Famous Quotes & Sayings

We tried to make it as close as we could to how it started in 1974.

Bob Schieffer

We talked about a thousand things, but we really talked about our parents. She is very close to her mother, and I was very close to my mother.

We just played sloppy toward the end in that last minute and turned it into a close game.

We just played four really close games and we stepped up defensively. I think we can surprise people.

We just needed to close out the last 20 minutes and play it very much like the first 20 minutes.

We just made some mental errors at the end of the games. We had some close games that we couldn't quite finish at the end.

We just wanted to give ourselves a chance. What we're more concerned with is 'How do we get better.' We don't have a lot of experience. If you're even going to stay close with a team like this, you have to make shots.

We just turned our defense up and the shots went down for us. It's huge because we haven't had a close game in region yet. This is just what we need going into the state tournament.

Jim Haslett

We just had way too many penalties and turnovers. We just didn't have any opportunities to get close to them.

We just got stops, rebounds and hit free throws. We've been trying to prove something every game and I think we've proven to ourselves that we can defend, rebound and hit free throws and if we keep doing that we'll win these close games.

We were really fighting until the end. Even so close to the pole, I wasn't so sure we would make it.

Derrick Coleman

We were real frustrated. We knew we could have been right there with the top teams and we couldn't win the close games.

We were pretty close to making it (as a team to state). That makes it a good year.

What the goal of that financing was is something now coming under close scrutiny.

We lost close to $1.5 million yesterday and I'm sure we'll lose another $2 million at least today.

We lost a lot of close ones in the quarterfinals. But, we have nine wrestlers left and I'm pleased with that.

We lost a lot of close matches but it was a good season.

We lost a lot of close games and we hope to turn those close games into wins this year.

We lost a couple we should have won, but we won every close match.

We lost a couple of close ones to Perrysburg, including one that went to triple overtime. We jumped out to a big lead and I really liked the way we finished. Perrysburg was scoring about 71 points a game and we held them to 44.

We look to close out 2005 with a profitable fourth quarter.

We lost two very close matches. I thought we played well considering how much competition we've had.

We missed some opportunities in the first half to close the gap, but I thought we played as well on the defensive end as we can play.

We went from a market that was dramatically undervalued to one that is priced close to where it should be,

We will not have any penalties. We knew that we would have three programs that were close and that we are in really good shape with some of our other programs. Overall, we are headed in the right direction.

Ehud Barak

We will not for a moment close the window ... when this is an opportunity to move toward a peace process,

We won a lot of championships today, but there were a lot of close matches. You hope to be doing that at this time of year.

The fact that we got so close is something I am immensely proud of - it is pretty ruddy good from where we started from.

We stepped up our defense and stopped fouling. We've been a little sluggish, but we played a lot better. The second half of this game prepares us real well. It prepares us for close situations.

We stay pretty close to home now. No more shooting acts, or Wild West shows up north like we used to. I'm more of a historian now.

We stayed in that offensive muck that we had in the second quarter. The difference was that we stayed close in the first half by playing good defense and rebounding well.

We start from eighth place in the constructors' championship, any improvement is satisfying and we have to make as big a step as we can. I don't promise you podium finishes for this year or even victories but we will make our mark and put everything in place to close the gap to the top teams and get there.

We started with some givens at the time. For example, one of those was that we didn't want to close a school. Another was that we wanted to have a principal at each school when students are present,