Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Young

We gave up a goal in the first minute but we didn't panic. We controlled the midfield and got the goal. We had some chances and when you don't take them when you play a good team this is what happens.

We gave up 19 offensive boards; that's 19 more chances FCC-J had to score. You just can't win games playing like that.

We can be proud of our performance. We created many chances and should have been 2-0 or 3-0 ahead. It's all quite regrettable and just fate for Oliver Kahn. He's been excellent in recent weeks. It's bitter.

We had enough chances probably to score more than three but we're through to the medal rounds now.

We had chances with runners in scoring position to make something happen, but we couldn't get a big hit.

Jeff Conine

We had chances to win and we didn't do it. Now we're going to have to win them all, I think.

We had chances to tie that game tonight. I think we had a couple 8-meter shots that we missed that I know those kids are reliving in their heads right now.

We had chances to score in the first, second and third innings when we left runners in scoring position.

Jim Haslett

We had chances to make plays and we just didn't step up. They made plays when they had to, that's what it boiled down to.

We had chances to go in front and give ourselves a more comfortable evening but we didn't do that,

We had chances to get more guys home. Give their pitchers credit. They also made big pitches when they had to.

We had chances late, then we quit going to the basket. They (Seymour) played a lot better in the second half. I thought they really picked up their intensity defensively in the fourth quarter.

We didn't even look as though we were that hungry to finish them. You can't create that many chances in a game and not score. We have done well to create chances but the finishing was shocking. That's two weeks in a row, it's coast us five points in two games. Obviously we just have to keep plugging away.

We had all the chances in the world. We shot ourselves in the foot each time.

We had all of those chances to pull away, to tie it up and then to win it. When it was 10-10 we had Whitaker with a wide-open shot, and you didn't even need a goalie.

We had four or five really good chances at the end. They didn't let themselves get down in that quicksand too far and I was proud of that.

We had five or six good chances to score.

We had two chances to get rebounds. We did everything we needed to do.

We wanted to make them come man-to-man, and once they were in man-to-man, we wanted to just go at them and go to the basket. Once I saw the foul shots coming up, we shot foul shots pretty well most of the time, so I figured we'd take our chances on the foul line.

Mats Sundin

We have to look at what we can control, and we had a lot of chances at the net. ... We can't do any more than we have been, we just have to keep coming with this kind of effort and the wins will come.

Octavio Paz

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

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We will keep looking until we find the very last person. But the chances of rescuing someone are of course getting lower the longer the search goes on.

We've played five games and we've had chances to win all five. I'm proud of the club. We did everything we could to get back in it tonight.

We had some tired people out there. We created enough chances to have won this game pretty easily. We just didn't put those chances away.

Nicolas Kiefer

Unfortunately, I didn't take my chances in the first two sets. In the first set I was maybe a little too passive and in the second I played more aggressively and took more risks.

When Microsoft said last week that it would release seven patches, people were holding their breath. You had to figure with that many, the chances were great that there would be a very dangerous vulnerability. But after looking at these, I think we can let out a sigh of relief.

Colin Clarke

First half we dominated the game. We had a couple chances (and) the first goal we knew was going to be important. We dragged ourselves back twice from behind; we showed a lot of character. ... We played 120 hard minutes on Wednesday night and I think it took its toll on us toward the end. We couldn't get close enough to them at times and we gave up a few chances.

Roberto Luongo

First and foremost, we've been playing well defensively. The number of scoring chances are much lesser than the previous years I've been here.

There are a lot of people who made reservations for New Year's Eve months ago. They don't want to lose their money. They'd rather take their chances on the roads.

Dick Costolo

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.

Carlo Ancelotti

We paid for our lack of precision in front of goal with the chances that we made. We did well to create some opportunities but we couldn't put them away.

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