Famous Quotes & Sayings

We haven't seen anything close to that in the last four years.

Ann Wright

(Wei) voluntarily closed again. We will continue working with him when those specimens are back.

We just couldn't shoot the ball. We were 14 of 54 from the field or something close to that horrendous number. Every kid played as hard as they could, but if the shots don't fall there isn't much you can do.

We just couldn't contain Carrington and that made for a close game.

You just lie on your back, or whatever is comfortable for you, and close your eyes and try to just let go of everything for about five minutes.

You just have so much uncertainty and the one thing the market doesn't like is not knowing, ... We're probably getting closer to a sell-out climax, a washout, that will at least give us a trading rally.

You just get really close to these people.

Martina Hingis

You can always have hopes, right? I thought it might be out. It was a very close call.

John Hanson

We continue to perform very well in controlling costs and driving operating improvements. Increased steel-related costs are being offset by higher price realization, while we closely manage manufacturing costs and SG&A expenses. We are therefore increasing our outlook for operating margins over the coming year to a range of 14.6 to 15.5 percent of sales from the previous outlook averaging 13.3 percent.

We continue to be where we want to be. We're definitely getting closer to our goal of having a good strong crew qualified for state next month.

We couldn't get any closer than 5-6 points, and Woody Carver had three good looks at threes, and I'm just surprised we didn't hit more shots. But I enjoyed it, and it was nice to get that far.

We feel good about our last game here at Sun Devil Stadium. It was a game that kind of went the way we like them to go. We've been in a lot of close games where, defensively we had a lot of effect.

It didn't seem real, it seemed like a dream. I closed my eyes several times to try to see if I was dreaming.

Jimmy Johnson

It definitely is a lot easier here to use the bumper. When you put us all that close and the competition is this tough, you're gonna have bumping and banging.

It definitely feels good to be able to come home and close out the WAC play. Nevada has been one of the hottest teams in the WAC lately ... and I just thought our ladies did a great job defensively.

It'd be closer to me, so you know I'd like it.

Harry Reid

I think it will be a very close vote. This is going to be a hard day.

Larry McMurtry

I think it will be able to stay solvent and stay open, ... I didn't want to close it.

I think Josh would have cruised if he would have won that first set up 4-1. But that's why you play these matches. It doesn't get any closer than this.

I think maybe we just ran out of some steam. They were hitting some shots, they shot close to 50 percent for the game (22 of 50). You play most teams and they're not going to do that and I think it took the wind out of our sails that they started to hit some outside shots.

I thought Nate settled in after that goal and was OK. But it's another one of those games that you walk away from and the scoreboard says 4-0, and you know it's closer than that. It's been the story of our season.

I thought it was a little closer than the final score indicated. We just have to make a few adjustments and hopefully the second time around it will be a little closer.

Ichiro Suzuki

I thought it was a close play. I'll leave it up to the umpire to call.

I thought it was about time for us to win one of these close ones.

Bobby Cox

I thought he was hitting closer to .300. He's had a lot of big hits.

Dwane Casey

I thought it was great for our confidence in close games, to come out and close the game, and win a game when a team is making a hard run at you like that. We're excited about it. The guys are excited about it.

Mark Turgeon

I thought maybe we could do it. I've seen our guys get hot. But we could never get close enough to put pressure on them.

Kamran Akmal

I thought if we go close to 250 it could be a fighting total and we succeeded in getting close to it.

I thought if I made my putt on 18, we'd be in a playoff. He just closed the door on me.

Ron Hunter

I thought honestly the game was won when we closed the half out. I thought we took it out of them a little bit. . . . We're a great second-half team so that was huge, getting that five-point lead.

I think they re going to have to offer a stipend to help their employees with the costs so much for gas. They are going to have to encourage use of mass transportation or look for workers that are closer in.

John was an idol of mine. He was so close to winning a state title. He is very highly respected. He is truly one of the greatest in the state.

Ruby Walsh

Jumping the last, I thought I might stay on to be fourth. I knew we would get closer but I didn't think we were going to get there and I only thought we had won when the judge called No.10.