Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grand Rapids will say all the right things, but I think they'll look at the standings and see they finished 25 points ahead of us and think in the back of their minds, 'Hey, let's win four straight and move on. We want to go in and maybe take it to seven games and see what happens then.

Gosh, you wouldn't pass up an opportunity like that. It would be pretty cool, but I think there are a lot of athletes who would be picked ahead of me.

John Davidson

For the last several weeks, the market has gotten ahead of the economic news. You're seeing that with the jobs report this morning. For stocks to continue to climb, you need to see the economic news start to catch up.

For the most part, tech in general is not ahead of itself as long as the third and fourth quarter numbers come in on target.

For people who look closely at energy, the idea of New York being a callous and wasteful place is long dead and buried. When it comes to following up on new ideas and new technologies and staying ahead of the curve in terms of being smart and economical, New York is clearly among the leaders in the country.

If he (Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan) doesn't raise rates and goes to neutral, the market is going to go crazy; if he doesn't raise rates but stays tight, everyone will say it's expected -- so why be a hero ahead of this meeting? ... I expect he's going to do nothing and maintain a very vigilant bias. I think he's going to be on the (lookout) for inflation.

Pat Robertson

If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it.

I felt that there should be a special card for high-earning executives who spend a lot. After identifying this target audience to American Express, they went ahead and did it. The card turned out to be a big success.

John Bolton

If for whatever reason the council couldn't fulfill its responsibilities, then I think it would be incumbent on us, and I'm sure we would press ahead to ask other countries or other groups of countries to impose those sanctions.

If implemented properly . . . the banks should be able to keep ahead of the fraudsters.

Ibsen wrote a kind of Times best seller; he wasn't 100 years ahead of his time -- he was 10 years ahead. It was the feminist anthem of its time -- the YMCA of feminism.

Andre Agassi

I can be playing in front of a smaller group of people and playing the match of my life. At almost 36 years old, I don't take it for granted. That (U.S. Open) match with James Blake was one of the best moments of my career, to be part of something special like that. I hope I have some big moments ahead of me.

I'd hate to go ahead and collect the tax and I haven't identified where I was going to spend it.

I'd go after him. I know the White House isn't going to like having me say this, but I think that if Butler is able to make the case ... that there is any pattern that's in place here, I would go ahead and I would try to get folks out of there and I would bomb him, ... Fox News Sunday.

Aaron Baddeley

I definitely feel that a little weight has been lifted. Now I know the next time I'm in that position, I'll know I've gone ahead and won before, so it's going to give me confidence the next time I'm in the same position.

I can promise you that's not true. There was a lot of pressure here, I can assure you. That last putt I thought I might whiff, I was that nervous. My caddie told me, 'This is the moment you've been waiting for your whole life, so go ahead and do it'. So I did. We needed this cup. We really did.

Stuart Appleby

I can promise you that's not true, ... There was a lot of pressure here, I can assure you. That last putt I thought I might whiff, I was that nervous. My caddie told me, 'This is the moment you've been waiting for your whole life, so go ahead and do it'. So I did. We needed this cup. We really did.

I don't think there are any investors who can say with confidence that 20-year bonds are a great buy with stocks rallying. It's natural to see some selling of bonds ahead of the auction.

Alfred Molina

I don't think that there's such a thing as a career. I think that career is a myth. A career isn't what you have ahead of you. A career is what you've got behind you. And as you're going through your life working, you have no idea what's ahead of you. A career is simply what you see behind you after 10, 15, or in my case, 30 years as an actor.

I don't think that the outcome at Sikorsky is some sort of signal to employers that they can just go ahead and reduce benefits. The next time, it's going to be a whole different set of circumstances, and it will happen the way it happens.

Gary Gaetti

I'd say he's well on his way to coming back in September and helping us. It all depends on how he feels. I think he can probably step in there right now and hit. That's how it is for Major Leaguers. He seems to be far ahead of where he was before he had his surgery, but I'm only basing that on batting practice.

I'd say we're 10 percent ahead of where we'd normally be.

I do think consolidation is ahead for our industry.

Kofi Annan

I don't think anyone can remove it from the general public's perception of how we are moving ahead with development.

William Gallas

I don't think anybody will catch us. Chelsea will be the champions again. I don't know how many points ahead we will be but I'm sure of that.

Ted Sarandos

I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

I am worried that there are people working in television who know something is going to be offensive and then just go ahead and show it.

I am nevertheless confident that we have the strategic wherewithal and resources to manage the challenges ahead and successfully seize the considerable opportunities ahead of us.

Jimmy Smith

I am not happy with the work that we put in. We made a lot of mistakes on offense, something that we can't have. We have a lot of work ahead of us.

Mark Richt

I feel better about the defense overall today. I was getting a little concerned that things were getting a little too evenly matched. I think the defense ought to be a little ahead at this point, and the last couple times we've practiced it really hadn't been that way. But the defense really stepped it up.

Harry S Truman

I fear that machines are several centuries ahead of the mortals.

I feel like all of the pitchers on the staff are way ahead of schedule. We're preparing to work through the seventh inning this year, boys.

I don't want to get ahead of ourselves, ... but if he continues like this, we'd have to rethink some things.