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Our role is to ensure the good governance of the game and we don't want clubs falling off the edge of a cliff,

Our goal is to send the pitchers back to their respective clubs after the competition in better shape than they would have been under a normal spring schedule. And the last thing we want to have happen is to get someone hurt.

Our clubs could be so much bigger, but there's nowhere for our kids to play.

Our club members will be wearing their T-shirts, and children in grades three through seven will help out as ushers. Our 4- and 5-year-olds will be singing and two of the junior high girls will read Scripture. Additionally, a leader will share with the congregation what the clubs have been doing in the past year.

Our clients want it. It will outweigh the negatives. A lot of clubs fail to market their club.

Riordan is the only one who they might try and move on if they get a decent offer. Caldwell possibly going to Celtic is the other one, but I think that is likelier to happen at the end of the season. They're all playing regular, top-team football so there's no great need for them to leave. One or two of the bigger clubs might let their players go on loan to smaller clubs and Kilmarnock might be on the lookout for a striker now that Boyd's gone.

Rodney King, if you remember, is a man in a supine, fetal position -- not resisting -- who (was hit) 56 times with billy clubs. There are no billy clubs in this video. This is the culmination of a chase where a guy is clearly resisting,

Players with other clubs don't take us lightly. The Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals, if we're fortunate to get there, I don't think they're going to take us lightly.

Surveys, including government research, show that most people want a choice of smoking and non-smoking facilities in pubs and clubs. Downing Street has shamelessly gone back on its manifesto commitment to ensure that some pubs and clubs are exempt from a smoking ban.

Some of these clubs have money. I can't confirm this rumor, but we understand two of them are flying in.

My record shows that I'm not the kind of player who wants to change clubs every season, and I would have no problem playing in England for many more years.

I won't say where they are going to start. But he is the type of guy we are looking for to hopefully place in between two left-handers that have somewhat similar stuff and not give opposing clubs an opportunity to see the same type of stuff on consecutive days.

I won the first tournament this year, came in second in the next, and I don't have any of the 14 clubs I used in those tournaments. There's always something better. Always. I come here every day and, honestly, it's like Christmas. Like, what new thing can I have?

It doesn't surprise me. A few clubs have looked at him. He's six foot four and he's top drawer. But we've offered him a professional contract and we want to keep him here.

I think if he went on the open market there would be plenty of other clubs besides the Gold Coast who would look at him.

I stumbled on this little scene. And little by little, that scene took over my life, ... You could make a living being a blues musician. There were a lot of clubs where you could play this type of music every night. And a lot of roots rock clubs, and bands like the Holmes Brothers, Chris Whitley and Blues Traveler playing opposite sides of the street corner. And a lot of camaraderie. Nobody was thinking of record deals, so there wasn't any feeling of competition.

I think health clubs today need to sell people the concept that what they experience in taking exercise and becoming healthier will help them go outside and make a better world.

It definitely played a lot more difficult today. You had holes where you were hitting two to three clubs more on the par-3s or two to three clubs less on the downwind holes and it was really hard to judge the wind because it was real gusty.

It is easy for other clubs to talk about their money. The manager has them organized and disciplined. They prepare and they work hard.

It is easy for clubs to say they are community oriented. We are actually putting the principle into practice.

We now have the ability for our clubs to be stable. Across our market, fans need to have hope in the beginning of the season. They want to know their club has a chance. That system is now in place.

I have not been short of invitations to other clubs and have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool.

I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.

At some clubs success is accidental. At Arsenal it is compulsory.

When you represent a club it's about values and qualities, not about passports.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

The Abbey up on 21st Street used to be at the far northern limit of South Beach action, but over the last two years the nightlife scene has expanded heavily into that area -- now known as the 'Cultural Arts District' -- and the Abbey finds itself right in the center of some of the hottest clubs in town such as Mynt, Rok Bar, SkyBar Miami Beach, and a new venue named Mokai which promises to be a South Beach trend-setter for the coming season,

That would be like having Duke and North Carolina here in college basketball in the same week. We're proud of the fact that those clubs will come over here and play us, and it says we're going in the right direction.

That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do believe the commissioner should look into these kind of clauses. We work so hard on trying to gain labor peace and a new collective bargaining agreement and then we as clubs allow agents to get cute and circumvent it. On the playing field there are rules and there are unwritten rules about how the game should be played in the spirit and the fairness of it all. It doesn't make sense to me that we had to lose such a fine football player this way. I was surprised by the ruling.

That's what is coming and I've always said this. Guys are going to get bigger, stronger, be more athletic. ... Even if you don't do anything with the golf ball or the clubs and keep everything where it's at, guys are still going to get longer. Guys are going to get bigger, stronger and more athletic over the next generations.

We need to put the system in place that they can play cricket on Saturdays. I think they should be representing clubs and not the schools on the weekend.

We have PEO and bridge clubs who meet here a lot. Several businesses have their holiday or annual meetings here. Caterers come in for special events and use our kitchen facility. We also have groups from town decorate each room at Christmas and we're featured in Wakefield's Tour of Homes at that time.

We have one or two niggles and I want to see how things are tomorrow. This is a big game between two clubs at the top and looking for promotion. They are full time and we, like all the other clubs who are part-time in this league, want to have a crack at them.

You can have a network of 20 or 30 clubs across different continents, all of which have a corrupt element. It sounds a bit like science fiction. It would involve agents, owners, sponsors. ... They would not just rig the results of one or two games, but 15 matches or a series of results.

Wellington Mara was a true pioneer who understood what it took to make the National Football League great. History will show that his vision, integrity and willingness to share with small-market clubs paved the way for economic success.

We put our grass roots campaign into orbit and had our clubs write letters to our legislators, a tremendous amount of support from our legislators.

We're desperate for people. It asks for commitment because the clubs are held twice a week but we need to have two people there at all times.

We empower our associates to determine the best ways for our stores, SAM's Clubs and distribution centers to be involved locally.

We played them last year, so we had them on the schedule again, so these are some good ball clubs that we're playing. For us to get a win over Jacksonville and South Carolina State, those are big wins for us. What we need to do is go win on the road.

We'll wait until we hear for certain what their intentions are before we decide what the consequences will be. But I think it's safe to assume that, at a minimum, NHL clubs will no longer be willing to release players from contractual obligations to participate in the annual world championships.

When you're talking about a team, it's not always what role you're best suited for, it's what's going to help the club. Clubs need flexibility.

We had indications he had interest from the three clubs, they were the three clubs he was interested in so we gave him permission to talk to them.

We have Akpo Sodge back so that gives me options, but I have a difficult situation in regards bringing in a player on loan as top clubs want the players to play and we cannot guarantee anyone will play in our team, so that causes a potential problem.

We have a group of high-revenue clubs and they're making a lot of money off this system. It's also held down their payroll. If you're not sharing your fair share with the players, I have a problem with it.

We have always said we will protect this from the plight of horrendous situations at other clubs who have gone into administration because they borrowed money and built up debts. They wake up one morning and the bank manager says 'I want my money back' and you go out of business or into administration. We would never allow that to happen at Birmingham.

We could have avoided all these problems. The clubs are paying the price for this. The intensification of the goalkeeper issue has become a huge problem. The hunt for the job has caused a lot of problems.

We can't have a situation where clubs can take a gamble breaking the rules, knowing that all they need to do is write a check to pay a fine at the end of the season. There has to be a stronger disincentive.

We know that so many other clubs would love to lure him from us so we are really pleased he has agreed a new deal.

We have two objectives for the 500 -- the first is to have a good solid run. And the second is to put the Ginn Clubs & Resorts car in position to win the race during the closing laps.

We just didn't do the job, offensively or defensively. They are a good club, but they certainly aren't 10-0 better than us. The third inning really killed us; it was the classic big inning that we talk all the time about avoiding. When you play good clubs like this, you just can't do that. It just took us out of the game, and then we didn't take any advantage of any of the opportunities that we had after that.

We came out fired up. Then we got a little bit tired. We started making tired mistakes to let them back in it. They are a very solid ball club. They took advantage of our little mistakes. That's what good ball clubs do.

We have thousands of clubs desperate for cash. We want to put more into them...we can't do that in an environment where our income is going down by 40%.

We have thousands of clubs desperate for cash. We want to put more into them... we can't do that in an environment where our income is going down by 40%,

Typically you're talking about multiple days, maybe even multiple weeks. Then again, there may be some deal that both clubs know is right for them, and you do it in a very short period of time.

Typically private clubs around the country are struggling a bit, and we just wanted to be progressive about it. With all the growth Downtown and the new condos, we just want to make sure they've heard about us.

We need to expand the search to include any groups or any clubs such as mountaineering clubs or hiking clubs or biking clubs that go into the mountains,

We didn't encourage clubs to get overly aggressive, because we knew what he meant to our club in the midst of a pennant race. Ryan's an extremely talented player and is going to be an outstanding every day player in the big leagues. Despite the fact that a lot of people thought we should have been more aggressive in sending him away, we're happy we didn't.

We made him a substantial offer. He was a Kiwi player we really wanted. I was a bit worried he was over-valued because of the leagues he's played in. Now he's gone to one of the most unstable clubs in the A-League.

Those comments didn't surprise me one little bit - some clubs have different agendas,

We are doing a good job in England, but we cannot be complacent and need to send a clear message to all clubs and national associations across the game.

We know that Andrew is a competitor and deserves to be playing somewhere, and frankly it just didn't appear he would get into many games for us down the stretch. Minnesota was looking to add a player like Andrew to their roster so the deal made sense for both the clubs and the individual.

We did some promotion work in small European clubs last summer and really enjoyed it. It gives people the chance to see you up close. We see all venues as a different challenge and we have songs that can work in all environments, even if we have to change the arrangements.

We are grateful to both clubs for the support shown for our campaign and we can't thank enough Sheffield Wednesday and their supporters, players and officials.

Tommy Burns pulled me aside a few days before and told me there was a chance. I didn't want to think too much of it in case it didn't happen but thankfully it did. You always hope if you are doing well for one of the bigger clubs you will come into contention but this season there have been a lot of players doing well outside of the Old Firm.

There are a select few clubs that do a good job of preparing youngsters. It's fairly specialized, fairly small numbers. Maybe somewhere around 100 total.

Track clubs are a coming phenomenon. There is one in Chicago that is sold out. They are building one in Salt Lake City. There is no reason why New York shouldn't have one.

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

Could Hamlet have been written bya committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club? Could the NewTestament have been composed as a conference report?

I always said to the directors that the minute a player becomes more powerful than the manager of Manchester United, it's not Manchester United. You have lost control of the whole club. So I always made sure that I was in control. They always knew who the manager was.

The only reason I got into stand-up was because my brother told me to. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life. I was 17 and my brother went to a comedy club and he said - you can do that.

The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf - is of St. Andrew himself bearing the slatier cross on which, once he was captured at Patras, he was to be stretched before he was crucified.Only the Scots would have thought of celebrating a national game with the figure of a tortured saint.

The experience of seeing top blues artists at a very low price, cheaper than some cover charges to other local blues clubs is great. Many of these acts play in other cities for $20 per ticket.

The eyes healed in a matter of a few days, as eyes heal quickly, mine just heal faster than anybody else. I was back in the strip club hours later rehabbing my eyes.

Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.

Room service is great if you want to pay $500 for a club sandwich.

Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

Every golfer has at least 14 enemies: his clubs.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

I do love live performing, but I'm not a stand-up naturally, and I don't like the lifestyle of working just in the evenings at clubs.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Going out on the road as a 14- or 15-year old and playing clubs with 20-year old guys was just not acceptable.

I'm not going into the cool club. It's not my address.

I never knew that people made a club for me!

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

If you're 1 of the 3 girls in pics with a greaseball whose arms are around you at a club you lose at life. If you're the greaseball you win.

Strip clubs are great places to meet interesting people you only wanna know for about 40 minutes.

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

We're just barely on the outside looking in. It's a little bit of pressure, but I'm certain our Ginn Clubs & Resorts Chevy will be top-notch. Not only am I confident we'll make this weekend's race, I'm optimistic we can bring home a great finish.

The really big clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool will always be challenging year in year out,

We once again thank the most passionate fans in sports for their tremendous support this year and every year. Our clubs and players are very appreciative of the large and enthusiastic crowds at NFL games.

We have beaten off a lot of competition from other clubs to secure Martin's signature.