Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin McCarthy

If you're in the minority, every advantage is against you, right? So the only advantage you have against the majority is they're too lazy to know their own rules, right? So it's like a game of poker.

If you're expecting some kind of advantage because of the soap opera that was going on all offseason and through training camp and they won't be focused, that's not going to be the case. They get up for games like this.

If you look at their penalty killing and hours, if you look at the minutes that were spent in that situation, they created an advantage in play and an advantage on the scoreboard so it's pretty easy for us to find the place where we need to improve.

If you have your pitches moving all over the place, you have an advantage. That's the thing I need to understand is I have the advantage because I do have the ball. I can make it do this, this, this, this. I can make it go all over the place. Just trust it and do it.

If you got a guy 6-9 and run him through the paint and suddenly stops and posts, usually he has somebody on him 6-2. We took advantage of that particular opportunity.

If you've got your house, got your car, got your two credit cards and you know there's no other credit that you'll be getting in the near future and you're very, very, very concerned about identity theft, take advantage of the fraud alert,

In this age of innovation, perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

In the first half, we owned the boards and controlled tempo. In the second half, (Mount Olive) got into transition, took control of the game's momentum and took advantage of their offensive rebounds.

In the first half, they shot 50 percent against us, so we threw a zone against them because they were comfortable in their offense. It was a good zone, but we didn't take advantage at the other end. We just didn't shoot it well. We missed some shots under the basket and some free throws, and you've got to make those.

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.

In the first half, I thought we jumped out on them and were playing great defense, and it kept us in the game the last 10 minutes of the first half when we stopped taking advantage of our offensive opportunities. I thought we carried that over to the second half.

In the first half everything went fine but we didn't build up enough of an advantage to allow us to relax for the rest of the game,

In the fourth quarter, we'll continue to extend the competitive advantages of our cable company and our other businesses to fuel growth in 2006 and beyond.

In the first set she was nearly perfect and I couldn't do anything. In the second, I was more patient and the chances came, but I couldn't take advantage and that's why I lost.

In the first inning we left two guys on with one out. We had a chance to jump up on them three nothing and hit a hole. Just like we did defensively, we did offensively, we didn't take advantage of our opportunities.

O. Henry

In the game of baseball the hitters at this level are so good, you just can't make any mistakes. They will take advantage of free passes. That is the biggest thing. I am a control guy. I can't go out there and put three guys on with walks and hit by pitches. That is inexcusable. That is something I have to work on.

In the course of her education she had gone through the history usually put into the hands of young people... now her ripened reason gave to her present study at least the advantage of novelty.

Toni Kukoc

In some cases, that might be OK because they might not feel any pressure. Especially when you have an opponent like Detroit. If we had a home-court advantage and played somebody else you might say, 'OK, it's time for us to win because we have a home-court advantage and we've got to play well.' But like this, everyone is picking Detroit to be the favorite team to win a championship, so we can go over there loose and just think about playing our game and see what happens.

Intel's technology was a key enabler of our success in 2005. Our Itanium 2-based servers have significantly sped up our simulation capability while improving the simulation accuracy. Toyota will continue to take advantage of Intel's unparalleled performance to develop an edge in highly competitive world of Formula 1.

Jeff Nelson

Integrating and expanding many commerce functions under the Blackboard Transaction system will offer significant advantages for the students, faculty and staff at Bowling Green. With the Blackboard Transaction System we will be able to better control the costs of campus service offerings while improving efficiency.

Jimmie Johnson

In some ways I think pit road is more treacherous here than anywhere else, and having that first pit pick here is the biggest advantage in my opinion.

Instead of $200, we're now offering the first 100 women nationally that take advantage of the program $500 and after that it will increase to $300.

In spite of vibrant economic conditions, holiday shoppers continued to hold back and remained very value conscious, taking advantage of retail promotions and deep discounts.

In our conference, if we win doubles, we have a big advantage. Most teams, because of lack of scholarships, have a drop off in the bottom of their singles, we don't have that.

In our view, Pfizer is in fact defensive and has demonstrated that it can weather the blows in a measured fashion due to its dramatic scale advantage and strong balance sheet.

In our view, Dell is pretty much the same company and we believe most have forgotten about its structural and cost advantages with its world-class supply chain and direct model,

In order to win the Santa Anita Derby, we would have really had to pressed Brother Derek hard. Brother Derek is a very nice horse. I think it was a good race for Point Determined. He could have been a little closer, but he finally kicked in at the end. He got beat 3 1/2 lengths by the best three-year-old, and it gives you something to work with. He finished real strong, and he's not one-dimensional, which would give him a little advantage if there is a real heavy pace in the Derby .

In Providence, the noise scene is very anti-rock. But we don't want to outright reject rock clubs. There's a different set of influences in New York. (DFA) is a pop music label, and we're kind of an anomaly on the label (but) ... we can take advantage of the different resources available here.

In Providence, the noise scene is very anti-rock, ... But we don't want to outright reject rock clubs. There's a different set of influences in New York. (DFA) is a pop music label, and we're kind of an anomaly on the label (but) ... we can take advantage of the different resources available here.

In particular, the developed countries, while enjoying low-cost imported goods and services, have to restructure their industrial sectors quickly to create job opportunities and export advantages to improve their competitiveness and dampen protectionism.

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.

I really look at these as great application development companies that are taking advantage of our platform, regardless of how they developed or licensed their software.

Gustavo Kuerten

I played two very different sets. I had a lot of chances at the beginning of the second set that I couldn't take advantage of. When you have a player that has been in against the best players and you gives him such chances, it definitely makes things more complicated.