Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Taylor

I've always played with a chip on my shoulder, ... People always said I'm not that fast, I haven't been that strong, I haven't been that big. But I'm standing here today. A lot of players have that story. I've been able to capitalize on my opportunities.

Technology is making everyone self-sufficient, the only way to make money is to capitalize on people's laziness

Sean Casey

It was the same kind of game as the one last night, but they won that one. They had opportunities, we had opportunities, we couldn't capitalize until the 11th.

It was very hard fought - we did have opportunities we didn't capitalize on.

That's what we have to offer and we, as a tourism bureau, have to capitalize on that.

You've got to take every opportunity you can and capitalize on it. You don't know how many chances you get at doing something like this and get a chance to win a (Calder) Cup.

They've got a few players that are very technical and they surround those guys with speed. They pester you in your third a lot. We have to try to nullify their strengths and capitalize on our opportunities.

They're very disciplined; they don't make a lot of mistakes. Obviously, a lot of times in games, we capitalize on other teams' mistakes. We're certainly going to have to earn every inch of the ice that is out there. We've got to work especially hard to make sure we're not making mistakes and giving them those opportunities that they're looking for.

A lot of the independents are doing well because they've found their special niche and can do it for less than a lot of the major chains can and they've been able to capitalize on it.

This isn't the first time we've had momentum. There was momentum coming out of the Tennessee game two years ago. What we've got to do now is capitalize on it.

Scott Gomez

The way the league is now, you've got to capitalize on that.

They're a suffocating defense, and that's on everybody. We got our opportunities and had our shots. We just didn't capitalize on them.

They're in good shape. They gain from the perception of a turnaround. I'm sure everyone's going to be looking at how they capitalize on that.

Barry Trotz

As a home-ice team, you want the crowd and the energy in the building. We weren't able to capitalize on our special teams, but if we get one in, maybe it would be a different story.

Levon Kendall

They have a lot of older guys. They make very few turnovers. They capitalize off your mistakes. It's hard to get them out of their comfort zone. They have a lot of seniors and juniors who have been playing for a while. We're going to have to match their efficiency and be just as solid as they are if we want to be in there with them and get the win.

Scott Wilson

Enjoying a moment of international sympathy, Sharon's government is moving swiftly to capitalize on its unilateral withdrawal and ongoing demolition of 25 Jewish settlements.

Especially this time of year, you have to capitalize on special teams.

Every game was a dog fight. That's a great hockey club over there. We just managed to capitalize on some of the bounces.

As they say, defense wins championships. We put most of our focus on defense. We want to pressure you for 32 minutes. We want to force turnovers and we want to capitalize on them.

Hines Ward

To me, it's like you put in all this hard work, and we didn't capitalize on it. When you look at it, we had a great year.

We did a nice job pressing to start and jumped to a nice lead, but later we had a few steals we couldn't capitalize on.

Chris Armas

We did a good job with Ruiz, and we had a couple of clear chances, but we could not capitalize on them,

Ned Yost

The whole inning was self-inflicted. They don't stop putting on the pressure, they keep coming, they capitalize on mistakes.

We showed up in Bradford unprepared to play, and the result was due to that. We had some early power-play opportunities that we did not capitalize on, and never really were able to get any momentum going.

When I started, we had no money at all, ... We charged what we needed to make our expenses. There was never a reserve or any effort to capitalize on the asset, which is the single most important reason why we struggled all these years.

We felt we played good enough to win. We had some opportunities that we didn't capitalize on. We should have, and it comes back to get you.

Bellamy Young

With Yale, my world got so big all of a sudden. At school, if you could dream it, someone would make it so that you could do it. It was magical. I had a lot going on, as you do when you're 17, and didn't necessarily capitalize on all of it, but it made me see possibility in a way that I hadn't before.

Scott Campbell

This segment is growing really rapidly, about twice as fast as the overall travel market, and we want to capitalize on that. People like the idea that they're traveling to a unique place with lots of things to do.

We wanted this opportunity. Now we have to capitalize on it.

We've had so many of those kind of innings that went the other way, it was nice to finally capitalize on one of our own. We've had trouble coming up with innings like this, and we've given away too many of them to the other team.

Chris Harris

We got our turnovers too but we didn't capitalize like they did.

We saw our goals come from a lot of people and a lot of different things. Our goals are a result of a lot of work, like people framing the goal, and causing problems in the box. We also have some dangerous weapons on restarts, and we were able to capitalize on them last week.

You give him a split second in any situation, he'll capitalize on it. They have a lot of firepower up front, and we took a lot of penalties.