Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick had to be the star, and he was. I thought we played pretty well systematically, but they had some great chances and he never flinched.

Paul Konerko

On paper, it looks really good. But we still have to win our division, and then take out chances in the playoffs. If there's one thing I like, it's the pitching staff. I think that was the key for us last season. We have the potential to score more runs this year, especially with a proven guy like Jim (Thome) in the lineup. But with our pitching, they're not going to need a lot of help on most nights.

Marty Turco

On the ice, it's not a big deal. We're just worried about the chances of it getting worse. Right now, I don't see it.

Brian Vickers

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they'll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one after, but somewhere down the road it all usually evens out.

Maulik Pancholy

On 'Sanjay and Craig,' I've had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

Doug Ferguson

I would say he'll get a lot of chances to play for Newman.

Bath's an excellent team. They'll win their share of football games this season, that's for sure. We had some chances to put it away, but we made too many turnovers and had too many penalties.

Because of the nature of the charges, we didn't want to take any chances and have him back in the classroom.

Rusty Wallace

I have a really good feeling about our chances this weekend. I really do.

Luiz Scolari

I have a deep respect for Rooney, ... If we give him a couple of chances he could be fatal for us.

Joel Parkinson

I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

I had plenty of chances this year to play well, ... I'm disappointed with my play for the entire year. I'm not disappointed with my play this week.

Jaromir Jagr

I felt like we had enough chances in the second period to win the game, easily. We just didn't do it. ... We couldn't score. That's the problem we've got now, nothing else.

Milan Hejduk

I felt like at the end we had the momentum. We created some scoring chances but in the end it was not enough.

Gaining more experience on asphalt is one of Chris's development objectives this year. The challenging stages in Ireland will be great practice for him. He needs all the asphalt experience he can get but, in particular, coming from sunny Australia, he hasn't had many chances to drive in the wet - that shouldn't be a problem in Ireland!

Mike Keane

If a trade happens, it could change the dynamics of your team. We're kind of in limbo right now. But if they make a trade, chances are that we'll get someone back.

Wayne Gretzky

I don't understand it. We played two tremendous games Thursday and Saturday. The success of this team is pretty simple. We're not a great goal-scoring machine, so if we think that we're going to play that way we're never going to be successful. The success this team has had is when it has played methodically well, sound defense and doesn't give any chances to the opposition.

Tom Boonen

For me, the Tour started today and I really wanted to win a stage because, after next Sunday, there will not be that many chances for sprinters to win stages and the man in the green jersey might take it to Paris,

Alex Tanguay

For us to be successful, I've said it many times, we need to be skating. I felt with our skating we've created a lot chances the past few games and, yes, we did get a few bounces going our way. But I think with our skating we created a lot of opportunities and maybe that's what created those bounces.

For the way we played, we got exactly what we deserved. We didn't play sound, fundamental baseball. That's the first time in a while we've given up a big inning, and we had our chances to minimize the damage.

If it doesn't look right, chances are it's not,

Having seen what happened with Katrina last year and how much devastation that caused, we have a similar situation here in having widespread type of damage. This town meeting is to really help the public better understand their chances of seeing an earthquake occur and what could happen if it did occur.

Sven Eriksson

He's a big target man, good header, and he will give Michael many chances to score. I'm sure about that.

Daunte Culpepper

He's a great player. I've been saying it all along, and he's having a lot of chances to make plays. The more chances he gets, the better he's going to look, because he's that great of a player.

Bruce Boudreau

God only gives you so many chances to score.

He's highly motivated, and you like to take chances on those kinds of guys.

I would say their chances of making the NIT aren't good if they lose their first game.

George Freeman

I would say the chances of getting a federal shield is about 50-50.

Just to even say there's a possibility, wow. But I'd have to say chances are we're going to have to make an adjustment.

Dean Wilson

Just stick to my game plan -- try to hit as many solid shots as I can and give myself as many chances as I can. That's kind of my game plan every week.

Freddy Sanchez

Jim Tracy has a history of using all of his players. I know I'm going to get my chances to help this club.

I take no chances with our investment policy for the state. In my personal business, I had dollars I was willing to put at risk.

It all starts with taking away Dials. If we can force them to be a 3-point shooting team, and force them to take contested 3-pointers, our chances of success improve dramatically.