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We've done all the research and booked with the best tour operators. We take care of all the details with attention paid to the quality and safety of each excursion so that our guests can spend their day enjoying themselves.

We have a new policy. We're going to report a weekly number instead of a daily number. There are other tour events that don't report attendance figures, such as the Buick Open.

We have always sold out every year. The Banff people do such a great job of selecting films to tour with. They are international and high quality and bring human drama.

We have two new stadiums, we have solid sponsors in Rogers, the National Bank and American Express, and we have good relationships with the ATP Tour and the WTA Tour.

We have this year's tournament and '06 and we are focusing on that, ... And as far as the future it's very difficult to say right now what will happen. The tour isn't talking to any outside groups about the future so it's a difficult position to be in.

We have the advantage that we don't have to go out and tour and raise money because we have jobs.

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Yeah, they'd be on the tour making money and earning a living to put food on the table. On the Division I level, with the players we have and the players we have coming in, we hope to compete not only in the Valley, but also on a national level.

You know, we've all talked about how mostly, more than anything, we just really wanted to have a good time. And I think that, you know, this tour has really turned out to be a lot of fun for us as band members and as friends. You know, we've been friends for forever.

You know, it's really useful on tour to have episodic things going on, especially things that make you laugh. Cartoon's definitely fit the bill.

We got the phone call from a tour representative at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon. They asked if we were still interested.

We haven't played a course close to that. That's tour length.

We all need to recognize that having a tour event at a destination, whether you're trying to sell real estate or trying to combine a resort and a membership situation ... it's a great thing. It's something everybody wants to have.

We are in constant contact with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Pakistan Cricket Board. We have sent our condolences to the people in Pakistan over their loss in earthquake. At this stage the tour goes ahead as scheduled.

We are delighted with the inaugural Amgen Tour of California. We are also pleased with the success of our Breakaway from Cancer initiative, which resulted in a donation of $1.1 million to The Wellness Community to support cancer patients. Amgen looks forward to our continuing sponsorship of this world class cycling event.

Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.

We'll let them know, ask them to please be careful and think about maybe switching. We'll make sure they're aware there's some concern about it among Tour members.

You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.

You don't actually get money if you produce more power. You can zero out your bill. One of the guys on our tour hasn't had an electric bill for two years now.

We are seeing grassroots support at every stop on the Believe in Arkansas Tour this week, and General Beebe is grateful for the financial and personal support he has received from Arkansans all over the state.

The overall thing is we wanted to bring acts that appeal to a college crowd. Dave Attell just got off the 'Insomniac' comedy tour and had a TV special last Sunday, so it's very timely. He's just really funny and a lot of college kids like him.

When the tour first started (at La Costa), it was great value. You couldn't pay an ad agency for the kind of publicity it was generating. But over the years, costs kept going up because of purse structures, and eventually you reach a point of diminishing returns.

When the tour came around it was a chance to take money or stay with the NCAA, but it didn't compare with staying in college.

We play together kind of like a round-robin type of thing. As the tour progresses we tend to learn each other's songs and kind of contribute. It kind of becomes a little group eventually, we try and support each other and feed off each other.

We are happy to participate in any activity that brings people downtown to see how vibrant it's becoming. We will be offering those on the tour a drink and let them tour the upstairs of Rosie's that is rumored to have been a bit of a brothel many moons ago.

We're not going to beat the big boys in the Tour of California, but at least we can nip at their ankles.

We are currently talking with (WTA Tour CEO) Larry (Scott) and Etienne as to, A, should we consider a sponsor for official reviews. Our instinct at this point is we're not going to proceed in that direction initially. There are some sponsorship opportunities I think for both tours as well as the Open, from a statistical standpoint, possibly from a video standpoint. At this point, subject to further discussion, at least at this point, we will not be considering a sponsor for the official review call.

This schedule reflects the continued global expansion of and investment in women's professional tennis. The return of the Tour Championships to Europe in Madrid is particularly exciting for our European fans and players, and will ensure a fantastic finale to the 2006 season.

Wasn't nobody ready for internationalism. I don't think we should have started the tour in America. We should have went straight overseas.

Yeah, but on the U.S Tour we threw a new song into the set almost every night. Ofcourse, you can't do too many new songs every night as they've never heard it.

We're coming back to some of our favorite cities to make sure the fans get a chance to see how this tour has evolved over the course of the last 50 shows. Bruce just keeps stretching the boundaries of his performance night after night, and the result has been some of the very best concerts of his entire career.

We're excited about the opportunity to host the Sally League meetings in Greenville, and look forward to taking the visiting team representatives on a tour of beautiful downtown Greenville and the new West End Stadium site.

Tour operators are worried about taking guests to certain places. They don't want to see, on the right or left, any devastation.

Tour companies and Thai nationals who want to travel to Nepal (should) increase vigilance and closely monitor the political situation.

Today's announcement of Boeing becoming title sponsor of our Seattle event is the perfect complement to the other community components already in place and adds yet another very strong company to the Champions Tour roster of sponsors, ... We're going to have an outstanding inaugural Boeing Greater Seattle Classic and we invite golf and non-golf fans alike to join us at Snoqualmie Ridge.

We'd like to have a good tour in our backyard but our biggest fish to fry this year are the Commonwealth Games.

We were all having so much fun playing off each other. I knew that my next tour in the fall had to have as many dates with David as possible.

We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.

We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know: Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli? It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.

When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

We want this tour to also be completed smoothly as it was in 2004.

Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

There are a lot of people that will look this winter for summer 2007. So they can tour the camps during this summer, when there's not snow on the ground.

We were reasonably happy with the way we started the tour against Scotland and haven't seen the need to make any changes at this stage.

Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity's Reach, we're in Lion's Arch, we're in Ebonhawke, we're in the Dragon's Land, we're in Ascalon. We're basically hitting a lot of the major human and charr locations.

We don't want to be the kind of band that requires a lot of massive, corporate dollars to keep us running and promoted. We're trying to build a fan base and community that listens to us and the best way to do that is to tour - we go out and we play and we play and we play and we meet the people that like us and we try to keep the whole thing organic.

We have been invited to play two Tests and three one-day internationals in Bangladesh and the tour would take place after the World Cup.

We don't believe the women are at the level of the male European Tour player who is taking part in local final qualifying. No woman has made the cut in a men's event, after all. But, if it turns out that women dominate regional qualifying, then we will review the situation.

We wouldn't comment on any application for roles at the ECB. Interviews will be taking place shortly and we would hope to be in a position to make an announcement during England's tour in India.

We wouldn't be discussing the merits of the Tour of California otherwise,

We would have never gotten that if we'd had a tour guide.

We would do a tour into the elementary schools every year, and then we did another kind of program where upper level students were brought into E.J. Thomas for a performance. What the Children's Concert Society did was share the cost with us, so although we were just doing excerpts, we could do it in a full production sense with orchestra and costumes.

This whole tour has been like a family-based thing, ... You can't walk down the hall without saying hi to everybody and talking. It's been our first summer tour, and it's been beautiful.

We rule nothing out and have an open mind on women playing men's tour events, and if sponsors can convince us that it's in the interests of the game by including women, then fine,

We're truly part of the tour now, not just second-class citizens.

We're not on a sightseeing tour here. We have a job to do. We all have something that we want to try to accomplish. That's really what we're going there for. Understanding what the setting is and what the stadium is and all of that, yes, we are all aware of that.

We're not in the tour business. The trip is really an adjunct to the seminar.

This year, things were planned a little different. The Tour route is different, with the mountains coming so late, so we are trying to have everyone reach top shape right at the start of the Tour, maybe even a bit later,

This year since gas is so expensive most of the curriculum series can tour to the schools.

This tour will be not unlike the last production in that the lowest priced tickets will be on the floor. The best seats are the cheapest, and we want people to get excited.

This tour was without doubt the most difficult one of my life.

This tour never has an off day. Somebody shoots 8- or 9-under every day. Somebody will shoot 8- or 9-under Saturday, somebody will shoot it Sunday. I'm just glad I did it today.

This tour is very popular. There's character to these planes that make people feel connected to them and it's a chance to get an up close (look) at history.

This tour is such a joy for all of us. Everybody loves Woody Guthrie. Well, everybody should love Woody Guthrie. Woody deserves to be honored, not just for making great music. Woody should be remembered as perhaps the first singer-songwriter. Sure, there was Jimmie Rodgers, but Woody, for all intents and purposes, was the first guy out there singing songs he had written. And he wrote such great songs, which should never be forgotten.

This tour is power packed with skating stars from start to finish.

This tour is name-driven, always has been and always will be. Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead carried the ball on the early part of the Senior Tour and they made it work. Then we had (Lee) Trevino come on and Jack (Nicklaus) played a little bit. We have to try a little bit harder, because maybe we don't have the names of that type.

This tour is like a choose-your-own adventure book, ... Much of what we do depends on the crowd and crowd participation.

This tour is for all the fans, it's pretty exciting to do something. We're excited that we got to do this band for as long as we have.

This tour gives us a great chance to prepare those in our first team squad who are not involved in the World Cup quarter-finals for the new season.

This tour can only bring the judgment of Almighty God on the United Kingdom.

Without the illness I would never have been forced to re-evaluate my life and my career. I know if I had not had cancer, I would not have won the Tour de France.

To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.

The PGA Tour will wish it had an entrenched June date here rather than a tacky fling with FedEx in Memphis.

The PGA Tour schedule was set for 2002 through 2006. They were obviously aware of when we were playing when the Champions Tour decided to schedule their tournament in Cary.

The PGA Tour is very dedicated to charitable giving. That is the hallmark of the tour. The players' wives, when they are at a tournament, try to get into the community effort somewhere.

The PGA Tour has been telling me I'll get between 20 and 22 or 23 starts, somewhere in there. That and sponsor exemptions, I'll have a full schedule with really no problem.

We love Vermont and we love the support its communities have given us. We wanted to design a tour that covered the state geographically, but more importantly, made stops in some of our favorite towns.

The players and their wives were coming out raving about the place. You can't pay for that kind of advertising. They really wanted to put La Costa on the map and having a PGA Tour event, at the time it was potent stuff. It put them on the map quicker.

What Lance has accomplished is so much bigger than just the Tour de France. That's only part of it.

What Kim has accomplished over the past year to become No. 1 again is truly remarkable. With the incredible depth in today's game, reaching the top of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings is an incredible feat.

We've got these young Americans that are going to keep this tour going for a long time, and they have energy and personality. They're good with people, and they do stuff for the LPGA, and they promote the LPGA, and that's what keeps an organization going and growing.

We've just gotten so lucky. Like Gretchen saying she would help. She's going to do our show on Sunday night. On Monday, she goes to Dallas to open her first national tour as a headliner. That she would do this, donate her time, is incredible.

Without question, La Costa is one of the top 10, or even the top five of the non-major venues. Of the regular tour stops, it's the most recognizable venue of the last 40 years.

Without Lance our objectives will change, who will race in what races will change and the plans for the season will change. But we still have a very strong team without him. If you look at our 2005 season and take out what Lance accomplished, basically his Tour victory, this team had an amazing season. It was a season that any team would sign up for before it started.

With the conclusion of the FedEx Cup competition at The Tour Championship the week September 10-16, we felt that the competitors could use an extra week to rest and be fully prepared for The Presidents Cup.

With something educational and entertaining on offer for adults and kids alike, the Amgen Tour of California Lifestyle Festival presented by Health Net, is a cornerstone of the race. Each day, the festival gives us an opportunity to have a positive and lasting impact on the cities that have opened their roads to this race.

When we tour the songs, they tend to get more and more expansive, and actually evolve over time until they are something quite different.

We welcome Regions to the Champions Tour family of title sponsors. For 14 years, Birmingham has been one of the premier stops on the Champions Tour. With the commitment and support of Regions, the tournament will continue to be one of Alabama's most popular sporting events, not to mention one of its most charitable endeavors.

Unfortunately, due to my category or status I only can play 10 events in America unless, of course I join the US Tour and then I can play whatever I want to play.

Two of my friends who are pros on the tour put me on the pro doubles association calendar and asked if I wanted to have a tournament, so I said yes.

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

We send our condolences to the Pakistani people who have been affected by the earthquake. At this stage there is no indication the tour is in any doubt or the tour schedule affected in any way.

We're thrilled to be going back out on the road together. But we're especially excited to be sharing this tour with our fans in San Antonio, who haven't had the opportunity to see us perform together before.

We're talking to the tour now to find out our options. A lot depends on who has tour membership. But we know the foreign contingent will be a lot bigger.

Yes. Year after year we're going to change the program. I think that once the day comes when he wins the Tour of Italy, he has the potential to also win the Tour de France.

We've had a really good tour and a really good year. We have been going at it gangbusters. I guess I did it a little backwards, but I was really committed to being a mother and a wife, and I think people do kind of respect that my priorities were in the right place. I am still juggling that, and it is hard, but I have a great husband who is just awesome, and that helps.

We've got a bunch of new songs: 'Ashes and Cinders,' 'Queer Pressure,' 'Cut Your Tongue Out,' those were just ones I've written in the past few days. All we need now is some days off to get into a studio, ... We had four days off like a month ago, and normally you'd want to just sit around in a bed and do nothing, 'cause you've been on tour for months, but by the second day we were getting bored, and we went back into the studio and started working on a real Motown-sounding album. We always just sort of go into the studio and press 'record' and see what happens.

Well, how cool is that? You're sitting here with two guys playing in a playoff, one guy has just stoned it. He's nervous. I know he's nervous -- he's never won a Tour event -- and he hits a shot and it hits the pin. The crowd went bananas. I mean, how could you not like that.

We'll have to see what the tour pitches to Chrysler and then we'll see where we stand,