Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were not strong with the ball. It seemed like we forced a lot of shots and they took advantage of that.

Though a large percentage of shopping has been completed, many sales have not been recorded due to heavy purchasing of gift cards, which are not recorded until merchandise is redeemed. Most consumers will have their shopping completed by Christmas Day, but will head out after Christmas to take advantage of discounted merchandise and spend gift cards.

Ken Thompson

UBS, City National Bank and First-Citizens are all unique banking franchises with different market strategies, but all recognize the value of being owners of The Clearing House. For companies with global operations or regional institutions focused in the U.S., The Clearing House provides the industry leadership and innovation that delivers a competitive advantage to institutions.

We are working with El Mirage for Dysart improvements and we have a good relationship with them, ... They see the advantages for both cities in the development of this business park.

Curtis Brown

We can't tell you all our secrets, but we're looking forward to the deploy of Hubble and if we have a chance to say hello to our families, we'll definitely take advantage of that,

We can't reach everybody because not everybody takes advantage of our services.

We consistently shot ourselves in the foot with turnovers and they took advantage of them. Northville was the better team tonight, no doubt about it. They were quicker to the ball and capitalized on our mistakes.

Mike Bennett

We consider it part of our competitive advantage. We don't want regulations requiring these things. That would take away our advantage.

Chauncey Billups

We come out this way and it's an advantage to have him and his staff because they've been in this conference for 10 years, and they know all these teams and all these players, all their tendencies. We know the basic stuff about these teams. We know what they like to do -- meat and potatoes. But they know them inside-out.

We don't want there to be a perceived unfair competitive advantage, ... They have to create a division between applications and platforms.

We have been encouraged to take advantage of our freedom, and the media has taken the authorities at their word,

We have been concentrating on not only being more aggressive but also getting better jumps. We knew coming in that part of the scouting report was we could take advantage of running on their catchers, but a couple of our players also picked up on some of the pitches and ran on their own.

We have become more aware of personal match-ups and having that point guard back who we know can attack and score will be a big difference this time around. That is going to be a big key to this game -- knowing match-ups that we can take advantage of and just using our size and strength against them.

We have got to be the kind of team that finds a way to win. That's what we have to do on offense until we get established guys who are playmakers. We just have to find ways to get first downs and score points and take advantage of our opportunities in field position.

We have good people at other positions, and just the threat of what Chris can do opens things up for those people. We need to take advantage of that. Chris is maturing as a quarterback, and a lot of that is from the mental standpoint in terms of decision-making, patience and the overall thought process of who to get the ball to and where.

We're all for flexibility. But the far more frequent experience is employers who are trying to cut corners who tell their employees, 'You don't really need a break.' Too many people get taken advantage of.

We really didn't hit the ball hard, but we found some holes and took advantage of their errors. After that happened, we got some clutch two-out hits, which is important.

We do have an advantage in that we have a very unique skill set. They could not easily come in and replace us, so it gives us more leverage than a lot of workers.

Rob Pike

We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

Abba Eban

When I was first here, we had the advantages of the underdog. Now we have the disadvantages of the overdog.

Michael Kinsley

When one does all these things to increase the attractiveness of the place, does that not drive us toward a place where only the rich are able to take advantage of it? That was a concern of ours from the very beginning. The cause is what might be called non-price sensitive demand, people that can pay virtually anything. We were thinking ahead enough to realize it would get worse very quickly. We started thinking about this in '75. It may be the most aggressive affordable housing in the country. It wasn't enough.

Pete Johnson

We wouldn't have done it without EQIP. People need to take advantage of it.

Michael Hitchcock

We would love to see MLS come to Oklahoma City. There may be an opportunity to bring an expansion team here. It starts with taking advantage of showcase events. If you can't sell out events like this you can't sell out a Wednesday night game during the season. So it's important the fans come out.

E. O. Wilson

We would love to bring a playoff game back to the city of Denver. Trust me, I know we haven't won the AFC West since I've been here. Trust me, I know that, and you don't have to tell me that. But that's what we push for. We're pushing to win our division, first of all. And once you win your division it gives you a home playoff game and possibly home-field advantage and you go from there.

Scott Peterson

We would have liked to get the sweep, but we will take the one win. Neither team played that well in the second game, but they took more advantage of the mistakes we made and that was the difference.

We would be very stupid not to take advantage of this excellent result and win the group.

Daddy Yankee

Getting your education is an advantage you have.

We didn't get any fire in our own eyes until we got our back against the wall. That's something we've talked about quite a bit. We need to come out and attack the game and make sure we're taking advantage of every opportunity we get from the first inning on.

We didn't get a body on people like we should have. It was that their big men were getting all the boards. A lot of rebounds went long, and went over me and Willie's heads. When a rebound goes long, Florida has the advantage because they're on the outside.

We didn't expect a big lead, but it certainly worked to our advantage. Once we figured out that we didn't have to take the first shot every time down the floor, and that the clock was on our side, we we ended up being better off.

We did not pitch as well out of the bullpen as we needed to. We left some balls up, and they took advantage of it. We had a chance to win late and didn't, and we left a couple of guys at third base with less than two out. I was pleased with our effort today, but there are no moral victories.

We did not open it up to women hoping they would not enter. Having done that, it will be a shame if they do not take advantage of the opportunity. Having said that, it was never our intention to disrupt the women's tours. ... But the option is there.

Jay Wright

We had a couple of looks that went in and out. That was our chance. You only get so many opportunities and we didn't take advantage and they closed us out.