Quotes about riverside (16 Quotes)


    He was the last great sportsman. We measure owners differently now, in championships and profit and headlines and even face time. Others have won more than the Giants. Certainly other owners have made more money. There was never a better owner than this because there was never a better man even in bad times. He honored his team and his league. And there was never anyone who loved a team like this, or ever spent more time around one, from that first Sunday at the Polo Grounds after Mass with his father Tim and brother Jack at Our Lady of Esperanza on Riverside Drive. It is almost impossible to get your mind around this kind of career, in any kind of business. Eighty years a Giant.

    Max was really our ambassador to Caltrans. That's why when I became supervisor (in March 2005) I asked him to be on my staff. He knew the right people to talk with to get things done. Unfortunately, because of health problems he wasn't able to travel to Riverside.

    Our favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.





    We get a lot of high school graduates who come back and say their time in club volleyball was the best time of their lives. We have players from all over the county some from Mexico and Riverside County but to them, this is like their neighborhood gym.

    I don't look at Riverside as a fourth-place team. They're big and physical. They have a couple of guards who can shoot the basketball. We certainly have a lot of respect for them.











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