Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Schlereth

The talent is so close in the NFL that you're standing on the razor's edge of being an elite team and being a mediocre team, ... The Colts are one injury to Peyton Manning from being a .500 football team. Every team in the NFL is like that.

The system was the most important thing to him when making his decision. I think he is the one guy who is watching this maybe closer than the others.

The support we have received from my family has been wonderful. Going through my own struggle with Molly has made me closer with my own parents.

Ernie Grunfeld

The special ones, you keep a closer eye on. He was a very highly rated player and very unselfish. I used to tell him that one of the negatives people say about you is that you're too unselfish. That's a negative you'd like to have. He's very tough, very competitive.

Willie Nelson

The song's been in the closet for 20 years. The timing's right for it to come out.

The thing I'm trying to do is get him to close it out real good. You always want your seniors to want to play and still be hungry, and he looks like he's more hungry now than he's ever been.

The thing I keep coming back to with Eric is his attitude. You always hear that message about living every day; when you see somebody close to you, somebody young, in this situation, it really hits home.

Bobby Jenks

The thing I've learned quickly as a closer is to have a short memory and keep looking forward.

Bill Belichick

The thing I thought was Jerry's greatest strength ... was his endurance. I thought he was a guy who was able to go hard and run hard on virtually every single play of the game. It didn't make any difference if it was fourth quarter, in the middle of a two-minute drive or the third play of the game. He was always very, very close to his top speed. Nobody else was like that.

I've never been comfortable with the goals because we never come close to the goals.

I've never got close to getting hit in my life. If you're watching the game that won't happen, will it?

I've never felt such exhilarating highs and dispiriting lows than those experienced when we first detected the signal from the GBT, indicating 'all's well' and then discovering that we had no signal at the operations center, indicating 'all's lost, ... The truth, as we have now determined, lies somewhat closer to the former than the latter.

I've made some big shots. But I don't think anything compares or even comes close to this.

It's fairly close at the top of the conference this year. We've got the potential to win it, but we could also finish third or fourth, too.

It seems we're just not getting closer to the idea of a swimming pool. It's sort of like the hot potato being passed around.

Brian Giles

It seems that every win at this time of the season is big. When you're getting close to the end, you can kind of smell it. Today we played kind of weird baseball, but we got a great pitching performance from Pedro. And in a one-run game, anything can happen.

It seems more cold than usual, but really it's very, very close to what's normal.

Kim Clijsters

It's a shame it had to happen. I think it was going to be a close one. Whenever I have a problem, I'm not going to quit for nothing.

It's a sense of accomplishment. This group has worked so hard for three years. They were so close last year. We thought we were a good enough team to withstand the pressure we knew Monacan would bring.

It's as close to the real thing as you're going to get in August.

It's as close to the Garden of Eden as you're going to find on Earth.

It's as close to being perfect as it can possibly be.

Guy Garvey

It's as close to a normal job as I've ever had in terms of the working hours. We go in from 10 to 5, come out for a little bit, have dinner, and come back out for the evening shift. We worked Monday through Friday, and it was nice like that.

Marlin Fitzwater

It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick.

It's a test for our young women to see how they can compete and to learn from the experience that they are going to have tomorrow. There's not one person on our trip that thinks that we don't have to play well to even stay close as long as we can.

Phil Jackson

It's a tall order, without a doubt. But that's the key to this series is how you're going to slow down the guy that makes this offense generate points and close out on the guys that are getting wide-open shots.

It's a big help, ... It's not going to make us close our doors tomorrow. But it's still a lot of money for any business. It's a blow. They (DA's office) take it very seriously.

Wes Moore

It wasn't pretty. It was a closer game than the score indicates.

It wasn't me, but those guys had fun. I stayed as far away from that group as I could. I'd show up for five minutes and leave, but they'd play cards, watch TV, have fun. They were a very close group.

It wasn't like our guys didn't fight hard. Our effort was there. They just had a little too much for us. They deserved to win. There were those four close matches, but other than that, I thought they dominated us.

Steve Cook

It wasn't even close to a trip. I saw him (extend), and I thought, 'What just happened?' I turned to the guy (sitting) next to me and said, 'Did you see that?' And then, we went and got the conductor.

It was close throughout, we outscored them in the third and then steadily pulled away. It might not have been so close if we had hit some more foul shots.

Brian Smith

It was close throughout. They got a 10-point lead on us in the first half; I think I had four starters with two fouls. Our shooting was not good. I think we were seven of 23 from the field in the first half, and it's not like they weren't good shots.