Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maria Sharapova

I played really sloppy on my serve. She took advantage of that and started hitting winners right and left.

I played quite safe, especially after 12 holes when I had a couple of shots advantage but then Andrew played some great golf to catch up with me.

Derek Jeter

I probably took my eye off it a little too soon. I haven't seen a replay of it, but I've got to make that play. Wang was really pitching well, he was in a groove. But after that mistake, they really took advantage of it.

Ron Wilson

In the third period of back-to-back games, I don't know if they really had the energy to take advantage of the power play. We talked about if we pushed the pace, there's a good chance we'll draw penalties tonight.

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Hopefully we'll catch them after Donald Carrie. It's like life after Robert Kent (for Jackson State). They're struggling, and teams go through that. We'll try to take advantage of that and go after their quarterbacks. We'll try to keep them frustrated.

Seth Godin

How dare you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

James Posey

He's our guy, but if he's not there we still have to get it done on both ends of the floor. That's what we did tonight. That was taking advantage of the opportunity.

He's probably the most talented guy we have on the team. He can run, block shots, defend and he can shoot the ball. I just hope he doesn't get discouraged and continues to work hard. That's the same thing that Al did. He knew he was good but waited his time. And when his time came, he took advantage of it.

Lleyton Hewitt

He's playing with so much power that I knew it is tough to break his serve. But, luckily, I was able to take advantage of a couple of my opportunities.

He's right, there really isn't a home field advantage. Unless in your head there is home field advantage and you change the way you play. I don't think we're going to do that.

He's really just coming into the prime of his career. I'd like to think his confidence level, and with the way they're going to call the game, which is going to be an advantage to a skill player ... he's a great addition. A great addition. I think for us, Pavel can make a play or do something that can create a scoring chance in a few moments.

He's ready. He's got composure about him. I think he's had enough big-league time where the anxiety has passed him, so he's just enjoying it, taking advantage of the time that he's got.

Manny Pacquiao

I don't think I have an advantage because he is coming off a loss. I think he wants to recover his name, he wants to win this fight. This time we are prepared for his jab and his straight.

Barry Bonds

I don't think I ever played a nine-inning game any year before. I never need to play a nine-inning game. I'm ready to play a nine-inning game now. You saw in the world classic guys are playing nine innings already. We're capable of playing nine innings. Do you want to? No, not in spring training when you can take advantage of the rest period.

Lance Berkman

I don't think Major League Baseball should have the right to tell us about the roof. They're trying to take the home-field advantage from us. I don't think that's right.

Caroline Williams

I don't think it gets any better than this; it's an opportunity we all want to take advantage of. We need our people here.

I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.

I don't really pay attention to what other teams are saying publicly. I don't know how much you really can say. There's no reason to tip your hand. You put that much time into it, it's kind of crazy to kind of just give the information away. Much like ourselves, everybody's evasive at this point. There's no advantage to doing that. You're not going to trick anybody into thinking you're going to do something. ... You have a lot of friends throughout the league but at this time of year you don't really have too many friends.

Brandon Heath

I don't know if it will be an advantage for us but it's good that we get to play in a place that we played in before. It's good to be back on a college floor. We didn't shoot the ball too well on a pro floor.

John Hall

I don't know if it's legal or not, but it's done every day, so why not take advantage of it? And it's cheap advertising.

Rick Barnes

I don't know if it's an advantage or a disadvantage. I told the guys were only going to worry about the game in front of us. From there, you move on to the next one if you're successful.

I don't know how many more years I've got personally, and I don't know if I can ever have this kind of year again. So I want to try to take advantage of it as best I can.

Warren Beatty

I don't know if I will run, ... interestingly, politically, you have a kind of tactical advantage when you don't know. Because other people know. They have plans. They have exploratory committees. ... So when you don't know you have flexibility.

I didn't try to force anything. If it comes to me, I'm going to take advantage of it. The last couple of games I didn't feel that I had the opportunity.

But I don't look at last year negatively. I look at it like I've been through it and I've been able to hopefully used those situations to my advantage in the upcoming years.

Kofi Annan

But I hope the work that has been done will not be wasted and that the people of Cyprus -- both Turkish and Greeks -- will see an advantage in pursuing this effort and bringing it to a fruitful conclusion.

Rafael Benitez

But I had an advantage in that I knew the team and knew the atmosphere here.

Before we get into Baltimore there are going to be a variety of changes and obviously we are hoping to take advantage of them. The biggest challenge at the moment is to keep pushing at all times. The first week was very intense because everyday we saw one or two boats which made it very easy to drive everybody in the team. The last five to six days we haven't really seen another boat so it's like racing an imaginary electronic opponent. It's so important to keep fighting all the way to the end of this leg.

Harrison Ford

I continue to develop some things for myself and also take advantage of good parts as they come along.

He's stepped up and took advantage of a situation that was presented to him and excelled in that.

The key to the console is not the platform - by itself, PlayStation 2 is nothing but a big paperweight. It's the game that makes it, and taking advantage of the features that it has.

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