Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lombardo

With his focus and determination, he's been very impressive. He comes from an educated baseball family and he's learned the game from some very good people, so in that regard he's ahead of the game. He already has some intangibles that the other guys don't have. That, combined with his natural ability, mechanics, arm strength and his feel for pitching, says there's definitely something there.

With small and mid-cap companies, there may be the potential for a takeout, but it's just very hard to get ahead of that. It's a highly speculative way to invest and investors need to be very cautious,

Alan Greenspan

With real energy prices on the rise, more rapid decreases in the intensity of energy use in the years ahead seem virtually inevitable,

Ross Lovegrove

You have to be ahead of your game, and in industry that is a different condition than in art. If you make things in an intelligent way and then they are replicated, that's a beautiful thing. If you make things in a bad way and they are replicated, the wrong is multiplied.

You have to be ahead of the curve and ahead of everyone else, ... Everybody is so busy trying to make ends meet that they don't take time to look four years down the road.

Jamie McMurray

You have 25 other races to try to make into this and we just didn't run well enough. I could see Ryan ahead of me all night and they told me I had to beat him. We just couldn't get there.

You had a lot of people buying ahead of the Fed meeting because they were hoping the tone of the meeting would be anything but what some of the comments were. They were hoping the tone would be geared toward seeing signs of improvement.

What we are seeing is that these numbers are coming in line with other confidence figures, which shot ahead in May and June with oil prices falling, and now with oil prices soaring, we are seeing the effect from higher prices at the pump.

What bothers me more than anything else is that they've been trying a lot of things. A year ago, it looked like things were improving, but they still have a lot more work ahead of them.

What bothers me is that we need to do long-range planning instead of attacking any problem as it comes up. We need to plan ahead for what we want.

What cup? We haven't talked about that at all, and that's one of our things as a team is we don't want to look ahead at anything.

What can you say when the greatest player in the world puts his trust in you like that? I don't know how to explain it. I just know that my caddie said before I hit my putt, that 'It's the moment you've been waiting for your whole life, so go ahead and do it.' I did it for 13 other guys and Mr. Nicklaus. It's unbelievable.

What Brookhaven has going for it is way ahead of what a lot of other communities had when they started their journey,

We tend to let down when we're ahead and we forget what got us the lead to begin with. Guys are starting to buy into the system which, will help us win games in the future.

We teach the vocabulary that teachers are teaching in the classroom to ELL students a few weeks ahead of time. Its known as 'priori-teaching,' which is a huge part of our teaching.

Marc Chandler

Through this tightening cycle the market has looked at every opportunity to say the Fed is done. The Fed is not done until the market gets ahead of the Fed and it is not there yet.

We've been talking for a while about bringing this type of content to Newport for a while and finally we decided to go ahead and do it.

We've been swinging the bats well for five or six games. But a good pitcher sometimes can stop that. Crawford was able to get ahead of the hitters and make the clutch pitch.

We try hard to schedule ahead of time what our known work is,

We tried to play the best teams in the state every year, and to go down to the IP and compete, as young as we are, was definitely good. Now we've got a big week ahead of us this week. Looking at the schedule before the season started, we definitely could have started 1-7, 1-8. And to start 5-0, that's a big lift.

We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded. Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.

We tried to keep Sastre up front ahead of the climb, where it all exploded, ... Of course, it would've been more fun if we'd had a rider in the break, but I'm pretty satisfied with the fact that we had three guys in the second group with all the big favourites.

We talked about it before the game that we wanted to grow up tonight. We wanted to not be just another young team; we wanted to step up and let this be the game that we were going to go on and kind of move ahead with the development of this team.

Elliott Sadler

We just need to go up there and run the best way we can. I feel like the pressure is not on us. I think the guys that are only one or 11 points behind or 10 points ahead of 10th place have more pressure than we have.

We just need to go ahead and approach everybody like they're coming after us because they will be.

We just need to execute and play cleaner baseball. We need to limit the free bases and get some timely hitting. We just have to make sure we don't look ahead and lose focus.

We were really excited coming into this meet because we knew they were ranked ahead of us, but we knew that we were better than them.

There's some new problems and challenges ahead in the national switch to ethanol.

There's some caution ahead of Greenspan. The market is looking for soothing words, such as growth is moderating and inflation is not a problem.

There's hope about the economy, there's faith in the leadership, corporate profits were good in the first quarter and there's a sense that the House of Representatives will fight for the tax cut. I think you may be seeing a little reluctance to move much at the moment ahead of the Fed meeting tomorrow.

Jack Baker

There's going to be nervousness for the next few weeks. From an historical perspective, September tends to be one of the worst months. In addition, you have a lot of people moving off to the sidelines ahead of September 11.

There's no question that gas prices will play a factor, but I don't think that the fallout will be as concerning as many analysts have feared, ... The holidays are something that consumers . . . plan ahead for. They tend not to be swayed by short-term economic circumstances.

There's no question it's earnings-driven. The rally continues to move ahead but on a rotation basis. There are two things driving the market - earnings and economic data. Today's market seems more based on earnings than economic data.