Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Pelfrey

The biggest adjustment is that guys up here have a plan. Guys in college just go up there and swing. Most guys in college just sit on the fastball. I threw some good pitches. I feel like I'm progressing right where I need to be.

Chad Pennington

The biggest adjustment for me is, I try to get inside a coordinator's head, ... That's going to take some time still, but I think we accomplished a lot in the preseason.

The better comparison would be with the Eisenhower administration and how they were figuring out how to adjust to the Cold War. (Eisenhower) took some strong actions, policies like massive (nuclear) retaliation, and things like that had a lot of opposition.

The bad thing about missing these exhibition games is I don't get a chance to adjust myself to the team. But the good thing is I get to see the different things that we do. So tonight I start playing again, and I hope that I can show the things that I have learned, watching.

The adjustment to higher prices has been fairly orderly. It's not a 70's style shock. Oil prices do have an effect on the economy but it's not dramatic. It's a problem but not at the top of the list.

The adjustment of global imbalances is a shared responsibility, ... Domestic demand growth in Europe and Japan, though somewhat improved, still falls far short of what is needed.

The adjustment in the exchange rate will only have a limited effect in resolving global trade imbalances. The imbalance in the global economy is mostly caused by fundamental factors and this huge imbalance cannot be fully resolved only by adjusting the exchange rate.

Bryant McKinnie

That is probably something I needed to work on, ... We had two different centers in and out and they have different styles with the silent count. That was hard for me to get adjusted to.

St. Thomas made a great adjustment in the spacing of their offense at the start of the second half. But I was really proud of our kids, because they recognized what was happening, and they made exactly the defensive adjustments they needed to make.

Eric Snow

It's definitely going to be an adjustment without Larry. He's our second leading scorer, our second best player and our best perimeter defender. I don't think anyone can fill in for Larry, but everybody has to do a little more.

It's coming. I'm getting more adjusted every week to the speed of the game, seeing the field, knowing the cuts I have to make. It's really just vision and seeing what's happening on the field. In practice, it's one thing. In the games, that's where you really find out where you are.

Matt Greene

It's been helpful to be able to practice. The main thing here is the quickness and speed of the game and how quickly guys make passes. It's on the tape and the guy is gone. That's been the biggest adjustment for me.

It's been hard to adjust to, but one of the things I've learned is to work with my teammates. The pace of the game has been a huge adjustment. I started to notice that in the open gyms before the season even started. I knew things were going to move a lot faster. Right now I'm getting a lot of good experience. That's going to carry over into the next couple of years.

It's been difficult. I've adjusted a lot and I'm still trying to get better at it.

Bob Stoops

It needs to improve. What we are asking them to do needs to be assessed to see if they can actually do it. Can our receivers do what we have been doing the last few years? We need to adjust and make some modifications.

It needs to be adjusted to accommodate a growing wine industry.

It's premature to talk about the league tournament. We'll adjust our goals if we keep having a better-than-average season. To finish in the top four is a pretty hearty goal.

Todd White

It's up to us to adjust how we play the game. It's not up to the refs to figure out how to call it.

It's up to her now to hopefully finish this thing out and get back on track. And it's up to us now to make the adjustment team-wise.

Democrats, particularly of the Clinton variety, have really done a whale of a job in adjusting to the new political reality created by Reagan, and Republicans at the national level have struggled with that for some time.

Daniel was having some trouble with his confidence, and you see it especially after walks. He's getting better at it, but we went to Derek. He's always around the plate, throwing strikes, and it was an adjustment for (Oregon City batters) going from Daniel to Derek.

Michael Palin

Do Not Adjust Your Set ... Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The nice way to put it is that we didn't adjust well. We really just didn't handle the clock. We panicked. A lot of us are freshmen and weren't used to being in a situation like that.

The nice thing about our team right now is we don't have to change anything. We're not going to adjust our lineup. We're not going to change what we're doing.

The next adjustment will come in the foreign exchange market.

The new regulations may work or they may need to be adjusted in the future. We will just have to watch it and see what happens.

The November seasonally adjusted figure was much better than we expected, but this will probably be only a temporary slowdown in the rise in jobless numbers and does not mark the start of a turnaround.

Then, when the critical peak pricing period starts in the afternoon, you start adjusting that temperature upwards, going as high as 78. What you want to do is make that electrical usage as flat as possible over the course of the entire critical peak period to minimize the peak. Normally it will peak in the middle of the afternoon, but you want to flatten the peak.

Everybody has talent. You'll adjust when necessary, but the bottom line is that you'll need some luck, too. Some things, you can't plan, and you're just happy when they go in your favor.

It's a little different because in junior college, we played in a wood-bat league. So playing with metal here, it's going to be a change. But I'll just have to adjust to how the hitters are. The metal-bat game is obviously a lot different in the way you approach hitters.

It's all a learning experience down here, and this will give us an idea of what the real playoffs are going to be like. I think if we can adjust down here, we can adjust anywhere.

It suggests our manufacturers are adjusting to a new environment and will continue to grow, ... I think we have (already) seen the worst for manufacturing.

It's not strange, it's just exciting. It's familiar surroundings, so that made it good, and an easier adjustment for me.