Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zwelinzima Vavi

This (the China deal) is an example of how things should not be done. We have been told that the draft agreement will work to the advantage of China and be bad for us.

David Ricks

We're taking full advantage of the area, so there's no dead space at all.

Calvin Baisley

(Tonight) was a good game. We made two bad pitches, and they took advantage of it. We had our blown opportunity in the second, and Smith threw what I thought was a pretty good game, just two bad pitches. Ironically, this was probably the best game he's thrown.

Nick Saban

We had a great first drive. We looked like a good football team, but we've got to do that with consistency. We just have to take advantage of field position when we get it.

Jason Stevenson

We have a definite advantage at home. Teams have to walk through the big front door and then wrestle in the spotlights.

Eric Harris

We had to come out hungry. We didn't have home-court advantage and Collinsville did. Coach told us, 'The team that executes the best will win the game,' and that's what we tried to do. We tried to come out and execute in all phases.

Arul Chinnaiyan

This was a discovery study that established the concept of taking advantage of the immune system to detect cancer.

Debbie Holcombe

This was a big win for us. We haven't been able to take advantage of other team's mistakes this year. We were able to tonight.

Kieran Nolan

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Jim Holden

After a year of working together, DaimlerChrysler has concluded that its automotive businesses can best function as individual divisions,

Augie Garrido

After a while, you get used to it. It's the same stuff that's gone on all weekend. What are we going to do about it? Those kids are two of the best outfielders in the country, but they haven't played together for very long.

Pat Riley

After a real slow start, we played very well offensively. When your best player goes 4-for-14 and you still win, then you've got to feel good about it.

Tsutomu Tomita

After a rather successful 2005 season, our sights are now set even higher up the grid, and we feel that Bridgestone is ideally suited to the technical demands of F1 in the future and will be the best match for our 2006 car. Toyota is serious about winning in F1, and we feel that the switch to Bridgestone tires is the best option in the medium-long term.

Steve Smith

After a number of sites were considered, we decided it was the best place to put the new building. It fits with the campus development master plan.

Felipe Massa

After a few months working at Ferrari, I realized that it was the best thing that could have happened, ... I would say even that I had my university education at Ferrari.

Bryan Colangelo

After lengthy discussions with Antonio regarding his physical condition and his general sense of disappointment over his personally difficult year, we have concluded that it's in the best interest of both the organization and Antonio Davis to simply release him at this late point of the season.

Matt Kane

After Kyle got hurt a couple of games ago we put Guzman at sweeper and he has done such a good job that we are going to keep him there. Though he has been playing right back for two years, Derek is our best decision maker at sweeper.

Kim Yuna

After I won the Olympics, like any gold medalist, I did feel some emptiness in my heart. I did think about coming back to the ice for a long time. What motivated me is skating is something I am best at and I love the most. So I want to give it one more try.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Tommy Hill

It wasn't what I wanted. I'd rather leave here with a third than (leave) with nothing at all like I did last year. I guess I wrestled a lot better once I lost because it gave me the drive.

Marc Bulger

It was sort of a wakeup call. It gave us a little spark that we didn't have. I can't say how much that turned the game.

Bobby Keys

I first went on the road with the Rolling Stones in the year of our Lord, 1969. But my grandfather gave me away to a drummer when I was 15 years old.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Deon Grant

We didn't play bad, ... But we sure didn't do a lot to help ourselves.

Derek Smith

Time of possession obviously helps us. We've just got to keep on working.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Sam Elliott

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

Sam Elliott

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Sallie Krawcheck

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and give themselves the opportunity to earn higher returns, they can start those businesses. They can go to work with a little more confidence to ask for that promotion, to ask for the new assignment, etc.

Sallie Krawcheck

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

Ryne Sandberg

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

S. I. Hayakawa

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Russell Peters

We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.

Russell Simmons

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Morgan Wootten

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

Joe Morgan

I still have very close ties to Houston and the Astros because that was my first team.

Joe Namath

I've figured out that life in general is a team effort; it's a team game.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

John Green

I'm a good person but a shitty writer. You're a shitty person but a good writer. We'd make a good team.

Mike Richards

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Landon Donovan

I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.

Lionel Messi

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.