Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Stoops

I thought the secondary played solid and good the entire day. The one deep wheel route we gave up on our boundary was somebody else outside of the secondary busting an assignment and not covering their guy. They tackled well for the most part, their positions on the ball and challenging in many coverage, I thought, were really pretty good.

I think we might not have as much talent on our defense this year, but I think we have much better team players this year. Guys aren't going out there and freelancing. They're spending more time in film study and playing good assignment defense the only way it should be played, and that's at 100 miles per hour.

George H. W. Bush

I don't know whether or not the press corps realizes it, but his is a challenging assignment, dealing with you all on a regular basis, and I thought he handled his assignment with class and integrity ... It's going to be hard to replace Scott.

Bruce Boudreau

He came in as a mediocre penalty killer at the beginning of the season and now he's part of our top four. He's taken every assignment we've given him, taken it with grace and done a great job at it.

Jerry Sloan

If you're supposed to be on a certain place on the floor defensively, you've got to get there. You can't just go crazy. And if you've got a certain assignment on the offensive end of the floor, that all remains the same. But if we break it down because we've got something else in mind, then the other four guys don't have any idea what we're doing. It's just basketball. But we have to play it together.

I'm glad I went on rehab assignment to see some live pitching and get some at-bats. I said there were no excuses, I was seeing the ball well at Triple-A and I was able to come back and get it going.

Cedric Benson

The end came off the edge and I missed an assignment there. I didn't get my guy.

You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's called and make the play when they throw at you. It doesn't matter if they come out and throw it 50 times or run it 50 times. You have to play your assignment and execute.

The homework assignment is for legislative leaders to go back to their caucuses and see what the level of support is." ()

Every night ... we'd watch film together, or we'd come in late from games together, it was just good because he knew exactly what I was going through. We were doing homework together because we knew we had to get the assignment done before we went on the trip. It was great.

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Ned Yost

It's possible Wise or Santana will go out on a rehab assignment to pitch a few innings. We just want to make sure they're OK before we make a roster move and send somebody out.

It's much like the question about injuries - it has to be considered, it has to be brought up. The committee member who has the monitoring assignment for that team and for that conference would be obliged to bring that to the attention of the committee.

Brian Mitchell

It's very wide open. There could be changes. It's whoever is going to step up during two-a-days and then make the players and be assignment sound.

Bill Snyder

It will be very competitive. All four candidates are doing well. Now to qualify that, we don't have a Darren Sproles. But they're all doing well. They're assignment sound, they work hard and they have capabilities.

It was measured and copied and photographed, and then someone would get the assignment to replicate a part, like an altimeter.

Ed Orgeron

It's more of an assignment thing with Kendrick, but eventually he and Antonio will play. They aren't ready to play right now.

Mike Wallace

Covering Richard Nixon's triumphant run in 1968 turned out to be my last major assignment as a general correspondent for CBS News. In September of that year, '60 Minutes' made its debut and I began the best, the most fulfilling job a reporter could imagine.

Nancy Horan

I'm married to Kevin, a photographer whose career has put him on the campaign trail with presidential candidates and sent him on assignment to far-flung places for long periods of time. It was sometimes rough when our children were small, and I was beginning to write in earnest.

It's a dangerous offense. They force a defense to be assignment oriented. You can't slide off and help because then you will get hurt.

Of course, you can only imagine how busy we are now with tax work. We make sure, though, that each assignment we're given is done within 24 hours.

Joe Berlinger

Some people got their first choice and some got their last choice, but everyone ran with the assignment with a lot of enthusiasm.

Stu Jackson

These affiliations and the assignment system are really going to benefit both the players and the teams,

Stu Jackson

These affiliations and assignment systems will, for the players, provide them with the opportunity to get playing time.

My assignment was exclusively in the research field, and my first published paper, On the Optimal Use of Winds for Flight Planning, was the outgrowth of that work.

Rick Dempsey

Even though I will have the bullpen assignment this year, no one can replace Elrod Hendricks. I'm just proud to have known him as a friend, a teammate and a fellow coach.

Stacey Snider

Be serious. You've got to do the job you were hired to do well, but there's always more you can do. When I was an assistant, I would say to myself, 'You may not be an executive, but act like one.' I would volunteer for any creative assignment - read scripts, do 'coverage,' write notes.

Angela Braly

Be open to opportunity and take risks. In fact, take the worst, the messiest, the most challenging assignment you can find, and then take control.

Chris Givens

We were doing a good job killing that penalty. We had it (puck) at the blue line, but we couldn't chip it out. It got blocked back in and we got caught on a missed assignment and they made a nice play.

We didn't play assignment football at the end like we should have defensively to stop the option. We attacked the quarterback pretty well in the third quarter, but then the fullback got us on some bend-backs late in the ballgame. We had people in the right positions, but I'm disappointed in the missed tackles." ()

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

The other horse (Paratroopers) was coming back to him. It was a great win, but the Cox Plate is a much tougher assignment for him.

Van Orden has really come on. He came over from soccer and has worked hard and is blossoming into a strong defensive end. Paski is, too. We don't want to try and do too much, just play assignment football. If he gets out of the pocket, he's scary.