Famous Quotes & Sayings

I just had to figure out a way to deal with the defense. Last year, I could do whatever I wanted but now people know all my habits. I have to adjust and work harder to help my team.

Ben Wallace

I just had to continue to play my game. I couldn't let the calls dictate how I was going to play. I wanted to force them to adjust to me. I just came out aggressive and tried to make some plays.

I have to get over my own fears of being out there. Do I belong here? Once that happens, I feel like I can be part of this team and rely on these guys to win games. I think a new guy always has an advantage. Once they adjust to me, it will be my adjustment back to this league that will determine my future success.

I have to get adjusted to the speed of the college game first. But it makes for a good team to have competition in practice.

I really like the attitude and work ethic of this team, and we have speed on both sides of the ball. My concerns heading into the season are size and experience. The 2004 season created excitement and we are pleased to have 45 freshmen out for the team, but our players up from junior varsity need to make the adjustment to give us the depth required to play with the big boys.

He's (Smith) a good pitcher. We know he's one of the top three pitchers in the state. We know he's a competitor because of what he did to us in last year's state tournament. He worked ahead all game long. We just didn't adjust as hitters.

He's starting to settle down more. He's able to adjust in a fight. If his punching is not working, he can box. If his boxing is not working, he can punch. He's just developing. He listens. And he learns.

He's so smart. His judgment is amazing. You run into all kinds of conditions at the different arenas. He is able to adjust on his own. I have complete trust in him.

Tony Bennett

He's just a freshman and we have a lot of depth this year. I think there's such an adjustment for freshmen from a strength and physical standpoint. He's doing a good job with that. He's a complete player. He just has to continue to improve and get himself used to this level.

Hopefully, we'll get to hit tomorrow evening in Austin when we get in and a little bit Saturday morning before the match, so it won't be a difficult adjustment outdoors. At least, I hope it won't.

Hotel rates are going up, and hotels haven't yet adjusted redemption rates.

Orlando Cabrera

He's our secret weapon. The adjustment to him may have caused the Yankees some problems.

Mark Hendrickson

I don't know if it's ever going to go away. It's just something I'm going to have to learn to deal with and adjust my workouts accordingly.

I didn't think I would be the main big man. I knew I would be expected to score and rebound, but I didn't think I would have to do this much. I have adjusted well. My teammates have encouraged me to stay focused. I have surprised myself.

I didn't know how, but I had to fight through it. I was a little tired. He was slipping my Russian tie a little better, so I adjusted a little bit. I felt him breaking (in the third period).

I didn't really do very good at the beginning adjusting, and then the second time I got called up I adjusted a little better. Still it's a tough situation for me because I've never been in that situation because I've been used to playing every day in the Minor Leagues. My goal is to eventually get an everyday spot here.

Ryan Clark

It was a very good play by him. He made a good adjustment to the ball and I didn't. I've got to do a better job. When I looked, I thought the ball was going to come to one side. It actually came to the other, which is something they practice.

It was a tough decision, the toughest in my life. I said no because I feared I would not adjust well.

It was a year in which two significant fundamental weaknesses in our North American operations were fully exposed - our huge legacy cost burden and our inability to adjust structural costs in line with revenue.

Sania Mirza

It was a very strange match, very up and down, ... The first round is always the toughest, you have to adjust to playing with new balls, on a new court and in a new stadium, but once you get past that first match it's a little easier because you have more confidence.

Matt Schaub

It was a variety of things. They came out with a little bit different scheme and some things we had to adjust to. And as the game went on in the second and fourth quarter, we were able to adjust to them and had some things work out for us.

Rich Rodriguez

It was a tough year, ... Anytime you change schemes in all three phases there is an adjustment period. Here, it was the same system for 20 years, so it took a little while.

It was an adjustment without Catron. Before we had a double-barreled attack, with an inside and an outside threat.

It is technical adjustment to existing policy, not another policy change.

It's a good position to be in with everyone pretty much healthy. You know, over a stretch like we're about to hit, we're going to take a beating. At least we'll go into the stretch healthy. We'll adjust from there.

John Lutz

It's a difficult environment and it only gets harder because from year to year, the Medicare dollars we are paid are adjusted with the federal budget. It's hard to grow a business when you don't know what you're going to get paid from year to year.

Alex Rodriguez

It was a great event. I give the event an A-plus. The only adjustment I'd make is to bring Team USA together on Feb. 1. I think everyone would do it.

Doc Rivers

It was one of those human games. We can adjust the effort and we can adjust the execution.

It's very special to come back here and work with these folks, ... It's taken a little adjusting to call them by their first names, but I'm getting used to it.

It's tough for freshmen. Fall sports are different than spring sports. They have to adjust to being in college.

Roger Federer

I stick to what I always do, whether it's a final or first-round match. I want to get the rhythm, see how the conditions are, adjust string tensions if I have to. Then I'm off.

It was a disappointment but not a disaster. It was weaker than the consensus, but not everyone had adjusted for the charges.

It usually takes us a few innings to adjust to the pitcher's speed.