Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

July was much stronger than expected, but when you factor in the revisions to June, there's only a 0.4 percent increase ... I think these numbers are very close to consensus forecast.

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.

We were very fortunate to win the first two games that we played them. We won on the last play of the game the first time we played them and last year was a very close game, too. They have virtually their entire team back, as far as I can see.

Jon Gruden

We were very close. We were close personally.

We were very close to winning a sectional title. If we would have had (Danny Moore), we probably would have been able to pull it off.

Dave Whelan

We were very close to signing Michael Owen,

Helio Castroneves

We were very close many times. I don't think there were a couple of times that a hair could have even be between the wheel and my wheel. I don't think we ever touched. I tell you, I respect him a lot after this race. Not that I didn't respect him before, but he definitely drove like a champion.

We were up on heating oil in the morning, but ended the day down closer to the levels some would expect given the data (on crude supplies),

We'll be tested here because there are teams here that are close to us, but we expect to do well.

We'll be sitting a little closer this year.

We were nervous to start the game, but once we settled down a little bit, we were able to go on a little run. But we knew SIUE would close the gap. We knew it was going to come right down to the wire.

Chris Ryan

We were lucky to come away with a conference win today. Clarksville played very competitively, and our one doubles struggled to put away their opponents today, making for a very close third point.

We were lucky to be as close as we were, for shooting 33 percent. We played hard, but we didn't play real smart.

We were looking to close up a tax loophole. There's real money out there being lost. It's starting to be real money, serious money.

We were looking for something pretty specific: secure facility, educated staff, a structured curriculum, clean, decent cost, flexible schedule, low student-to-teacher ratio and a good feeling and comfort level were all extremely important to us. We also wanted something close to home.

We were able to finish it off. It was a little closer than it should have been.

We were able to close the door with our defense when we needed.

David Greene

We can safely say we're not going to close now. I'm thrilled.

Jeff Long

We do work hard to get closer to proportionality.