Famous Quotes & Sayings

Derek Jeter

After that mistake they really took advantage of it. You always talk about how pitching wins, but you have to play defense behind them. Everybody's talking about our offense, but it doesn't win games. You need pitching and defense.

Dan Monson

Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.

Carlos Beltran

Against amateurs, they have an advantage because (the Cubans) play every day. That's their job, their mission. Here in Puerto Rico, a lot of the amateur players have a day job and often practice just twice a week.

Anne Sullivan

Again, it's an elective component for parents and students, but the support is there in the event that someone would like to take advantage of it,

After they beat us in the regional championship, we wanted one more chance to play them. We knew the opportunity was there for us, we needed to take advantage of it.

It's really up to me. I just have to be more aggressive and take advantage of this opportunity.

Billy Donovan

As a coach, I can't put the ball in the hole for them. But what I can try to do is put them in the best position to take advantage of the talent level they have that they can make plays ... Right now, we have a bunch of guys that are unproven in that area so I'm going to try to eliminate any focus on them worrying about scoring.

Anytime you have a monopoly, you have a competitive advantage. It seems like these guys have figured out a legitimate one. It will be interesting to see how long they can maintain it. That's really quite a deal.

Anytime you have a big box like Target, it generates traffic and improves the demographics for other stores to come and take advantage of.

Any time you make seven errors in a game, you're going to be hard-pressed to win it. Brownwood took advantage of every mistake we made. They deserved to win.

Asa Hutchinson

Anytime we can have the domestic policy adviser to the president of the United States, we have to take advantage of it. It's important for us to make Arkansas' case to a key person in the administration.

John Diehl

Any time we can get the ball inside with our height advantage we are going to come out on top. They both can turn and shoot the ball very well.

Any time you've got a guy who pitched every Friday back to pitch every Friday again, I think that's a huge advantage. He had a good year last year, and I think he's capable of more. Having him back is probably our biggest advantage this year.

Anytime you've been there as many times as they have, they're going to have an advantage because they know what the atmosphere is like. They know to handle themselves. We're not going to be disappointed if we lose. It's going to hurt, but hopefully, we'll learn.

Eddie Jordan

Indiana's coaches took advantage of mismatches and found things that we couldn't deal with on a consistent basis. They used the pick-and-roll in the middle of the floor and the isolation off the logo with Jackson.

India has the unique advantages of having the biggest domestic market and this should support IT companies.

In countries operating a largely capitalist system, there does not appear to be a wide understanding among its actors and overseers of either its advantages or its hazards.

India's natural advantages make it poised to take a leading role in the global economy, ... In fact, India has the potential to be an economic powerhouse.

Indecision has often given an advantage to the other fellow because he did his thinking beforehand

In baseball, there's not a lot of home field advantage. Not unless the game is tied, then there is big home field advantage. But I really believe that. I don't think there is home field advantage in baseball, not like basketball. Anybody can come here and win and we can go anywhere and win. Good teams win.

Mario Cuomo

In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and the dangers of allowing another nation to beat us there.

George Canning

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch / Is offering too little and asking too much. / The French are with equal advantage content, / So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

Justin Chon

In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don't take anything for granted.

B. F. Skinner

In my experience, I don't care where you're at, whether you're in New York or Florida, California or Louisiana, after disasters, when you have this kind of money being pumped into the community this fast, there are going to be people who are going to try to take advantage of it.

Brendan Shanahan

In a lot of ways we missed the game, but we did our best to take advantage of the time off.

In all fairness, I feel compelled to warn men that women, even on good days, are compulsively manipulative. We constantly take advantage of the fact that men are either unaware of this particular trait or are wonderfully forgetful.

Tom Izzo

I'm not a big believer in that. The one time it really hurt was when Ohio State won the thing (in 2002) and got shipped west. That was awful. In that respect it would be an advantage losing, but for the most part winning is more of an advantage.

I mean, they call it 'March Madness.' They don't call it 'March: The Two Seeds Advance,' right? We're ready to go, and we're excited to play. You know, they have a lot of talent, but we have a lot of talent, too, and people don't really know us. Maybe that can be our advantage today.

Eric Chavez

I know there's a lot of unfair things being said, but it was a no-win situation for the U.S. You're supposed to win but with all the quirks of the way it's set up, it just wasn't toward the advantage of the U.S. People who really know the game and are involved in it understand they were a little bit behind going into this whole thing and at a real disadvantage.

I know that whenever we play a Big 12 opponent, we need to take advantage of it and we know they hit the ball pretty well. We also know they have given up some runs. It's a rivalry, we have a lot of St. Louis kids and so we want to go out there and show well. We will be ready to go on Wednesday.

I know Ronnie is frustrated about not getting a call. There's really no reason he shouldn't be in New York, but we're going to take advantage of him being here and we're going to ride him all the way to the championship.

I know that rivalry exists but I don't think it was an advantage for me. You shouldn't think of these things before a race.

I knew I had to put a lot more on my shoulders. I've gotten a lot more confident in my game and I've been trying to take advantage of it.