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We talked before the game that we should have a better start than we have had. Today I think we did that. Tampa played three games in four nights, that was part of it. The most important thing was we were ready to play off the face off.

Henrik Tallinder

Surprisingly, one in Providence, Rhode Island, just shows that big-time congestion can come to small and medium size cities. In addition, Tampa, Florida; San Jose, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; San Diego, California; and Cincinnati, Ohio; are all new to the top ranking this year.

Bill Buff

Tampa is always going to be in the picture, unfortunately.

George Hamlin

We really struggled. The only team that beat them twice in that Super Bowl year was New Orleans. They ran the ball effectively, and that's what you have to do against Tampa.

Rich Gannon

I prepare like I'm playing even when I'm not. When you're sitting on the bench and watching the game ... you look at yourself and say, 'How would I have handled that shot?' The other night in Tampa Bay, I'm watching Louie stop these shots and I'm like, 'I don't think I would have gotten that one, or that one, or that one.

Jamie Mclennan

Banks rely on sales for repayment, so if presales fall through the bank has a problem. You have to ask the question: Is Tampa ready for upscale living at that price?

Owen Lafave

This gives us a second chance to prove that Tampa is a better place, rather than the impression we left. None of the things that happened in the past will happen this time. We'll keep our fingers crossed. But I don't think they will.

Charles Miller

It's the equivalent of being up in an airplane, looking at the city of Tampa, and telling you whether there is a penny there or not. And then once we zoom in, we can tell you what kind of penny it is.

Mark Davidson

The first T-shirt with a rock likeness was put out by an Elvis Presley fan club around 1956, ... It's very rare and had a rendering of the famous Tampa '55 photo on it, colorized.

Howard Kramer

I think it's all something we have to live with because we all need water. I don't know how else to get it. I can't believe how many houses they're building in South Tampa. And not small ones - huge ones.

Sue Lyon

With the new scheduling ... Tampa Bay is a big winner, absolutely. Was there a happy medium? Yes and no. We would have gotten a fall date (had there not been a move to the spring). There would have been PGA Tour golf here. But not at the level it's going to be now.

Gerald Goodman

To date, Tampa has enjoyed a very strong race meeting. The first 48 days of the season have been exceptional in terms quality and growth of live handle both on and off track. As a result, overnight purses paid are up a respectable 6% over the 2004-05 season, and with several key race days ahead of us, I truly believe that another record meet will be completed on May 7, 2006.

Peter Berube

My work ethic now is nowhere near what I had at high school. I owe that to (coach Richard Schmidt ), the University of Tampa and most of all my friends and family for always believing in me.

Mark Borders

I've had the chance to be part of two great teams in Dallas and last year in Tampa Bay, and those are experiences I can take with me to Long Island. I look at the Islanders the way I saw our team in Tampa Bay, as a team on the verge of something great.

Brad Lukowich

I'm not going to build it. It may hurt (the city's chances). On the other side, I remember Tampa Bay had an empty stadium for five years. This town grows too fast to have anything empty for one minute.

Kansas City

We know that the people choosing to buy at BEACHWALK not only appreciate our exceptional location, clubhouse and amenities, they also care about preserving the environmental integrity of the community. By contributing to Tampa Bay Watch we're playing a part in protecting and preserving the fragile nature of the environment that surrounds us.

Adam Schlesinger

I cannot imagine Delta making any changes at Tampa International beyond the few seasonal changes they previously announced for September.

Louis Miller

We're trying to get some assistance because we want to be in Tampa.

Ron Campbell

All I want to do is ask nicely, ... Every time someone gets it wrong, we're losing a marketing opportunity . . . I don't think there's any downside for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Bill Foster

A worst-case evacuation tells us 487,000 people in Hillsborough County alone would have to seek shelter. Out of Pinellas County, 550,000 people. Between the two counties ... we'd put a million people on the road. Those pictures we saw of New Orleans, we're looking at Tampa.

Larry Gispert

Obviously as time goes on you need to expand the search area, in terms of information. Somebody could have driven through this area, not knowing Jennifer was missing a week ago. They could be in Kissimmee. They could be in Tampa. So, we're going to reach out as far as we can go.

Don Wood

The story of Latinos in baseball, to a large degree was started in Tampa. There was some in Key West, but it really began to flourish in Tampa.

Adrian Burgos

The Tampa Bay region's great baseball legacy is deeply rooted in the area's Hispanic community. This partnership is another significant step towards the Devil Rays ongoing efforts to serve all of our fans.

Mark Fernandez

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport still has five major carriers - US Airways, Delta, United, Continental and Northwest - servicing nine major hubs. Passengers can continue to the destinations that Hooters Air served (Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, Tampa and Myrtle Beach) through any of these five carriers.

Barry Centini

I don't regret a minute of my time in Tampa. Any time you do something special like (winning a Stanley Cup), you always want it to continue. Unfortunately, I didn't get the call.

Brad Lukowich

The only way we would even be close [to Tampa Prep] would be to account for the state diving title.

Ron Ream

It's snowing in New York. But it's not snowing in Tampa, Florida.

Michael Kay

What happened here (in Minnesota), it's fine. They moved on, they made decisions that benefited the organization. I respect what they did and what they are going to do. I am just going to win down in Tampa now.

Chris Hovan

We've been doing all kinds of fundraising things, ... We consider [Tampa] our home and by doing this here and the house allow us to give back something to the community. This way I'll be able to spread the generosity all around.

Toby Hall

Over the past 12 months, we have expanded our loan portfolio and anticipate that because of the high growth throughout the Tampa Bay area we should be able to continue at that rate this year.

Brian Peters

We've always felt he would be a better horse around two turns, and he trained better going into the Tampa Bay Derby than he did the Sam Davis.

Tom Albertrani

Obviously, John's a big guy, and it's a great opportunity for him. I don't know much about his tendencies because we don't play Tampa Bay very often. But I do know he's an American, and that means he's a competitor.

Keith Tkachuk

A market like Tampa is an A-level market. We're a B-level market, and we struggle to be there because we keep losing hotel rooms.

Joe Pickett

I'm looking forward to meeting him next week at training camp. It'll be an honor to work with a guy who just won a Stanley Cup [in 2004 with Tampa Bay].

Craig Anderson

Bruce has been telling me he wants to get his right tackle done, but I don't know where this is going to go now with Tom. He'd like to be there in Tampa, but the way it is now we have to continue to explore other options.

Tom Mills

I suspect the Tampa folks will both handle their opponents - not to be some kind of a homer.

John Belohlavek

Honestly this is an important experiment for us. We're going to find out here in these next exciting years whether this can be a hockey town. Frankly, I was very heartened by what's transpired in Tampa, the way that city has embraced hockey.

Bruce Levenson

I think 0-2 is worse than 1-4. It's not like the schedule gets any easier with Tampa coming and at Carolina. You look internally and try to fix the problems. Obviously, we have a lot to fix.

Ryan Longwell

When Tampa Prep and Berkeley Prep get together, it is a spectacle to see. Everyone gets excited, and it's a special thing to be part of.

Mike Flynn

We'll be moving to the top rung on the ladder. We won't be up against football on television. And for Tampa Bay to be showcased the way it will be, it will mean so much to the area and to our charities as well.

Gerald Goodman

I interviewed [Tampa Bay goalie] Sean Burke the morning before a [preseason game] start, something he normally doesn't do.

Tampa Tribune

We are telling the private sector that the city of Tampa and the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority have no more money to put into this.

Ralph Mervine

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa, ... Bald men definitely have an edge.

Christine Lavin

Over the past two decades, Shakespeare in the Park has become one of the Tampa Bay area's most beloved institutions, having attracted more than 20,000 patrons a year. After speaking with our audience, we decided that, after 20 years, it was time to start a new tradition.

Todd Olson

I want to see how we bounce back from this. That will tell what kind of team we really have. When you lose to a division opponent, 38-6, now I want to see how we react when we go to Tampa. That's going to tell the tale of what this team is really about.

Damien Woody

When my husband became a professor at USF in 1966 I remember the campus in Tampa was literally a wasteland. When I go to that campus now and look at what's happening, I can't believe it.

Sarah Pappas

This is the second year in a row where the mayor has taken her State of the City out to the neighborhoods, and New Tampa is [again] the first.

Shannon Edge

We live 200 yards from them now. My daughter's husband got a job in Tampa last summer and we decided to follow them here from Overland Park, Kansas. We're not too fond of the snow and remembered loving the sun down here when I coached in Fort Lauderdale.

Ron Newman

[WHAT THEY'RE SAYING:] The location is extremely convenient to MacDill Air Force Base but yet it's still a very quiet and somewhat secluded location for South Tampa, ... There's not a lot of new developments going in around there.

Jack King

They play that Tampa-2 that's not really Cover-2, where they bring safeties down.

Mike Wahle

I told the girls that Tampa Catholic always comes to play in the postseason no matter what we did against them in the regular season. I wanted to remind them of what happened two years ago. It was the same situation.

Casey Higgins

Seventeen-thousand people and they?re going 2-14, and then they bring the idiot in from Tampa, and he?s taken it from 17 to 10.

Doug Kay

I have never had a lap dance in Tampa or any other part of Florida. If I ever did have a lap dance, I don't think I would be discussing television ideas with the girl that was giving it to me.

Stan Lee

Just about any [cardiovascular] procedure they can do down in Tampa, we can do here. This is so exciting we can hardly breathe.

Jerry Sterner

It's undoubtedly one of the most attractive if not the most spectacular developments in the entire Tampa Bay area. It will certainly upgrade the image of Brooksville and Hernando County as a whole.

Marvin Rose

We've had some success against Tampa Bay running the ball the last two times we played them. We know their scheme, we know what they do. It comes down to us up front, we have to improve on what we're doing.

Mark Tauscher

The center could cross anywhere on the Florida Peninsula, but most models show it crossing between Tampa south to the Keys anytime Monday or Tuesday.

Richard Knabb

We feel confident that the Tampa Bay area and our community can produce a successful Republican convention.

Al Austin

[Brown said he and Cadillac, the No. 5 pick by Tampa Bay, have kept in touch about their parallel experiences. Will they try to outdo each other?] Nahh, ... We're both in a learning situation this year.

Ronnie Brown

The Tampa office has always been extremely helpful in emergencies. It shows that immigration has a friendly face.

John Ovink

Bringing in musicians from around the Tampa Bay area and helping them get to know our town is great.

Amy Ellis

Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].

Jim Armstrong

Since the debut of Tampa Bay Times, readers and advertisers have been enthusiastic with their praise. We're ready now to make it available every weekday.

Paul Tash

Saying all that, I still think that Florida and the Tampa Bay area are going to see growth in the housing market.

David Donaldson

We will do anything in our power to bring this event to the Tampa Bay area.

Paul Catoe

We've been hoping all along that it's March, and this is another good indication that it is March. All we've been told is that we're going to have PGA Tour golf in Tampa Bay and that we should sit tight. But we've not been told anything officially.

Gerald Goodman

I think people are going to be scattered everywhere. Some are moving over to the Ybor City area and others are ... going to be moving to other income-based Tampa Housing Authority properties.

Bruce Williams

I didn't know I was close until Rick Cerone (public relations) told me in Tampa earlier this week. When I got the hit today I wanted to get the ball, but the fan wouldn't help me out.

Jorge Posada

People asked me (in Tampa) if Roxie was done competing because I think they were sick of her winning.

Melissa Nini

I have to give credit to Tampa Bay, they did a great job of hitting the ball. But the bottom line is, our offense overcame my poor start and I'll be able to sleep tonight because of that.

Paul Byrd

We're happy to be in Tampa. We don't have this kind of sunshine in New Jersey.

Corey May

We've never had a problem with him, going back to when (he was in) Tampa.

Jerry Angelo

This makes it so sweet. I remember talking to Derrick Brooks after the first Tampa game, and he said, 'We'll see you guys in the playoffs.' And I don't think he knew how true that was going to be, that we were going to actually see them in the first wild-card game.

Renaldo Wynn

Tampa had a great game plan, but we stuck to ours and in the end our defensive intensity was enough. Our posts played very well today and the guards made the big play when we needed it.

Sandra Rushing

I think both teams are capable, certainly, of starting on the road and winning the series. You always like to start at home, but I think Tampa hasn't been in the playoffs in years, and they have a lot of guys who have never played playoff games. So maybe us starting on the road puts more pressure on them starting at home if it doesn't go well.

Bruce Cassidy

We have the opportunity to create Tampa as the core city in the U.S.A. for the largest sport in the world.

Lee Peterson

These will be the largest container ships to call Tampa by far.

John Thorington

0-2 is worse that last year's 1-4. And it's not like the schedule gets any easier with Tampa Bay coming in [Sunday] and then at Carolina [the following Monday night].

Ryan Longwell

The two major campuses where you can have growth anymore are (the University of Central Florida) in Orlando and USF in Tampa. They both have some land left to expand. We expect the growth at USF to continue as the state grows.

Steve Walsh

Most big cities have (cameras or partitions). They don't have it here. I lived in Tampa, and they didn't have it there, and one guy a year got killed.

Jeff Shelley

You can't ask for a better coach than that. I believe if the whole community of Tampa could show up at his son's funeral, we would.

Gary Thomas

I am disappointed to be leaving Tampa Bay, obviously. We won a Cup together and I really enjoyed my time here. But now I want an opportunity to play in the NHL because I know I can prove myself and be an effective player every day.

Chris Dingman

They also like being half way between Tampa and Orlando.

Bob Adams

She was simply a beautiful person and I'm so happy to honor her this way. I'd love to see others from the Gulf Coast participating and would love take as many people as we can to Tampa.

Kathy Johnston

You have to give credit where credit is due. Tampa Bay has a pretty good defense. We knew they had a good pass rush, but we felt confident we could hold up. But we didn't. We just didn't get it done today. We didn't give Rich enough time to make plays.

Lincoln Kennedy

Tampa has missed the hiss. There's a lot of Rattlers in this community. ... We couldn't be more excited.

Rob Higgins

I flew in this morning and am trying to get home to Tampa now. I got stuck in it this morning, too.

Lee Hoffman

He apparently armed himself and drove down here ... to Tampa, in effect hunting her.

Joe Durkin

They're both beautiful cities, but I think the trouble with Tampa is that driving times are too high.

Thomas Kennedy

Keep in mind, until a few years ago, we had no one who wanted to build anything in Tampa. Up until now, there's never been this level of crisis, this significant growth issue, that affordable housing has become. It's new for our city and our community.

Mark Huey

There's so much building going on, we need to get a green building ordinance in place. It's happening nationally. We need it to happen here in Tampa where we have so much growth.

Liz Taylor

Some teams just have a certain team's number. Look at the Cleveland Indians last year. Tampa Bay couldn't beat anybody. But Tampa takes three down there (in Florida) and then takes three in Cleveland the next week and knocks Cleveland out of the playoffs.

Roy Sommer

Tampa is a good team. They are an experienced, veteran, well-coached basketball team. They're really good.

Tony Longa

What a shame. I want everybody in town to be at Lights On Tampa, but 65,000 people will be at the stadium, and a lot of people will be watching (the game) at home.

Art Keeble

Brandon's not Nashville, where you have people recording on every corner, but there are a lot of opportunities for Christian artists in this area between Orlando and Tampa.

Ben Savage

We are keeping all the teams in Tampa Bay. The area has been a great place for training camp.

Pete Abitante

I've been on teams like Ottawa and Tampa Bay, and when we played the last place team we'd think, all right, this is a good night for every guy to get a goal or whatever. Everyone looks at it that way.

Andre Roy

That was a really bad mistake. I knew what Tampa Catholic was doing. I thought it was a good idea. It's just a tough way for them to lose a game. But I'll take it any way I can get it, especially this time of year.

Tommy Fabian

I wish we had a stronger spring sports program, so I could say we will overtake Tampa Prep, but I don't know. It would take something happening that I am not expecting.

Ron Ream

This transaction provides Wells REIT II with a Class-A building in a desirable location in the Tampa metropolitan area at a price near replacement cost.

David Steinwedell

The port is very much part of Port Tampa.

Jill Buford

We have been trying to worry about ourselves and hope that the other teams will lose some games. But that's not what has happened. [Tampa Bay, Montreal and the New Jersey Devils] have kept winning.

Matt Stajan

Tampa is on everybody's radar screen. It's very competitive right now.

Dale Peterson

Every year that Tampa has hosted the Super Bowl, we've raised the bar on what to do and we need to find out what's new.

Karen Brand

If he's not careful, he's running the risk of actually undermining the thing that made him. Trump Tampa may make sense, but what about Trump Boise? How far does it go?

Paul Parkin

Most of the governments don't want a repeat of the past with the Tampa water wars. However, we do want to receive an equitable allocation.

Jim Freeman

We test the market and do our own surveys and studies. The other thing is the traffic count; if there's a lot of traffic on any particular thoroughfare, we seem to do well because people are familiar with us, especially in the Tampa Bay area.

Deveron Gibbons

The World Boxing Council is deeply concerned about the fight between Roy Jones Jr. and Antonio Tarver, scheduled for October 1 in Tampa, Florida, if Roy refuses to undergo a thorough neurological examination after the knockouts he suffered in his two last bouts.

Jose Sulaiman

TBTF is not an economic development organization. We are the technology department, if you will, of the Tampa Bay Partnership. As they are talking to companies about locating here or recruiting companies to come here and they're technology companies, they will engage us and we will meet with those people and share our knowledge with them.

George Gordon

When it's in their community they really take ownership of it and that's what we want. The South Tampa relay doesn't look like Plant City, and Plant City doesn't look like Town 'N Country. Each community makes it its own.

Heather Winberry

There are four main areas of concern where manatees tend to live. The northeast or upper St. Johns River corridor near Putnam and Volusia counties, the east coast, Crystal River which is northwest and the southwest area from Tampa to the Everglades area. Two of those areas, the two small ones, Crystal River and the upper St. Johns River, are doing well in those regions.

Patti Thompson

We are most interested in providing wholesome family entertainment in New Tampa.

Michael Morris

I know in our sport, ... you can win a Stanley Cup by doing what we're doing. Tampa Bay just did it.

Doug Wilson

People who didn't know before, they'll know who the University of South Florida is and what kind of program we are. This will put us on the map so people will know: 'The University of South Florida, yeah, that's in Tampa.' Not the southern part of the state.

Nalini Miller

It was against Tampa. I threw a pitch and felt something that wasn't right. [The] next morning I woke up and I couldn't move my elbow.

Logan Kensing

This new rescue car and crew will provide enhanced emergency medical service and augment the overall response capabilities to the residents of New Tampa.

Dennis Jones

This game is not special to me, ... I don't give a [expletive] about Tampa.

Tampa Tribune

When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped.

Lindy Ruff

We might be back. Tampa was certainly wonderful to us, so you never know. The good thing is they won't get burned out. If it's here every year, they won't think it's as special as it is.

Daisy Okas

The combination of combining business trips with leisure so that business people can come and they can bring their families and if room rates are low and affordable then that what's makes Tampa-St. Pete a place to come and the reason it showed up on this survey.

Alexis Muellner

We like to have a variety of aircraft serving different types of markets. Continental Connection affiliates increase the number of passengers connecting to mainline Continental service at airports like Tampa.

David Messing

We are very excited to be part of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays family. Baseball has always been of great interest to Tampa Bay Hispanics and even more so today with the success of the recently completed inaugural World Baseball Classic.

Jeff Stein

Things that St. Pete does very well we can learn from and maybe adapt for downtown Tampa. [But] I don't ever imagine Tampa's downtown to be in competition with St. Pete's. We work more to complement each other.

Christine Burdick

Your good defenses are the ones that tackle well. Baltimore, New England ... you don't see them missing too many tackles. Tampa Bay used to be that way but no more.

Carl Banks

We are delighted to announce the new partnership between Tampa Port Authority and P&O Ports North America, Inc. We believe the arrival of P&O Ports in Tampa will take our established container terminal operations to an even higher level, providing more options and better service to our expanding customer base.

Richard Wainio

It's a great story. To all of a sudden go from having nothing to having thousands of employees in proximity to the area's retail, commercial and residential markets will make a remarkable impact on New Tampa.

Mark Huey

I already postponed a trip over to Tampa to see some friends and I don't think I can get away with doing that again. But I sure would like to stick around here and see some of those great Yankees. This has been great. I hope they do it again next spring.

Michael Volpe

This is just one more piece in the New Tampa transportation puzzle. This coupled with the road improvements scheduled in the coming year should be a step in the right direction.

Shawn Harrison