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.

Jon Landau

Eighty percent of the ladies from our database have attended our tour socials and met with our Russian-American staff. We have not received these ladies' photos through the mail. The ladies have actually brought us their photos. We've seen these ladies in person, and we were able to verify that all of them are single, available and seriously interested in finding a partner.

Dan Sykes

We've said the Pro Tour didn't suit us from the moment it was launched.

Patrice Clerc

There were subtle pressures, and we didn't really realize where they were coming from, and we had just come back from a tour, a crazy tour, and we were still wet behind the ears and had no idea really what a second album meant.

Nikolai Fraiture

It's a great concept. I saw this house in the fall on a night tour and it's just amazing to see it now, just a few months later.

Larry Ammons

I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.

Billie Jean King

We had a fairly hectic touring schedule for a while. After we came back from our tour of Europe, we had some time to just relax.

Jacob Bannon

I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

Michelle Kwan

No. Don't be ridiculous. The tour starts in a few days. He needs as much practice as he can get before then. He has to be the best.

Christopher Navin

This is not as intense as the regular tour was.

Tom Kite

It's difficult. You're up there on the PGA Tour and then you get back on the Nationwide where you haven't played. It certainly humbles you quite a bit.

Gabriel Hjertstedt

I think they have psyched themselves out. They are talking about something that we can't control. They are expecting perfect conditions every day they are out on the tour, and they are not going to get that.

Michael Milthorpe

We're definitely excited to be playing the Jager tour. It's a huge deal for serious hard rock fans and we're looking forward to giving them a show to remember.

Aaron Lewis

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.

Courtney Kupets

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

Thomas Boswell

In the old days, I used to tour nine months of the year. With travel being so difficult these days, I've become very selective about where we go and how often we play.

Chuck Mangione

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

Frank Deford

Des Moines is part of the development story of this play. It was the first place it went on tour, it's a cornerstone of this (Midwestern) tour, and I'm very confident it's going to play all 50 states.

Spike Manton

I've taken the tour, sampled the fare, looked at the extraordinary video board ? this is one exciting building. You cannot miss the video board, it is simply the best in the league.

David Stern

The Spankers continue to tour the United States, Europe and Japan and they are now a 'world-renowned underground institution and one of the planet's most distinctive musical acts. And, we get to see them perform in tiny, old historic Carbondale.

Steve Standiford

We are extremely excited to welcome such phenomenal athletes and PGA champions to the 2005 Bell Canadian Open. We are expecting a true international showcase with many of the top players competing on Tour today and we are thrilled they will be joining us in Vancouver as we celebrate the return of Canada's national open championship to the west coast.

Bill Paul

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.

Adam Carroll

We've been touring over two years now and tour about eight months out of the year. After we hit Brookings, we're going back to Texas to restock and rest for a little.

Charles Woods

We're touring nine to 14 weeks a year and are starting to fill theaters that hold up to 2,000 people. So we are actually paying bills with this - not all our bills, you know, but at least the essential ones. We're not entirely in the dark.

Jonah Rapino

We should surpass 50,000 next week. Our intent wasn't to go out as a headliner right yet, but that is how it worked out, and so far, this tour is going great.

Devin Shelton

The level of competition coming to the inaugural Tour is unprecedented in the United State and rivals any race that was held worldwide last year.

Bob Colarossi

I think it's pretty good. You know, I was trying to get to No. 1 last year. I just didn't play well at The Tour Championship.

Jeff Gove

We had traces of our music that could be liked by the punk scene or the hardcore scene, ... But that was what people did with us; they said they could put us out on tour with anybody because 'nobody really knows what you guys are. You got some of this, you got some of that, it will probably work, let's see what happens.'

Claudio Sanchez

Conditions were very difficult. I heard Bob Estes talking about it. He said 'It was British Open conditions with a PGA Tour setup.' I thought that was kind of true. It's only Thursday, I just wanted to shoot somewhere in red numbers today.

Ryuji Imada

During the month before the home tour, we spread out about 100 quilts and do a quilt grab. Each house's representative gets to pick which quilts will look nicest in the homes. It's becomes a real free-for-all.

Lynn Crawford

The surgery I had on the elbow was to clean up some scar tissue, and it's the same elbow problem that essentially ended my career on the regular tour.

Doug Tewell

When any of the pros are on tour, and they're traveling through Texas, they're going to stop by because of my contacts.

Mike Crum

Jason is just playing great, ... He has the force on his side right now. It is good to get him off this tour and on the PGA Tour where he belongs.

Roger Tambellini

Over the last few years, we've worked to identify the character and spirit of our brand, and we believe The Legends Tour represents a true reflection of our tour and its players. We're the pioneers of women's golf, and this is our tour.

Jane Blalock

With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.

Jamie Thompson

It's our location. It's a lot easier for them to take a tour bus and go to a comparable venue on the mainland than to pack up and come here. But our population supports the shows pretty well, I think.

Tom Moffatt

I remember I asked Margaret, 'Well, is there anything I specifically do? Should I give Byron a tour of the course?'

Peter Butler

It's great after a year away from the Swedish Match Tour to come back and be in the hunt.

Peter Gilmour

My plan for the rest of the (World Cup) tour is to get some good scores, laying down good runs and we'll see what happens. There's a little frustration, but you just gotta take what you get.

Toby Dawson

Oh, just a bit more trust and belief and relaxation out here on TOUR. It's like there's obviously issues going on with myself, being a good player but never really getting it done.

John Senden

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.

Shawn Hunter

My first two years on the Nationwide Tour I had a few opportunities to win. For some reason I didn't end up winning them. Just knowing that I could win and not coming through got me a little frustrated. Then I just decided to relax a little bit and not get so down on myself on Thursday or Friday, not try to win a golf tournament on the first two days of the tournament.

Tom Carter

Next year's concerts around the UK and Ireland will be the first arena tour I've done for years and it's fantastic to think I'll be playing in all to hundreds of thousands of people.

Sir Cliff Richard

Airbus completed a successful landing from Toulouse to Singapore, the first stop of its Asian tour.

Tony Phillips

We're making a concerted effort to show Ottawa's diversity to leisure travelers, meeting planners, tour operators and the travel media in our largest market, Toronto. By partnering with an existing event that draws 100,000 people over the course of five days, we can maximize our visibility.

Jacques Burelle

I am disappointed that Tendulkar wouldn't be seen on this tour, but it is important that he recovers completely and is fit for India's future engagements.

Greg Chappell

We all at the time thought it was a small Cessna something that was doing a tour.

Sean Maher

You'll never get that on a regular tour. We go to the small places the mass hordes don't go, and we use personal guides and small groups so you are able to ask questions and really listen to the guide.

Marguerite Dalianes

I like being on tour because you get to meet new people, you're constantly in a different place and constantly moving around. I just want people to hear the music. We're going to tour, tour, tour. That's the best way to get out music out there. I want to be home three days in 2006.

Pat D'andrea

Billy in New York is always special. He played nine Nassau (Long Island) Coliseum shows in 1998. We've done two Yankee Stadiums and two Giant Stadiums on the same tour.

Dennis Arfa

It took a little time to arrive at a theme, but when 'World Tour' was proposed, everyone agreed.

Andrea Afkhami

It's good to get him off this tour and onto the tour he should be on.

Roger Tambellini

Everyone in the team knows they are eligible for the 2008 Junior World Series age wise ... if they put their hand up on this tour their chances of selection will obviously increase.

Mark Carter

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round.

Andrew Magee

Of course. It's going to be a bit tough but I've just got to concentrate on my game. We don't actually play each other very much, I think we've only met once or twice on the tour. Of course, you go for the gold but as long as I play well I'll be happy.

Natalie Grinham

Stalingrad [one stop on our hands-on tour through five famous battles] was brutal. Lines blurred, and you'd have situations where it went house by house or building by building—the first two floors are German occupied, and the next two are Russian occupied…real chaotic.

Grant Collier

It's just like taking a miniature tour of the department, it is also very convenient and gives visitors a chance to see what we do.

Tom Turpin

It was nice and laid-back. It seems kind of touristy, but at the same time not obnoxiously so. The tour guide gave us a good explanation of all the sights.

Aleksandra Dubov

Each season on the European Tour brings a keen sense of expectation and anticipation of the challenges which lie ahead and that is never more the case when the year features a new and exciting destination.

George O'grady

There was a concern at one moment. There was that small matter of a marriage in the middle of the recording process. We were still doing the tour, filming the special. There was a lot going on. He wasn't able to write the way he wanted to write until the end of that record. We were all kind of jumping.

Joe Galante

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Susannah Fox

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.

Kym Hougham

They're two of my buddies from touring Asia.

Libby Smith

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.

Mike Crosthwaite

It is a bit of a concern but the rules (on tour membership) are not onerous if you are in the world's top 50.

George O'grady

He is a long term investment and deserves to be retained for a second tour.

John Bracewell

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.

George O'grady

In routing the tour, there was a spot for Virginia and the Carolinas. I was asked for my opinion, and rather than seeing it go to Carolina or Clemson, I suggested UVA.

Tres Thomas

We have to be really careful about letting too much information out. Ten years ago you could have gone on the Ben & Jerry's tour, spent two bucks, and seen what we were working on in the lab.

Arnold Carbone

He's thrilled that it's doing well and I think that definitely makes him excited about the whole touring thing. But at the same time, it's just such a great buzz being on stage, and having those great vibes come back at you. It's just all positive.

Rusty Anderson

My chances of racing in this year's Tour de France are slim to none. That's what got me out of bed every morning.

Tyler Hamilton

I could think of three or four fishermen who would do really well in the pro tour. Some of these people are definitely better than me.

Josh Mabee

We're racing the clock. If we're not in a significantly better place in three weeks, I think we're going to have to tell people we're off the tour in 2003.

Roger Gelfenbien

I'm trying to keep Couch on this tour, ... I played pretty good. I hit the ball pretty good today. I was a little disappointed with the three- putt par on 18.

Charley Hoffman

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.

Mark Steele

We love doing these kinds of big package tours, because it gives you the chance to play in front of a lot of people who might not normally hear your music. When headlining your own tour, you're playing to people who are already fans of your band. On a huge tour like this, you're reaching a huge new audience every night.

Teppei Ternishi

The reason I play studies is to brush up my technique and style after a tour.

James Galway

If I tell the truth, it wasn't even in the back of my mind. I wanted to put together a solid round, make a nice check and get some momentum for when the Tour came back to the States.

Jim Rutledge

Darren asked the selectors not to consider him for the tour of Pakistan for personal reasons and we respected his wishes. With Liam Plunkett and James Anderson performing well in Pakistan and Simon Jones now available for selection again, the selectors feel the priority is for these players to gain as much experience of one-day cricket as possible ahead of the World Cup.

David Graveney

It just shows that you don't have to be a world beater on this tour. You just have to play solid in the fall and get your status.

Darren Griff

We had folks from the federal government, local government, as well as various state agencies come by and take a tour of it.

Michael O'connell

The most important thing I will be doing this year, other than the listening tour, is to begin strategic planning. In effect, I am asking each school, typically working with alumni, students and administrators, to focus hard on where we are going. Not just where we want to be a year from now, but what are the real stretch goals?

Joel Seligman

We're calling it our farewell tour. So we're trying to get it right and enjoying it. We've played for a long time, and it's our chance to shine.

Mary Czarnecki

Whatever the Tour fines me, it'll be worth it.

Gary Mccord

Right now, this is definitely the final tour and the final album. We have made a decision, ... And, maybe, we might wake up 10 years from now and we might want to do an album. Or we might wake up three years or five years from now and say, 'Y'all feel like doing another album?' What people don't realize is that we are still only 24 or 25 years old.

Kelly Rowland

We will also have entertainment, free food and a campus tour. Although other universities have run similar programs, ours has become so large, even our national office representatives will be attending.

Stephanie Dalton

I'm sick of gas prices. It's not effecting us (his organization). We just did the West Virginia State Fair, and if I'd have been a new artist that would have been $1,000 dollars in bus fuel to go up there and do that gig and back. And, some of these newer acts they get $5,000 to play a show and they're not going to make it unless they (can) pay their band and you can't tour with that.

Brad Paisley

For fans this will be the greatest tour yet.

Michael Cohl

Whoever sells the most tickets gets to go on tour with Black Eyed Peas for a year! ... And whoever sells the second most tickets gets to go on tour with Green Day for a year!

Terry Mcauliffe

I think it's a little easier for kids to digest than the Warped Tour. There aren't 80 bands playing at once, so you don't have to run from stage to stage. It's more of a concert. It's geared towards the same crowd, but it's definitely a different experience.

Quinn Allman

On weekdays we mainly target tour packages and on weekends individual sightseers.

Luo Ming

In one way, the album serves as our own journal, our own search for our roots. The fact that we're always touring, moving from place to place and encountering different culture clashes ..... it's like there's never any real beginning or an end.

Omar Rodriguez lopez

When we went to them and told them that we want to do a heritage tour of Hong Kong, a lot of them were very skeptical.

David Wong

If we can find a couple hundred new fans for some of these touring artists working on grass roots fan bases, that's part of our mission: to expose the stars to our market. We're taking a look at some interesting stuff that's local to Wisconsin, but could be the next big thing out of Wisconsin.

Mike Dempsey

We had been touring for about two years, so our minds were in tour mode, definitely. We thought we had done it and changed over to a studio mind, and we started to do the writing and recording and stuff, and we realized that you know what, no, we're not ready, actually. So we had to step back and really just get centered and get focused and ready to do it.

Rick Burch

I haven't done any reconnaissance like the Tour, but I looked at the maps...Anyway, it is a case that if you're strong enough in the mountains, you can win the Vuelta. If not, you get dropped! There are seven mountaintop finishes, or something like that. So your strength is the most important thing. As for the time trials, I think the prologue is a bit short. But the last two are better for me.

Floyd Landis

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.

Peter Dawson

He was so funny. He was our unofficial tour guide. I was surprised how much he knew (about Germany and France).

Christopher White

The AGT allows everyday golfers to go 'on tour' and compete against players of their own skill level. If you've ever wanted to experience golf like a professional, now you can.

Larry Lee

This community takes this tournament very personal, and we think the Champions Tour can be a home run. There's so much name recognition, including many of our past champions, some of whom called to say they would love to come back to Hartford and play in front of large crowds again.

Jonathan Gruber

It will also depend on what we're auctioning. If it's a backstage tour with 50 Cent, that's going to attract one set of users, while a vacation rental will appeal more to others.

Rob Lawson

It was a nine-month tour around the country from Sept. 7, 2005 to May 20, 2006. It has been a fun show, it's always new and refreshing to wake up in a different city and not have to pay for any of it.

Chris Sizemore

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.

Jay Overton

He was this big kid, ... who didn't show up on time, which really frustrated Jimmy. He asked me if I would be willing to play on the show, because he was letting Clark go. Years earlier, I had helped Jimmy get into a USO tour I was doing with Connie B. Gay, a disc jockey friend of mine at WARL radio out of Arlington, Va.

John Grammer

It's about Lance and his story. It's not about how many people watch the bike race. His endorsement value gets a lift if he wins five in a row, but I don't think he's hurt if he doesn't win. It'd be really great if as many people watch the tour as watch the Super Bowl but that's not going to happen.

Bill Stapleton

In building the Amgen Tour of California in its first year, we are excited to find such a committed partner as KB Home to help further the healthy lifestyle messages of this race and the excitement about cycling to communities across the state.

Shawn Hunter

Then you have preconceived notions. You see it all the time. It happens on the pro tour. People from Alabama will compete in a tournament there and won't do so well. They get stuck on where the fish should be.

Josh Mabee

We've known for the last few months that Bush is on his Bob Jones redemption tour, but now we know who the sponsors are: the tobacco industry, HMOs and insurance companies, and the gun lobby.

Jenny Backus

Athletes that can generate the most watts of energy over time will win the race. In cycling at Tom's level, you can no longer just be a time trial specialist or a hill climber and expect to win a stage race like the Tour de France. You've got to be able to perform well in all aspects of the race.

David Farmer

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Agnetha Faltskog

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Jalal Farzaneh

I'm thrilled to be in South Florida for our tour and to open the first gallery exhibit this year. It's a great turn-out and I look forward to speaking with the collectors who have shown me such great support over the years.

Ronnie Wood

My putting stats [140th] for the tour are weak.

Dan Forsman

It was a bizarre tour in terms of results but, forgetting what was going on in the background, it was a fairly standard cricket tour.

James Franklin

We're kind of staggering the touring a bit at this point just to write more songs for our next record. We've got a month booked to just go write, which I think we're all excited about. And then maybe test 'em out just on tour, maybe in February, and then hopefully be in the studio for the spring.

Steve Bays

I always knew Carl had the game to play on tour. But I wasn't too sure about myself.

Tim Clark

Michael, your tour of duty here is finished. Your fellow officers will take over your patrol with honor, dignity, and valor. You're God's good and faithful servant. Enter now into the joy of the Lord.

Greg Johnston

We do not need to visit the stadium to assess the security measures. Last time we inspected the ground and its surroundings and I hope the security will remain the same for the upcoming Indian cricket team's tour to Peshawar.

Yashovardhan Azad

I don't think leading Sri Lanka is that much of a pressure. We've got some really talented youngsters, so hopefully we can give them some exposure. We have not played Bangladesh for quite a while and we are very much looking forward to this tour.

Mahela Jayawardene

People want to come here, get out their maps and such and figure out where they want to go on tour.

Karen Henderson

In the past, bedrooms were generally considered to be quarters of the house intended for privacy. While giving a tour of your home the master bedroom was often excluded, but not any more. Overall, bringing the bedroom into the spotlight is one of the hottest trends in the design industry.

Johanna Alperin

His victory was an example to every player on the Tour.

George O'grady

This tour de force has been carried out in such a systematic and careful fashion that few in Congress, the media, or the scholarly community are aware that anything has happened at all.

Phillip Cooper

The Amgen Tour of California is a perfect venue for Health Net to promote healthy lifestyles and affirm our commitment to helping people live healthy lives.

Stephen Lynch

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

David Holmes

There are a lot of quality players out there (on the Canadian Tour). It's just not as deep as the bigger tours. The top 10 to 20, though, are just as good as the guys on the bigger tours. And everybody out there has potential. It's just a lot of guys looking for experience and a break.

Omar Uresti

I am elated to have acquired such a monumental piece relating to one of the most adored men in American sports and cultural history. The fact that the item had not previously been located only added to my interest on behalf of our client. The 1934 Tour of Japan remains to date one of the most fabled of it's type in sports history.

David Hunt

[This summer, they're taking that party out on the road for their first big tour with the Backstreet Boys, where they're being introduced to pyrotechnics (in the Backstreet show), and – what they're most excited about – their first tour bus.] We just came from a minivan. It's pretty amazing to suddenly be sleeping and back here writing songs and up there watching TV, ... It's awesome.

Ben Romans

We are extremely pleased that the greater Hartford region will be part of the FedEx Cup schedule with St. Paul Travelers as title sponsor. This event has a long history with the Tour and has always had outstanding support from the community.

Tim Finchem

For the kids it's a great opportunity. Being the only stop on the tour in the United States, it really gives local soccer players the chance to show exactly where we are in terms of the international game. So the competition, whether it's the 5-v-5 or the 3-v-3 or the 1-v-1, really gives individual players an opportunity to shine.

Kevin Hartman

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.

Alfred Anderson

I was hitting balls on the range the other day next to her, and she swings it really good. She's a lot bigger than I thought. She has a lot of power. I'm excited about it and I'm excited about getting back on Tour. My adrenaline was pumping as soon as I landed (in Hawaii).

Chris Couch

The ex-gay ministries are very excited about this, ... An anonymous source tells me that James Dobson called Silo and signed him up for a zoological 'Love Won Out' tour.

Wayne Besen

Gary deserved his chance and he has seized it. In the last two years in the DTM Championship he proved his talent against tough competition. His promotion to the Formula One team demonstrates that DTM is also a springboard for young talents who can make their way through touring cars to the top category of motor sport.

Norbert Haug

It is a live album from 40 shows recorded on the 2003 and 2004 tour. I have always tried to keep the same band together but this line-up is the best and still includes Steve Wickham on fiddle who I met when he was doing a Sinead O'Connor demo in 1985.

Mike Scott

[It has worked for U2 for 10 years.] By the mid-'90s, ... our touring was getting very big, and even though we had had very healthy relationships with very good agents . . . the game had changed and the sums of money involved were far too big to address our touring in a piecemeal way, transaction by transaction. We really needed to start working with a single tour promoter.

Paul Mcguinness

The Champions Tour is thrilled to have this opportunity. They're bending over backwards to get an event in Hartford. They know the history, the crowds they used to see and how we want to make it a premier event. And I think this area will eat up a Champions Tour event.

Jonathan Gruber

I spent a special part of my life (in Macon), ... It was my early 20s. It was the '70s. We'd signed to Capricorn and we were touring with all our heroes. I mean, I tell my kids about an almost idyllic scene that was there ... It was a fertile time.

Jack Hall

They did a little fundraising, but not for the tour. They raised money to buy their own uniforms.

Leonie Moore

Producing a game that encompasses such originality and innovation has been an incredible experience and we are very excited to unveil Getting Up. This tour is our way to celebrate its launch and say thanks to all of our supporters.

Marc Ecko

We've been touring to Colorado since '98 and have made so many friends that it feels like a second home. It's a combination of the beautiful outdoors and people who love live music.

Geoff Vaughan

We spent 2-1/2 years touring schools and churches. We've gotten really good at packing.

Jason Bowen

A big part of what 30 Seconds to Mars has always been about is the live aspect. We put a lot of thought and time and energy and passion into how we present ourselves. This [tour] is going to give us the opportunity to explore a lot of different things. It's been a long time coming.

Jared Leto

I'm always busy. Believe it or not, if KISS isn't on tour there's still plenty to do in the KISS camp.

Tommy Thayer

We did an exhaustive tour of all the possible facilities in the Oklahoma City region, and the Sawyer Center is a fantastic facility that exceeds all of the criteria that we had.

Byron Scott

We're going to have a very good group of performers this year. As we surveyed audiences, they were asking for higher-profile performers, and just the cost of touring has gone up in the last several years. To get to what people expect, it takes a bit larger ticket price.

Lucy Fleming

The States was almost like college for me - I got away from home and learned how to do things for myself. I had a base at Sea Island in Georgia and I decided to have a crack at the US Tour school.

David Griffiths

The series is going to be very tough, especially the Australian leg of the tour. It's a big task for us to regroup and get back to winning ways.

Sanath Jayasuriya

We're really confident we're going to be part of the [shortened] schedule, ... If [PGA Tour commissioner] Tim Finchem doesn't listen to Tiger Woods, he's crazy.

Stephen Ross

We'll get back to writing Plus-44 songs sometime in October. That's when I have a couple of weeks off before I leave on the Pennywise tour [with another side project, Transplants (see .

Travis Barker

We tour or play irrespective of any release. We do a lot of a month on, a month off.

Jim Heath

I would like for us to create a route — a short route and a long route — around the city and have it be interconnected so you could take a walking tour of Columbiana.

Mayor Allan Lowe

[Does that mean he would create original musicals, either for Las Vegas or for New York?] Absolutely, in a minute, ... With the right creative people, I'd invest, produce, back it just so I could have the upper hand and not have to ask anybody to turn their back on touring.

David Merrick

Rod wasn't going to go on tour with us. He had some other things going on. He changed his mind and by that time Jeff already agreed to play with us. But we worked it out. We're doing two sets. We're essentially opening for us. It's not a big deal.

Jeff Pevar

We played with Superchunk on our first American tour. We've always liked the records they release. They're a good, classic indie label, and they're genuine fans of music. And they're really just as enthusiastic about it as they were when we first met them.

Norman Blake

They're an extremely talented band, great songwriters. They have ... an immense touring base here. And they've made decent inroads into America. They're with Sire Records right now, and they're dishing up in the 'Billboard' charts.

Allan Reid

He wasn't nervous because he's won three times on the Nationwide Tour.

Carlos Franco

That's the way the schedule has panned out so I just have to accept that. I'm looking forward to the New Zealand A tour to Sri Lanka next month and then I'll just concentrate on the domestic summer. I want to stay injury-free for the next six months and perform well, so by the time that first test rolls around against the West Indies I'm right in the frame.

James Franklin

I'm flattered with the response. It is a testament to our musicianship and the emotions behind that tour. We're not usually an acoustic band and this CD caters to a crowd that might not normally give us a chance.

Jack O'shea

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a workaholic, ... I am just going to use this time while I am shooting the film to really rest. I am totally focused on acting because that has always been my dream. After we are done shooting, I am planning on starting the European tour to promote Certified and dive back into the swing of things with music.

David Banner

I have always said that a Tour victory is more valuable if Lance Armstrong is participating. I will do everything I can to beat him in his last appearance on the Tour.

Jan Ullrich

This 10-day tour of seven nations will show the opposite is true. We want to show that the dirty war was a complete lie, and that there are other governments willing to support us.

Alex Contreras

With New Zealand pulling out of the tour here which would have been this week, we have had to resort to hosting a local competition to keep our boys on their toes.

Paula Raqeukai

That's not going to be on the tour. It's going to stay a secret.

Becky Stiles

He's admitted a couple of times that he's struggled to stay in the battle when teams have gone hard at him, but he has certainly progressed in that area in test matches and hopefully will do on this tour.

John Bracewell

It's in the middle of the whole tour, so we'll get to go out and change it up a little bit. We love Tom and his band. It will be a cool, special show for people.

Jeff Ament

This is a great package tour. They keep climbing the charts, which is going to make for a great show.

Jack Schuett

I sleep every afternoon, go to bed at 9 pm. I don't drink alcohol and I have no time for a girlfriend. My ambition is to participate in the Tour de France.

Matiwos Zeray

He is an excellent tour guide.

Steve Hicks

It's certainly a problem as some of these groups age. Can they maintain their tour schedule? Can they maintain their voices? Touring is a tough business.

Bernie Dillon

It's an issue. We will meet with European tour officials in London next week to discuss the problem, among others.

Bernhard Langer

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.

Michael Garten

Psychologically, it was a difficult moment for me. I don't like riding in the peloton in the chasing peloton. That's not my game, ... But I held on, mainly out of respect for my team. I have not given up doing well in the Tour one day. But on the evidence of things, I have to begin questioning certain things. We will analyze all that this winter.

Roberto Heras

Michael is a great European Tour supporter, lost his game, came back through the Challenge Tour, conquered the world and is now back up there and has really made it.

George O'grady

It would be difficult for me to entertain thoughts of substituting for a year [on the Cup tour].

Ricky Craven

Canceling the tour would have been bad news for everybody. Nothing good would have come out of it. Otherwise the musicians would not have agreed to go on the tour.

David Schoenbrun

They were excited when there were articles in the Detroit papers and national magazines (Entertainment Weekly, People), ... They also were good with the juggling act of which days I'd be out on tour (and not in class).

Nancy Reisman

I am looking forward to the series, it should be a good one. We had a very good tour of Pakistan last time and I enjoyed the country and enjoyed going there. Hope the same this time.

Rahul Dravid

We were on tour so we couldn't make it. But we saw the movie in Tucson with a regular audience during its opening weekend. By the time we left the theater, there were like 500 kids standing outside and asking for autographs, so we had our own little mini-premiere.

Butch Vig

It's a more intricate sport than perhaps people perceive. Most people think you get on your bikes and ride. The Tour de France coverage has kind of explained that it's a lot more than that. Hopefully, by the end of the week, people will start to understand it.

Jeff Sobul

[But he doesn't like her proclamation, also made in the documentary about her 2004 Re-Invention tour, that] most priests are gay. ... We're glad to see she is no longer with us. Jews will have to make up their own mind about whether they're going to welcome her. Lots of them don't want to.

William Donohue

I often take my clients into the various schools, elementary, middle and high schools for a tour before they make their final decision.

Sue Gilbertson

This is original art, and some of the people are great and some are awful, but (the Fringe) is a place you can be awful. . . . And the people choose who they want to see. . . . (The Fringe) gives the local community -- the artistic underground -- a chance to really do their stuff. And for people like me, it's great, because I'm trying to work a show out that I can tour with.

Tom Ferguson

Working out isn't new for female golfers. It's just become more specialized, and you can see it through the change in the bodies of the players on tour now.

Meg Mallon

It's difficult to win anytime, anywhere on tour now, let alone a crazy, wild format like this that's a lot of fun to be involved in, ... We are going with the same type of strategy that we have the past couple of years and see what happens.

Jeff Sluman

I'll try and take away the positives. Not many guys get to play the No1 in the world, and if I can learn a little bit from the speed he plays at and the angles he finds it will help me on the Challenger Tour.

Alan Mackin

[Also included is a faux Hives documentary narrated by Little Steven Van Zandt .] Apparently Bruce Springsteen saw us on TV and kind of introduced Steven to us, which is weird enough as it is, ... When they got to Sweden on an E Street Band tour, they looked us up and had us come down to the show. We've been friends since.

Pelle Almqvist

We're encouraged by the fact that several of the pre-tour recommended rides have gone very well, with few accidents. We think the education and safety clinics that have been implemented have been a huge help in making that happen.

Doug Suggitt

Most of the revenue for the tour has always come out of Europe. America has never really dominated.

Richard Davies

We've never done a big tour! At the moment we're juggling our gigs around work but hopefully that won't be the case come May.

Kate Jackson

Winning there gave me a good shot of confidence for the rest of the year (on the PGA Tour). It's kind of the same right now. I'm not playing real well, so I'm just looking to get out and play and get some rhythm going.

Omar Uresti

When you're teaching an average golfer, you can experiment a lot more, ... If that doesn't work, try this. You can't do that with a tour pro.

Butch Harmon

The 2007 tour will be a modern tale of two cities ... and plans to cement the friendship between our two great capitals.

Christian Prudhomme

A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.

Jane Howard

It wasn't for the money, God knows. If it was, I wouldn't need to be touring now.

Michael Flatley

The whole squad will share my sense of frustration. We must look forward to one big effort and try to take something positive out of this tour.

Lawrence Dallaglio

The tour will have a focus on the tests and a focus on development.

Ian Mcgeechan

Usually on tour, each night, we'll call a random song and we'll end up playing it in a way we hadn't thought of before, songs that we had not thought of touching or had sworn off, because they have a connotation of oldness. We're like all right, whatever, we'll just do it, and it'll sound fresh and new. It's a sign of three dudes who like to play together.

Marc Friedman

We intend to do a massive world tour with Demon Days, but I won't be involved with it. It'll be all animation and big sound systems and stuff.

Damon Albarn

I played against him last week and he's bowling like he used to. I think he's ready to tour again.

Darren Gough