Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Bonds

I don't think I ever played a nine-inning game any year before. I never need to play a nine-inning game. I'm ready to play a nine-inning game now. You saw in the world classic guys are playing nine innings already. We're capable of playing nine innings. Do you want to? No, not in spring training when you can take advantage of the rest period.

Lance Berkman

I don't think Major League Baseball should have the right to tell us about the roof. They're trying to take the home-field advantage from us. I don't think that's right.

Caroline Williams

I don't think it gets any better than this; it's an opportunity we all want to take advantage of. We need our people here.

I don't really think about him a whole lot. I do take advantage of any opportunity to give my little spiel about drinking and driving. He took something from us that we can never get back.

I don't really pay attention to what other teams are saying publicly. I don't know how much you really can say. There's no reason to tip your hand. You put that much time into it, it's kind of crazy to kind of just give the information away. Much like ourselves, everybody's evasive at this point. There's no advantage to doing that. You're not going to trick anybody into thinking you're going to do something. ... You have a lot of friends throughout the league but at this time of year you don't really have too many friends.

Brandon Heath

I don't know if it will be an advantage for us but it's good that we get to play in a place that we played in before. It's good to be back on a college floor. We didn't shoot the ball too well on a pro floor.

John Hall

I don't know if it's legal or not, but it's done every day, so why not take advantage of it? And it's cheap advertising.

Al Gore

I have never stopped fighting for an unshakable commitment to our veterans... It's that year-after-year commitment to a strong American defense that makes me so concerned when others try to run down America's military for political advantage in an election year.

I had to go about it the law abiding way, why do they get to break the law and actually they're just taking advantage of the benefits and the work, they don't want to be a part of America, they want to bring Mexico with them, and that's the problem I have with illegal immigrants.

I had to give him $40 for food, $20 for gas for the vehicles and I bought him food for a couple of days, ... I shouldn't have to do that. He took advantage of me. I don't want him to do this to anyone else.

Steven Dietz

I had never read a word, nor seen a movie. I had to immerse and educate myself. But the advantage is I'm sort of coming to the material very fresh, and I saw instantly how this is a story for the stage.

Fred Funk

I had some opportunities that I took advantage of, but missed a couple and made a couple of really good saves.

Jay McClement

I had some opportunities earlier, but I wasn't taking advantage and I wasn't playing well. Right now things are just going well and the power play is working pretty good." ()

I had the opportunity to make the play again - later on I ran the same route and was actually successful on a leaping catch, ... Coach (Jeff) Bowden always tells us to take advantage of that next opportunity.

Steve Slaton

I had the open field and used my speed to my advantage. We had something to prove and we just worked for it.

James Mangold

I had the advantage of making a movie about a man who was an artist himself, and an artist of the shadows, in the sense that he understood life's lonelinesses and life's mistakes, and that people make them. In that sense, he wasn't interested in hiding them.

Jane Pauley

I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

I never lost faith in my abilities, ... Even when things got rough and I wasn't getting any fights, I always believed in myself. I was depressed after not being able to capitalize on being a member of the (1996) Olympic team but I trained hard and worked and waited for my opportunity. I got it against Erik Morales and thankfully, I was able to take advantage of it. I think I'm ready for anyone in the lightweight division now. Anybody they want to put in front of me, let's go.

Bill Richardson

I'm trying to be helpful, ... I've kept up my dialogue with them at their request, I've had a long relationship with them and I want to take advantage of that relationship to help my country.

I'm urging hurricane victims to take advantage of every tax benefit available to help them rebuild their lives and homes, and improve their finances. Tax benefits available this year could help Florida families at every income level.

Brad Smith

Individuals will not take full advantage of the Internet or any commercial medium if they believe that their information or data could be compromised or disclosed in unexpected ways.

Liz Murray

I need to take advantage of life right now. If I don't, it will pass me by. It's just that easy.

I need to take advantage of it and play all the way through. But it's a nice start.

Ozzie Guillen

I need to see guys grab something and take advantage of it.

In earnings season especially, people will tend to ask first and analyze later. So I think what investors should be doing is looking at the earnings reports beyond the headline numbers. A stock may be off sharply for a temporary reason, a shortage of a component that is a terrific buying opportunity. A stock may rocket up again for a non-recurring factor that is a chance to sell. Investors should just take advantage of the opportunity to sit back and capitalize.

In a sport where it comes down to thousandths of a second, any advantage is a big advantage.

Earl Watson

I'm taking advantage of the time I get, whether I'm starting or coming off the bench.

I'm taking advantage of the short holes and I'll need to do that again tomorrow. I'm not hitting the ball very far right now, but the putter's working hard. I've had it a long time. It's an old Odyssey that I've won six times with.

I'm not sure the snow was an advantage for anybody. We have been training in California, our domestic players, for seven weeks.

Bill Snyder

I'm not thinking about dignity right now, but what happened and what we need to do to make sure it doesn't happen again, ... As bad as it was, we did have opportunities in the ballgame to make a difference. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities that presented themselves.

I'm happy with our performance. It was a tight game and it was just a little bit of home advantage that swung it their way.

John Huston

I like when scoring conditions are good and the weather's good. I think you just kind of tee off and see what the course gives you, hopefully take advantage of it.

In the first half, it was kind of touch-and-go until we scored that first goal. Once that happened, we got the momentum and we used our speed to take advantage of them gambling as they tried to come from behind.