Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Henry

I was able to get into a little bit of a rhythm there. The biggest thing was getting ahead. Once I got ahead I could start to mix in off-speed stuff, keep them guessing and off-balance. In the first inning I'd be 2-0 and everybody in the park knew I was going to throw a fastball. Once I settled down it made things a lot easier.

I want to work on my technique and sharpen my moves and try to get better. I want to cut down on mistakes. I have to say, I'm excited for the rest of the tournament. I am taking it one match at a time, one tournament at a time - trying not to look ahead to anything else.

Paula Creamer

I will do anything that I can to get to that point, and get me to the point where Annika is, ... She is just a couple of steps ahead of me. She is the No. 1 player in the world. She has what it takes.

Andie MacDowell

I willingly devoted myself to my children and to my husband. I come from a broken home, and I decided a long time ago that I would put my family ahead of everything.

Helio Castroneves

I was just trying to get the side draft. We were trying to get so slow. I wasn't sure if Sam was trying to pass or push. I didn't know which way he was going. I really thought the finish line was ahead of me. I was thinking, 'Look! It's right up there!' And they were telling me on the radio that the race was over.

Edgar Ramirez

I was just glad to be able to go out there and help the team. I was able to get ahead of hitters, being able to throw my curve ball for strikes on first pitches.

Steven Wright

I was just getting too ahead of myself. I was rushing.

I think they need to go ahead and give it to him, just for recruiting. What are we playing, besides me, we have four seniors playing 20-plus minutes. And then there's me and (junior Cedric McGowan). You have to look to the future.

Steve Sampson

Playing matches like this is great preparation for us. We know very quickly the things we need to work on. We're much further ahead this year at this time than we were last year, but we had to be, given the early competition. I like most of what I see with my team and I think we're going to be very difficult to beat in league play.

James Moore

Platinum should continue to find support ahead of $940/oz with the metals supply deficit and strong industrial demand continuing to provide strong support while palladium is currently finding support at $240/oz with strong chart support pegged at $220/oz.

Planning is going to be very key and critical to you to be ahead of the curve. You're already behind the curve.

Bill Brandt

Plan ahead and use an alternate route. Monday's a workday and the school day's a little more complex. Plan an alternate route for any of those days if you happen to be going that way.

Bob Stoops

Really, our expectations will not change. I say it every year. We respect Texas. We've been on both sides of it. We've been picked behind them before, and we've been picked ahead of them before. We'll get off the bus when it's time to play.

Simon Baker

Reed Elsevier is an oil tanker that is surging ahead in the same direction that it has been going in for the past few years. It leaves the share price lacking any great dynamics to trade into.

Recently I went to a wellness meeting and was happy to see that our district is way ahead of the game when it comes to having a wellness policy in place. Even so, we have more to do.

Really when you look late in games, people are going to be a bit more tired in the back and liable to make more mistakes. We don't want to give up an opportunity where a team can go ahead and knock something forward.

Harry Reid

Reid snapped, answering a reporter's question. The failure to move ahead with the Iraq investigation, he said, is ''a slap in the face to the American people.

Our point guard Czyz Bennett just took it up on himself and made great decisions. We needed that. As long as we win, somebody's going to lose and we'll get ahead of somebody.

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

Our real goal is to get ahead of the game before the suits are filed. One of the reasons the crisis has occurred is because the business community has its head in the sand.

Our numbers show that Bush is ahead but there is still room for funny things to happen. It's not in the bag, partly because the numbers have been so volatile.

John King

Our offense is probably ahead of our defense, right now. Not having starters back is deceptive, because a lot of them played as backups. A couple of them even got experience in the playoffs.

Our makeup is going to change. We're looking ahead to the future, what it's going to look like in a few years.

Our major expenditures are behind us and we are ahead of schedule and under budget.

Our life forms only one path behind us but looks at a multitude ahead of us.

Our merger with Union Camp is going not only well, but well ahead of expectations.

Options trading was frenzied. Early on Friday ahead of the delayed court ruling, option players were expecting a move up or down of about 14 percent in the underlying stock.

Black Elk

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

We are already ahead of where we were last year. The only thing we have to rent is the casino equipment.

The referendum is the public's right to decide. It's time for the public to decide if we go ahead with these reforms or not.

James Frey

With this merger, PacifiCare members will have the benefit of this technology years ahead of when we would have had it were to remain,

With this conference now, it's all coming together, ... All in all, I think they're ahead of schedule from where I thought they'd be, by this point.

Thomas Watson

Would you like me to give you a formula for... success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all... you can be discouraged by failure / or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.