Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hawaiians are pretty complacent sitting out here in the middle of the Pacific. I don't think the average person has any concept of the threat.

He's a great hitter. He's gone through a spell where things haven't dropped his way. His average is starting to climb again.

Her lower scoring average is a compliment to the rest of the team. I see it that way and I know she does, too.

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

(Goode) has got great balance and a big offensive line in front of him. Those guys must average about 270 or 280 (pounds). He's got good field awareness and breakaway speed.

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

He's got out of the dangerous zones and life-threatening situations more than the average person and, therefore, my belief is that he's going to pull through. Every day is another battle. The man is fighting for his life, but that's not the first time he's been doing it.

He scores goals in bunches so its obvious we're going to need him and everybody else to show up for the next two games. When we don't bring our speed to a game we're a pretty average team but on the nights we're flying we're pretty much unstoppable. I think the guys realize what team we need out there to wrap this thing up.

Historically, the state usually falls further behind the nation during periods of economic weakness, as experienced in 2002 into 2003. However, job quality also fell by more than the national average in 2004.

I would say this year will be about an average year. But even though it may not be as strong as other years, it will play itself out in the end.

David Wilson

I would say the average water damage restoration that we get involved in is somewhere between $1,500 and $5,000 or $6,000. But we have had some that run $15,000 or $20,000.

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

I think investors should strongly invested, ... They should realize that doom and gloom and all of this talk of recession is typical of major market lows. I think they should realize that the average decline within these long-term 'super bull' markets is 19 percent. And we've been down 27-to-28 percent. It's a great time to buy.

I think it's good news for the economy. When you take away the GM strike and average last month's figures with this month's, you see employment growth at moderate levels, which is good for sustainable growth.

Richard McCabe

I think it's all part of the bottoming out process that the market average have been going through since mid-April,

I think it's inexcusable we don't do a better job of training. The average turnover rate is something like 136 percent, so they actually lose more drivers than they're able to hire.

It certainly helps with equipment. For the average player, it makes it easier to play. But, from an optimum standpoint, you need to learn to hit the ball solid, and people don't because they don't have the mechanics necessary to do so.

We expect to see only a moderate increase in room supply: about 1.2% this year, compared with a historical average of 2.2% in the U.S..

We've been waiting for something like this for a long time. But we need to resist the temptation to put too much weight on any one month's report -- probably the best thing to do is to average out the past few months; that gives a clearer picture.

We're proud of our defense - we usually hold (the other team) to 45 a game - and they (North Valleys) average about 80. It's gonna be a battle. We haven't been successful with high-scoring teams. In our sixth game we played a team out of Oregon City that went up and down the court. We didn't match up well with them. Same with a Logan, Utah team, which beat us convincingly.

We talked before the meet about our top five average time last year in the county. Our average was 19:11 last year and it was 19-even this year. We improved 11 seconds. We had set a goal of at least 10 seconds. I was pretty pleased. Any time you take the top five you have to be pleased.

We're not worried at all. Guys are going to get there. They're going to be fine. Once league play starts, you'll see those averages start going up.

What we are taking is a Dow Jones industrial average of sexual content.

We've gone from comfortable U.S. gasoline stocks to average and seem to be heading very clearly toward the low of the range. The market is worried about that.

We've given up only 40 points a game on average during the season. It's probably gone down now in the tournament.

With McDonald's you get a minor dividend of 1 percent and right now, where it's trading, around a 13, 14 price-to-earnings ratio, it is very reasonable, ... A little bit below the S&P average at this point.

We take an average year's consumption and divide it by 12 so all payments are equal and people can budget their gas bill.

John Hull

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.

HSDPA promises the highest average speeds to date.

He was still able to average a double-double with everything defenses tried to do.

He was more concerned with his batting average than we were. We liked the plate discipline he showed (59 walks) and the power numbers. For a 20-year-old in that league, the walks and power numbers are great predictors for good things.

Bob Gibson

He walked 1.9 men per nine innings, that's pretty good. I used to average about three or four -- I'd hit six or seven.

He could make a run for it. He's averaged about 25 points a game this season, so who knows.