Famous Quotes & Sayings

The bye is the advantage. Playing a L.C. team that's better than their record, that's not easy.

The sense of conquest is in it. Not often is a collector able to obtain complete material in one assault. The plant may be at the moment sterile, or only in fruit or flower... but this lack has the advantage of stimulating the collector to go back in another season or year to complete the work.

The senator from Alaska announced that he will also take advantage of the suffering people of the Gulf Coast by tying badly needed relief funds to the speculative revenues in his drilling plan.

The snap count, it's an advantage. When you go to the silent count, you lose that advantage. It's a good little amount of time. You've got to look at the ball, and it costs you split-seconds. It's even tougher for the tackles, because they're lined up way out there.

The team sort of caught fire. I think we took advantage of just about everything we could today.

One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.

One advantage I thought we had was with our size. When Ryan fouled out, we became vulnerable and they took advantage of it.

On defense it was just a couple of missed marks and opportunities Montrose took advantage of.

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.

Dennis Ross

Not withstanding the unique confluence of circumstances, he (Arafat) was not able to take advantage of that opportunity,

Sometimes you got to take advantage of what they give you. They gave us some wild pitches and let our runners advance.

Roland-Story is a traditional power, and Story City has got to be one of the biggest home field advantages there is. This win is one of the best in my coaching career.

Magglio Ordonez

Santana threw a lot of strikes and pitched a good game. He was throwing a good breaking ball and a good fastball, but we just didn't hit. That's the bottom line. We had chances, but we didn't take advantage of them.

David Trezeguet

Saturday's match against Palermo will be very tricky; they caused us some trouble last year both in the home match, when we earned a draw, and away, when they beat us and we're now eager to take our revenge, so that we can start the new year on the right foot and save the eight point advantage in the standings.

Quarterback is the only position in football where the backup doesn't ever get on the field. It's one position that really needs to get on the field to learn. You can't re-create game situations and speed in practice. That's why NFL Europe is so big for these young guys. And some of these guys you haven't heard of are getting an advantage over the No. 1 picks.

Tom Corbett

Rather than help them, Mr. Frankel took advantage of them and victimized them a second time,

These $1 million to $5 million yachts are like floating condos. People who can afford them are getting good pricing on them. They're also taking advantage of low interest rates. Also, if these boats come with a kitchen and restroom, then they can be classified as a second home and the interest can be written off as such.

The scramble by resource companies to boost capacity to meet world demand and take advantage of record commodity prices is clearly providing a major impetus to State growth.

The scarcity of football is an advantage that's not commented on enough. The country as a whole is becoming an event-driven culture and pro football games are still events in the way that baseball can't be.

The scale of this is smaller than that, but it's the same kind of situation where there are people taking advantage of funds available to them, thinking that no one would ever know.

The rules will determine whether this is a wide open race or give a disproportionate advantage to one candidate or another.

Dan Davis

The rules have tightened up quite a bit since then when the Taurus ran like that, so you can't really get any big advantage like that. I think any advantage we could possibly get with the Fusion we've taken advantage of, so within the rules I feel like we've gotten our job done. I think the car was good at California and it will be good at Las Vegas, no question.

Tommy Bowden

The rule is made to create equality and it's great equality if you have an airport in town. If you get bad weather, commercial flights can get in while private planes can't fly, so the advantage was already there for larger cities that get commercial flights. It's definitely a disadvantage.

Rahul Dravid

The rule as it is now, gives a huge advantage to the captain inning the toss. So, I think, they (ICC) should continue with it and allow the team to pick their super sub after the toss.

I've seen it on film and it was the right call. The rule says you can't go out of bounds to gain an advantage and that's what Drew did. He tried to avoid a cluster of players and, by natural instinct, went out of bounds without even looking down at the line.

I've never really felt a home ice advantage before this season. We play more confident and having the fans behind us is nice. It's tough to explain, but there's definitely something there.

Kimberly Williams

It would be no Christmas. It's really hard out here these days for families with children trying to have a nice holiday, so I think it's an advantage to us.

It would be nice to get a few more hits spread out over the course of the game, but we'll take them anyway we can. We had some opportunities tonight and it was good to see us take advantage of them. The guys battled their tails off tonight. It should be a big boost for these guys mentally to get them relaxed and get them on a roll.

It would be nice if we could come out and get the lead early. We've fought back a couple of times against this team, but if we can get that advantage early we can play a better game.

It would be like home-court advantage for us. So if we can try to win out and do the best we can so we can get to Jacksonville, it will make it that much easier for us in the tournament.

it would be exploitative to take advantage of the situation.

It was to our advantage to see Minnesota lose last night. To see them get upset like that made us bear down and realize that we can't let this happen to ourselves. We had to make sure that didn't happen.

It was the right move at the right time. It was perfect. They slowed down a little bit, and we took advantage of it.