Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is the kind of thing that just pumps some energy back into the school, I don't care if you're a sports fan or not. It's double nice, too. For the first tournament in the brand-new arena, we've got a home team playing. Wells Fargo Arena is going to be a home-field advantage for Des Moines Roosevelt.

This is very frustrating. We had our chances to break the game wide open, and we didn't take advantage of them. We were doing everything right, and we just gave the game away. Give Lipscomb credit. We opened the door, and they took advantage. But, we just gave the game away.

This is without a doubt the biggest win we have had since I've been at Mercer. Our pitchers were as sharp as they possibly could be and really set the tone. We took advantage of the chances we had at the plate and played outstanding defense.

Tyrone Willingham

This is a very, very good football team. That is a football team that understands how to win. When they have an opportunity, they know how to take advantage of it.

They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.

They play very well together. They've played AAU ball for years and years together on the same team. So that's definitely an advantage for us.

They played well, they took advantage of the power play and they had a couple bounces going their way. That's the playoffs. We had that in the first three games. I don't think they played bad in the first three games, we just had the bounces going our way, and tonight was their way.

They're a senior team and they were gunning for us. They really wanted this game. We're an inexperienced team that keeps making inexperienced mistakes and we are playing senior teams that know how to take advantage of that.

They really pressure the ball. Our guys were just taking advantage of what was there.

They're in a little bit of a skid. We need to take advantage of that.

They're smaller than us. I think we'll have an advantage in quickness, but they play pretty hard. We just need to keep defending well.

Jerry Glanville

They're shifting to get an advantage on you. Their shift is not gingerbread for the crowd. They're not shifting so the crowd thinks they're cerebral. They shift a guy to one side, and if you don't have him covered, they'll get him the ball.

They're running pretty well up front. That's a big key at districts. One or two guys in the top 10 puts you at a huge advantage over other teams.

They're clarifying that rates aren't going to be cut. That indicates the coast is clear and allows people to put money into Indonesia to take advantage of the high yields.

They're bankruptcy profiteering. They're taking advantage of the situation.

They're a very good team. They work very well together. They're actually a very good defensive team, and we have to know that coming into the game. They will show a lot of fire because they have the advantage playing at home. We have to be mentally prepared.

Torry Holt

They're familiar with our offensive line, and they're familiar with some of the schemes we like to do offensively. That gives them a little edge. They know where our offensive linemen were weak at, they know where they're strong at. So they're going to play that to their advantage when they line up against them on Sunday.

Tom Izzo

I know how to move my body. He made a little bit of a mistake, and I took advantage of it. He gave me a little time to take it, and I took it.

I know if I'd played somewhere else, I would've scored many more points, ... but George was such a dominant player, you just had to take advantage of a force like that. And he played his heart out. In my lifetime I've seen only two centers who could just take charge of a game, who could put so much fear in other players that they stayed away from the middle. One was Bill Russell. The other, and he was even more dominant, was George Mikan.

In the simplest terms, I kept the same mentality coming over here, but I also realized I was getting the opportunity to pitch on a really, really, really good team. And I had to take advantage of it.

In this league you can't factor in a home-court advantage. It's probably pretty equal on both ends.

In this game we had a lot of opportunities to get on base. We'd get on with a walk or two, then get a hit and drive guys around. McEwan is a pretty young team and they weren't too deep on the mound. We took advantage of that.

I just had a funny feeling with the wind blowing in, with the two pitchers on the mound, that that could have been our one and only opportunity. It wasn't our only, but it was one that we should have taken advantage of.

I hope Merrill will come back and be alright, but since I'm in there now, I'll try to take advantage of that chance, try to work hard and keep that spot.

I hope hunters take advantage of these seminars and attend. I can assure them that the information provided will be very beneficial and will allow them to be more efficient in hunting the coyote.

I hope people take advantage of the program. It is part of our job to take environmental protection actions.

I haven't seen anything like that in awhile. But you know both teams are playing pretty good defensively, so anything can happen. I don't know. I don't know if it's an advantage anymore being home.

Jim Cantalupo

I haven't seen another brand out there that can carry the breadth we do, and that has the infrastructure globally to take advantage of it.

Michelle Kwan

I have to lot to work on, a lot of improvement to make, focus on the details. And I've got to take advantage of the seconds and the minutes before the Olympics.

Gary Williams

I really respect the way they play. They share the ball, and when your best two guys do it, it becomes contagious. If you're a good passing team, you have an advantage on a lot of teams. B.C. gets you every time you make a mistake on defense.

I really give St. John's credit. They're a young team, and they definitely took advantage of our mistakes.

O. Henry

I really don't. You never know in a short series what can happen. Anaheim has the home-field advantage against New York. So who knows?

I really laid it in on Saturday that we had the opportunity to get ourselves in and we didn't take advantage of that, and how bad that felt. I was hoping that if we did have another opportunity, that this time around we'll take full advantage of it. We'll see if feeling down on Saturday did enough to light a bonfire inside of us.