Diego Quotations

The bridge to Coronado Island off San Diego was built because the mob had a hotel there and needed a way to get people out there.

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

I used to go to San Diego all the time to hang out. My cousin played for the San Diego Padres, and my brother lives down there. I love going to the zoo and walking around Old Town.

The reason I'm in San Diego is not because I want distance from South Africa but because I want proximity to the people I love. But I don't envy growing up in America. As ugly as aspects of it were, my biggest blessing was to be born a South African.

My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.

In the summer of 2009, in the wake of a crisis in her life, my mother moved from San Diego to San Francisco to live with my 16-year-old daughter and me. My mother was 77. I was 51. Despite a chorus of skepticism from friends - who knew about my upbringing - I was determined to do what I could to help my mother.

I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

Very big established companies create a feeding ground for startups. Very few cities in the world have a critical mass of RF designers. San Diego is one of them.

Ultimately, this is the type of situation where I can play my best football and inspire the people around me. Don't tell me that what the San Diego Chargers did last year -- or what the Rams did in 1999 -- two teams won't do next year. And we could definitely be one of those teams.

With this team we just got up 2-0 (against San Diego in the NL Division Series) and just finished it. No messing around, we came out and scored a bunch of runs early in the first game and got us a lead. Maybe it's just different teams and experience.

We hear about it all season. People always ask me, 'Who do you have next week?' I'll tell them, 'San Diego State' and they'll say, 'You play good in that game ? and make sure you beat Michigan this year.' And, man, we'll still have five games left!

The people of San Diego voted for a strong mayor, ... not a strong city attorney.

This project continues the revitalization of a very important part of the San Diego waterfront and central business district area. The new hotel and the surrounding grounds will provide first-class accommodations to Convention Center guests and to the City of San Diego. We are delighted to have the opportunity to participate.

This program has been very informative and has touched upon seemingly every fundamental aspect of business. I own a minority interest in an arena football team (San Diego Riptide), and I feel I've picked up some new skills that will help me grow that business.

We were created not to be another school of management. San Diego already has schools of management in business. They do a fine job at what they're supposed to do, but it isn't why the industry in San Diego -- and beyond -- wanted us to exist.

We were committed to playing today. We knew we couldn't be hung up on last week's game. We knew San Diego State was going to be a good team and they showed that on the first play.

Make sure that our state doesn't get into the same mess that San Diego got into,

Many people in my district and throughout the city of San Diego have strong connections to these individuals in the South. Many of the residents of the 4th District are from Alabama, Mississippi, New Orleans.

Seven years before we played on the same San Diego City College team and he was a 6-2, 230-pound beast. He was all muscle. I thought he'd gone on to college or something.

So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.

She had a really nice career at Delta and I think she'll do very well at San Diego State. She can do a lot of things.

She does not get to wear those any more. They were taken off her dead body, put into a bag and stored with the San Diego Police Department evidence lab, because of what he did.

Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Griffin previously leased a house in the San Diego area from a San Diego businessman, Michael Michaels. They are no longer living in the house.

One out of four new homes built in Riverside (County) goes to someone working in San Diego County.

No one penalty jumps out. Even looking at Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres fans, they want him to play.

My greatest fear is that this game could be more important to San Diego State than it is to us. That simply can not be the case if we hope to be successful.

Obviously it's a concern to us. We don't want him to molest another victim here in San Diego so we're trying to look for this guy.

Ricky Hatton, Jose Luis Castillo, Diego Corrales and Jesus Chavez, we want to fight these guys. Believe me. In the year Juan has been out, I know he is a lot stronger than he used to be.

Nobody owns a market. There's always competition. The big thing is it's a huge bet on downtown. These are big prices. I think it's validation that downtown San Diego is doing something right.

I was really taking a guess of where he was going to be. It was open, but it wasn't really open. We kind of grew in that sense. The San Diego game epitomized it.

I would pretty much say we played the whole 40 minutes. For the most part it was a solid game for us. Air Force is the top of the league right now, so hopefully we can take this win and give us some confidence on the road at San Diego State and UNLV.

I grew up in San Diego watching Dave Winfield, ... In '95, when I got called up, there he was -- my teammate. That was a pretty big thrill.

I grew up in San Diego in a non-athletic environment. My parents were not interested in sports. Their loves were art, literature and music. I gravitated towards sports because of my older brother Bruce and the first coach I ever had, who, like John Wooden, made it fun and really emphasized the joy of playing the team game.

If they think prices are going to take off again like they did in 2004, they're in for a long wait. That ain't gonna happen. The status of our market is not so dependent on what goes on in Las Vegas this year, but it's dependent on what goes on in California. We've already seen markets over there hit the wall in San Diego and Orange County and other places, too.

I have been working very closely with Brandon and his family and it is with our blessing that he has put his name into the draft. Brandon will be able to take advantage and benefit from the rule and find out where he stands in the eyes of NBA coaches and general managers, while still maintaining the option of returning to San Diego State. We will continue to work closely with Brandon and if he is a first round pick, we will advise him to go. We are extremely proud of what Brandon has done for himself, for the University and San Diego State basketball, both on the court and in the classroom.

I'd like to personally thank the audience in San Diego for your understanding and the respect you displayed last night. I will make it up to you.

I don't know that we wanted Air Force, but I just want to keep playing. I want to keep playing through Saturday so we can celebrate on Sunday. I don't care if we've got to play (first-place and top-seeded) San Diego State. I just want to keep playing as the days go on.

I am happy for Doug. I'm disappointed in a selfish way for myself, but you have to look at the future for Doug, and he's going to get a chance to play every day in San Diego and do some good things for his family.

Certainly, affected employees are encouraged to look for positions here in San Diego and elsewhere where Sony operates.

Businesses which import products into San Diego also are impacted.

Basically, we have to win out. That's the mindset you have to have. You've got to win every game and sweep San Diego for sure.

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

I have all the respect in the world for Rodney Harrison. I told him that when we brought him here, and he's made great contributions to this team. There's no question about it. Unfortunately, he had a tough setback last weekend and so did the team, but that's the way it is. We're playing San Diego this week. Unfortunately, he won't be with us. I wish he was, but he's not.

I hate to think that Trevor Hoffman would not be in a San Diego uniform, ... When you think of Trevor, you think of San Diego.

I happen to like Pittsburgh a lot. I've seen things in San Diego that are very nice. Then you take something at Cleveland and Camden.

From Day 1, I have said that this league is very balanced and anyone can beat anyone. At the time we played them, I thought Air Force was as good a team as there was in the league. Now I think San Diego State . . . has to be the front-runner, and I think they will hold on.

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What we've proposed is the result of many months of work and feedback from hundreds of people in San Diego County.

He's done nothing but positive at San Diego State and helped keep San Diego State alive the last few years (in athletics). We're talking about big money we have raised for San Diego State, and at times when they weren't winning a lot.

Hopefully, this team will start winning and they don't have anybody else to boo and it'll be smooth sailing in San Diego for a while.

There are no words to describe. It beats going to Buffalo last year in December. This year, you can go to San Diego and lay out on the beach. In Arizona, you can sweat it up in the desert.

Well, you know, the team that was picked 32nd last year was San Diego and they made the playoffs and the worst team the year before that was Carolina and we were in the Super Bowl. So maybe it's a stroke of luck.

He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3.

This was a good series for us, ... We could have very easily taken all four. We have two months to go. We know where San Diego is, we know where the Dodgers are. We haven't had a good run yet, this was a good start for us.

Juan Diego is the one to go after ? both girls and boys.

I talked to pros like Shaw Grigsby and Roland Martin after John won that year, and they all agreed that it probably was the first time a guy who fished in his first pro tournament ever won over $100,000 at it. I wasn't surprised John won at Mead, though, because he always fishes well there. We always say it's tougher to fish in San Diego tournaments because you end up fishing the clock, people and in such a small area of fish that we're lucky to get our spots. At Mead, unless someone is following you, you get big parts of the lake to yourself.

I think it shows that the market here is softening a little bit. San Diego was advancing more rapidly than other places and we may be topping out first.

It is a different experience. But a team is a team. You've just got to play hard, no matter what, whether they're from San Diego or elsewhere.

I think the Latino community in San Diego County has been segregated out of the political culture. Even when you have one or two elected officials here, it hasn't made a dent in the overall sense. It is not part of the political culture of this city.

I think when we went to San Diego and he had all of that adversity, it really brought out the best in him. I think now he knows how good he can be, and he is doing a great job throwing the ball down the field and getting everybody involved.

I think it's really more a tribute to what the Naval Academy's all about. We're fortunate here in San Diego that we have some military bases and a lot of people are stationed in the area, and hopefully they're proud of what's going on at the academy.

I think today was a good indication of what our season has been like. This game was up-and-down. I saw San Diego State coming at me with a double team, and I don't think I handled it very well.

It isn't like the Big Ten, where you play each team over and over and see each other on TV every night. You know the teams you are playing. I don't know anything about San Diego State, and they don't know anything about us. It is a fresh start for everyone.

It is our feeling at the foundation that the (agency) has not adequately looked at the I-5 alternatives. Our goal is to present alternatives that could prevent the destruction of the park and solve the transportation issues confronting Orange County and northeastern San Diego County now and in the future.

I was actually born in New York, and spent some of my childhood in Boston. But my family moved to San Diego when I was 12, and I went to high school here.

I went to visit him in the hospital after we lost the San Diego game. He knew that game was going to be tough for Eli because we all did. But then I think he opened everybody's eyes with the way he took us down the field, the way he hung in there all night. And that day in the hospital, Dad smiled and said, 'Hey, we might have something here.' And I realized he was talking about this year.

People actually enjoy it when it rains in San Diego because we never get it. It's a nice change of pace. When you live in Southern California, everybody says, 'It's so expensive there.' I tell them, 'It's just a very expensive weather tax.'

Our chances aren't real good, but we know who we play Saturday. Right now, San Diego is playing probably like they were playing last week when they beat the only undefeated team in football. They might very well be the best team in the AFC right now.

Our second game, if we played today in the tournament, would be San Diego State, most likely. UNLV, then San Diego State. We still feel we are a good enough team to beat that team.

Our goal is to keep the team in San Diego, and that means the San Diego region. If there is an opportunity to explore other options in the county before January 1, 2007, we'll do it. If not, we'll wait until then.

Our fervent hope is they get this done in time for us to carry the Mountain West and San Diego State. (Cox executives) are well aware of the impact of San Diego State and the local market. We know it's important, we want it and we're doing our best to get it done.

Our position is that we want to keep the team in San Diego and we're going to do everything possible to make that happen. We will explore all of our options within the county of San Diego the minute we're (contractually) able to do so.

Our relationship with San Diego County, as we all know, is not really that good,

Our main thing was to come back from San Diego with the same momentum.

My wife is a designer, and we need to move to San Diego pretty soon so we can open up our own design business. We were going to rent an apartment in San Diego, but we really don't want to carry costs in two places.

My wife was working for a biotech company in San Diego when she walked away to become a mom, ... We have two children now and she plans to go back part-time someday. Any investing I do for her right now would be in education, to keep herself updated, ahead of the curve, especially since technology is moving so fast right now.

Like the two juries that have deadlocked in February 2005 and now April 2006, Tenet and the prosecutors disagree over whether anyone at Alvarado Hospital Medical Center intended to break the law when they recruited physicians to the fast-growing eastern part of San Diego County. Because there is no reason to believe any other jury would produce a different result, we earnestly hope that the prosecutors will decide not to re-try this case a third time. It's time for all of us now to devote our full energies to resolving the broader issues.

I was extremely proud of the way we competed today. San Diego State is a very tough team and the scores do not really reflect the way we played.

I think San Diego State is obviously head and shoulders above everybody else with their experience. And after that, I think it is wide open,

I think he's just hoping to get an opportunity. It didn't seem like he ever got a real solid chance in San Diego to show what he can do. I think that's what he's looking forward to most.

I think getting that record would mean a lot for our team because it would show how far we've come. I also think going to San Diego and winning the game would set the tone for this team next year.

That was definitely frustrating, rushing back and trying to help the team any way I can. I look forward to San Diego and facing them, show them what they missed.

I would look at San Diego as a really incredible anomaly. We never thought they were going to do this so quickly.

Wireless is one of the most exciting technology markets, and Austin appears to have a growing role there. After San Diego and Silicon Valley, then Austin has got it.

well, Diego left the division and he didn't fight everybody.

We played a very good team in San Diego this weekend and we knew at some point they were going to make a run after we tamed their bats in the first two games. They jumped out early in the final game but we had an answer and another good comeback in us. Our team is playing very confident right now, they believe in each other and that's great to see.

We're building some houses in La Sierra Heights that will sell for up to $1 million, and some we're working on in Corona will sell for more than $1 million. In those markets, for $1 million, you can get 1.5 acres, a four-car garage and horse property. For that amount in San Diego County you get a small lot.

We're chasing down investigative leads throughout San Diego and Southern California. At the same time, we're working cooperatively with DEA and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and Mexican authorities in Mexico in the Tijuana area. They're also running down leads.

We dug a hole in the first half and fell behind at intermission. San Diego capitalized on it and I thought that last shot at the end of the first half was a big shot for them because it gave them a little momentum going into the locker room.

We played very solid tennis today in doubles and singles. That has given us the opportunity to move one step closer to the final. San Diego is a very good team and we'll have to be at the top of our game again to secure a victory.

We couldn't be more thrilled that Callaway Golf has extended its support of the Junior World Championships. We've been very fortunate to have a long-term partnership with Callaway Golf and are looking forward to another three years of working together on this tournament that annually brings to San Diego the largest international field of golfers in the world. The history and prestige of the tournament has been a true measuring stick for junior golf around the world.

Two years ago, San Diego was garbage. They kept the same coach, did the same things and got it together. The coaches here had nothing to do with dropped balls, missed tackles ... this is the best team I've been on. Everybody just has to get on the same page. All we've got to do is get it right. Ten new coaches aren't going to do anything for anybody.

We are racing on Saturday with San Diego in mind.

We had no business even being in the games with Cal State Fullerton or San Diego State. Our kids just did a great job of competing, fighting and not quitting under tough circumstances.

We are looking at San Diego for our championship in '07, but Phoenix is definitely a site we are considering for '08.

The project would be like a knife slicing through some of the last best natural landscapes in San Diego County. They are some of the most beautiful lands in the county. These are the places that people like to drive through to enjoy sweeping natural vistas.

What I think really needs to be done in San Diego is to regain the confidence of the community, to let them know what I am going to do and then have them hold me responsible for doing it.

We believe that this will satisfy the requirements placed on Diego by the US and European regulatory authorities in respect of these brands.

While most of our job listings are in San Diego County, this grant will allow us to spread our reach and find more employers. We have the worker, but we always need to find more jobs.