Famous Quotes & Sayings

We had a couple of good chances we couldn't score on. And they took advantage of their chances.

Ozzie Guillen

We had a chance a couple of times and we couldn't pull the trigger. When you have an opportunity, you have to take advantage of it or you're going to pay for it.

We had about a 70-30 territorial advantage. But we did too much fiddling and diddling and not enough popping (the ball into the net).

We had a bad week of practices, so it was important for us to give a good effort tonight. We aren't expected to contribute as much offensively as other lines, but we have to take advantage when we get the chances.

We had a 10-8 lead after the first quarter, where they turned the ball over three or four times down the floor in a row. At that point, we needed to take advantage of it, but weren't able to.

We got into foul trouble and didn't play our normal defense. We were a step slow and they took advantage of it.

We believe our guaranteed express pickup offering, which enabled customers to shop for Christmas gifts over the Web through Christmas Eve, was a competitive advantage during the month." ()

We are serious about SIUE becoming a nationally known, premier university. We need an energetic person who will take advantage of the opportunities presented to them at SIUE.

We believe it makes a lot of sense, given the needs of the county and the fact they have a huge imbalance in housing, a great transportation advantage here at Hunter Mill Road, and the fact that there is Metro coming down the corridor,

Andrew Ferguson

We believe Green Cove Springs provides Stock with the advantages to serve a larger market area in North Florida and South Georgia and we're anxious to get started.

Truthfully, wrestling in northern Virginia is decent. The east already has the advantage in wrestling terms. It gets kind of stale after a while being in the same area.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

Without those errors, who knows what would have happened. But those errors are a part of the game and we took advantage of them in the beginning.

With an industry focused over the past decade on effective buyer representation, and the possibility of the market advantage now shifting to the buyers, agents are going to have to improve their knowledge and skills in effectively working and representing sellers.

Chris Leak

With Andre's speed, he could have been one of those guys where two (defenders) have to go with him. It could have been a great advantage for us getting other guys open. That's one of the big advantages we have with Andre.

Anders Hejlsberg

With a lot of programs today, you're not only saying what you want the program to do, you are saying in painful detail how you want it done. The way we get to take advantage of all of the progress in CPUs and memory is offloading some of that 'how to' to the infrastructure.

John Ashcroft

Yet, terrorists -- people who were either involved with, associated with, or are seeking to take advantage of the September 11 attacks -- are now poisoning our communities with anthrax.

There are several advantages to our services. We are in the community where people live, you don't have to wait, and you can consider the cost savings.

There are quite a few people taking advantage of making their opinions known. Let's see how many people we can get to take this survey, so the ISVs will pay attention and start porting their products to Linux.

Chellie Pingree

A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

Chellie Pingree

Renewable energy has economic advantages that extend beyond steady, predictable electric rates - and Maine is in a good position to capitalize on those opportunities.

Hugh Laurie

The strange thing - and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial - is that wherever I am, that's sort of home.

We came out a little sluggish, and they took advantage of it. And that's basically it. It was tough to get back to the rhythm that we're usually playing at. By that time, it was too late.

We only have between four or five boys. So it's tough filling some of the events. We do have 14,15 girls, so that gives us the advantage of putting a strong swimmer in each event.

We only get to do this once a year. We want to enjoy the weekend and take advantage of home course knowledge.

We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.

O. J. Simpson

Well, I wouldn't let anybody take advantage of me anyway. But my mom had my back.

When (Reitz) was out, we should have taken advantage.

While our core solutions each provide distinct advantages for different types of credit unions, they all leverage a service-oriented architecture, our unified technology direction that's focused on enhancing member service through a practical blend of powerful, established processing capabilities and new innovative technologies like XML and .NET(R).

With 10 seconds left on the clock, I knew I had to make a big play, so I was telling coach to put the ball in my hands. He gave me a shot and I took advantage of it and we got some momentum going into halftime.

Rita Rudner

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Ronda Rousey

The style I have in judo is very unique... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Raekwon

I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.