Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you open them up for deer hunting, you're basically closing them for two months,

If you look at our portfolio that we run here with a three-year track record, basically it's equal to the S&P the last three years. This year we're down about 1.8, 1.9 percent versus an S&P that's significantly more than that down.

If you look at my business record, I basically love to do turn-arounds. That's where I made all of my money.

Jack Reed

if you've got competent units ... they're basically militias in national uniforms, and you're uncertain of whose orders they're taking, that's not the security force you want.

In those days, we'd get a bunch of copies of an old game that people would donate, missing pieces and parts, and we'd take all those copies and make them into complete sets. We did that for a while, and then we basically caught on to the idea of offering something new to American consumers.

Reggie Bush

I like rugby - I watch it from time to time. It's basically football without pads but probably a little bit more dangerous than football. You've got to be a lot tougher in that sport - but I definitely like watching rugby and watching those guys knock each other around. It looks like a fun sport.

Maria Sharapova

I kind of gave it all I had in the tiebreaker and just basically ran out of gas in the third set. Physically, I have to get a lot better and play these three-setters where the points are going to go on and on. Today's match is a great example that it's physical.

I knew Coo Coo basically all of my life. He was a good man, a good race car driver. One of the first memories I had of him was in 1967 when my daddy crashed in a modified race at Nashville and was injured really bad. Coo Coo pulled him out of the car.

I'm really optimistic. We know we have a good, solid package. It will hopefully be easier for us compared to other teams because we've already won the race, so we know basically how to do it. However, there's a new challenge, a new year, a lot more drivers and a lot more teams.

I'm really not the coach here, I'm basically a supervisor.

Marko Jaric

I'm just trying to play through this. I was basically sitting on the bench for the last two months, so I'm still excited to get out there and play.

Bill Elliott

I'm just trying to help her what little I can, because it's been a little while since I've run here, but it's still all basically the same.

David Sanborn

I'm just saying that the basic concept of creative freedom and growth creatively is a continuous process.

I'm out of my head about this. I cannot believe we got all these guys. We got basically everybody we wanted. We got some really great players. This is going to be fun.

Jeffrey Loria

I'm optimistic and hopeful that a new stadium will materialize. I'm basically an optimistic person. But some of that optimism disappeared in the last year.

Harold Prince

I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

I'm just glad we're getting back up toward my part of the country. And they're great fisheries. I basically got my start in the Federation (Nation) on those lakes.

If makers don't invest now it basically means they are giving up on the game. It's kind of like poker. But there is no way all of the TV makers will end up happy. At some point in the future, overcapacity will emerge and there will be a shakeout.

Corey Patterson

If I were to keep doing stuff like I did this season, I'd be doing the same stuff and it doesn't matter if the season kept going, or they put me in a high school game or winter ball, ... I'm not opposed to doing anything extra but I have to get the basics down first.

Steve Francis

I haven't been able to practice. I felt like a new player who was basically thrown into the game with little experience.

I had to get out because basically it was in flames, on fire, so I got out, I got over the back and luckily enough someone put me out,

I had to basically train my wife how to save herself and leave me behind.

I had this episode, sudden death, where basically I died.

Jane Krakowski

I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.

Oscar Arias

In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation.

I never thought about it until I broke my leg and realized I have to get insurance, ... The more I was traveling and doing work I realized I did need that, basically to protect my investment, which is myself.

Jim Dowd

I told (everyone), Theo?s going to come back with a huge game. And he did. He basically stole that game for us, especially in the overtime.

It looked like we had a good inside, outside combination going on. Their defense limited us to just a few basic plays. Of course they're very good basic plays. When we handled the ball, and things like that, they went well for us.

It's great news. The main thing was confidence in all my pitches and staying consistent. I had all four pitches working, and that basically was it.

It's hard. There's nothing I want more than to be on the ice with them. Basically I made a mistake and have to pay the consequences. I've got to handle it like a man.

Dave Stephens

It's big for us to be 2-0 in the conference with two road wins. The conference is basically even, and we really think 8-2 could win it. So we're thrilled to be where we are.

Lindsay Whalen

It was a nickname given to me by some college friends, ... It was kind of made up because I spin the rhymes and drop the dimes. But I basically make fun of myself because I'm not musically inclined. I don't have a whole lot of rhythm, so it's funny and it rhymes. It just kind of stuck. I don't really tell a whole lot of people, but now the secret is out.

It was not necessarily a pretty game. It's a consolation game, but it's one of those games where motivation is kind of hard to find but your playing so you need to compete and motivate yourself. I thought we basically did the things you need to do to win.