Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Ford

It looked like to the organization that he wasn't progressing. But in 2004 he blossomed. With him it was a mechanical adjustment that one of his pitching coaches made with him. After that he had more success. Yogi Berra said 50 percent of baseball is 90 percent psychological.

John Olerud

It's great news. There's an adjustment going from the bullpen to starting. I've got to believe it's an easier adjustment for him than going from starter to the bullpen.

It was nice to get this game under our belts. This is a new gym for us and I think everyone made the adjustment pretty easy. But for us, no matter where we play, we're going to focus on defense.

It was kind of an adjustment for James to go from high school to college, but his learning curve has sky rocketed. He's not very vocal, but he can lead a team so well and do so many things on the floor that don't show in the stats or the highlights.

It may be resolvable but that would require a lot of adjustment on the part of the other companies.

It's hard to see a team lose a game like that. It was a great adjustment by coach McIntyre.

It's been a hard and stressful adjustment on everyone. But it was my family, and they had nowhere to go. One of the fun parts though will be getting to see my nephew play for his senior year. I've heard from family members how good he is, but now I'll see firsthand.

Mark Zandi

It's similar to asking a big part of the labor force to leave. In today's economy where the job market is at capacity, asking people to leave means the economy will not grow as fast. In fact, there could be a very difficult adjustment over the first three to four years when this process is in full swing.

Bryan Cupito

That was a bigger adjustment than I thought it would be. The first day was kind of rough. I didn't think it would take that long to get used to, but it took the whole first day. He really struggled the first day because he couldn't get the ball up, but he's gotten a lot better. Whatever they decide to do is all right with me.

Darren Sharper

That's just what I felt. Now I'm on the good side. It felt a little weird at first, but it's an adjustment that I can make. It felt good to put on the purple and get out there with the fans. They embraced me.

Becky Hammon

That's going to be an adjustment because you're looking into a sea of people and lights.

That's how we got outnumbered. We made that adjustment at halftime.

All American companies that provide high tech products and also capital equipment for the Asian economic miracle are going to be hurt because there's an adjustment process that has to be gone through in Asia. It's going to take two to three years, and in the meantime they're going to see lower sales in Asia.

Brad just came into the game on that drive and did some great things. He threw a great ball on the touchdown and Shaun made a nice adjustment to move inside and go up high to get it.

Either you have a big adjustment like a 20 percent or 30 percent decline, or you have a big recession or you have a slow decline in property prices or several years of no growth.

It's one thing when you play a team with a big back and it's going to be him packing that thing 40 times. You get ready for it. But they only give you Bettis for 15 and Parker for 25. That's a big adjustment the defense has to make.

For Murphy and Moss, there is no specific adjustment that we are looking for. More ABs against good competition will hasten their development. For Delgado, this is an opportunity to have him pitch in a more controlled environment than he would with a team in Venezuela, and gets him under our supervision.

It was a good game. We started out behind in the first quarter and then the second and third were pretty even. The girls stepped up big time in the fourth quarter. We made a big defensive adjustment and it really paid off big for us. SC seemed to be off guard at that and they didn't get many good looks down the stretch.

James Blake

Any time getting on a grass court is going to be pretty fast, especially a lot faster than the hard courts we've been hitting on. It's just going to be a matter of time getting used to it. I feel comfortable on it. It's not a huge adjustment from the hard courts. It's still quicker. You have to change your game a little more, the movement's different.

Any policy adjustment need not take place in the near future,

Michael Gallagher

As a result of anticipated increased interest expense, Playtex expects an adjustment to 2000 diluted earnings per share of 2 to 3 cents from current analyst estimates,

The bottom line is that credit-based spending remains incredibly strong. Debt levels continue to rise and if there is any upward adjustment to interest rates, that would have major impact on debt serving costs.

Sandwich stretched the ice on us. By the time we made the adjustment they had scored twice.

Production seems to have gone into an adjustment after the very strong October-December quarter.

After the adjustment of the cutoff point, the number of taxpayers will drop by more than a half, approximately. It will live up to our legislative principle to care for the interests of low and medium-income groups.

Actually, our adjustment at halftime was to go work the baseline. And Joe got himself free down there so he was more the recipient of all of that. Joe's a very hard worker on the backboard so he gets a lot of shots that look like that he's not doing much, but he's done a lot of the work to get them.

So there is no need to rely on administrative adjustment any more.

During the holiday-shortened week, the MBA may have overcompensated its seasonal adjustment of the data.

Claude Julien

Defensively, we have to find ways to let Jose see the puck a lot better. And at the same time, hopefully, there will be a little bit of an adjustment from both sides - the referees and the players - to try and make sure we don't create some serious injury situations.

Coach Dave Hess made a blocking adjustment on the offensive line that allowed us to run the ball. We put Nate Gingrich in at linebacker and he played with reckless abandon.

Donald Rumsfeld

There's been no discussions about any troop adjustment in Europe. And it would be wrong to inject that into the discussion, and cause tremors unnecessarily and inaccurately,

Carlos Beltran

There's a period of adjustment he's going through. I know he's not satisfied with his performance. He knows he can do better, and he knows he will do better.

There's always going to be an adjustment period when a guy comes off an injury.