Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Shaw

Once you've played in the NHL, I think you get a little misunderstood sometimes. These guys, with the salaries involved now and the way they get treated, people can lose perspective that these guys are human, too. Unfortunately, the job they've chosen, you don't get to have a bad day. It helps that I played in this league; it gives you a legitimacy right away ... But I don't know if there's that much advantage to it.

Billy Andrade

We all think about winning, that's why we are out here, ... Like I said earlier, you just need some breaks to go your way, and when that happens, you better take advantage of it.

Fadel Gheit

Every producer around the world is producing the marginal barrel to take advantage of high prices. Right now, OPEC is not holding back. But OPEC wants to have its cake and eat it, too.

Rick Price

At the beginning of the week I thought this looked like it was made for me. Because of the tightness there's really no huge advantage of being a long hitter because there's no place to hit it.

Jodie McClain

At 5-9, I do have an advantage and have had the privilege of playing the point all four years (of high school). They want me to do that, so that's an advantage because (other) schools wanted me to move to the (No.) 2 (shooting) guard.

Matt Schmelzer

At the time, I thought it was good for us. I thought it was giving us a rest. We didn't play very many kids. I thought it was to our advantage to have the stall game. ... I liked our chances at that point.

Michael Ostrovsky

At the very least, we want to educate advertisers about the fact that in some sense they are being taken advantage of. Under the current mechanism, if they don't think carefully about their bidding strategies, they can end up paying a lot more to the search engines than they need to.

Mark Mobius

Commodity prices are being supported by healthy demand from countries such as China and India, but one must remember that it remains a cycle. Currently it looks like the cycle remains in the 'stronger for longer' position and South African companies are taking advantage of this.

Leon Esterhuizen

Commodity funds took advantage of the one-way bet offered by a weakening dollar.

Ryan Armour

The shot I hit on the second hole could very easily have missed the cup and rolled 40 feet by. That is the way the ball bounces sometimes.

Dave McCarthy

(The Tigers) had the best of the second half. I thought we controlled the game in the first half. If you can't get the ball forward, though, you're not going to win.

Bill Belichick

The third quarter was really frustrating, ... We had the ball at their end of the field for most of the quarter and couldn't get a whole lot done.

Heather Hibner

The South Park coach made a classy gesture by presenting the game ball to our starting pitcher and then she went home and had the ball cut in half and gave the other half to April, which I thought was pretty cool.

Tiger Woods

The South Course, you'd better have the ball-striking up there. It's just that some of these pins now, they are so close to the edges, you have to be pretty precise. If you do miss it, you're going to pay the price, and I think good ball strikers are going to do well here.

Tayshaun Prince

The thing we wanted to do is really concentrate on rebounding the ball and not let them get second-chance opportunities on the offensive glass. We did a good job on that.

Dave Heise

The thing we've had trouble with is she turns on the ball too fast. She goes very quickly ? reads the pitch too quickly sometimes.

Ron Lievense

The thing that we did well was make the extra pass. I thought we were crisp. We really had great ball movement and penetrated their zone well. We took two steps forward in those areas.

Carl Lancaster

The thing that's happening is we've got speed at places and if those guys stay on base, (opposing pitchers) know they've got to throw a fast ball or we're going to steal. We just got good pitches to hit and we have for quite awhile.

Jeff VandeLoo

The way King played us defensively, it was obvious how they felt about Adam. I don't think you focus a defense like that unless a guy is a big-time stud.

Adrian Beltre

The way I'm hitting, I'd better make those plays. This year, I'm getting paid for my defense. I work hard at it, I take pride in it. In games like this, small plays make a difference.

Cedric Bozeman

This is special and this is a special group of guys. We play defense. That's what we do. We didn't let them walk over us.

Mike Scioscia

This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys have played terrific defense all year, so it's very uncharacteristic.

Chris Richard

This game will be a lot tougher. If we just play the defense like we played the last time, maybe a little harder, we should be OK.

Tim Brasic

That's when I really took a picture of the defense and everything started slowing down. I just saw everything so perfectly on that play. I really started to get a good feel for it.

Duane Akina

That's what we want our identity to be. We want to be a defense that runs and hits. That's what we want people to talk about.

Jim Delmar

We held a highly potent offensive team to 16 points in the first half. The defense was getting it done. It was the offense we were lacking.

Kevin Bartz

Controlling them up front, they make it extremely easy for our linebackers because of the quickness and strength that they have. They dominate the line of scrimmage for the rest of our defense and it make it easier for all of them.

Garron Whitehouse

There weren't a lot of hung heads as we walked off the field. It was a great game, we matched up well, but the kids understand that somebody has to win and somebody has to lose a good football game.

Perry Miller

would be like not spraying your fields and hoping the weeds will stay away.

Ken Phillips

We left a lot of batters in the field today and just couldn't get the hits we needed. We gave everything we had though and finished strong.

Pat Willis

We're trying to take one game at a time and stay positive. And step out on the field and try to play three parts of the game.

Bryce Harper

I want to play the game hard. I want to ram it down your throat, put you into left field when I'm going into second base.

Bill Shaw

We shot just over 20 percent from the field. We struggled the whole first half. We took shots but just could not find the basket. I really feel like we had many opportunities to perform but did not.

Arthur Doyle

The past and the present are within the field of my inquiry, but what a man may do in the future is a hard question to answer.

David Fink

The parade is to help generate traffic for the circus. People are used to going out to Christensen Field for events. We think this will be a popular event.

J. Hoover

The only thing that's going to keep me off the field is something that's season-ending. It's getting better. It's just a little tight.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alberto Salazar

I've run a lot of miles over the years, some fast and some not so fast. I've won some big races and I've had some big disappointments, but I enjoy the freedom of running and the challenge of training and competition as much now as when I first started back in high school.

Alberto Salazar

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

Alfred Kazin

Brooklyn Heights itself is a window on the port. Here, where the perspective is fixed by the towers of Manhattan and the hills of New Jersey and Staten Island, the channels running between seem fingers of the world ocean. Here one can easily embrace the suggestion, which Whitman felt so easily, that the whole American world opens out from here, north and west.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Alex D. Linz

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun.

Alex Garland

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

Alex Ferguson

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!