Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gil Amelio

People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition, ... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.

J. Taylor

People may not realize that living to 100 is an achievable goal. If you are 52, you may have 48 or more years ahead of you! What is your plan? Let's live to be 100 or die trying!

Alan Greenspan

Surely difficult challenges lie ahead for the Fed, some undoubtedly of our own making, and others that will be thrust on us by market or other forces,

Steven got ahead in the count and forced contact. Everything was good.

Steve and Robert know their way around Mexico City. We will have a little tuning to do with the new 997 and the wider front tires, but with their knowledge of the layout and our handle on the new car we should be ahead of the other competitors that are running for the first time. The two have a good head of steam in the championship after just nearly missing the podium at Daytona.

Howard Stringer

Staying ahead of this curve by offering the consumer truly differentiated products where we can maintain our standing as a premium brand is a fundamental strategic imperative. We need to focus selectively and aggressively on being the No. 1 consumer electronics and entertainment company on the planet.

Someone receives a promotion, gets an important assignment, makes a major discovery, or moves into the president's office. ''He's lucky',' an envious person remarks. ''He gets the breaks; they're always in his favor'.' In reality, luck or the breaks of life had little or nothing to do with it. So-called ''luck'' usually is found at the exact point where preparation meets opportunity. For a time, an individual may get ahead by ''pull',' but eventually someone with push will displace him. Success is not due to a fortuitous concourse of stars at our birth, but to a steady trail of sparks from the grindstone of hard work each day.

Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahead to buy while prices are still reasonable.

David Wright

Some kids manage to get through that experimentation with no lasting problems. But others don't, and there's no way of knowing ahead of time which group your kid will fall in.

Some investors worry that if the inversion persists, it may signal a tough time ahead for the economy. But it's still too soon to know it for sure.

Some investors took profits in select blue chips, driving the benchmark index into negative territory. Trading was confined to a narrow range ... ahead of the long Christmas holiday.

I don't think we hit the ball as well as we could, but you've got to look at how good a job Josh (Kaiser) did for Glynn. He kept us off-balanced, he was able to get his breaking pitch over for strikes. He was actually out ahead all night, and of course, Glynn played really good defense.

Joe Dante

I don't think you can ever be ahead of your time with cynicism about that subject. No, I don't think it was ahead of its time. I think it was very much a product of its time.

I don't think we want to erase it. It definitely says to our team that we have a real challenge ahead of us. We want to use it for scouting purposes. We don't want to erase any part of the season.

Jonny Gomes

I don't think you can really look ahead right now in this organization, ... I don't want to look ahead, because I don't know what's going to happen. Because it's just obvious something is going to happen. I'm just looking forward to helping the team win this season and go out with a bang and have some good numbers on my resume when the season's over.

I expect every team in the state playoffs to make a run. It doesn't matter how far ahead you are. And I expect us to make those free throws in the end.

I expect a challenging game from Marist. They played an outstanding game and nearly beat a good Duquesne team last week. They were ahead most of the time and played a very physical game. However, I see the desire in our team that we need to win. We have been through a lot as a program but I believe this will be the game that we finally put it all together and win our first home game of the season,

Chris Phillips

I faced these guys about two weeks ago and I got ahead early with a lot of fastballs. After the first inning, I realized that I wasn't going to be able to do that, so I had to mix it up. It kept them off balance and really confused their hitters.

Dan Boyle

I don't think (it's too early to start thinking about the standings). It's a team we've got to beat and they're seven points ahead of us now. If they're going to keep playing the way they are, it will be very tough to catch them.

Dan Wheldon

I don't think it's going to be as close as people are making out. I honestly think it's going to be between five or six cars, and they are going to be some ways ahead of everybody else.

I don't think of it as eight games in 11 days or same thing with seven games in 11 days coming up; the only thing to do is look ahead at the game in front of you, whether it's one day or two days or no days, there's really nothing else that I think of. Obviously it's a lot of hockey, but this is what we want to do. It's fun.

From the beginning they scored the first basket and we were always catching up. And it's hard to play when you are down. The last two games we had the lead. I guess we play better when we are ahead early.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

From the point of view of the people in the streets, they are going ahead with their protests whether we contest the elections or not. So it's between him and the people on the streets.

For us to go ahead and try to predict top line, we're just not prepared to go there,

Paul D. Boyer

Fortunately, the Biochemistry Department at the University of Wisconsin in Madison was outstanding and far ahead of most others in the country.

For us, it's a matter of not getting too far ahead of ourselves and making sure everyone is treated fairly. The most important thing is that they get where they want to go, not where we might want them to go.

Chauncey Billups

For whatever reason, we feel like we can just kind of coast to the finish line and not do what we've done all season, to be looked at as the best team. We're getting away a little bit from what we do. Guys are, unfortunately, looking too far ahead to the playoffs.