Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob told me to get off the rail, which I did, when we came out of the first turn. He settled in real nice down the backside. I had three horses up ahead battling, and while it looked like we were losing some ground around the turn, I think the best part of the track was was three or four lanes off the rail ù exactly where Bob wanted to see this horse.

Both are good prospects. At this point in time Todd may be a little bit more ahead of Heath.

Bobby Petrino

Brian has come along well. He's way ahead of where I thought he'd be right now.

Brooks got ahead of most of the hitters today, and he's got too many weapons to put you away when he does that. He had his command, he got out of some early trouble, we gave him a little bit of offense and that's what we needed. We showed a lot of character with the quick turnaround after a tough 11-inning loss. We were ready to go and that's a good sign.

Brooklyn has always been ahead of its time.

Brad did a nice job of getting ahead in the count. Our defense was solid. We didn't commit an error ? it was a good effort.

James Bowen

Boy, did I look closely into Michael's shot. Because no one saw it go in, I had to talk to people in his foursome as well as the group ahead of him, which included the course's groundskeeper. The groundskeeper said he never saw the ball go in but did say there was no one around who could have dropped it in.

Better days are ahead for Stony Brook basketball. We have the 40th-ranked recruiting class.

Everything was going fine. Then I walked the leadoff batter, and that's never good. I still felt like I was getting ahead of the hitters, but I just didn't make good pitches with two strikes.

Even if we had not been able to lay this extra thick, ready to play turf, the games scheduled this weekend would be going ahead as the surface is not dangerous. What has happened is that we knew we had a problem with the grass when it was covered up for too long.

Even if the company you buy the insurance through can't pay you, the USDA will make sure you get paid. There is also the provision the USDA can cut off sales, as in December 2003. This is something you need to consider ahead of time because, as they say, you can't wait for the house to be on fire to buy home insurance.

Even though it is very early in the year, the Alabama housing market in 2006 is ahead of the market at the same time last year.

Peter DeFazio

easily concealed, easily smuggled, very inexpensive. And we've got to get ahead of this. We've got to do what we can to prevent their acquisition and usage.

Bismarck looked really tough. But, we had two goals, to get ahead of New Town and stay close to Jamestown and we did that. They did just what I asked of them.

Marilyn Monroe

Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men.

Alex Berenson

Trust-me companies are companies whose financial results gallop ahead of their businesses, companies with seemingly perfect control over their quarterly sales and profits. Companies whose financial statements are loaded with footnotes: companies that short-sellers often attack but rarely dent.

Yes, we must severely punish criminals who use guns, but we must also stop the flood of illegal guns at its source - the gun dealers who put profit ahead of public safety.

Brian Dawkins

We were focused on what was at hand ... this season, this game here. It's kind of hard to look ahead sometimes and try to see the light, but that was the light. The light was we lost last year in the Super Bowl, and we're trying to get back there. ... We're all pushing for that same goal.

We were expecting (it) to be strong but today's announcement is well ahead of expectations.

While we are running some 7-8 percent ahead of last year both in tonnage and revenue, we feel we could be much stronger without the union's activities. They've had very limited success with (organizing) our employees. So now they are trying to intimidate our customers.

Daniel Burnham

While we are pleased with meeting our earnings targets for the quarter, we are even more pleased with the company's operating cash flow performance, with continuing operations $600 million ahead of plan for the first half of the year.

You are seeing people marking shares down ahead of the weekend and Wall Street reopening on Monday.

You cannot run a government by that kind of direct animosity towards your population because what we are looking ahead to is a much greater disaster.

You cannot ignore the Nintendo magic on the software side. It puts them in the pole position ahead of Microsoft.

Terry Hoeppner

You can't coach tall. A 6-7 guy who has a knack for going up and getting the ball, he's got a great, great future ahead of him. We really feel one of our strength positions now is becoming wide receiver. ... But they've all got to be a threat.

Jerry Jones

You can look ahead and see the challenges, ... but I don't know anyone who didn't want to feel good for the next two weeks.

We wanted to be one of the top three seeds. We knew Nashville was going to be a real good team, and after the first 45-50 games they were ahead of us, but our guys have really stuck to it.

We wanted to be ahead in the fourth quarter and be able to spread them out and run some time off the clock.

We wanted the Regional in hopes of putting ourselves in the best position possible to go to the national meet. We have a hard competition ahead of us, but we're poised to go out there and do the best job possible and see what happens.

We wanted to stay back; they are the No. 6-ranked team in the state, not us. If they did not want to take it to us, we liked to shorten the game. If they wanted to hold it out there, go ahead and hold it out there, we'll take our chances.

We've had a pretty significant rally over the last few months. The fundamentals have been better, but perhaps the stocks got a little bit ahead of the fundamentals as a number of companies have met or exceeded second-quarter expectations but haven't necessarily raised the bar for future quarters.

We've had a good season. We've got a lot of young guys coming back next season, so I think we've got good things ahead of us.

Chuck D.

We've had really good teams in every sport, we've just never been able to get ahead of the private schools.