Famous Quotes & Sayings

The nice thing is that you don't get into a situation where you have old buildings blocked by new buildings; the hospital can grow from south to north.

John Fisher

The officers are not overriding the timing of the lights, they're merely enforcing the rules. All it takes is one car or pedestrian blocking the intersection and everything goes to pot.

The offense is starting to click, and we're putting together better runs. We're starting to play good volleyball and our blocks and defense have improved.

Richard Cox

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Everybody can't have everything. If we don't look at the front of our jackets and don't let egos block the vision of our goal, we can get a lot done.

Everybody blocks a gap and you give it to a back and say 'find the hole'. And they do. They've got great vision, they hit it, they're tough, they're physical, they run hard.

Del Harris

It's a hard pill for D.J. to swallow because that's his job to try to block shots. He just tried to block a shot and missed.

It puts a little more pressure on the guards and makes the tackles block the guy on the outside.

It's tough to block out all that stuff. Our group supported each other. Most of it was out of our control.

It struck me that Chuck Grassley was like a guy with a bucket of water who runs up to a burning house only to run past it and throw a bucket of water on a house a block down because it might catch fire in 40 or 50 years.

It's not like performing an evacuation before a hurricane. You only want to move inland two or three blocks or get up to the second story of a building.

Alison Bales

For me, it's always defense. I get so excited when I block shots, and I think the team does a great job of encouraging that. If I block a shot, I know I've got a chest bump coming.

For instance, for every 500 students, we need a new school; for every 700 students, we need a new school. The administration has to provide the direction and we have to determine the perimeters as the starting blocks to those long-range plans.

Gavin Henson

It's the rule I'm talking about. I know of people who feel frustrated when they find their way blocked by these guys and I understand their feelings.

It still all comes down to blocking and tackling. The kids are excited. They're showing up and doing what they need to do.

It's one of the cultural events. They give out Olympic medals. There will be eight blocks of ice and 18 hours to compete.

Mark Anderson

It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.

The consumer has already embraced Target as a fashion resource. Target's growth now is getting that higher-fashion consumer, the one who wants to be the first on the block with a trend.

The choice was between shutting down service or delaying service, because the recovery operation would have blocked the yard, too. So we decided to wait until after the morning rush to do the job.

I just want to play defense, stick to my strength, be a good defensive player, block shots, run the floor and rebound. I think that's what they brought me here to do.

I laid into them probably the hardest I have all year. We had a lack of intensity on defense lack of effort to block out was unacceptable.

They look at me as an individual player. What am I doing on a run play? Am I blocking for the running back? What am I doing at safety? Am I just jogging up to the play?

Chone Figgins

They have to really be on their toes, ... The outfielders have to charge balls, the catcher's got to be wary of blocking balls, pitchers have to pick at the corners, and when they pick, that means throwing more pitches.

They jumped on us quickly. It seemed like we were caught uphill right off the bat. They defended beautifully, blocked shots, made it difficult for us to get a foothold.

They left us relying on our dribble penetration and they either blocked shots or changed a lot of shots.

E. B. White

It was growing exponentially. Our only option was blocking it. There hasn't been a problem since.

It was just one of those nights where things just worked out, the timing was there, the blocking was there, it's very unusual that something like this happens, but it did and we're real happy for him. William deserves everything he gets out there and I'm sure he'll tell you the offensive line takes the credit for his offense and also the returns go to the special teams.

They would block off the roads, get into fights out front. They were just really a nuisance.

Things don't always go as planned. They had to improvise. They were quite creative in finding ways to block the wind and rain from hitting their displays.

Things change from one coach to another and from one system to another and we had a lot of success (14-2) on the field, ... Sometimes when you have the whole team succeeding, everything clicks and things go well. In 2000, Mark Brunell had a lot of confidence in me as a receiver and he just started looking my way. Jimmy Smith went down in a couple of games and he (Brunell) just started spraying it to me. I think those couple of games kind of changed the perception that I could do a little more to help the team than just being a blocking tight end. It was very satisfying to me and nice to have that type of opportunity because my goal at all levels was to be a good all-around player.

Tim Johnson

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The second half, something just wasn't right. We just weren't in sync. We weren't blocking out (for rebounds) and we couldn't get a shot to drop for us.

Scott Wright

This is clearly an important ... and watershed event for the entire industry, but it's no real surprise. Everyone figured Ameritech would be the first one out of the blocks on this.