65 Quotes by David Baker

It's great to support us and all that, but $1-million a year is a heck of a support. Children's Hospital has been very supportive and it's not on the board radar to close us down right now. But if we lose a couple hundred thousand dollars more in funding, I don't know if they can support us any more. It's getting to the straw that breaks the camel's back.

They were willing to talk to us and think this through for whatever reasons. This was a unique case.

This is a very personal interactive sport. Autographs, balls into the stands that fans can keep, the proximity of fans to the action. And we've barely begun to scratch the surface of what we can be.

The instructors were often neophytes at teaching us, but they possessed the information. We used the Socratic method. We had to ask them about the things we wanted to know, but there were other musicians who were interacting with us all the time, each leading a group.

The Chinese should be very proud of what they are accomplishing,

In Los Angeles once, we lost 39 footballs in a game. We were one football away from asking for one back.

I know sometimes Tim and I are put in an adverse position if and when I have to discipline him, but I will also say when my son (Sam, who played for Southern Cal) made the Associated Press All-American team, the first call congratulating me as a dad was from Tim Marcum. So, I respect him as a competitor. I think he has done as much as anyone to bring this league to the point it is today.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

In searching for truth, I would hope that liberals and conservatives could work together. There are certainly areas where presuppositions will affect what questions might be asked and approaches that will be employed, and these are areas where different groups will do their own research and thinking.