fall and spring are considered.

I saw balls that were hit where he had to run and stop. I didn't see much favoring in the knee. He's so much better than he was in spring training. That was a real workout.

I saw fireworks only on TV before, but tonight I set off them myself. They are as beautiful as shining stars! This is the most unforgettable Spring Festival in my life.

I saw him hit 10 home runs in 40 at bats one spring training. If he's in spring training mode, watch out.

I saw him pitching the last game he pitched in spring training and it was obvious he was right back where he likes to be. I saw him making his pitches, doing his thing. He looked great to me.

I see Erica earning significant playing time next year. She needs more experience in the back row, but she started all the spring (exhibitions) and she was effective. I think she'll be critical whether she starts or comes off the bench.

I will be joining the campaign with a song in my heart, with a spring in my step

I was all over the place then. I had been hit (by a pitch) in the head and had been doing so much work since spring training to try and make up for last year that I was just strung out. But I knew it would change.

I think what this may show is that we may have witnessed the peak levels of consumer confidence in the late spring and early summer. But it confirms that you do have spirits holding at a high level.

Korean immigration to Mexico in the spring of 1905 led directly to the Japanese takeover of Korea six months later.

Kyle continues his unbeaten streak in the league. It was good to have Nate Spring back, but we still have a lot of work to do.

Jeter hit the ball pretty good that game. Watson Chapel played two games while we were on Spring Break. We were a little rusty with the bats. I think that might have hurt us a little bit. But the good thing is we didn't have any conference games this week. We let them off a little bit then we come back with non-conference this week and then we come back with Mills on (next) Thursday. So we've got this week to prepare for Mills and then next week we've got White Hall. By then, a lot of things will start shaping up.

Just as we did with ticket prices for the regular season, we examined our spring training pricing and refined it to create a compelling pricing schedule for our spring training season-ticket holders.

Just giving him a rest, right in the middle of spring training. We just want to slow him down a little bit.

I think spring is trying to be cheerful in a low-key way.

I think everyone ? animal or human ? who is used to this area knows we can get these occasional warm stretches. No one who has spent any time here is foolish enough to believe that spring has arrived.

I think everyone looks at the playoffs as a new start and we are doing no different. We started to fade some the last two or three weeks of the season and after spring break I just told the guys it's time to start over.

I think everyone will be excited. It'll be competitive. We've had a good, physical spring and our players have worked hard. So I expect a good day Saturday.

I think double-play combinations are probably a little bit overplayed. You basically catch it and throw it and catch it again. Whoever it is, we'll probably only need a week in Spring Training to get in sync.

Larry Spring seemed to have the energy and enthusiasm that we thought we needed. We have a vision already figured out. We already know where we want to go and he seemed to be the candidate who was going to be most able to help us carry that forward.

Last spring at our general body meeting we took a poll of 50 students and Carville was the top choice of the people we put up for consideration. We wanted someone who was successful, popular, dynamic and engaging, and he fits the bill on all of those.

Last spring is when fashion started being all about glamour. Everywhere a person looked, there were people with embellished jeans, sequins on everything, and lots of metallic.

People are going to be getting ready for spring cleaning soon.

People are going to have huge utility debts. And they're going to end up, a lot of them, shut off in the spring and summer and they're going to carry that debt into next winter.

Opening day is always exciting. We have a talented group of players and if we do the right things and do the things we've been teaching them in spring training, we'll be all right.

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

James was truly an unknown quantity, ... He was really, physically drained in the spring and he got dinged in the fall. We brought him along slowly, but he has a great future. He's a natural receiver.

Jason has the mental makeup and, to me, that's a huge part of it when you start thinking about double-jumping guys. It's 60-40 we will do it. It depends on the way he swings the bat in spring training.

Jason needs to get consistent, everyday at-bats instead of sitting on the bench here with us. We brought him up here from spring training to see where he's at, and we're happy with his progress.

Our hope is to be under construction in spring of 2000.

Our guys are very excited about spring drills. The coaches and players really can feel the excitement building every day. While we are excited, what really matters is how much we improve in every facet of the game.

Our guys have been in the weight room all winter and spring and they are ready to hit people and get the real practice started.

Our guys have worked hard this spring and we have had good competition at a lot of positions. I have been pleased with our effort most of the time, yet I know we need to get better in a lot of areas, too. I am looking forward to who comes out ready to play and compete on Saturday, and who plays with toughness and who plays fast.

Our kids realize -- even the ones playing spring sports -- there is no off-season in football. They're ready to put the time in to get better.

Nancy and I had a couple dreams when we opened three years ago. To get (renowned blues artist) Tommy Castro and David Allan Coe to perform. Tommy and his band played here last spring and now David.

Natalie is a junior that has worked hard and developed in the program for two years. She had a solid spring and is ready to jump in when needed.

Man seeks joy in far off places and peace in quiet spots; but the spring of joy is in his heart. the haven of peace is in himself. Even when he walks on the moon, man has to take with him, his fears, his anxieties, his prejudices and his pet aversions.

I'm not about freaking pitching around anybody in spring training,

Julius Dixon (Furman's current defensive ends coach) will coach our defensive line during spring practice, and we'll complete the transition to our new defensive setup thereafter.

I think they realize now that they can compete against the best, and that's something that I don't think they necessarily had before last spring and before this past summer.

I think they?re looking forward to going to California, maybe not just for the tennis but also to go to California for spring break.

I think the teams are all set to have strong spring seasons. With the kind of players already on the teams and the caliber of recruits who are coming to the programs, I think they will be in good shape for years to come. I want to wish them a lot of luck in the future.

I'm still missing some balls I should be hitting. I'm just getting back to that feel I had in spring training, just the same comfort level. ... I guess it's something special. I'm just having fun with it.

I think this has to be the first time in the history of spring training a cello has been hit.

It is early in spring training, so it is better to stop now. I think I will be ready for my next start.

I thought he was pretty good. Coming out of spring training, he turned the dial up with his intensity, with his stuff. He made a couple of bad pitches, obviously, but I thought he could have been out of that fifth inning and it's 2-0 ... a couple of balls hit hard and that's about it.

I thought it was a really good spring. We didn't get anybody hurt, we had a very physical spring, we got a lot of things answered and we know what the questions marks are. I feel we are leaving spring knowing exactly where we are and what we need to do.

It hasn't felt weird or out of place at all. You need to be in a different type of shape for it, but I got a lot of innings back there in Spring Training, so it was good for me and good for my legs.

It hasn't worked for others. We've got some great arms here and a lot of experience in Miceli. I'm looking forward to the whole battle through spring and to seeing what happens going into the season.

I think it will be a lot different than recent years. Last season, about at the midway point, I could see the lights go on in a lot of players. They understood the defensive schemes we wanted to use. Now, with this spring practice, they aren't going to have to learn anything new.

I think it will be more comfortable for him. I think that's been from Spring Training all the way through. It's been less hectic than last year.

I think it will keep raining well into March. I also think spring is going to be relatively mild and dry.

I think it will take a little bit. But that's what spring training is for.

I still wish we had run the ball better. That surely would have helped us. But we knew that was one of their strengths. (The running game) will probably be the No.1 focus in spring ball.

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

I'm here as an infielder and a ballplayer and wherever they put me in, that's where I'll be. Second base is my spot and that's what I'll compete for in the spring and hopefully there will be enough people who want to see the shortest infield combination in baseball.

It all comes down to what kids decide they want to do. Do they want to make themselves better? Do they want to work at it? I know Luke is the type of kid who always wants to get better. He's going to spend (the spring and summer) working on his game.