Famous Quotes & Sayings

My timing was off and I got somewhat ahead of myself in my eagerness for a break point. I'd like to limit these types of routine errors in the future,

Joe Nathan

My thought was just to try to get ahead on strikes and make sure I'm around the plate. It's been a while since I've been out there, so in those situations you never know how you will react.

Aaron Peirsol

My strategy was to stay ahead of Michael in the first 100m, then pull away. That's what I did.

My strategy is not to let the girl, if there is someone in front of me, not let her get more than maybe five steps ahead of me. That'd make it difficult to catch up to her. Mainly, it's strive.

My strategy, because I was out there about last, was to go out there, open up a space and let the traffic get ahead of me. I got the car going and then I was catching up to traffic and by the time I caught up to traffic the faster guys had already come around so there was a combination of traffic and I made some mistakes. It was hard to get some clean laps in.

My story for the players has been getting away from eighth and focusing on seventh. We are not worried about the Bruins because they have other teams to jump ahead of before they get to us.

Ken Thompson

My wife was working for a biotech company in San Diego when she walked away to become a mom, ... We have two children now and she plans to go back part-time someday. Any investing I do for her right now would be in education, to keep herself updated, ahead of the curve, especially since technology is moving so fast right now.

My view is that there are just a lot of anomalies that come into play when you talk about playoff pairings, particularly in the first rounds. I think the concern this year is because we have two teams in the West that seem to be way ahead of everybody else.

Roger Clemens

Location was a lot better than what I expected and the breaking ball is ahead of schedule.

Local market sentiment was also buoyed by overseas investors, who had placed large net buy orders ahead of the market opening today. This helped prompt retail investors here to step up purchases.

Lloyd Price is one of the best-prepared student-athletes I've ever been around. On the field, he is one play ahead of the game at all times and brings a tremendous amount of energy and commitment to the game.

Just because the road looks tough up ahead doesn't mean you can give up. He's always been that way as a coach, but I think the struggles we had with my sister's health just gave him more resolve than ever. That had such a profound effect on my father. He saw the fight in my sister and the faith everyone had. It showed him the power of positive thinking.

Mario Ancic

It is by no means over yet. We have an enormous day ahead of us.

It is crucial that we time our new products ahead of major events. My biggest challenge is whether our sales strategy will be strong enough to compete with bigger rivals on a global scale.

It is crucial that we time our new products ahead of major events.

Evan Bayh

I think this is a good day for democracy in Iraq and am proud of the American soldiers without whom this would not have been possible, but it's not the end of the process. We have a long and difficult road ahead of us and I think we're going to need the kind of leaders that understand the complexities in Iraq to be successful.

I'm still not putting guys away when I get ahead right now. It's killing me a little bit, but luckily the defense is bailing me out. I'm battling right now. My command is not where I want it to be at all and it's making innings interesting.

Jack Dean

I'm so excited and ecstatic that we won our first match. Our first two rounds kind of set the tone. We were 20 strokes ahead when Kendra and Heather came in.

I'm sure Bernard and Gilbert will be tough, ... I'll run the course ahead of time to get a feel for it. I'm aiming for that record. I'll have to run hard to make sure I'll break it -- close to a 100 percent effort. I'm not going to leave anything to chance.

Samuel Johnson

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

I'm hoping we don't get as much as in '96, ... I think we're a little bit ahead of the game.

I'm honored and excited to assume this new leadership role at AMD. During my time at AMD, we've overcome many hurdles to become a driving force in the microprocessor industry. Still, more challenges and opportunities are ahead of us, and I plan to help AMD capitalize on those opportunities to change the competitive dynamics of the microprocessor industry and continue our sustained growth. My new position also gives Hector more bandwidth to focus on leading the company as CEO.

Mei is someone I was lucky to have. She was a lot of fun. She has a lot of good swimming ahead of her.

Most of the roundtables have been wrapped up in by-laws, but are now moving ahead into substantive stuff and talking about issues. The danger is that the procedural stuff will turn some people off. During the next month or two months, we'll be making the shift from talking about rules and choosing leadership to how we work in a collaborative manner.

We've talked all year about being consistent. And now they're starting to do that. They're getting ahead in the count more often, and that makes a big difference.

We never missed a day of publication and that's a testament to everybody in this room. We will arise from this terrible situation. I think our best journalism is still ahead of us.

well ahead of the projections we had for ourselves in terms of revenue, order numbers and traffic.

The approach to hitting is excellent with these guys. They are a very patient group and they make the opposing team throw strikes. That's a credit to them. Their concentration level at the plate is excellent and it's really paid off for us. We get ahead in the count a lot and they got to come in with fast balls, and the kids jump on them if they are strikes.

The amount of time that Simon is going to be out will be to where he can tolerate being able to go ahead and skate and push off and get the strength back in that one leg. We're looking at no more than two weeks at that point." ()

The arrests were timed to shore up Serbia's position ahead of the Kosovo talks, show they are dealing with the crimes.

Jerry Miller

That was it. If last year never happened, we would have went ahead and had it Saturday. But we all remembered what last year was like.

That was incredible. When you are ahead and playing downhill, it's tough on the other team.

Nick Swisher

That was huge. The way things have been going, to pull off a win like we did today, especially with a long road trip ahead of us, it gives us momentum and confidence.