Famous Quotes & Sayings

Portland has always been a perimeter-oriented team. It has given us problems because they've been able to spread us out a little bit and really make us pay from the 3-point line. So that's going to definitely be a point of emphasis.

Jason Robert Brown

Personally, I've never been popular, so I'm not surprised that professionally I'm a bit out of step, too.

My turn was good, but the timing wasn't right, and that kind of took me off. I was a bit surprised (by Jack's time). But definitely, it'll give me something to shoot for tomorrow. I'm feeling pretty good right now.

Nick's a very strong chance - we have one player who is under a bit of an injury cloud.

Nobody really knows who they are, so that could be a little bit of a positive. It'll be a little bit of a surprise.

Nobody even called me. I'm a little bit on the defensive.

Elliott Sadler

Nineteen laps to go, running for a million bucks, you're going to do every little trick in the trade and everything you know how to do to try and win the race, ... Mark outsmarted me a little bit on that one. That was a great job. He did a great job.

NBC will suffer a little bit from not having as effective cross-promotion as they would have had if the Olympics had greater ratings. It will be challenging for them for the next few months.

NBC Universal has some appeal. It can generate quite a bit of cash.

Kevin Martin

On paper, maybe it makes sense to make a bit of a change tomorrow, but I'm not sure we will. We want to keep on this roll going into Saskatchewan and Manitoba on Monday.

On the margin, the statement reads as if the Fed has quite a bit of confidence in the economy. There's a fairly optimistic undertone about the economic momentum.

Paul Wolfowitz

Only thing that really works, and it requires not only a little bit of humility but sometimes patience.

On the negative side the outlook was that economic conditions are slowing and there are a few sectors that are making some divisions a bit softer...and that's translating through to the likely profit result.

Chipper Jones

On November 1, everybody's in shape. There wouldn't be an issue with pitch counts. There wouldn't be an issue with knocking the rust off coming into spring training. Things like that. I think it would be a little bit better tournament. You'd probably see a little more offense and a little more emphasis on starting pitching.

Dom Starsia

One of the nice bits about college sports is that you get to turn over the roster a little bit every year. I think we have a nice blend of youth and experience. We've got the pieces that we need in order to be successful.

Eddie O'Sullivan

One of the Irish players was bitten by one of the Italian players.

One of the reasons it may have been done is to make it a little bit more difficult for the Toll takeover.

Alan Pardew

One of the reasons I had looked at Paul was because Jimmy Walker is only just coming back and in case he has a strain, we need a bit more cover.

Marat Safin

I was ill the last two days. I was still a bit weak. I wasn't ready for this.

I was going to try to play him a little bit to see how he looked out there. It's just hard in transition for him. ... He gave a great effort. He missed some shots but he was aggressive.

I was going to follow her to SIUE, ... but I decided it might be better to back off a bit and let her have a new coach.

I was struggling a bit early on but the eagle on the 13th really got me going again. It's been a long time since I've been in this position but I'm looking forward to the final round. It's nice to know I can still do it.

I was struck by that. It meant to me that there was something new, a bit of flirtation with China going on.

Maggie Dixon

I was really proud of the way our team came out and competed. We kept it close in the first half and set the tempo of the game defensively. Sophia Young is an extremely talented player, and we let her take off a little bit during the last five minutes of the first half.

I was talking to them today and they were like, 'You're making it tough on us, we don't know who we're going to root for,' ... That makes it a little bit special.

I was sweating it there for a little bit with the points. I guess all that work I put the guys through this week paid off.

I was surprised I didn't get tired. I worked pretty hard. Other than that, my timing was just a bit off. I have to get back into the gym and get that back. The next game is Tuesday, so I have to be ready to go when my name is called.

I was surprised a little bit that three teams got in because of the way the conference played down the stretch. That just shows the national respect people have for our conference.

Ben Gordon

I was struggling a little bit in the second half, but then I just tried to take over in the fourth quarter and get my team going. Fortunately I was able to knock down some big shots.

Koren Robinson

I was so happy to hear from him, ... In the situation that I was in, any bit of good news brightens your day. I guess it was just fate that he called when he did. It made my day and gave me even more motivation to get myself right.

I was sitting two meters from the bit of roof that collapsed. It was all so quick, probably three seconds.

I was sitting in the dugout thinking earlier in the game that it would be a little bizarre if we would've won 2-1 again. I'll take a 2-1 win any night, but I sure do love those 6-1 wins a little bit better. You can breathe a little bit easier.

Kirk Hinrich

I wouldn't say we played that way the whole game, but for stretches we really dug down and did what we needed to do. We're a different type of team. We need a little bit of an edge for us to win. We don't have a superstar, so we have to focus on the little things, play with passion and play together as a group.