Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Sheffield

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye.

He's been such a lightning rod for criticism, oftentimes for things that were clearly not in his purview to make better. If theme park attendance goes down because of 9/11, is that Michael's fault?

E. O. Wilson

We are getting a good response so far for this being our first try at a craft show, and depending on the participation by vendors and attendance by the community. We would like to try to do this annually.

Byron Scott

I really don't think they'll have the residency, the economics to support a second franchise. I think our attendance would probably be worse, because I don't think you have enough people. That's my main concern.

I'm really totally convinced, and I can't predict the time frame, but someday these cartoonists, like Charles Schulz, will have the same reputation in American culture as Mark Twain. This location has tremendous potential for attendance if we do it right.

Chuck D.

The consensus is that we don't want to do it; we don't want to leave Pueblo. We've had record attendance in Pueblo the last two years. But enough people have real concerns about the hotel industry down there, so much so that they said we should start looking elsewhere.

The attendance thing has been the roughest thing.

The attendance is usually at its highest when everyone knows it will be a close match. There's been years where had to delay the start of match because there were so many people in line waiting to get in.

Scott Williams

The attendance -- I don't know what can be done about it. If I was a (high school) basketball fan, it doesn't get any better than this.

Chuck D.

The normal things you need to look out for are attendance at school, dropping grades and taking time away from the home.

That's a big factor, the recruiting factor and being able to state that we have the highest average attendance and what a great building it is to play in. The other thing that it does is, for our guys, they (the fans) become a factor in the game. We can feed off the energy that they give us.

It's definitely been exciting. Every year we have become better and the attendance has been improving. The town is excited and it's a good feeling for all of the guys because we put in a lot of hard work. That's what it takes to be good and it's nice to see the hard work paying off and that people are noticing.

Bud Selig

It is the start of the season, and I look for this to be the biggest season in Major League Baseball history. I believe we will set an attendance record (this season). The sport has never been more popular, I'm very proud of where we are today, and this should be a remarkable year in terms of both competitive balance and attendance.

Eddie Sutton

It's disappointing because it's a great conference. Schools have a big-enough attendance that students should fill it up when the adults don't.

They did it all last week and part of this week to strengthen the attendance policy. They had so many students coming in late.

The kids just decided they were going to be a really great team and they were really committed. The six weeks of our summer schedule, we had 100 percent attendance out of our entire senior class. That's just how they went about doing things. They just decided they were going to be good and it took off from there. They set a great tone and led by example.

The interesting thing about this particular conference is that more than 20% of attendance is from outside the state. We always get a good percentage of folks from outside, but it seems to be happening at a greater degree in Phoenix.

Lane Kirkland

The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

The bottom line is the attendance is a direct reflection of the product we've provided. Right now going to a Duquesne basketball game is not the fashionable thing to do. We haven't given our fans much to cheer about recently.

Our computer basics and Web basics series continue to be most popular, but we've also had good attendance at some of our more subject-oriented classes, everything from finding health information to conducting genealogical research.

Bud Selig

The sport is having its greatest year, ... We're going to top 54 million people in attendance (Saturday), and we could come close to 55 million by (today). We're at a stunning attendance pace.

E2V also creates a new type of sponsorship opportunity for leading companies tired of the old methods. We believe that over the course of the year, event organizers of E2V-covered events will find attendance numbers increasing. Our product will help shape networking in the local business community and bring balance to executives' schedules.

Attendance is way, way up, and I think part of that is the success of the Idols themselves.

We think right now, attendance looks pretty good.

Secondly, we expect parents to be in regular attendance in a church to continually influence raising and upbringing of the children,

Grouping makes tackling things like attendance more manageable.

If anything, my high school has even better attendance today than some Mondays.

I would expect to get more because we have the Washington Nationals, instead of the Expos. We paid into it even in years we were losing money because of local (media contracts). But I would much rather be paying money than getting it because that means the team is doing well and the attendance is up. We will get in that position again.

If we get our attendance up around 3 million, things could change,

Because the average daily attendance is closer to our I think we have a greater chance of success.

One of the things we're trying to do is expand our attendance numbers.

Sylvia Hatchell

None of us get the attendance that we deserve. None of us do.

I think theme parks are most steady. Attendance was up, restaurant and hotel lodgings were up.