Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gibbons

He's got to pitch ahead to be effective. He was throwing some pitches and he wasn't missing by much if he was missing. When he had to bring it over the plate, they hit him. Then after that, he kind of found his groove and pitched a good ball game and kept us in it from there on.

James Thurber

He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.

He was always a half a step ahead of everybody else.

He was all around the zone. He hit all his spots, changed speed a lot. He was ahead of the hitters all game. It's tough to get in a groove when someone's throwing like that.

He was dominant, and we told him, when he gets ahead of hitters, he's going to be dominant. He was ahead in the count a lot of the day, and you could see that they weren't taking good swings at him.

I wouldn't take the warm weather and the price drop as the reason to celebrate yet. There is still three more months of winter ahead of us.

Chris King

I wouldn't have been in favor of moving ahead with litigation if I had not thought it was necessary. Is it unfortunate? Yes. It's very unfortunate, but when you have a room packed full of people asking what we're going to do about their jobs and the corporation worked for that lied to the heads of the state of Iowa ... then you have a situation in question that could keep those jobs here, you ask a judge to figure who's right and who's wrong.

I would be negligent if I didn't remind folks that there are still so many challenges ahead of us.

Jeff Johnson

I wish (Thursday) that we had a tornado warning out ahead of this tornado, but we didn't. It was a very small tornado, quickly spun up.

I wish the state would go ahead and seed the playoffs so that we wouldn't be meeting this early. We'd likely have to play eventually, but to see one team go home really before its time doesn't seem right.

I wish them the best of luck. They have a lot of work ahead of them this coming year.

I would have been happy beforehand with a 1-1, but not looking at the whole match and when we are ahead 1-0 that late.

I wish him well. He's got an uphill struggle ahead of him.

Nick Price

I would be a little uncomfortable if they asked me ahead of Greg. He put a lot into the Presidents Cup and he's done a lot for international golf.

I was pleased with the fourth-place finish. Alan had the best finish of any runners we've had at this meet. All of the teams ahead of us are quality teams. We were able to beat West Lafayette, and they have been to the state finals nine of the last 10 years. It was the first time we have beaten them.

If we don't provide that (seamless transition) in a temporary facility or whatever, you may have some parents who are reluctant to put their children in the charter middle school if they have to go ahead and transfer back to the regular public school system.

If we had lost today we would have definitely been out because they would have been 10 points ahead of us but we are still in it based on today's result.

If we didn't feel confident...we wouldn't be going through this. We have seven or eight full-time people on staff this year with no guaranteed revenue coming in. (But) I don't want to be so overconfident or arrogant that we think it's a done deal - we're going to have a really tough six months ahead of us.

If the Senate does go ahead and pass something that looks like amnesty, they will never get this passed in the House.

If we can get fifth or sixth we'll be doing well. There's no way we'll beat Aspen, Summit or Vail Mountain School, but if we can stay ahead of Battle Mountain, that'll be great. For a bunch of kids who train for two-and-a-half months out of the year, they do great, and I'm real proud of them.

If they would call me ahead of time, I can hook them up with somebody. All I have to do is make a phone call and there'll be guys there with canoes and decoys to take a kid hunting.

If this issue is not resolved well ahead of the match, it is possible that it will take place at the start of the match in a highly charged and volatile environment that will exacerbate risk of injury.

If we could figure out if that's happening here, we'd be way ahead of the game.

If we confirm that revenue remains ahead of expectations, I don't see why some of it wouldn't go to fund increased payments for pensions like we did last year.

Dr. Seuss

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

We knew we had a tough road ahead of us, but we've been through a lot together through the years. Winning four NIC titles was great because it hasn't been done very often. However, winning the sectional is just as satisfying since it's something we haven't done for awhile.

We left him (Marcum) time to change his mind, but he has decided to go ahead and retire.

We learned that we still have an awful lot of work ahead of us.

We're tying to get ahead of the fire and get to work. We've got to build a 90-mile fire line, and we're not going to get that done today. It's going to take three or four days.

We're turning some things. We're seeing some change. We're not where we need to be, but we're ahead of where we were.

Dwight Howard

We're trying to send a message to teams that when they come into our house they are going to have a tough game ahead of them.

Doug Wilson

We're trying to put all the pieces together to win a Stanley Cup. The thing that excites me is to get a guy who has accomplished what he's accomplished, I think his best hockey is ahead of him.

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