Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dustin Keller

It's a lot different than last year. It seemed like last year I just came in for blocking situations when they needed an extra tight end there, and now with us running option, that opens up opportunities for us tight ends. So every opportunity we get, we're going to try to take advantage of that.

It's always been a home-court advantage for us to play at 7,000 feet. You throw in 4,000 - or maybe 5,000 - fans, now you have a double-edged sword working for us.

It's always an advantage playing at home but not a tremendous one. You have to come out and play. I'll tell you what, it will be a tough regional.

Paul Valery

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

Jodi Picoult

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

Olivier Theyskens

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.

Jack Rio

For the most part, he has really devoted himself to being a special player for using and having a great year. We want to take advantage of what guys are capable of and put them in positions to make plays. I think you've seen early in camp here that he is poised to have an excellent year for us.

Brad Jones

For the increasing number of companies in the region seeking venture capital and other forms of institutional sponsorship, the Investment Capital Conference provides an open and level playing field to meet top capital providers. I would encourage any entrepreneur or CEO to take advantage of the feast of financing sources and market insights that will be available at the 2006 Investment Capital Conference.

Paul Campbell

For other states to really understand and take advantage of what we learned in Illinois, we realized that we'd have to 'walk them' through our process--which led us to the workshop idea.

For sure, we took too many penalties late in the game. But we took advantage while they were in the box.

Kay Redfield Jamison

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

The research we did suggested that there's a real opportunity for Century Bank to take advantage of its friendly, neighborhood focus and special retail-oriented services to carve out a productive niche in the marketplace.

Lawyer Milloy

There's definitely a sense of urgency. Even though we lost that Pittsburgh game (the season finale), we left feeling pretty good about ourselves. In this league, with all the movement and parity, you have to take advantage of the opportunities you get and not let them slip by. We want to take advantage of having a good team.

There's certainly an advantage to having an instant installed base for people trying to decide what format.

There's always a risk with these shows that information will leak and certain people will try to take advantage of it,

There's a reason for that. Their teams don't hurt themselves. They wait for their opponents to screw up and take advantage of it.

Roy Clark

There's an old saying in baseball: Take care of your own backyard, ... It's not only Georgia kids, but kids all over the Southeast. They've been watching the Braves and want to be a part of it. That's one advantage we have regionally. A lot of these kids want to be an Atlanta Brave. A lot of times, they're more signable for us than they would be for another club.

There's an advantage to belonging to an international. One obvious thing (affecting union members) is the lack of a strike and defense fund.

There's an advantage to belonging to an international.

At halftime we were getting outplayed and we talked about taking it up another notch. We had a height advantage and the kids played with a lot of heart.

A six-on-four is never easy. There's so many bodies in front of the net. I feel pretty good the way I'm moving right now. I worked hard on it during the period where I didn't play much, so I'm happy that I could take advantage of that time.

As we had expected, there were many that had other housing arrangements and took advantage of those arrangements.

As we were resting them, we were explaining that was why. We hope it pays off to our advantage tomorrow night. I guess we'll see.

All of us knew what he was capable of when he first got here. He just is going out and playing ball. He's just getting opportunities and he's taking advantage of it.

All our analytic applications can now take advantage of the innovations we're bringing to market in our XI Release 2 platform.

Absolutely. It brought me luck. Maybe he will see it on the court and it will give me an advantage to win the first set.

A big advantage of SNPLMA is being able to (apply for) multi-year projects. Projects used to end each fiscal year so it was difficult to look long-term.

Abilene is a good team, and they beat us. We made some mistakes, and they took advantage of them like a good team will.

About three years ago we were primarily a PC campus and dealt with one vendor. Now both faculty and students are seeing the advantages and versatility of Macs and we're seeing a change-over.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

I guess sometimes good things happen when you don't expect it. I'm happy for Todd. It's a good opportunity for him and for Lance, too. Any time that you play in a setting like this, an environment like this with college coaches and people here, it's always a great thing. They both took advantage of it. They both played real well (Sunday) and played hard. I'm proud of them.

Ned Yost

I guess there is a little bit of an advantage, because you get to know guys a little more. But we've got a good scouting program and people out looking (at the other teams). There aren't too many guys that we haven't seen.

Matt Hasselbeck

I guess the only thing to say is that it's not going to be an unfair advantage for anyone, because the other team is using the same football.