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We were tougher today in facing the adversity, knowing that it is going to come and how you deal with it. A good example was in the two doubles match and Chris Thomas pulled a muscle in his abs. He didn't quit and kept battling and that was probably one of the biggest matches today. John Blackburn
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We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms. Clint Hurdle
battling easier few good guys numbers players positions start stretching work
We're getting down to a few numbers where we can work it a little easier and not try to get everyone in. We want to start stretching out our players and take a good look at some of these guys that are battling each other and battling for positions on this team. Ron Gardenhire
battling good happens hard knows leaders leaders-and-leadership luck players work
We're frustrated, but we have a lot of good leaders and good players in this room. We have to keep battling through this. What happens to us happens to other teams, too. Everyone knows you have to work hard and your luck will change.
battling
We're battling to get our revenue, we're battling to get our margin.
battling confidence game nervous playing poise sign
We're battling now. Before we were getting a little nervous as the game went on when it was tight. Now we're playing with a lot more poise with the puck. It's a sign our confidence is getting better. Joe Nieuwendyk
battling boston fighting games key playoff stay toronto trying
We're battling for first place with Ottawa, so all those games are going to be huge. Then Toronto and Boston are fighting for playoff spots, and Montreal's trying to stay in. Those are all going to be huge, key games for us. Those are all four-point games. Derek Roy
battling forward game playoff spot steps three win
We're battling for a playoff spot and every game is important for us. The (next) three games, there's got to be no steps back. We have to go forward and win all those.
battling past struggling
We're battling but offensively we have just been struggling for the past month. John Jay
chasing few graduates growing high lots money thrown time
With the high need and growing demand, lots of money and time is being thrown at a problem, but everyone is chasing after the very few graduates that exist.
chasing forward looking major
With no major championships scheduled, I am looking forward to chasing for the prize. Kenenisa Bekele
chasing few great industry lots money people venture ways
There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
chasing companies core enormous meaningful moved places tiny
We're not chasing the really tiny companies that have moved enormous amounts, ... The core companies with meaningful franchises are the places to be.
chasing famous fear stressed
I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that. Sean Harris
chasing clinging cool imagine science striving trying
At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm. Ma Huateng
chasing facebook money
It was a precondition to leaving Facebook that I wasn't going to start something that was just about chasing money. Dustin Moskovitz
chasing fingers hope plays showing somebody time
You can't go around chasing your own plays and showing up every time somebody does one somewhere. You just cross your fingers and hope that they're OK. Tom Stoppard
chasing distant hoping kindness last quite sprinter sweet year
She had a sweet, sweet 50 in the prelims last year (26.1), so that was kind of what we were chasing and it just didn't quite come down for her this year. So I was hoping there was a 50 sprinter in there with that distant sprinter.
coming example money send though
We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.
coming good people photo saying
Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think. Luke Pasqualino
coming concept great home leaves picked room sports understand
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home. Michael Strahan
coming emotional love motivation stories true understand until
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end. M. Night Shyamalan
coming crash drive earnings economy fact market nice numbers ought quarter second sentiment slowing sold stable terrific third
The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.
coming housing negative numbers oil positive today worse
The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.
coming face move point society time turn
The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future. Mark Potok
coming defensive line pleasant practice question surprise
The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.
coming seeing side
We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.
ended seven
We started out with only one tumbler and we ended up with seven at the KIF championships.
ended last year
We started out last year also at 3-0, but we ended up going 3-3, so we've got to keep up the intensity.
ended game hungry slow
We started off a little slow but got better as the game went on ...When we ended up getting our opportunities, we were hungry enough to go and get some goals.
ended flat maybe played players ready younger
We started flat, we played flat and we ended flat. I don't know why, but maybe my younger players just weren't ready for it.
ended glad needed passive short today until
We were too passive offensively today until the ninth, when we put up some runs. I was glad to see us come back late. It ended just short of where we needed it to.
ended game good last minutes scoring stopped
When we had 70 points, I thought if we could get the game into the 80s, we'd have a good chance. We were going up and down and then we stopped scoring the last 21/2 minutes and we ended up with 70.
ended finally hotel lost luggage tournament win worst
When we got there, our luggage got lost and our hotel was bad. Everything was awful. When we finally got to our final hotel, it was like 2 in the morning. I said then, 'Even if I win this tournament, it's going to be the worst tournament ever.' It ended up being not so bad, though.
ended level paperback series smaller trade
I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.
ended films hugely plenty proved turned work
I turned down plenty of films which proved to be hugely successful. And, of course, I've also had plenty of experiences where everyone thought we were doing brilliant work and it ended up pretty horrific. Same as any actor, really. Ewen Bremner
football violent fascists
I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.) Charles Stross
football league should
I tried to push him away with my head. I apologise to everyone. I should not have got involved in it. Alan Pardew
football league noise
Shut your noise, you old c***!
football zero games
How on earth can otherwise sensible people get so involved in a football game? You could measure the lasting impact on the lives of the people who played it at just about zero. Alan Page
football successful player
The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
football philosophy thinking
I think if Tottenham are going to be top four side, the fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of 'pretty football', that's got to go. Alan Hansen
football laughing missing
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
football blow watches
Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch. Alan Green
football playing-football commentators
Ziege hits it high for Heskey who isn't playing
gave-up personal-things
But I never gave up personal things to work, never. Catherine Deneuve
gave money voted
The person who gave the most money to my campaign, I voted against.
gave poem poetry point strength
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.
gave hurt sixth struggled three
We struggled in the first game. We gave up those three in the sixth and that hurt, but we were already behind.
gave giving glad plays reality score stress team
We stress not giving up big plays on defense, so that was a little disappointing. But I was glad to see the way we responded as a team after that score gave us a little reality check.
gave good increase percent ride season
When you take into consideration that we started with a 23 percent increase in season passes, so I think that gave us a good hedge on the roller-coaster ride that the season was.
gave-up knows
There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. Deidre Hall
gave good terrific trailing
We were trailing most of the time, but we had them. We were good enough to win, and it showed in the way we played. We gave them a terrific game.
gave
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer. Nic Pizzolatto
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
hungry describe-me mellow
Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day. Alan Rickman
hungry-for-success superstar good-work
I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. Akshay Kumar
hunger braces famine
You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger. David Sedaris
hunger humans
Human hunger birthed the Civlize, but human hunger killed it too. David Mitchell
hunger law
Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger. Benjamin Franklin
hunger-strike literature demand
A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. Edwin Louis Cole
hunger feels stills
Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn. Charlize Theron
hungry hungry-for-knowledge species
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. Chaim Potok
hungry belly angry
Them belly full, but we hungry; A hungry mob is a angry mob. Bob Marley
kept looked people stopped
We stopped the run, we stopped the pass, we kept people out of the end zone, ... but yet we still get looked down upon. Brian Dawkins
kept lose
When you've got a young inexperienced quarterback, the first thing you think of is 'Son don't lose the game,' ... He didn't lose the game. He kept us from losing. Bobby Bowden
kept played plugging results tribute
We actually got after it better. We played harder. It's a tribute to the kids. They've kept plugging away. It was important for them to see some results come out of the work.
kept
We were told we would be kept up on the time. If we don't have a scoreboard, we shouldn't play at that field.
kept worse
Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better. Christine Baranski
kept knew later picking wore yards
We knew what we had to do and we just kept going after them. I think we really wore them down and later on we were picking up big yards on runs.
kept knew lead run
We knew they were going to make a run, we weren't going to be able to keep a (big) lead on them. They made a run, they made a big run in the third, but we kept our composure. Carmelo Anthony
kept knew
We knew they were going to make a run. We knew they were going to get hot, but we kept our composure. E. O. Wilson
kept love saying versus work yes
Verne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie. Mike Myers
kids wells understood
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it. Alanis Morissette
kids winning
You'll never win anything with kids
kids scientist natural
Kids are natural scientists. Alan Alda
kids mind desperate
In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid. Al Purdy
kids gang-members wife
Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it. Al Madrigal
kids enjoyed
I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself. Al Lewis
kids sure various
We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.
kids years add
It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland. Chris Colfer
kids awkward special
My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.
playing rock service thank
We want to thank (the service members) the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Neil Fallon
playing-music born
Ive been playing music since I was born. Chord Overstreet
playing stuck
We stuck with them. We'll keep playing and keep working at it.
playing
When I'm not acting, I'm playing golf. I'm pretty passionate about it. Lucas Black
playing waving
Why would you want to stand there waving a stick when you could be playing an instrument? Nigel Kennedy
playing region start
When you start playing these better region teams, you have to play well.
playing-music
And I like music, too, I like playing music. Beau Bridges
playing-outside geek scientist
My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do. Antony Garrett Lisi
playing-music theory music-is
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. Derek Bailey
proud not-sure be-proud
I'm not sure I enjoyed doing [Gigi Does It]. I'm cool with just being an actor. If anything, I learned to be proud of being an actor. David Krumholtz
proud firsts british
I was the first woman British commissioner, the first woman trade commissioner, so I am also proud to be the first woman High Representative. Catherine Ashton
proud littles looks
Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike. Catherynne M. Valente
proud salary teachers
We are proud we can give teachers the kind of salary we do.
proud since striving
We are proud of the improvements that we have made since 2004. We are going to keep striving to do better.
proud
We are proud of the effectiveness of our procedures.
proud work
We still, obviously, have a lot of work to do, but I'm proud of them.
proud share knows
Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small. William Shakespeare
proud done decided
When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of Ed Harris
team people dementors
I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here
team cups world
I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.
team cups needs
The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.
teamwork littles best-team
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. Alain Prost
team people helping
It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
team frogs tadpoles
When I drove for British teams... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
team compromise building
You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
team numbers
There are a number of teams that would become vastly improved with Drew Bledsoe. Al Michaels
team taken miami-dolphins
The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.
technology hands people
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan Watts
technology civilization goal
...the materialism of modern civilization is paradoxically founded on a hatred of materiality, a goal-oriented desire to obliterate all natural limits through technology, imposing an abstract grid over nature.
technology fit lifestyle
The success of SYNC is another proof point that we are doing just that. We will continue to innovate and expand the capability of SYNC by integrating even more new technologies that fit our customers’ lifestyles. Alan Mulally
technology matter watches
It doesn't matter what the technology is - no one will watch a Peter Greenaway film anyway. Alan Parker
technology fields needs
The computing field is always in need of new cliches. Alan Perlis
technology thinking people
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
technology bird worms
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
technology two benefits
Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. Alan Moore
technology amish kind
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
virginia sight rose
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way. Alan Bennett
virginia community together
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship. Bill Jenkins
virginia years people
When I saw what painting had done in the last thirty years, what literature had done - people like Joyce and Virginia Woolf, Faulkner and Hemingway - in France we have Nathalie Sarraute - and paintings became so strongly contemporary while cinema was just following the path of theater. I have to do something which relates with my time, and in my time, we make things differently. Agnes Varda
virginia energy east
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast. Bob McDonnell
virginia england homeland
The South Downs of England reminded me a bit of my Old Virginia homeland. Billy Campbell
virginia west hillbilly
Deep down, I'm just a West Virginia hillbilly. Brad Paisley
virginia mind salary
The Concord Coalition in Virginia complained about pork projects and wasteful spending in the federal budget. Consider the Senate chaplain's salary. As occupations go, only mind readers in Los Angeles have fewer things to do all day. Argus Hamilton
virginia years steel
Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore rescinded the state's European Heritage Month proclamation for fear it would sound racist. It's too bad. Thus ends a month of celebrating the 400-year progression of our nation's British culture from wood to steel to graphite shafts.
virginia farmers farms
I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers. Barbara Kingsolver
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.