Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kostya Tszyu

I think I have an advantage over some of the other competitors, because I perform live. I do remember the moves. But you know me. I try to be perfect and when I am not, I am pissed off with myself. I haven't been doing this for very long, so I can't be perfect straight away.

Johnny Mathis

I think I had an advantage studying with a female teacher, ... Most people who study with women as opposed to men have a little different concept of the voice. Women help you retrain the soft, high part of your voice.

Matt Brown

I struck out a few times in pretty big opportunities. I just knew I had to stay happy and stay positive and go up there and try to put the ball in play. He ended up giving me a pitch I could handle, and I took advantage of it.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I think he's waited patiently for his opportunity, and he's taken advantage of it. He's a first-round pick (in 2003), so everybody knew he had a lot of talent. I think it was just a point of him getting on the field and proving himself.

Mark Melancon

I think he realizes when he gets his opportunities he has to take advantage of it, especially in a game like this, and he did.

I think he is getting to know himself better and he is getting to know the league better. He is taking advantage of his experience, and that is important.

Jerramy Stevens

I think he's a great player and athlete, but I feel like I've got the advantage on him. He has a great first step and does a good job with his reads, he's a smart player. But in space, I'm going to be able to use my height, then my speed to get away from him.

I still think the big part of the game was our inability to take advantage of our control in the first half where we created chances and had a lot of the play. Their forwards won the battle and made a difference in the second half.

I still think that Visual Studio .NET is superior to any of the Java tools for Web Services, even if it's only by a little. Microsoft has a clear advantage for rapid application development.

I still think our campaign worked to our advantage. There is no guarantee that with an author we would have gotten as much publicity.

Ronde Barber

It definitely seemed different. Obviously, without Randy, they don't have that guy where he sees an advantage, throws his hands up and he just launches it.

It definitely matters. This was a game that we had to win. We had the game won (after taking a 9-0 lead) and didn't take advantage of it.

It definitely helps us. Prince Charles is not popular at all. There's definitely a problem with him, and we'll take advantage of that.

Alan Anderson

I think it will work out to our advantage more so than worrying about who's going to play. Now we can go four minutes all out, 100 percent, whereas in years past we had to give a little bit here, a little bit there because we didn't have as many guys.

Annika Sorenstam

I think just playing aggressive helped me today. I hit a lot of shots close and took advantage of the par-fives.

I think I was premature on announcing the project. This is a complicated project. But I was really excited. I think the demand for downtown living is white hot. More people are realizing the advantages of living downtown. It has that village atmosphere.

It has some advantages a desktop system doesn't. The price is low enough to appeal to others besides rich aficionados.

I thought Ilona and the rest of the low post players did an excellent job. We've been working on that all year and tonight I think we were finally able to execute it and take advantage of our size inside.

Joe Torre

I think (the steroid issue) works to his advantage if you consider that the player he was and the player he is right now are not that different. If people think he was that player because he was on steroids, well they know that's not the case now.

I think the team that plays in the opening round has a little advantage in the semifinal game. District play is a totally different atmosphere and it certainly took us awhile to adjust.

Kevin Quinn

I think they probably think they have an advantage, being there before, but it may be an advantage for us that they're thinking that they're expected to win and with us going in as an underdog. I don't like to look at variables like that, but I know that if our kids play the way we know they can, we'll be fine.

Jim Calhoun

John Thompson took something that could be perceived as almost menacing, because he was so big and was so serious looking, and used that to his advantage to create Hoya Paranoia, ... Every game they played, John was the underdog and yet he had Ewing and Wingate and Williams. That takes a masterful genius to do that.

Ed Gillespie

Just in 2000, there was a four-point advantage to the Democrats. And what we've seen is the Democrat line coming down, the Republican line going up.

It is critical for families to take advantage of the extended deadline and apply now. This is our final effort to reach out to anyone who still hasn't applied for assistance.

It is complicated, ... That's why people get taken advantage of. ?What happens is, predictably, they get screwed.

It is especially around Christmas time when people have the opportunities to look through your windows to see what you've got. If they see a lot of gifts under the tree, sometimes that's an incentive for these people to take advantage of the situation.

George Bernard Shaw

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Sean Payton

I think this was different that the situation in Oakland two years ago. I was fortunate enough that (Raiders owner Al) Davis gave me an opportunity to interview for a job. It was the first time I had ever gone through that process. After two weekends with him, I felt like I could interview with anybody. It really helped me grow a little bit. I think the timing today, the timing now, the timing this year was right, and I took advantage of the opportunity.

Paul Gray

Maybe that will be an advantage for us in this game because they've never been in our gym before.

Steve Fisher

I have been working very closely with Brandon and his family and it is with our blessing that he has put his name into the draft. Brandon will be able to take advantage and benefit from the rule and find out where he stands in the eyes of NBA coaches and general managers, while still maintaining the option of returning to San Diego State. We will continue to work closely with Brandon and if he is a first round pick, we will advise him to go. We are extremely proud of what Brandon has done for himself, for the University and San Diego State basketball, both on the court and in the classroom.

J. C. Watts

I didn't wrestle good today. It was just an off day. I wasn't finishing any of my moves or taking advantage of anything.

I didn't want to be at just one hospital. There would surely be enough general surgery, but in the colon/rectal surgery it was an advantage to go to hospital to hospital so we could get in on all the big, interesting cases.

I didn't want to get into a transition game because they've been over 100 five times, but what I found out during the first half was that their big guys were sucking wind. We were able to take advantage of that and give us a little cushion, and I was surprised because I knew they wanted to play in the 90s if they could.