Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you have the game almost taken away from you, and you're trying to get a job, you try to make the most of your opportunities.

Pat Riley

When you play in this league, this league will bring you to your knees very quickly if you're not defending and not respecting the game and we almost got caught. Maybe we'll learn a lesson.

There are about 50 examples. Almost every player that's come out here at 18, that's been out here at least 10 years, wish they hadn't. Most wish they would have gone to a little bit of college, ... It's not a game like football where your career is over at 25. You actually start getting better in your 30s.

Drew Houston

There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

Brad Anderson

We always try to be positive with the kids. The girls played a lot of tournament golf over the summer and where down here two times. I think it helped us handle the pressure. To be 45 strokes better and tie for second tells you how tough a field it is. It's almost unbelievable. I couldn't be more proud of the girls.

When you look at the volume -- I think in '95, when they had the last slide, they were talking about 600,000 tons of sand and mud coming down -- there's really nothing that can stop something of that magnitude. It's almost completely a sheer cliff.

Steve Stevens

When you invest in Northern Kentucky in any project, it's almost a certainty that you're going to double your investment over time.

When you have an opportunity to get together with people in several different industries it's almost like you have 30 little warriors out there marketing your business for you every week. They're real people. They're walking, talking, breathing billboards.

Jeff Koons

When you have an idea for a work and when you've finished your model for it, for the artist it's almost complete, in a way. But then bringing it to the finish is really something you do for the audience. It is always exciting.

When you have a chance to make plays and don't, you can almost be assured the final score will not favor your team.

Chris Brown

When you go to Portland, ... Clive is pretty much a father figure to the girls and the boys. He takes you almost as his son or daughter.

Wes Walz

When you got a few guys out of the lineup, the other team has the puck. It's almost 60-40. When you got the puck, you're not going to be taking many penalties. Sometimes, it's now how many you take it's when you take them.

Mark Turgeon

When you do that, you've almost had a perfect day.

Manu Ginobili

When you don't play great and you can still get the win, especially on the road, it counts almost double. I think it's a great thing.

John Curry

The price dropped from $5.80 to $2.30 at one stage. Even now it is languishing around $3, so the shareholders have lost almost $1 billion in value.

Mack Brown

The players dared me. They said I was a coward. I almost threw up.

What led me to believe that hearings are necessary, ... is the broad array of complaints, which is almost mind-boggling, that have occurred in the Florida election -- such things as voting machines (and) disparate treatment as to who had what voting equipment.

Steve Johnson

What kind of message does that send to the troops? That inspector was almost killed. . . . It's amazing that she survived.

This summer, the consumer was cautious, with all the uncertainty going on in the country. But almost all of those worries are gone, and that is good news at the start of the holiday season.

Paul Hartman

This summer's been particularly bad. It almost feels like a cat is sitting on my chest.

This sale is in line with Venezuela's efforts to modernize many of branches in its armed forces. Many of these purchases are designed to move away from equipment that was almost uniquely sourced to the U.S.

This river runs clean almost all year long. If it takes two days of rain to dirty it up, it takes two days to clear.

This requires a data system with capacities similar to many low-Earth-orbiting satellites but exercised over a far greater distance with less power and weight than typically allotted. In almost all aspects, this is a challenging mission.

There have been ups and downs. But I think I made the right choice by coming to UNLV. It has been a good experience. I know it's almost over, but I try not to think about it. It makes me sad, and that's why I really want a successful year.

Gerard Way

There have been tours where we hit a different Wal-Mart almost every night.

Dick Thompson

There have been something like 180 million birds that have died either directly from the disease or been culled because they were exposed to it. Yet it's taken us all this time -- more than two years, almost three years now -- to cross this barrier.

There has not been anything systemic that we can point to or work to rectify in any meaningful way, which has been part of the challenge. I almost wish I could point to something.

There has been some changes going on for the last few weeks out there. On our free time, we've been doing a lot of cleaning up at the site. You almost feel like you're in a jail back there.

There has been a partial impact but the banks are open and attendance at government offices is almost normal,

Richard Moe

There is a built-in incentive to demolish. The first instinct after natural disasters is almost always to demolish buildings. It is almost always wrong.

When Claudia first got here, she was almost too powerful for her own game. She was banking on simply overpowering people because that's how she found success in junior tennis. She's a very strong player. But at this level, we're trying to teach her to harness that power and play smart. In a year or two, the girl's going to be a national force.

When I see him now, sometimes it just brings tears to my eyes. He was almost more excited about getting a hamster than being cured. It is amazing just to look at him and see that glimmer in his eyes. They are so full of life.

Ali LeRoi

We're trying to build stories that come from smaller things. There's one show where Chris gets into trouble because his sister wants to make a cup of hot chocolate, but she almost burns the house down. It's just about hot chocolate. There's another show where he gets upset with the girl next door because he finds out she likes his little brother more than she likes him. It's little, simple things.