Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Halpin

You have to give Modesto credit. They had girls in foul trouble and we couldn't take advantage of that. They deserved to win.

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.

Rob Blake

This team in the past hasn't taken advantage of some of the leads we've had in a series. So we have to force the issue, not sit and wait and see what's going to happen. (The Stars) are a veteran team with guys who have won Cups and their best game is going to be (tonight).

Arul Chinnaiyan

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

Adonal Foyle

I wanted to give Mike an opportunity to create but I realized the clock was running down so I heaved the ball up.

Jordan Zuppe

I wanted to get the ball and make the foul shots. I knew I had the confidence to make them, and, luckily, I made them.

Jeff Malone

I wanted to get more athletic. We need to get back to defending, and I really want to get the ball down the court. We really need to do that more.

Greg Allen

A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.

Kathy Bocock

The one thing I told them was to not let the ball come to the middle because that's where they want to get it.

Lin Stadler

The one thing I thought we could do is run the ball on them and we just couldn't run it.

Chris Enge

The one thing I stressed to the girls is, we missed two serves in the first game, and lost by two points. We missed three serves in the third game, and lost by two points. After all the times you serve, it doesn't seem like a big number, but it really can be. We just couldn't put the ball down, and they have very good team. Both teams had tremendous heart, and gave tremendous effort. But that's always when these two teams meet.

Alexander Paris

The ones that are successful with it think it's good, ... These people are shooting at very frequent golfers; if there is a new club or ball out there they will try it.

Mike McCarthy

The one glaring statistic we need to improve on is third-down production. The most important statistic running the ball is how many attempts. We need to be up in the 25s and 30, moving the sticks and getting rid of the three-and-outs.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Alison Brie

I try to be very much in control when it comes to work. I have a strong work ethic.

Alicia Keys

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

Alice Sebold

He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.

Alice Meynell

Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.

Alice Miller

It is precisely because a child's feelings are so strong that they cannot be repressed without serious consequences. The stronger a prisoner is, the thicker the prison walls have to be, which impede or completely prevent later emotional growth.

Alice Miller

People who, as children, were intellectually far beyond their parents and therefore admired by them, but who also therefore had to solve their own problems alone. These people, who give us a feeling of their intellectual strength and will power, also seem to demand that we, too, ought to fight off any feeling of weakness with intellectual means. In their presence one feels one cannot be recognized as a person with problems just as they and their problems were unrecognized by their parents, for whom he always had to be strong.

Alice Munro

As a matter of fact she does not know to this day if those words were spoken, or if he only caught her, wound his arms around her, held her so tightly, with such continual, changing pressures that it seemed more than two arms were needed, that she was surrounded by him, his body strong and light, demanding and renouncing all at once, as if he was telling her she was wrong to give up on him, everything was possible, but then again that she was not wrong, he meant to stam himself on her and go." "Passion

Alice Eve

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.