Famous Quotes & Sayings

We started off slow. Male was getting good pitching and we weren't swinging the bats that well, but we got going later on and the hits started to drop in for us. We haven't played in several days and it took us awhile to get going.

Rick Carlisle

We have to go on the idea that he's not going to be here. We can't be hanging our hopes on his return. It's going to be awhile if he comes back at all.

Dusty Baker

This guy is in great shape -- this is the best shape I've seen him in. Our trainers went down and checked on him. They saw him this winter. He's doing pretty good. He hasn't played baseball for awhile so we still have to break him in slowly.

It's obviously a really big project. It will be awhile before construction takes place.

Jane Harman

This is what we should have been doing awhile ago,

They're in a difficult situation; it takes awhile to turn it around. After the new year we're 7-0. And the last couple of games, we haven't played our best games but we've found a way to win.

Larry Walker

They're on Pacific Coast time. It took them awhile to wake up.

Scott Rolen

It's a big part of that a lot of people don't understand. We had a good pulse here. You looked forward every day to coming to the park. Everybody was a big part of the team. It'll be like that again, but it takes awhile for guys to become familiar with one another.

James Farrior

It was frustrating, the first couple of years. It was hard for me. It was an adjustment, coming from college, being in the big city. It took me awhile to get comfortable.

It was awhile before we had our official first date, but this was where the connection was made. By the way, I didn't drink coffee before I met him.

Jack Johnson

People forget that he was a fierce competitor. How many times did he run for a first down scrambling on that drive? ... He made so many great plays in his career that after awhile you just got used to it.

Normally, it would take awhile to get a huge wave of products out to people very quickly. But the PlayStation is an anomaly, because, with a vertical application such as games, the uptake can be taken on quicker than normal.

Larry Brown

Dr. Callahan told me let's shut it down awhile and give him some time to rest because he hasn't done anything (like this) in two years, ... It's a lot different than working out on your own and then all of sudden being in this kind of environment. So we're going to shut it down a little bit. Hopefully he'll be back the beginning of next week. We'll know a lot more then.

Coach Wolfe is the offensive coach and he never really talks to the defense. But he yapped at us pretty good for awhile so we kind of understood the significance of it.

Jeff Mangum

The songs sort of come out spontaneously and it'll take me awhile to figure out what exactly is happening lyrically, what kind of story I'm telling. Then I start building little bridges - word bridges - to make everything go from one point to the next point to the next point until it reaches the end.

Taya Kyle

Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.

Tim Finchem

Sandy had this idea of rebuilding Harding Park, and we decided to work together on getting it rebuilt. And then it took awhile it takes awhile to do things in California. But it works for the community. And we'll see how it works for the big boys.

Public policy has largely ignored these issues for a generation, and it takes awhile to undo that level of neglect.

Sheryl Crow

Perhaps I have been out of the races for awhile but I have not missed many days off the bike, in the gym, on the trails, etc. I'd go nuts if that were to happen.

These will only get reported when people get home from work, and it will take awhile before they figure out who to call.

I've been sick for awhile and I haven't been wrestling like I should. I needed to get my conditioning back up.

Brian Billick

I've been talking about the character of these guys for quite awhile and I think you saw it tonight. It is something we can and will build on.

I've been waiting awhile to say this, but we had a great week.

I've been preparing for this for awhile bit it's hitting me now. I am an emotional guy, really.

Mary Johnston

The work of the day being over, I say down upon my doorstep, pipe in hand, to rest awhile in the cool of the evening.

The road conditions are temporary, but it does take awhile because there are quite a bit of utilities that have to be installed. It will be very nice when it's done. It's hard to build and maintain the condition of these streets without having some type of interruption.

This isn't what term limits were supposed to do. While they've brought new faces and a diversity of backgrounds to the Legislature, it's taking awhile for the new faces to seep upwards because the old faces don't want to leave.

That's how we usually play. It just took us awhile for some reason.

Ernie Grunfeld

Young players, a lack of depth, personnel changes, chemistry problems. I really don't know. It just has taken awhile for a lot of teams to come together.

Ben is a great quarterback. If I have to sit for awhile ... I have to be patient to some degree; I want to be patient in Pittsburgh. If my time comes, it will.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.

Dwyane Wade

Everybody knows Shaq and everybody knows that Shaq always says that when the playoffs come, he'll be there. So we weren't really worried. We knew after he missed 18 games that it was going to take him awhile to get back. But I think right now is the right time for this team, that around the break time, he has a chance to get back in shape and get his form back.