Famous Quotes & Sayings

We just couldn't make shots we're accustomed to making. It was disappointing for us and I know the kids were disappointed. The season ended too quickly for all of us.

Alex Gonzalez

You can get accustomed to certain balls off the bat. I had one tough ball that I'm glad I had. The more balls I get hit to me, the more comfortable I'll feel. I hope it works out, and I hope to get to a point where I'm comfortable.

We had heavy-duty equipment on the site, and I'm accustomed to working around the water. We thought it was a thing we could do.

Jon Daniels

We've had calls on a variety of guys, but there's no intent on our part to move him. For me, it's important as I get accustomed to this role to have an open and honest relationship with these guys. I didn't want David to focus on anything except what's in between the lines.

We have such large fields they kangaroos are almost as if they would be in the wild. But they do become accustomed to people.

Jim Lampley

We're both accustomed to being the center of attention. We're both accustomed to being spoiled by the people around us. And we don't expect to have to compete with somebody for all of that.

Antawn Jamison

We really put it upon our shoulders to come out and play well. Caron had it going early and I had it going late. Those are the things that we're accustomed to. Teams know that we're the highest-scoring trio in the league. If we're playing well, it's going to be hard to beat us.

We came out without a lot of intensity and shot the ball well early in the game. They got off to a slow start ... we had not played them this season, and I would like to think they weren't accustomed to the type of pressure that we like to apply.

Right now, I don't know how we're going to work everything out. You don't say this is why things are going the way they are on the field, but there are little things you'd like to do, things that you're accustomed to. I mean, we've got a trash can for a cold tub.

Peter is an IT professional who is not accustomed to the rough-and-tumble world of politics. He found the last few months to be very distasteful, especially the Boston Globe article that seemed to imply some sort of improper influence related to his conference travel.

PLOW, n. An implement that cries aloud for hands accustomed to the pen.

We are accustomed to seeing troubled companies pruning their staff and letting people go, but Best Buy is really hitting on all cylinders.

We are quite accustomed to pretty modest growth in trade book sales. It's not growing fast in Spain, in France and the U.K. The way we've constructed our business in most countries is to have a very balanced operation. So if in one year trade is not good in France, you're going to have a best seller in the U.K.

I think everyone saw (tonight) just how important Lee is to this team. We had guys handling the ball at certain times that aren't accustomed to that. We made a lot mistakes in the second half and Whitefield took advantage of it. You have to give them credit.

J. J. Johnson

Our guys are smart guys. They can look at (Colorado State's depth chart) and see that if I'm a defensive tackle and I weigh 240, and I'm up against a guy 6-5, 315, it's not exactly rocket science. We know Colorado State is bigger. It's something our guys have kind of grown accustomed to. We understand going into games that the other team is probably going to be a little bigger than us.

Our kids feel comfortable running on this track. They're more accustomed to running on tracks that aren't banked. They feel like they're at home, so it's just great for all of the area teams around here.

Maryland's offense got a lead, and held the ball for long periods at a time, and it's tough to get into a rhythm that way. Our defense started to do things we are not accustomed to doing because we needed the ball.

Ricardo Sanchez

to free other people and to let them enjoy the freedoms that we have become accustomed to since the founding of our nation.

When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

We're accustomed to this. I'm just glad we don't have to travel.

We're accustomed to the insights of government officials being authoritative. Greenspan's comments may be wise, but they aren't actionable anymore.

Steve Phillips

We ran into a really good basketball team. They played at a level that our girls are not accustomed to playing against. Our girls didn't know how to handle it until it was late in the third and fourth. Our intensity level picked up, but it was too little, too late.

The real constitution of things is accustomed to hide itself

Obviously, I've made several films in Korea, so I'm very well accustomed and acclimated to Korean filmmaking.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close.

It's possible that Generation Facebook, accustomed as it is to a whole range of experiences that it only imbibes online, doesn't have the same need for physical interaction in order to be creative as previous generations still do. It's possible that Generation Facebook can co-create and collaborate quite happily from afar.

We've become accustomed to let officials handle everything.

Phil Jackson

We're not amazed, to say the least. We are enthralled by it, and it's a beautiful thing to see, but it's something that we've grown accustomed to over the years.

Nasser Hussain

We are seeing Australia being drawn back to the way the rest of the world has to play Test cricket because without either of their two all-time greats - McGrath and Warne - they just cannot play like they have become accustomed to,

Vinton Cerf

when we do get to the point where we need all the services in space that we have become accustomed to on Earth.

There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.

Craig Biggio

The key to our success this year is obviously not from our offense. It's from our pitching and defense. We made some plays when we had to. Brunt made a great play. This is the kind of baseball we're accustomed to playing this year. We bounced back and played a little better today.