Famous Quotes & Sayings

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Our kids will play anyone. They've scheduled some of the toughest competition in the country. When you don't have playoffs, a game like this gives our players something to look forward to as they close out their careers.

Trent Lott

Our military isn't perfect, but it's about as close to perfect as humanly possible.

Our mobile customer numbers showed strong growth, despite the market getting closer to saturation and experiencing strong price competition with capped plans.

Andy Macdonald

In the third quarter, we got a little momentum and we were getting it close -- it was good to have that life. Then Fife just put it to us.

Investors are set to close out the year with good gains.

Investing in a mutual fund is like riding in a bus; your progress depends in large part on other people and what they're doing. An exchange-traded fund is closer to riding in your own car.

Michael Mandelbaum

In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

In watching the tapes, I wasn't down in the stance on some of the shots I missed that I needed to make. That's what helped me tonight. Once I get in a groove, I close my eyes and shoot it sometimes.

In the second half of 2002, the end demand for our customers' products will be a more important growth factor, ... Stabilizing inventory at our customers means that we should be generally shipping close to the same rate as end demand.

Shay Doron

In the past, they were just better, honestly. Now they're not better, we're at equal strength and that's why our games have been so close this year.

Steve Fossett

In the middle of the night we decided it was a hopeless situation, ... We decided to fly as close as we could to Hawaii to make it an easy rescue.

In the merger process that produces these galaxies, a lot of the stars get flung out to fairly large distances, and they end up in highly elongated orbits that take them far away and then back in close to the center.

Ernst Mach

In the long run we shall not be able to close our eyes to this simple truth, which is the immediate outcome of psychological analysis.

In the second half I felt we guarded pretty close to as good as we can. I knew we could guard them.

E. O. Wilson

In practice, managed services vendors are primarily the major wireless infrastructure equipment vendors. This is logical: they already have close relationships with the service operators; they have the very deep pockets needed to succeed in this field; and they've always offered some services relating to their own equipment installation and maintenance. Finally, they enjoy economies of scale, because they may offer the same service to many different operators.

I really didn't think about it at all, as to how close it might be. I'll just have to wait and see.

If you take out the fleet aberration, the sales were closer to what everyone expected.

If you want to relocate to be closer to family, that's great, you're moving closer to your support system. But be realistic. If you have a strong reason to move, then do it. But it might take a temporary setback in your career.

Carlos Lee

If you want to be playing in October, you have to win the close ones. We ain't going to win them all. But if we keep playing the way we're playing, we're going to win a lot of them.

Bob Tway

I gave myself a lot of opportunities, and a lot of them were really close, ... I just kind of got on a roll, and the greens were so soft, you were able to kind of get it close to the hole if you hit it good.

Gerry Harvey

I get a lot of comments from people that I'm just an ordinary bloke. They immediately feel they have a closer relationship with you; they relate to you.

In order to combat piracy, the American release date will be a lot closer to the release date in the original territory.

I never thought of this being a sweet 16, but it is. This was great victory because we knew Merrill was going to battle. It was a great victory and exciting match. Merrill won some close ones and so did we.

In a close presidential race, Florida is probably the most important state.

In a close game, you're going to have to win or lose at the line. We got it done enough.

Elton Brand

In a close game, I think we're going to try to win. I think we need practice at that. There's no better time than now.

In 1936, I was as close to Hitler as I am to you now.

In a 100-foot stretch of yard, you can't put trees that close together.

I had expected a close match, and I did not know how the first day would end. I'm glad Domino won the important first point.