Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Young

I keep it real with the kids. I tell them about what society offers and you can either take advantage of opportunities or not.

I left it out over the plate and he recognized it. He's a good hitter, and good hitters take advantage of bad pitches.

I hope we have a lot of people come out but past experience tells me that track just doesn't get huge crowds. It's nice but just being at home is a huge advantage for our kids to stay in their own rooms and not have to travel.

I hope we can take advantage of our speed. We also had a very good summer off-season turnout.

I hope the rumor is true. If I am replaced it works to my advantage. It's predetermined that if I'm replaced I become the head golf coach.

I just concentrate and think about getting base hits. I'm just taking advantage of opportunities. I've been playing every other game, but I'm trying to stay hot so I can stay in the lineup.

I hope that we can get some stops. The key is when we have the ball, we've got to score and take advantage of our opportunities, because if they get into us and start pounding us ...

Edgar Renteria

I have patience. I'm waiting for my pitch, and I've been lucky they've been throwing the pitch where I've been looking for it and I've hit it. When you have things going you get hits. When you're struggling you hit the ball hard right at somebody. You have to take advantage when you can.

I have one senior playing (Michael Cole), and that's a big advantage. This season has been an emotional rollercoaster, but I'm blessed with a young group that has a lot of talent, and the learning curve is right there in front of us. We can see it.

I have some advantages going into this race. I just hope that it all works out. The Juvenile was a one-turn race; this is different and it's not the ultimate goal for either horse, but it would be a nice, fun race to win.

Gwen Stefani

I made out with the keyboard player from Fishbone, and he tried to take advantage of the situation and I was not about to, and he got really mad.

Terry Crews

I love doing great entertainment, but I like the joke to be on me. I don't want to take advantage of some poor person and dog 'em out and let the chips fall.

Brittany Howard

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

I'm trying to take advantage of the situation and I'm trying to make the most of the experience.

I'm trying to take advantage of it like in spring training. It's one of those things where I'd like to get over with it now and go out there, and once that happens, then I feel like I can be a part of this team and really just rely on these guys like they can on me.

Patty Schnyder

I'm very disappointed, the way the whole final went. I was never really feeling my game. My serve was not really there, and also maybe she struggled for two, three games, but I could not really take advantage of it.

Bill Gates

In five years the cost of computation will really be effectively decreased. We'll be able to put on somebody's desk, for an incredibly low cost, a processor with far more capability than you could ever take advantage of.

In general, gaming right now is very well positioned to take advantage of a resilient and improving consumer.

John Williams

In general, we continue to believe that local governments should not have a competitive advantage when competing with the private sector, and they should not be allowed to subsidize their business plan.

In game one, the grand slam should have been enough. We gave them some free opportunities and they took advantage of them. Dan pitched well in game two; we were just not able to push the runs across.

Jason Brown

That's out of us now. We've had two lessons on that, made some mistakes and not taken advantage of opportunities and now we're going to let loose, play solid football and take advantage of the opportunities we do get and limit our mistakes.

Lindsey Harding

That's our strength. We didn't have many fast-break points that I can remember in the first half. We had to take advantage of our transition game. That's where we score a lot. Coach told us at halftime we have so much depth and we have to play hard enough to use it.

Bobby Jones

That's our goal right now. We want to get that home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

That's something we try all year. We have the size underneath and we try to take advantage of it. Brentwood did a really nice job of making us shoot from the outside. They controlled the tempo - they didn't play and up and down game. They actually slowed the game down. They were smart. They kept it a low-scoring game.

Sidney Crosby

That's something he would say. No, he's playing well. He's finding the spots and taking advantage of the chances when he gets them. It's not a fluke that he's in the spots he's in. He knows where to go. He works hard. He's not a guy who's a perimeter guy. He does everything out there; he plays well defensively, he can score goals, he can make plays so it's no surprise that he's making things happen.

Daniel Gibson

That's the benefit of losing some close games and learning from those. Now, when you're placed in those situations again, you take advantage of those opportunities.

Jay Wright

That's the advantage of having seniors, we know that Randy and Allen are going to make those big plays when we need them.

That's the advantage of doing it, it gives him 25 points and not 93 hanging over his head.

That's the advantage of being the home team. You always get a chance to win it in the last at bat.

Bernie Bickerstaff

That started at the middle of the season last year. We got the best shot from people. The way we played last year, the advantage we had at the beginning of the season is no longer an advantage for us.

Jeff Burton

That's the best wind we've had down here in all of testing and everything else. It just played in our hands, and we had a car that could take advantage of it.

Ben Howland

That's one of the things I think that you're going to continue to see, the George Mason run. I think they had three players that were fifth-year seniors. It's such an advantage to be older than your opponent both mentally and physically, and to have that experience of having gone through the ups and downs.

That is a good day for us. It's not something we want to do all the time, but this opportunity was too good. We had to go ahead and take advantage of it.