Ed Sprague quote: "He's really pitched very well. His first outing was dominating. He didn't get a decision, but he pitched about as well as you can pitch. The second outing, he didn't have his best stuff, but he was able to battle through it, and that's a maturity level we didn't see from him early in the season last year."

I don't know. I'd rather ask him about hitting. He was one of the best hitters of all time.
ED SPRAGUE

That was our plan with him. He is the one guy in their lineup who you don't want to let beat you. He...
ED SPRAGUE

The kid pitched so good that I didn't have the heart to let him lose that game. Stuff-wise, he was s...
ED SPRAGUE

Bases loaded with nobody out, I liked our chances. We just didn't convert.
ED SPRAGUE

He's definitely on the radar. You lead the fifth-best conference in the country in home runs, you ge...
ED SPRAGUE

It's our contention that, in an effort to stop throwing the ball, it got away from him and hit (the ...
ED SPRAGUE

That's when I thought this kid had a chance to be all right. That's something guys learn as they're ...
ED SPRAGUE

Last year, he worried about a lot of things he couldn't control. This year, he worries about things ...
ED SPRAGUE

Any time you've got a guy who pitched every Friday back to pitch every Friday again, I think that's ...
ED SPRAGUE

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

We are having some anniversary specials right now. It's something to be able to be involved, looking...
BONNIE SPRAGUE

We stayed pretty steady. We were very profitable.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

That gymnasium was packed to capacity.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

It was really hard to convince the Tribal Council to spend $500 on bingo equipment.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun, Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daugh...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cil...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze, We lift our heads, a race of other days.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Everybody is talking about the new 'Star Wars' stuff. They actually have a couple of deluxe costumes...
DOUG SPRAGUE

The companies are seeing that kids want to be the really cool thing they see at the movie. Batman, '...
DOUG SPRAGUE

It used to be that a patient would come in and we would have to track down their paper file. If they...
DEBBIE SPRAGUE

They are responding well to electronic simulation. They're able to multi-task.
DEBBIE SPRAGUE

The only game Godwin Heights lost (to Wyoming Lee in late December) they got beat up inside. So mayb...
GARY SPRAGUE

I think SVPA is ahead of the pack.
BRIAN SPRAGUE

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

The game was close through the first half, but everything just went our way in the third.
GARY SPRAGUE

My assistant coach said coming into the game that if we could hold Laser to 15 points or less, we'd ...
GARY SPRAGUE

They're going to have to wrestle well, but they all could place. Right now, they're in the top 32 in...
MAT SPRAGUE

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm p...
MAT SPRAGUE

It's going to be a stretch, but if the fall on their face here and we wrestle well, we can beat them...
MAT SPRAGUE

The stress is out of the way, we're putting the pedal to the metal for state and district.
MAT SPRAGUE

A lot of teams were using this as a tune-up for state and district, but we were putting pressure on ...
MAT SPRAGUE

We want to promote it as much as we can. This week is for the kids, they work hard and they have a b...
MAT SPRAGUE

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.
MAT SPRAGUE

It was a huge learning experience. It was great practice for a two-day meet in terms of holding thei...
MAT SPRAGUE

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some d...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the count...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

I was just doing bits and pieces of acting in the U.K. I'd been in the film 'Breaking and En...
ED WESTWICK

I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only h...
ED OXENBOULD

Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts o...
ED GREENWOOD

I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a...
ED SHEERAN

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old...
ED KOCH

I've always had really messy hair.
ED SHEERAN

In my eyes, there's no one better than Stevie Wonder. He's a top dude.
ED SHEERAN

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
ED MARKEY

Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the bette...
ED BRADLEY

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
ED SMITH

Most people are motivated by the economy. And if you've lost your job, lost your mortgage, lost ...
ED RENDELL

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
ED TOWNSEND

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
ED SULLIVAN

I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to b...
ED STOPPARD

'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to creat...
ED STOPPARD

In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in...
ED STOPPARD

I am always nervous when I'm auditioning for a part I really want.
ED STOPPARD

The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian...
ED STOPPARD

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and ...
ED STOPPARD

It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of ...
ED STOPPARD

It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
ED STOPPARD

I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
ED STOPPARD

Vatican City is a bit overrated in my opinion - no offence to the Vatican.
ED STOPPARD

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
ED STOPPARD

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.
ED STOPPARD

I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind...
ED STOPPARD

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played ...
ED SPELEERS

I'm a big fan of British cinema; I think we make some unbelievably brilliant films, but they can...
ED SPELEERS

I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi...
ED SPELEERS

Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic s...
ED SPELEERS

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
ED SPELEERS

I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at...
ED SPELEERS

My job isn't about pursuing fame and then becoming an actor. It's about becoming an actor, a...
ED SPELEERS

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t...
ED SPELEERS

I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoug...
ED SPELEERS

I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of Englan...
ED SPELEERS

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.
ED SKREIN

You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
ED SKREIN

However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
ED SKREIN

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and...
ED SKREIN

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi...
ED SHEERAN

Some of my tattoos are a bit silly, but I know where and what time I got them.
ED SHEERAN

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.
ED SHEERAN

The whole 'studly womaniser' thing, I mean, I quite enjoy the title - it's just not very...
ED SHEERAN

I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ...
ED SHEERAN

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereot...
ED SHEERAN

I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin...
ED SHEERAN

I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illeg...
ED SHEERAN

Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially Amer...
ED SHEERAN

I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point...
ED SHEERAN

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of peo...
ED SHEERAN

I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you&#...
ED SHEERAN

I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves ...
ED SHEERAN

Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer...
ED SHEERAN

Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un...
ED ROYCE

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i...
ED ROYCE

The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement...
ED ROYCE

Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou...
ED ROYCE

A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e...
ED ROYCE

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo...
ED ROYCE

I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel...
ED ROYCE

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and...
ED ROYCE

The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.
ED ROYCE

The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th...
ED ROYCE

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.
ED ROYCE

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e...
ED ROYCE

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin...
ED ROYCE

The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T...
ED ROYCE

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ...
ED ROYCE

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will...
ED ROYCE

I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th...
ED ROYCE

History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can...
ED ROYCE

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov...
ED ROLLINS

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi...
ED ROLLINS

I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec...
ED ROLLINS

Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare...
ED ROLLINS

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'...
ED ROLLINS

There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
ED ROLLINS

One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never...
ED ROLLINS

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev...
ED ROLLINS

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our ...
ED PASTOR

Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.
ED PASTOR

I will work to restore fiscal responsibility to our country's budget and to provide for a more r...
ED PASTOR

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to s...
ED PASTOR

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.
ED PASTOR

Health care should be affordable for everyone.
ED PASTOR

Make health care a right, not a privilege.
ED PASTOR

As a former high school teacher, I know that investing in education is one of the most important thi...
ED PASTOR

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.
ED PASTOR

Access to basic quality health care is one of the most important domestic issues facing our nation.
ED PASTOR

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.
ED PARKER

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
ED OXENBOULD

I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
ED OXENBOULD

I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would...
ED OXENBOULD

I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible...
ED OXENBOULD

I love working in America!
ED OXENBOULD

I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a...
ED OXENBOULD

I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,...
ED OXENBOULD

My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just s...
ED OXENBOULD

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.
ED OXENBOULD

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan...
ED OXENBOULD

Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. ...
ED OXENBOULD

My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I do...
ED O'NEILL

I channel surf like probably most people.
ED O'NEILL

I always found that drama, really good drama, has a lot of comedy in it.
ED O'NEILL

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
ED O'NEILL

I prefer to underplay scenes rather than, you know, be big and drive them. And sometimes you have to...
ED O'NEILL

Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
ED O'NEILL

I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And tha...
ED O'NEILL

I was very slender and small. All my friends were on the team, so I had to make it too. I was a very...
ED O'NEILL

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, ...
ED O'NEILL

I knew I was a good stage actor but I had no idea about movies. And I wasn't a Paul Newman type ...
ED O'NEILL

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there...
ED O'NEILL

In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve...
ED O'NEILL

I was in Africa once. I was in Kenya. I got off the plane, and I thought, 'Africa...' Some g...
ED O'NEILL

I say I'm the best actor in America who's never done a movie.
ED O'NEILL

All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe...
ED O'NEILL

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested...
ED O'NEILL

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I&#...
ED O'NEILL

That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w...
ED O'NEILL

When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju...
ED O'NEILL

There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min...
ED O'BRIEN

What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som...
ED O'BRIEN

So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t...
ED O'BRIEN

We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the...
ED O'BRIEN

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
ED O'BRIEN

At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ...
ED O'BRIEN

It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali...
ED O'BRIEN

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
ED O'BRIEN

The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t...
ED O'BRIEN

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w...
ED O'BRIEN

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a...
ED O'BRIEN

I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
ED O'BRIEN

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
ED O'BRIEN

We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
ED O'BRIEN

But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's...
ED O'BRIEN

I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.
ED O'BRIEN

What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s...
ED O'BRIEN

Everyone who's serious about what they're doing must be in constant motion forward.
ED O'BRIEN

There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special t...
ED O'BRIEN

Of the 25 songs we've recorded there were 24 that we wanted to have on an album. That wouldn'...
ED O'BRIEN

We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it...
ED O'BRIEN

Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
ED O'BRIEN

We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
ED O'BRIEN

It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
ED O'BRIEN

All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring ab...
ED MCMAHON

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way dow...
ED MCMAHON

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.
ED MCMAHON

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei...
ED MCMAHON

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.
ED MCMAHON

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t...
ED MCMAHON

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo...
ED MCMAHON

Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be...
ED MCMAHON

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