Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Beltran

If I was close to 100 percent, I'd be on the field. It's still tight. It's no good for me to go out and play. That's how I feel. When I try to run full speed, it doesn't feel good. I don't feel 100 percent ready to get on the field.

If I was at fault, I could see paying. But I wasn't . I told the guys at work, if you're even close to an accident, get out of there because you're going to get a bill.

Getting that close and not being successful is something you have to live with. It's not something that's fun to live with so I think guys are hungry and that's one of the big things that will hopefully give us that little extra incentive.

Getting close to reasonable is a good thing, but it's still talking about a money pit,

Give Frazee credit; they wrestled us tough. We couldn't win some of the close ones through the middle.

Getting in the zone doesn't happen nearly as often as people like to think it does. But whether you're really in it and for how long you're in it doesn't matter much, because you'll be coming closer to reaching your zone and being your best.

Chad Johnson

Get yourself real close to the TV, because I'll have some good stuff planned. I still plan to be the greatest entertainer in the league.

Ann Robinson

Fremont County and Hot Springs County are the ones that are closest right now to their goals,

Frankly, I'm very excited about the prospects. As we get closer and closer, you see the interest level. I couldn't be happier about the exposure and we haven't even thrown a pitch. It's the first time we've had this event and we'll sell as many tickets as the Winter Olympics this year. That's a phenomenal accomplishment, as far as I'm concerned.

France has been our very close partner, politically, economically as well as in security relations. This visit is taking place after a gap of nearly seven years. So, it is a very important visit.

From a statistics viewpoint, we played pretty well. We forced 11 turnovers and closed down their inside game. Unfortunately, Stearns lit it up with four three-pointers to open the second half and that was it.

From that standpoint, we'd like to get as close to paperless as we can.

From our satellite photos, we've seen evidence that some of the facilities we used to monitor closely have been dismantled completely,

Venus is quite close to Earth, yet so radically different. Why is that ?" ()

Diane von Furstenberg

When a woman becomes her individual most effective close friend existence is simpler.

We have no specific information about what number of job cuts would be at BellSouth. That's going to be determined after the close of the merger.

Tony Blair

We have never come this far before. We've never been this close to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland,

Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by his side

Anthony Johnson

Whenever we're playing teams that don't have good records, we play well for three quarters, but we don't close them out down the stretch.

When your goals seem too difficult to reach..... move the posts closer

When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.

We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

We accomplished our main goal of staying undefeated at home. Now we look forward to welcoming Stanford because we have a lot deeper lineup than last year. I expect a close match.

WC has a good team for a first-year program. I can see many close matches over the next few years.

Julia Smith

We always hold it on the third weekend of March, which is close to Easter, but this is a year-round passion for us, as well as a business.

We always have the expectation that we will work as hard as we can to win as many games a possible. In spite of losing some close games early, this team did improve as the year went on.

We always find a way to win. We have won close games all year. I just feel very fortunate to be coaching them.

Rob Portman

We always come closer every time we talk.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.