He saw us play a few times in fact. I did this song called I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes, and Jimi loved it. He paid me a huge compliment when he told me that he was thinking of doing something similar himself!
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Related When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops... COLIN COOPER That was the first time he told me he loved me and he was proud of me. He wasn't a very emotional ma... LARRY GARZA If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a... IRWIN THOMAS Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ... SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota... FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE I like to find old things and I picked up that arrowhead in tears, that broken point ... LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more... FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ... FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa... HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re... HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin... HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act. HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods. HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ... HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today. HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties. HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university. HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have... HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w... HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined. HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required. HE CHANGCHUI He saw me crying and he was like 'Mommy, why are you crying?' and then he patted my hair and gave me... ISADORA COCCO He called me and said he loved me. I just lost it. DAMON ARCHIBALD It was pretty high, man. It was way up in the sky. My cousin from Midland called me and told me he s... JOE GUTIERREZ We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees. SARAH HINA I had wanted to sing a song with Lee Ann for a while, ... I think she's a great singer, and she alwa... GEORGE STRAIT Coach told me be ready all game. When he called me, I knew all I had to do was find a hole, which I ... BRIAN TONER When he saw this place, he started crying and said this is exactly what he needed. He hasn't painted... ANA CHAPMAN He called me, and he was crying. He was actually in Germany at that time, and I asked him what was w... CRAIG SARNER Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I ... OMARI HARDWICK I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. DAVID CASSIDY When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,' BILLY HUNTER My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he becam... IYANLA VANZANT George told me that three years ago when he was in Cinema for Peace, he was called a traitor in Amer... JAKA BIZILJ When I was 17, I got a call from Konnan. He told me that he was about to start up a new promotion ca... REY MYSTERIO I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ... SHANNON HALE I was not surprised when he told me. And he was smiling when he got that position. CHARLES BUTLER When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQue... JOHN VARVATOS He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn... JANE BIRKIN He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Do... MARK SPITZ I was carrying my friend in his casket to put him in the hearse, and I was thinking, 'I need to ... CHARLIE PUTH He's always doing stuff like that in practice. I knew he was going to get the ball to me. He told me... CURTIS BROWN I give [Tomes] a lot of credit. I called him this morning when he was in class and told him he was g... BRUCE MARSHALL When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the grea... DARLENE LOVE When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ... TERRY BRADSHAW I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain SAMANTHA SCHUTZ The person that made me want to make movies, and the reason I do films, is Bruce Lee. He was an incr... LL COOL J When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that... ROSA PARKS When I was at Florida, I had told him I really liked him. And when he decided to leave Miami, he rem... TOM SLATER Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my c... MAURICE SENDAK I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that ... AUDREY MEADOWS Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me. "See?" he said. "Now you ... CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE I just figured he was busy and he was doing something and that he would call me back. HEIDI TILLBERG Something just told me to put up $2,500. So I put up $2,500 bail for Ibrahim, ... The thing that imp... BRUCE HILL He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw... FRANK MINUCCI Fletcher caught me and said something and there was no need for it. Sometimes when you go to that pl... FRANK LAMPARD Basically, he grew up doing everything for himself, and I think this was all to show us he could do ... HAYDER HASSAN He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the c... SIERRA D. WATERS He (Ruth) called me over a number of times. I'd guess he bought about a dozen hot dogs from me that ... HAL LEBOVITZ I asked him what he was doing, and he told me he got into carbon fiber cellos, PAUL ROSENTHAL What I always said about Al was that he had a rough exterior, but inside he was a big teddy bear. He... MARK BRANGER Rafe made people find something in themselves...(he) made me dream, he saw what I could hope to be, ... RANDALL WALLACE He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents... JOHN WILKERSON I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS I thought he was kidding when he told me he was going to do it. It was surprising. JACQUE JONES I spent some time with him on the putting green and he was working with this aid. He showed me how i... LORIE KANE A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about i... SARAH VOWELL With Tay, I was just trying to get a feel for him. He expressed himself candidly where he thought he... FRAN MCCAFFERY He fills me with horror and I do not hate him. How can I hate him, Raoul? Think of Erik at my feet, ... GASTON LEROUX When I learned that, I knew it was a sign that he was OK and happy and had died doing what he loved. IDA TINGUELY Coach Carey saw me play for the first time at the state tournament and someone told my dad that he s... BRITTANY HOLESTINE Trent was a complete gentleman and waited patiently for me to speak with him. When he did get his ch... DOUG HOWARD You say that your fare told you that he was a detective?" "Yes, he did." "When did he say ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE When he did get out, he talked to me and told me he did want to do right and apparently it didn't ha... GAIL SOUTHERS I think he just took it upon himself that he was going to get the job done, and he did. He carried u... BARI ROGERS For five years I didn't think it was possible to be this happy. But then he forgot all those pr... TERRY MCMILLAN You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that... IRINA BINDER He is a neighbor of the family she is staying with, and when he went online, he saw my notice. He ca... DOROTHY DEMBOSKI Brother Colm is one of the best coaches who's ever been here in Kenya. He's been, of course,... DAVID RUDISHA When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what... DON LARSEN Jewel Harris called and said he was looking for work. I asked around and was told he offered me a pr... AL VELEZ I watched the way he handled himself on all those nationally televised interviews that followed, and... MAGIC JOHNSON I guess it's just having time to play with each other and learning each other, just finding out how ... ALLEN IVERSON I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was j... TIESTO Alvin is a great back and he was the established guy. He and I talked about it and we both agreed I ... DANTE DAVIS He had sexual intercourse with me by force. I don't remember how long it took, but he did not use a ... JOANITA KYAKUWA I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple a... GREG LAKE I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES He told me the story of reconciliation... he told me it was not any concession from anyone. EVO MORALES He did what he does. When he gets going like that, we just get him the ball and let him play. Obviou... BRIAN DUTCHER He told me that they sent threatening messages to him, but he continued to tell me that he was born ... BERNICE SMITH I turned around the corner and saw him starting to scramble. The first time I was coming from behind... ANTWAN PEEK He talked to me and told me that everything was going to be all right. He told me to just keep worki... BOBBY WASHINGTON If he did, I didn't know about it and he would have told me. GEORGE WILSON He was like an important person to me, he like taught me everything. He told me, 'man you're good, j... JOE EVANS I think I know what he is REALLY doing in there... and thinking about ME while doing it." (continuin... STEVEN L. SHEPPARD When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what... DON LARSEN
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The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the ban... ALVIN LEE I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden un... 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 It wasn't very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the ... ALVIN LEE My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them... ALVIN LEE I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't ta... ALVIN LEE I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman ... ALVIN LEE It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, w... ALVIN LEE George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever... ALVIN LEE That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's l... ALVIN LEE We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because th... ALVIN LEE Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I s... ALVIN LEE I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly go... ALVIN LEE I strongly encourage listening to the radio to hear something you haven't heard before. It's... ALVIN LEE I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows o... ALVIN LEE My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I ... ALVIN LEE I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidde... ALVIN LEE Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician ... ALVIN LEE Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be d... 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 Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. ALVIN AILEY 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 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 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 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... 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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 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 They felt like losing the school was losing the community really. ALVIN ANDERSON 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 All of these dancers are dancers who are on the verge of their careers, so to speak. They're here to... ALVIN AILEY