Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Skiles

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn't going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they're not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden 6 minutes into the game put him out there. That wouldn't be fair. I think it's better that he stayed ready, but unfortunately he didn't get in.

My caddie says go ahead and hit that putt,

Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.

Most importantly, include potential tax payments in your budget of expenses. Plan ahead to pay taxes just as you plan ahead to pay for holiday gifts, birthday celebrations, and more.

Merck is going to fight an uphill battle every time they step in the courtroom. They have a long legal harangue ahead of them.

Microsoft faces many significant competitors and changes in the high-tech industry are always going to be five steps ahead of government attempts to regulate the high-tech marketplace.

Michael worked ahead in the count most of the game, and we made some plays behind him. Wilson has been coming on lately after struggling early in the season. We are counting on him to be a big stick.

Glenn Roeder

Michael saw his specialist on Monday and had a good look at his latest X-rays. He is happy at what he has seen and heard and now it's full steam ahead for him. Things are going well for Michael and he is perhaps a week ahead of where we always thought he would be after his injury.

Will had thrown a couple innings in relief, but this was his first varsity start, and he threw strikes and did well. The key is working ahead in the count.

Buster Keaton

When sound came, we found this out--we found this out from our own pictures--that sound didn't bother us at all. There was only one thing I wanted at all times, and insisted on: that you go ahead and talk in the most natural way, in your situations. Don't give me puns. Don't give me jokes. No wisecracks.

We just want to take it one week at a time. Right now 2-0 is good, but that could change at any time. You don't need to look too far ahead or even too much in the past. You just have to focus each week on what you have.

We just want to take each game one at a time. We don't want to look too far ahead and we don't want to overlook anybody.

We haven't wanted to look ahead to that game. We just tried to play it a game at a time.

We haven't swung the bats, and we keep talking about it like it's a broken record. I think we'll get better as we go. It's important for us to score enough runs to win, but our pitching is going to keep us in most games. Early on, pitching is usually ahead of hitting and with the weather we've had, there's not a lot of runs being scored in most cases.

Looking further forward, we are expecting slower growth in the quarters ahead as a softening housing market starts to dampen consumer spending growth.

Looking ahead we will be taking our time to appoint a successor for what will be another very important season for the club in 2006.

Looking ahead we continue to see solid demand, which should support future volume and yield growth. Our challenge will be to continue to handle that growth more efficiently.

Looking ahead to next week, the more important question for investors will be: 'Will the market experience a holiday hangover as investors take profits?'.

Alan Johnson

Looking ahead to 2006, most firms plan to hire strategically as concerns linger over rising interest rates, high energy prices and geo-political events,

Looking ahead to 2005, we are moderately optimistic and are looking for a stronger performance in the first half of the year followed by some weakness in the second half of the year.

Looking ahead beyond the current gloom, there is a serious risk that we already have inflationary forces baked into the system. By late spring, the Fed could be cranking up interest rates even faster than they cut them.

Markets may start pricing in some stronger data as there's a risk industrial production is better than expected. People will start buying the dollar ahead of it.

David Thwaites

Markets are subdued ahead of the Fed (U.S. Federal Reserve) meeting on Tuesday. It's not clear what the Fed's intentions are.

Markets are basically in a holding pattern. We had some good economic numbers, but it's Friday ahead of a long Christmas weekend so people aren't going to make much a commitment.

Market participants stayed on the sidelines ahead of the US data.

Market participants are reluctant to make bets ahead of the decision at the Bank of Japan policy board meeting today.

Market participants are not making large positions ahead of the holidays.

Market investors appear to be looking ahead to the end of the Fed tightening cycle and its implications for the dollar.

Market growth ahead of forecasts in almost all regions reflects continuing strong demand.

Mattel is a show-me story. We're not going to see any Barbie turnaround this year, but investors will try to get ahead of the story and anticipate whether Friedman has really done something that dramatically repositions the brand.

Marco and Eric are forging full-speed ahead and certainly look to fill out the team. They've been extremely busy and will be extremely busy until they get the roster in place.

(Martin) threw strikes and was ahead in the count. When you throw as hard as he does and you're ahead in the count you're going to be successful.

(Massey has) really been our leader throughout most of the season. He did a great job of getting out ahead of the batters and throwing strikes.