Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought we did a fantastic job on the boards and that's really been our achilles heel in the first two games.

I thought we picked up the intensity in the third quarter. Offensively, we started shooting well. That has been our Achilles heel this season, but when we can do that, a lot of good things will happen for us.

Our Achilles heel has been our free throw shooting. When it comes down to the end and it is a one-point game, you need to make those.

Pitching was our Achilles heel last year. I think it's gonna be a lot more consistent.

Playing against a zone has been an Achilles heel for us this season. Teams are going to double and triple A.J. and we know that. We needed someone to step up, but it just wasn't there tonight. We couldn't hit a basket.

It has been the Achilles heel for online retailers over the last couple of years. Many had items out of stock, or they were taking too long to deliver, or it was taking too long to shop.

The housing markets had been the U.S. economy's Achilles heel. Faced with strong housing data yesterday, some dollar-bears have surrendered.

The biggest thing was probably my Achilles (tendon). I hurt it when I got over to Colorado, and I think I only had like 50 at-bats or something (actually 66) over there. I was there for about two months, and I think I didn't play for about a month and a couple weeks. It was one of those things where you couldn't really do too much about it. You've just got to take care of it so it doesn't hurt the rest of your career.

That?s our Achilles heel right now. Offensively, we?re not putting the ball in the hole.

That has been our Achilles heel all year. Sometimes we can shoot and sometimes we can't.

Sundays have definitely been our Achilles heel. Tonight, we got off to a good start and then in the second period just blew it wide open. That's what we should have been doing (in all our) Sunday games.

Kevin Pietersen

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.

That's been the Achilles heel of our team the whole year.

The kids off the bench played well but we were playing without two of our guys. Riley Bailey had the flu and Avery Old Coyote hurt his Achilles heel and we got into some foul trouble.

The labor market remains the Achilles heel of a robust economic recovery. With the Fed talking about lowering interest rates to zero to get the economy growing strongly again, getting people back to work and increasing demand may be the Fed's primary worry.

The labor market remains the Achilles heel of a robust economic recovery, ... With the Fed talking about lowering interest rates to zero to get the economy growing strongly again, getting people back to work and increasing demand may be the Fed's primary worry.

P. C. Cast

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

An Achilles is tough to come back from. But he's only 28, so the prognosis is pretty good. Yet you never know with these types of injuries.

Charlie Stewart

As usual, outside shooting was an Achilles heel.

I told the trainers what it was before they told me. When it happened, I knew right away my season was over. You know what an Achilles injury means. It's hard knowing that they brought you in here to do a job and you can't do that job until next season.

What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

Graeme Souness

Ramage was feeling his calf on one leg and his Achilles on the other leg. He had a difficult 45 minutes and that's unfortunately where they got their breakthrough from.

The situation with his hip is very positive. He has a lingering Achilles (tendon) problem from last year. He has been taking treatment on it the last couple of months. I think his timetable to play at 100 percent is going to be a little further down the line.

Rick Carlisle

The situation with his hip is very positive, ... He has a lingering Achilles (tendon) problem from last year. He has been taking treatment on it the last couple of months. I think his timetable to play at 100 percent is going to be a little further down the line.

Kevin Garnett

The third quarter has been our Achilles heel pretty much the whole year.

Kelly Holmes

Round the bend my achilles was too bad so there was no point in fighting any more

They are a highly compelling sector, but their Achilles heal is they're largely dependent on the Bell companies. Line growth is what we look at. And the strike raises another yellow flag in minds of investors.

This is his Achilles heel, the big headache for Pinochet and his defence lawyers. Unlike the human-rights accusations where it has been tough to prove a link between Pinochet and the crimes of his regime, in this case the numbers don't lie and the case could move forward very quickly.

That's huge because that's been our Achilles Heel this year. (Saturday) we played great and everyone played hard.

We had a very hard time keeping them off of the offensive boards. It's been an Achilles heel of ours all year long and it came back in the state tournament. It obviously hurt us.

Kenny Smith

We've got to work on the third quarter. It's been our Achilles heel all year. We got to do something to get us a good look at the basket. Maybe we'll go in at half and meditate. I don't know what it is, but we've got to do something.

Business spending is the Achilles heel of the economy, ... The economic baton needs to pass from consumers to businesses.

Fourteen for twenty-nine, that's been our Achilles heel all year. You shoot under fifty percent in close games, you will not win.