Famous Quotes & Sayings

Felipe Alou

It was a strike. He's got to take advantage of anybody who throws a strike, whether it's a Japanese, Korean or Iraqi.

It was a situation where we had several well-qualified candidates who were willing to serve, ... And when we saw Tom's name come up of the list, (the county) saw a lot of advantages there.

It was a tale of two halves. We lost our defensive intensity and they took advantage of that.

Ron Gardenhire

It's a work in progress. He's getting an opportunity. He's got to take advantage of it. Everybody has a chance in camp, all right? So there's no sense talking about does he have a chance.

Jason Cooper

It's a wonderful opportunity for me here to get some game experience early. It's pretty special. I'll try to take advantage of it, and maybe I'll open some eyes.

Greg Ellis

It's about a three-hour trip, and that's not bad for a weekend getaway. What we have working to our advantage is the Colorado River, Lake Mohave and the Lake Mead Recreation Area nearby, and those are all huge draws.

It is such an advantage to host the zone championship.

Michael Wright

It's a good thing. In a sense we have one more place to go. It's provides the kids another chance, and I hope someone takes advantage of it. And hopefully it puts pressure on COS.

It's a great college basketball atmosphere. Binghamton has created that home-court advantage. Basketball is their sport. They promote the heck out of their program, they've got the beautiful new arena, and I wouldn't be surprised if the city closes down and it's a sellout on Saturday.

It's a great advantage (at home), they had to travel a long ways. And another thing that's advantageous is they've kind of been on a down slide.

Kurt Busch

It's a good and a bad thing we're here testing at Richmond. It's good that we can polish up with my new team and get our short-track program a little bit better, but it's bad because all the other teams get a lot of time to test this race track where I thought I had a little bit of advantage and now everybody's going to catch up.

Chris Wilcox

It's a great gift. Those two guys come in and get us motivated, know how to take over the games for us and put players in the right position. Now that we've got them, so we're going to take advantage of them and ride them all the way.

Jerry Stackhouse

It's a game within the game. We don't want to be close and all of the sudden, play as well as we did last year and end up with the No. 4 seed. So why not try to shoot for the best and have the advantage throughout the playoffs if you can?

I told him to play every snap like it's going to be your last one, ... like they're going to bring Reggie in the next play, and to take advantage of the opportunity.

I told our players this was our only opportunity this season to play an opponent of this caliber. It was up to them to take advantage of it.

Gilles Muller

I told myself, 'don't be nervous, it's a big chance to play there, the whole world is watching'. I took advantage of that every second I was out there. It was so much fun for me.

It means we're doing a lot of things right and that, in some respects, we're fortunate and taking advantage of our good fortune. We are avoiding some mistakes. Even though our taxes are high, we haven't let them go out of control as have some others.

It might give the perception that he is avoiding defending his position in a debate. This race is so close it might have been to (Shays') advantage to start early with the debates.

Terry Stotts

It's a pivotal game. Both teams realize it. The tie-breaker is at stake. If we win, it goes to the second tie-breaker, which is conference record, and right now we have an advantage with that. All the players, all the coaches know it's a pivotal game.

It's an old saying but speed kills. You can't coach speed. It's one of our attributes and size is not, so we're going to take advantage of speed again.

It's a quick turnaround on this one. Both teams are very familiar with each other, so I don't see an advantage either way. We both played over the weekend and only had one day to practice for this game.

It was a big advantage to be first on the road.

It was a crazy game. A lot of that stuff happened in the first half and, obviously, we didn't take advantage of it like we could have.

It was a comedy of mistakes to start the third quarter. We didn't play very well and a team like Mandan takes advantage of everything.

Michael Harrington

It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.

Lech Walesa

It takes really a long while for people to learn to take advantage of (democracy). So the legal framework of democracy can function everywhere. But as we say in Poland, it's hard to make a bull move unless it really wants to.

Sue Enquist

It's very simple to explain the payoff. This team is trusting their plan through entire games. They're staying within themselves whether they have the advantage in the count or not.

It's very sad that Opus Dei and the Catholic Church were portrayed unfairly in the novel. What we're trying to do is to take advantage of the interest to explain what the real Opus Dei is all about.

It's very frustrating and disappointing. But you have to give all the credit to Thiel. They took advantage of every mismatch they had.

Reggie Evans

It's wide open for us. We need to take advantage of the opportunity.

It's way to early to talk about stuff like that. We've had a good run, and hopefully we'll continue to take advantage of the opportunities given to us.

Chad Campbell

It's very important, especially out here at Bermuda Dunes. You have a lot of chances to make birdies, but you have to take advantage of the par-5s and I was able to do that today.

Jimmie Johnson

It's very important to be in the top five. And if you can be in first, it's going to be a huge advantage for the race team in the pits, and it'll make the day a lot easier for you.