Famous Quotes & Sayings

To have been five in front and then Colin to just shoot 71 to win is pretty poor, ... Colin did play pretty poor, but I needed to shoot 75 to win basically and to not do that after playing so well all week is very disappointing. I feel that I let him win. I could have put more pressure on him when I had a chance. It's my own fault, I have got nobody to blame but myself.

With Sam, you went in and basically he turned on a tape recorder, let it run until it was out, and went back and found out what you had. That made country boys like Carl Perkins feel comfortable.

You had a little bit of a back swell with Hurricane Maria, then Nate sent more of a backswell.   So basically you have a mixture of four different swells coming in and just making great waves for this area.

You have to give him a little room -- not too much room -- but you have to give him enough room that just in case he does go you can have a chance to recover. You basically have to rely on your instincts more than anything. He's a quick player but I'm pretty quick, too.

When you meet up in your early days, those are the relationships that last. A lot of things are different than those days, but our practice rounds are basically the same.

Kevin Garnett

When you lose, the easy part is to see who gives up. Giving up is very simple. You basically take your stuff and walk away. To continue to work and to continue to compete is one of the most difficult things, especially when you really don't have anything to play for other than dignity and self-perseverance. That's when you see who's really with you.

Wrestling is a busy, busy sport. You really don't have enough time to do anything. Sometimes, though, I'll put in a rhyme or two, go down to the studio. That's basically how I fill in all my time. Wrestling, rapping and school.

E. L. James

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

Tonight (we) basically played with all heart and desire. They played for each other and left it all on the field.

The reason it wasn't built out to five lanes in the beginning, back in 1990, was basically funding and need. There's probably no need at this point for five lanes in each direction. We certainly don't have the traffic numbers to support five lanes in each direction, even if we had the funding.

Hugh Johnson

The reason for the (technology) decline is the combination of the Cisco earnings and the comments from CEO John Chambers. He basically said what Intel said recently: that customers are getting very cautious and that spending on technology is slowing.

Two different things happened: We came out and executed real well from the start and they basically gave up and started looking ahead.

Two days after being in a car accident, he comes out and basically throws a complete game. That was great right there.

We've got a large task in front of us, ... What the storm did was basically cut right through Dade County.

We have actually used his swing over the last couple years to teach our guys. We like the way that he uses his lower half. We have had problems over the last few years with how some of our guys used their lower half. They were basically beat before they started.

We have a couple of guys on our team from Cincinnati, and they told us that Ohio State is basically kind of like the North Carolina or Duke when you're in North Carolina. We're kind of around that every day. We understand that 99 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. But we're OK with that thought, I think.

We have a comparable situation as we did have in 2005. The exchange rates are not worse, the raw material prices are not worse, so we basically have the same challenge, but we managed to cope and to compensate (for) most of those challenges in 2005.

Mark Thomas

We had to fight that out, and basically it ended up being an equal distribution of unhappiness.

This White House's problems are not personnel, they are basically problems of policy.

Patrick Leahy

This was the memo that basically justified the United States be involved in torture,

This was pre-Katrina, absolutely. This was basically involving negotiations with Fox, which is taking over the broadcast.

Kyle Petty

This was basically a tire-management race. I know some teams had issues, but we never had any problems.

This was basically a ploy to sell to the international community that he is interested in democracy, which he is not. The world community now knows he has no support.

Keith Davis

This was basically a must-win. It was real big because we know we're on the edge for a playoff (spot).

This was a Big Meet that no question our men could have lost. They had to come out and take it. The meet was basically won on pride.

We felt fortunate that we were able to make a basket to get the 11-point run going. All season long, when we've lost the lead in the second half, we just basically folded.

We figured that this was a company with 85% of its stock price coming from its net cash, ... So we were able to buy Apple's manufacturing and design operation basically for next to nothing.

We intend for our operation to be basically the same. Our employment here will be unchanged.

Peter Diamandis

We expect that the first X Prize Cup will actually occur in the summer of 2006. We have a couple of years to get the infrastructure in place, ... We're basically creating a new business model for the whole space business including media, sponsorships...and the X Prize Cup is an important part of that.

We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.

We could design the program to separate cells by size, luminescence, texture, fluorescent tags and basically any characteristic that can be distinguished visually.

We're very efficient at picking because we're not wasting much motion. Once we go through the pick path, we're basically picking everything that's needed for those six stores. In the old world we had to do six walks up and down the aisle.

you have to submerge yourself into it. You've got to go to practices, talk to coaches during the week. Basically you've got to love what you do.