All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to hone their artistry and make the transition from the classroom to the stage.
Alvin Ailey
Related After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awf... ROBERT GOTTLIEB I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL We have dancers of all ages on stage. I think it's good for the younger dancers to see that. GAYNELL SHERROD The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted. PATRICK DUFFY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion. MARTHA GRAHAM Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. MARTHA GRAHAM In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS It is natural that some of the topless dancers that were arrested will make ridiculous claims to def... BILL LUTZ Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... We are in the process here of learning to think movement. Clowns, dancers, mimes think movement. SOURCE UNKNOWN I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-mi... TWYLA THARP I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM These dancers are our heroes. CARLY PROPER Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY The American Indian Exposition has a new twist this year. It's not just American Indians. They have ... KIMBERLY SCHMITZ The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex... ONYI ANYADO It's a fact of life that dancers, like the athletes they are, suffer injuries and must eventually re... DENNIS NAHAT Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Dancers are the athletes of God. ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Dancers are the messengers of the gods. MARTHA GRAHAM To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang... LEON C. MEGGINSON To question reason is to trust it. MITCH STOKES until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST American dancers are the greatest because we can go from style to style. CYNTHIA GREGORY Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? ONYI ANYADO Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been h... DOROTHY PALMER She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST old books -- little tombstones of ideas and history AMY TAN Inside down deep a dancer lives. One way or another the dancer will get loose eventually. BRENT M. JONES Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how ... JUDITH JAMISON Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal ANDREW FAIRCHILD Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere... CARLA KORBES Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained. MITHUN CHAKRABORTY The great risk of living is that we might not survive it. J. ALEKSANDR WOOTTON The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers. BROOKE LANGTON It's important to the students and it helps build relationships between teachers and students outsid... CAITLIN SULLIVAN All my life I've been fascinated by the precipice in all of us. When you come to it, you either choo... KATHY PETRAKIS The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are us... CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be d... ALVIN AILEY Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. ALVIN AILEY Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the da... ALVIN AILEY No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. ALVIN AILEY My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter... ALVIN AILEY I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ALVIN AILEY I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is ... ALVIN AILEY I always want to have more dancers in my company. ALVIN AILEY I always want more. ALVIN AILEY Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancer... ALVIN AILEY They're all talented. They're all special, ALVIN AILEY Born To Be Alive. ALVIN AILEY Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, ... But the ... ALVIN AILEY We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. ALVIN AILEY The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you ... ALVIN AILEY In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. ALVIN AILEY One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffi... ALVIN AILEY There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we lo... ALVIN AILEY Money is a never-ending problem. ALVIN AILEY If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's fa... ALVIN AILEY One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. ALVIN AILEY Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. ALVIN AILEY Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. ALVIN AILEY I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ALVIN AILEY My feelings about myself have been terrible. ALVIN AILEY Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. ALVIN AILEY It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the ... ALVIN AILEY One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new ... ALVIN TOFFLER A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen. ALVIN DARK Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats. ALVIN TOFFLER The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlea... ALVIN TOFFLER To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industria... ALVIN TOFFLER Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life. ALVIN TOFFLER The future arrives too soon and in the wrong order ALVIN TOFFLER One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new defi... ALVIN TOFFLER The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does... ALVIN TOFFLER Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. ALVIN TOFFLER You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people. ALVIN TOFFLER The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about... ALVIN TOFFLER To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish ... ALVIN TOFFLER Most managers were trained to be the thing they most
despise, bureaucrats. ALVIN TOFFLER In describing today ALVIN TOFFLER Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it close... ALVIN TOFFLER In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative ... ALVIN KERNAN Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And, years later te... ALVIN SARGENT I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance. ALVIN BURGER It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution. ALVIN TOFFLER The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. ALVIN TOFFLER Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error ... ALVIN TOFFLER Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. ALVIN TOFFLER Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur. ALVIN TOFFLER Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That'... ALVIN DARK The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the ban... ALVIN LEE Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. ALVIN TOFFLER The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does ... ALVIN TOFFLER A manager doesn't hear the cheers. ALVIN DARK Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change. ALVIN TOFFLER I'll tell what, old Bobbie Williams and Larry Summers did a great job. Bobbie seems to be able to fi... ALVIN WYATT Defensively, we're putting a lot of pressure on people. ALVIN WYATT It's not the problems you have, but how you react to them that counts. ALVIN WYATT We're growing accustomed to him doing the things that he does. ALVIN WYATT He was OK. We just didn't get it done. We [changed quarterbacks] for a change of pace. ALVIN WYATT We have lots of speed. It's tough to run in those conditions. Once the rain started, it was a bad fi... ALVIN WYATT I'm probably the only person loyal to the bone to my alma mater. I don't want to go anywhere. I'm ju... ALVIN WYATT Playing against a former coach has nothing to do with it. We do it the same way whether we're playin... ALVIN WYATT They're showing improvement. They got better. You can see the difference between the Virginia State ... ALVIN WYATT (Russell) did a fantastic job. ALVIN WYATT The officer sees the suspect reach under the passenger seat (and) fearing for his own safety that th... ALVIN WRIGHT The officer draws his weapon and warned the suspect to put his hands up in the air and get down on t... ALVIN WRIGHT The investigation is still ongoing right now. ALVIN WRIGHT She was talking. She was alert but in pain. ALVIN WRIGHT They're a great athletic team. Next time, we'll be ready for them. ALVIN WRIGHT The folks who are here from New Orleans, we know the majority of them are law abiding citizens. We k... ALVIN WRIGHT These are rivalries that have been going on for a number of years. They were doing the same thing in... ALVIN WRIGHT Whatever crap they were doing in New Orleans, they're doing here. ALVIN WRIGHT I'm not sure where we would put all of them. ALVIN WRIGHT There are a lot of people who waited a lot of years to become citizens. These people just walked acr... ALVIN WILLIAMS It's wasn't a great winning atmosphere, but [it was] as far as the team sticking together. And I thi... ALVIN WILLIAMS He's a professional, he's been in tough situations. I'm sure this is just something he'll work throu... ALVIN WILLIAMS There's a lingering perception among African American voters that the Republican Party is not intere... ALVIN WILLIAMS I think it will hurt. ALVIN WILLIAMS I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here... ALVIN WILLIAMS The market did not go very far in either direction due to continuing uncertainty over Chen's final d... ALVIN TENG The market extended yesterday's decline as it took its lead from the overnight losses on Wall Street... ALVIN TENG Simply put, there is no reason to buy shares aggressively at this point. ALVIN TENG For those who monitor market charts, a pull-back to around 6,400-6,500 points, or the 72-day moving ... ALVIN TENG There was not enough enthusiasm about pushing the upside as too many investors were ready to pocket ... ALVIN TENG As in the previous session, there were a handful of star stocks that were not strong enough to ignit... ALVIN TENG Companies with solid fundamentals attracted buying interest but we have to be more careful now. ALVIN TENG Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth. ALVIN SYKES The Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act that is before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives has ... ALVIN SYKES The FBI originally thought he was one of the three. ALVIN SYKES One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civi... ALVIN SYKES At our request, we have asked the federal government to create a unit on unsolved Civil Rights murde... ALVIN SYKES Already around the world, Philadelphia means something different than it did a month ago. You see it... ALVIN SYKES Joyce Chiles made this a real investigation with real consequences. ALVIN SYKES I did not know there were people you could go to for help. ALVIN SYKES If it was good enough for Kennedy, and it was good enough for King, it was good enough for Emmett Ti... ALVIN SYKES Like it was, wow, this woman has spent the equivalent of my lifetime pursuing this one thing. ALVIN SYKES I'm sorry for everything. What happened shouldn't have happened. I wish it would have been me that g... ALVIN STARKS You can laugh, but I will get the last laugh. ALVIN STARKS I want your ... brothers and so on to kill my so-called family and friends. (T)hat's the whole purpo... ALVIN STARKS I don't want to test God's grace thinking if I kill someone that I can ask for forgiveness and still... ALVIN STARKS It's a big, nice venue. Really exciting to play in. I'm just interested in seeing how loud we can ge... ALVIN SMITH If I can notch up like two or three sacks, that would be a whole lot better than fumble recoveries. ALVIN SMITH The chances today are better than they were in the past. I still think there are some barriers we wo... ALVIN SMITH I'll try to hold my hands still so it don't slip off, ALVIN SMITH No, it won't hold a knot, ALVIN SMITH A good knot on a bad rope is no better than a bad knot, ALVIN SMITH That's not a good rope, ALVIN SMITH It's going to be a gritty, nasty, physical game. What wins games for Cal is the running backs and th... ALVIN SMITH It's a big, nice venue. Really exciting to play in. I'm just interested in seeing how loud we can ge... ALVIN SMITH Football is a game that's played with intensity and passion. If your opponent determines how hard yo... ALVIN SMITH I love being around my mom, my brother, my sister and my step-dad. I love to sit outside on those co... ALVIN SIMMONS When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox. ALVIN SIMMONS I love playing baseball man. I am always playing baseball and I definitely want to play in college. ALVIN SIMMONS I am going to Gulf Shores to spend the week with some friends. But I can't go until Tuesday night be... ALVIN SIMMONS You need to keep the attachment to provide the safety. But you also need to slowly, as they're ready... ALVIN ROSENFELD This country really is very culturally diverse. Some may say 'diverse' has become a hackneyed word b... ALVIN ROSENFELD American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its i... ALVIN ROSENFELD We see more stomachaches and kids get all kids of fancy workups to see if they have an ulcer. ALVIN ROSENFELD Kids get burned out. The last thing you want to do is to have someone going into high school who is ... ALVIN ROSENFELD I think that the culture in the United States is to push people until they drop and now we're doing ... ALVIN ROSENFELD They want to spend more time with their parents. ALVIN POUSSAINT Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men create... ALVIN POUSSAINT I think you need to explain what the term means and that it's a mean and derogatory term. And then y... ALVIN POUSSAINT They were afraid if the children were not very obedient they would get in trouble with white people ... ALVIN POUSSAINT I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden un... ALVIN LEE He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and J... ALVIN LEE George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever kno... ALVIN LEE Back in those days we thought we could change the world. ALVIN LEE Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. ALVIN LEE Yeah, we're definitely developing a following. I mean, we had such an impression on the people here,... ALVIN LEE I lost a big part of me. That's what inspired me to take our music outside. ALVIN LEE We want to go more mainstream but stick to what we do, ... Every place we go, the people are recepti... ALVIN LEE We wanted to make something that represented what we were actually doing, ... The first album was OK... ALVIN LEE We're definitely pushing for everyone to do the band full-time, ... But right now, we're just trying... ALVIN LEE He was the man of the match. He understands this game well, and he came out ready to play today. ALVIN JAMES We're just looking at this as another step to the final four. We're talking like this is another sto... ALVIN JAMES Our record is totally misleading. We're a final four team. There is talent in this program. The one ... ALVIN JAMES I just told the referee to cut it right there. We didn't have enough players, and it was going to be... ALVIN JAMES There were some things that led to the dismal record. We had some things happen that we had no contr... ALVIN JAMES Trevor got a beautiful ball from the right side and volleyed it in. We managed to get the ball movin... ALVIN JAMES We started out a little slow, a little sluggish. I think it was because the refs weren't on time. We... ALVIN JAMES We are playing bigger 5A and 6A teams. It's all in preparation for when we play in [postseason]. It'... ALVIN JAMES We've been struggling against the bigger schools, but it will gear us up for the competition we'll f... ALVIN JAMES I actually wanted to be in the locker room on the side we used when I was with the Strikers. However... ALVIN JAMES Our nation does not surrender to blackmail. ALVIN HELLERSTEIN My task is not to defer to our worst fears, but to interpret and apply the law, in this case, the Fr... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN The CIA shall search and review in response to plaintiffs' FOIA requests, ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Indeed, the freedoms we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN The snuffing out of sound is not a permissible exercise under the First Amendment, ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Masks have a tortured history in the United States, creating fear and fear of physical violence on t... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN As President Bush said, we fight to spread freedom so the freedoms of Americans will be made more se... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Indeed, the freedoms we champion are as important to our success in Iraq and Afghanistan as the guns... ALVIN HELLERSTEIN It's tough to throw over Shawn Marion. If you throw it over Shawn Marion, you're probably throwing i... ALVIN GENTRY I don't know if there's another guy that you could say 'Well, he guarded Yao Ming and then the next ... ALVIN GENTRY Dan's high school used to have this shirt that said 'organized chaos,' and that's pretty much what i... ALVIN GENTRY Every night, you can pencil in 20 and 10, and now all of a sudden you can pencil in 25 and 11. That'... ALVIN GENTRY For the most part, you just have to fight through it mentally. Once you do that, you can deal with t... ALVIN GENTRY Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here. ALVIN GENTRY They'd come in and he'd already have a full sweat going. He definitely set a tone going into trainin... ALVIN GENTRY Eddie House missed some shots that he's going to make. I thought he did a good job (running the offe... ALVIN GENTRY What really keeps me inspired is to get messages across. ALVIN FRANCO Everyone you've ever met is actually a part of who you are today. Even your own enemies, the ones wh... ALVIN FRANCO It's really amazing what a single act of kindness can do. Well, it's gotten me to be a lot more soci... ALVIN FRANCO It's basically my own life story as of high school. ALVIN FRANCO I'm always busy filming something -- I document everything I do, I've found out that I can put it to... ALVIN FRANCO It's like a separate body part to me, you can ask anyone in my school, they've never seen me not wit... ALVIN FRANCO The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking. ALVIN DARK There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run. ALVIN DARK [Quotable:] My first year in the big leagues was 1948, and the way we won the pennant, how easy it w... ALVIN DARK A manager doesn't hear the cheers. ALVIN DARK Friendships are forgotten when the game begins. ALVIN DARK There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eight... ALVIN DARK In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that. ALVIN DARK Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's b... ALVIN DARK The expectation in this community is so high, they'd run me out of town if I didn't make it. The atm... ALVIN COPELAND What hurt us the most was missed key rebounds and easy baskets. ALVIN COPELAND It seemed like it stayed on 33 (points) forever. The only thing that helped us was that they didn't ... ALVIN COPELAND I had some concerns with (being too confident) coming in. Sometimes you have to get teams up to play... ALVIN COPELAND It hurt us to lose by one point to Perry. I told the it would come down to that. ALVIN COPELAND The last time they beat us in the Christmas tournament, they said we played tired. We wanted to make... ALVIN COPELAND It used to upset me because I felt like she didn't care one way or another. Now I know that she care... ALVIN COPELAND Any time you hit threes, it puts you right back in the game. I told them to try and not give (Perry)... ALVIN COPELAND Anytime we jump out to a big lead is a major concern. We won, which is most important in the end. Bu... ALVIN COPELAND We've won state championships when we haven't won region. It's not over. ALVIN COPELAND Surely the perpetrator could have just taken the car and left them unharmed? Instead an unborn child... ALVIN BEST For three-and-a-half hours the doctors tried to save baby Jenna, but it was all in vain. Later the h... ALVIN BEST David was then shot in the chest. ALVIN BEST David pleaded with the hijacker, begging him not to harm them. He repeatedly told the gunman 'We do ... ALVIN BEST The best thing is the surroundings. You're in the middle of the forest and you have a river flowing ... ALVIN ANDERSON In winter, places look very different, and it gives a feeling of exploration. It rejuvenates you for... ALVIN ANDERSON I think people area a little intimidated by it sometimes... It's basically hiking -- you're not cold... ALVIN ANDERSON You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ALVIN ANDERSON Avalanche danger is something to consider. That's only an issue when there are steep slopes above yo... ALVIN ANDERSON The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and... ALVIN ANDERSON Going around the city, seeing the signs, with John Tyler and things like that, it showed us the enti... ALVIN ANDERSON When they went to the state, and came back as a state champion, then we were all sisters and brother... ALVIN ANDERSON When they came to John Tyler they were really disappointed that they had to go there and they felt r... ALVIN ANDERSON