Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Crawford

Those two (teams) will always be the measuring stick. I like playing on the road, period, and being around the big-time atmosphere. It definitely brings out the best in you. Something about it is almost electric.

Bill Cowher

This team understands it's a journey. This is the first step. It was almost a battle of wills out there today, like who was going to flinch first. We just came up with a couple more big plays than they did, and that was the difference in the game.

This team played lights out for three quarters, but there was always one quarter of almost every game where it wasn't so good. But I have to say that we had a lot of fun and I was impressed at how they played as a team.

This team is really intriguing. When they play well they are almost unbeatable. The biggest thing I see about these guys is they are complementary players. They go well together, and that doesn't easily happen, especially for guards.

This team is full of seniors and we've had games this season that we almost lost because we almost let it go at the end. That showed up in the fourth quarter here. But they know what to do. They know when to come and play.

This team has some talent but is severely lacking in leadership, discipline and the desire to push themselves to repeat. The seniors that we lost last year took almost all the leadership with them and they were a special group. However, this team has certain individuals capable of stepping into that role.

This was the first time we faced a gimmick defense all season. Last season we would see it almost every other game, but I'm proud of the way the girls stepped up and handled it.

This was the first baby of the year, almost 46 hours after the New Year.

This was really chilly for a lot of people. But it's almost over.

Jim Calhoun

This was a year that if you relaxed, you were going to get beat. Here's Marquette picked 12th, and they have a bye. It gives you a sense of just how strong this league is. It's almost impossible to imagine that a couple of years ago. The diversity and depth of players make it almost impossible to predict.

Eddie Jordan

This was a relief. We left here almost three and a half weeks ago in the fifth spot with all of the trials and tribulations. We came back in the fifth spot so we are happy.

They kept the ball almost the entire third quarter. Our kids kept fighting, and we were able to get them into a manageable fourth down.

They just stepped right in and kind of kept the ball rolling. Stuff they pull out on the field, it's really exciting to watch. Even when you're on the field, you kind of almost stand still for a second and you're like, 'Wow.

They (investors) tend to overreact to individual economic reports which may be more statistical noise than an underlying trend which takes three to four months to develop, ... They tend to pay equal attention to almost any report that is relevant, and some are more significant than others.

It was horrible. They gained almost 700 yards on us that day, if I remember correctly.

It was heartbreaking most of all. So close, almost there. We got further than expected. You're going so good for so long, I didn't want it to end. You feel cheated.

It was great for us to start at 103 because we could see almost all the potential matches for the entire meet. Pittsville has a good team and they wrestled tough. I think the biggest difference was we won the close matches.

Tom Lehman

It was hard to believe. I'm just glad my wife and kids weren't with me. If it wasn't so serious, it would almost be amusing. I mean, how many times when you're driving, do you get shot at?

It was hard for me. He worked with me every day. We did a lot of stuff together ... I almost left the K-9 program.

James Blake

It was a fun crowd. I was down there in the first two rounds in the first few rounds he was kind of on the back court and hearing the crowd go crazy. It seemed like they were almost a soccer crowd because I don't think they were all real tennis fans at the beginning of these few weeks, but by now I'm sure they are. It really does help and make a big difference when you know you have people cheering for you.

John Still

It was a fantastic time which almost got them up, but as we've seen in lots of cases if it doesn't work somebody has to pick up the bill.

It was jaw-dropping. It was too weird, almost like it was meant to be.

They will not want to be held responsible for triggering a new crisis at this time and are almost certain to approve the budget.

They've had an amazing year. ... And they have almost their entire team returning. I certainly feel they will be one of the class teams in the area this season.

Bruce Tulgan

There's tremendous demand for skilled people at all levels of almost every organization and almost every industry and that's true in almost every part of the country.

There's this almost universal sense that we're in this big cap-ex spending cycle and the big stocks should be moving on that, but they haven't been.

Robert Thompson

There's this almost defeatist attitude in the Midwest that Brazil has captured most world markets growth recently and the U.S. WTO round proposal will significantly cut subsidies linked to production of specific commodities.

Technology is still the fastest growing segment of the US economy. Earnings are growing at 20-30 percent year over year, and US companies lead the world in almost every major category.

Reed Hundt

Ten years and one month after Congress passed the Telecom Act, Ed's become the biggest winner so far. That's a long time to build a company, and I don't think he's made a bad acquisition along the line, while almost everyone else has.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

Dan Rather

Television sometimes has difficulty with depth and breadth, context and perspective, but what it does best is take you there. And this coverage took everybody there, up close and personal. You can see people hurting, you can see the response has been too slow. You almost don't need words.

Television doesn't do it justice, I mean the magnitude of the challenge is almost indescribable,

Gregg Williams

Sometimes the idea of a blitz can be almost as good as the blitz itself. We pressured Bledsoe on seven of the first 10 snaps. I knew Bill Parcells was going to over-commit to protecting his quarterback, and leave more people in to block. So we started showing pressure and not bringing it, making the quarterback feel by the way we lined up, 'Here they come.' And then we'd drop back, and he'd wind up getting upset and throwing the ball away.