Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were in need of a potential back-up catcher, but we also knew that he was pretty versatile. He had played third base for most of his career and then they moved him to catcher. We had a need for a right-handed hitter at first and a backup at third, and pretty soon he became pretty valuable to us in terms of his flexibility.

We need to be more physical and we need to sustain our blocks longer. If I was a backup and was going to play this weekend, I'd be excited. It's a chance to show what you can do as a football player.

Both the primary and backup were lost simultaneously.

We always used to say if something happens early in the season, the backup quarterback is best prepared because he's had all of training camp. Now what we say is the next best thing for it to happen, if it has to happen, is during the bye. Because it gives you your second chance to get him back in the rhythm.

Allen Iverson

Come the fourth quarter, we buckled down and got the stop and made some good plays offensively. Earl, I don't want to call him a backup point guard because he's just as good as many guards in this league.

Scott Skiles

He plays 20 minutes a game and consistently blocks shots all over the place. He's a great defender and still changes ends very well. He's an intimidating-type player. To have a backup center like him is a luxury.

People should be considering a backup plan for watching the Super Bowl.

Joe Nemechek

Once we get the primary engine in the backup (car), we should be fast. I am not really sure why the (primary) car did what it did. I was down low and the car was sticking, and then all of a sudden it was headed to the wall.

The more mobility we have with content, the more it will drive backup storage. Backup storage will become a big deal for us.

Companies should make sure that their patch procedures extend to all applications, including security and backup programs.

Dennis has been the starter the entire time, and he is the starter. We have just tended to play our backup more than other people are maybe comfortable with doing. I don't know that that's going to change.

Texas Tech had a very disappointing season, and Erin didn't have a lot of people around her. I think people looked at that team as underachieving and maybe labeled Erin the same way. But she had a tremendous pre-draft camp. When you put her with better players, she's able to rise to the occasion. I expect that she is really going to compete for that backup spot.

Sometimes it's good to even have a backup plan. Say you decide to change jobs in the new year; it's always good to have a way of having some job that you could go back to if you didn't like the new one.

The station was operating on a backup transmitter that they don't normally use, and that was creating the problem. They were very cooperative, installing the necessary filters.

The SPUI design is much safer, because of longer exit ramps with increased storage that eliminate the backup on the freeway. And when you exit I-94 to Telegraph, with the SPUI design, the decision of which direction you want is made on the ramp, at a slower speed. Before, that decision was made on mainline I-94 itself.

As long as there is no inflation this is extremely good for the financial markets and also for the bond market. What we saw a couple of weeks ago was a backup due to technical factors rather than any fundamental changes.

Mike Sherman

They're the catalyst to the defense because they're so active, so disruptive. There aren't a whole lot of holes there. They've certainly drafted well and had good guys in backup roles. That's the biggest difference between this year and a couple years ago when they played with the same four guys.

This is a pretty powerful tool. Backup software does not keep historical information like this and other tape vendors do not have the capacity to keep this information for long periods of time.

There was no pressure. That's part of being a backup goalie.

As far as we know, there is no other university that is providing as extensive a backup program as this one is.

Rick Brunson

As a player you like to have a defined role and I am going in there knowing I'll be a backup and I don't have to worry about competing for a starting job or a job, period.

You don't want to be a deadbeat back there. But any backup catcher is a deadbeat.

I don't think that's what happened here, I think that will be more of a fourth-quarter issue, ... I do think we'll see some backup in consumer discretionary spending. That's something we're going to be listening to on 4Q estimates.

Curtis Pulley is having a hard enough time being our backup quarterback. He needs all the reps he can get as a quarterback. If we take him out wide, those are reps he's missing at quarterback. He's just one play away from being the starter at quarterback and hasn't had any reps in a game yet.

E-mail doesn't look like the traditional business communication -- it has the feel of sticking a Post-It on somebody's desk. E-mail can be sent without a lot of reflection. Most employees don't really think of the fact that when you send an e-mail there will be a copy on your computer, the network backup tape, etc. It's frequently harder to get rid of an e-mail than a written document.

Bethany did a good job in a backup role. She played well in the post, scored some points and had some rebounds.

Anthony Johnson

Everyone wants to label guys, label me as a backup point guard, a guy that can't get it done. Those are the opportunities where you have to step up and make it happen.

To be in a backup role, where I'm not sure if or when I am going to play, I have never done that. I am not sure that would work for me.

We lost all of our power. We're on backup power. Our guys aren't trading.

We didn't experience any data loss because we reverted to one of our backup tapes to restore our operating systems. The university is working on replacing the batteries as we speak and it should take care of all of our immediate power problems.

To the extent that fund companies had operations in the World Trade Center, they typically have backup files, so there shouldn't be any problems. Beyond that, the question is what happened to key investment personnel, and the initial response seems to be good. Oppenheimer Funds had offices in that building, and most of their personnel seems to be accounted for. And all personnel from Salomon Smith Barney was evacuated from 7 World Trade Center before it collapsed.

You basically had no reliable backup for five years, until Sarbanes-Oxley came along. The office manager has taken the backup tapes home and put them on the mantle.

Communications were one of the first things to go. What was discovered is that if you have a prolonged power outage that goes on for several hours, your infrastructure starts to degrade. Power backup only lasts so long.