Famous Quotes & Sayings

You only get a few opportunities against a good team, and you have to take advantage of that. We couldn't put the puck in the net.

You now see stars coming in from all over the world. That's an advantage in a marketplace like Toronto that is so culturally diverse. We know we're going to attract a lot of Russian-speaking Torontonians.

Jim Thompson

Young people by the time they get to high school today are expected to have some kind of focus. The age of exploration is filtering down to the middle school level, and Franklin has an opportunity to take advantage of that.

Young people are at an advantage over the general pool of people, dual career couples or people who have elderly parents to care for. They are much more flexible.

You practice like you play, and this is going to be Coach's system. This gives everybody an opportunity to start, and you've just got to take advantage of it.

You play good teams when you get in the playoffs and you've got to value each possession. You can't come away empty-handed against good teams like that, because they take advantage of it." ()

Jay Wright

This is as good a college basketball atmosphere as you are going to find in the country. It starts with the students and this is a very difficult place to play. Our guys love to play here and we feel like we have an advantage in here. It's hot, there are people on top of you and they're loud. It's just a great place to play college basketball. I've always thought its one of the best. I don't know if there's anywhere in the country with a wall of human beings like that behind one basket that can create that noise. We love it.

This is a second chance for me, and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

David Powers

This is a revolutionary way to learn because you're not just reading, you're hearing people talk to you. It's theoretical poker reinforced by practical play. We teach a theory and go in and talk about strategy. You learn by example. That's the uniqueness or advantage we provide.

This is a record that few people thought would ever be challenged. Rollins has the advantage of having ended last season on a roll and having all off-season to rest and work on his hitting. If Rollins can handle the pressure of chasing one of the most sacred MLB baseball records in history, he could have a really good shot at breaking it.

LeBron James

This is going to be a great series. They were at home and they did a great job of locking us down in the third quarter and taking advantage of us in the second half.

This is going to be a good challenge. They're pretty solid. They're solid up front with the O-line and D-line and they don't make a lot of mistakes. The kids are excited about playing this game and they're excited about playing on turf. We have good speed, so hopefully we can take advantage of that.

This is an opportunity for a broad PBS audience to watch a program and see what some very smart people think about thinking. It's kind of like a workout tape for your mind, and why wouldn't you want to take advantage of an opportunity to rethink your assumptions, your beliefs and some of your values.

Ruslan Fedotenko

This is huge. It's a good trip, a tough trip. We need to take advantage of it.

This is how these companies are trying to take advantage of the upheaval in the industry. They are trying to motivate a company to leave their existing software.

Dan Mullen

This is his first chance to really sink his teeth into an offense and be ready to go. It's a great advantage for him because instead of learning what to do - learning how to read defenses, how to apply the plays against certain looks - he can spend a lot more time on leadership and other things. It takes a lot of time to learn all that stuff.

This is great news. I really hope other schools in the area will take advantage of this and start participating.

Mike Hill

This is a person who took advantage of an elderly woman who obviously was a trusting soul.

This is a terrific transaction that is the right thing to do for both the Time Warner Book Group and our shareholders. With its record-breaking performance in 2005, the Book Group is at the top of its game. To build on this success, however, it needs the scale and other advantages that come from being part of a larger, more global book publisher. This transaction also underscores our commitment to a strategy of managing closely related, industry-leading businesses to maximize shareholder returns. We wish our Time Warner Book Group colleagues continued success and the best of luck at their new home.

This is the first time we've taken advantage of the program, and it has definitely been worthwhile. It motivated me to put money away to work towards a specific goal. Having the amount matched was a big incentive.

Teddy Atlas

If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every advantage has its tax.

Tony Blair

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for

Anna-Lena played very well, she served very well and I struggled a little bit with my serve. She took advantage of that.

An intriguing aspect of this study is that the mechanism for ensuring cross-fertilization is very old, often lost, and never regained. That it is still common despite frequent and irreversible loss implies that this trait confers an advantage to species that possess it, perhaps in terms of reduced rates of extinction.

Angelo is a big guy. I have to use my quickness to my advantage, stay away from his big stuff, and score when I can.

Gerard Butler

Angelina had wanted a stronger male character to play opposite her, and I think one of the other advantages in that was a sense of competition.

Another company could have been in that situation and not have been able to take advantage of the situation. They were ready to have good luck.

Army is a pretty strong team. They've beaten us the last couple of years. It's just going to be another match like we've played in the past. Both teams are pretty strong with both singles and doubles. Hopefully, we will be able to play them outside, which will be a little more of an advantage for us because they are a little more of an indoor team.

Everton has no choice but to go for it and that would give us a really good chance because they'll leave space which we can take advantage of.

Emily was tremendous. She is going to be an outstanding lacrosse player. She has a lot of different tools. She has real good size and her skills are getting better. She needs confidence. She has to understand her capabilities and we tell her to take advantage of what she has. She did that today. She was able to get it done and was real instrumental in the victory.

Emerald Valley is definitely the toughest course we play (in the area). This is our biggest home-course advantage. We really need to take advantage of this opportunity.

John Sweeney

Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.