Tampa Bay Quotes

#1. I wouldn't take anything away from Tampa Bay. We're in one of the toughest divisions there is.

Scott Kazmir

#2. My biggest hobby is playing golf, which I really enjoy. Now when I am lying in bed at night, unable to sleep, I find myself thinking about my golf swing. I'm also involved in the Tampa Bay chapter of First Tee.

Vinny Testaverde

#3. Tampa Bay, like any other expansion team, toiled and persevered in its infancy - but today, minus the Devil, the Rays have become one of the most exciting teams in baseball.

Tucker Elliot

#4. South Tampa is the polyp of land that dangles into Tampa Bay like a uvula.

Tim Dorsey

#5. A series of interlocking islands and bridges, with wide white-sand beaches on the green Gulf of Mexico and placid marinas on Tampa Bay, St. Petersburg was a place of stucco and sunshine, East Coast attitude and tropical rain, cheap gas and imported food.

Adam Skolnick

#6. There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up.

Josh Beckett

#7. Baseball really is a glorified game of throw and catch. And if you don't have guys who throw it really well, you can't compete for long.

Tucker Elliot

#8. Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

Channing Tatum

#9. It's hard to dismiss the obvious symmetry between Longo [Evan Longoria] and the franchise for which he's now the poster-child: for the player, Hondo Junior College to MLB All-Star ... for the team, worst to first.

Tucker Elliot

#10. An artist needs not so much an audience, as to feel a need to answer, a promise to respond ... a good feeling about his art.

Robert Pinsky

#11. Nine equals eight ... just ask any math teacher. Well, make that a Tampa-St. Pete area math teacher, one who also likes baseball, and is a diehard Rays fan, and who knows that Joe Maddon deserves more than just the 2008 Manager of the Year Award.

Tucker Elliot

#12. To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Jacques-Louis David

#13. I have the sort of temperament where I try not to over think things, I don't get flustered and I don't panic. I'm not overly neurotic.

Tom Bennett

#14. Perhaps, when you leave your childhood behind too early and jump into adulthood, certain parts of you never fully grow up. They just become stunted child parts disguised in a grown-up body.

Angela Hoke